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o . - yi .V if; , 4 J tHE YVCATHER. rarrled by The Evening r Dispatch; '. . . . Mth Ext.n.lyjifi.cf.l ...I V ij ,l n , JSh f .. j, lf A K) 1 ft Mr'-. Generally; fair tonight luid Sunday; ) Correspond" J not much ; change In ' temperator.. VOLUME TWENTY -?Z ? :Jk", . . - - r - TAlkT -, V7-; Ar7 X Or v k" .T . I - ? 1 ' 1 kJ r a", ASSOCIATED , NEWS. 1 '- f - - ! ' . . ' l ' i ii i i i i i 1 1 1 i i r i - - rfTl 1 .1-. ,.; jj-jti wr i i n i i i i , . i n 1i ' A V r 1 hvv. TV, T3 4 All Germainis 13) A Allies Claim German Line is Yielding Germ ans Rep6rf 6 the Contrary Reports from the Eastern Conflict London, September " 19.)f reliaance caiv be placed on British and French a6ertionp that the -Tight" wjnfl ofthe German armies, stretching across Northeastern France, Is slowly yielding, then Jhe battle1 bf Aisne eem$ likely to follow the course of battle of Marhe, for there it was the German right first fell back acroe ther riveK'. ' Along the hundred and fifty-mile 'front; the rear of which Is scarred with the graves of thousands already sacrificed,the two armies, compris ing millions of men, are -rapidly approaching exhaustion ; and await' op BCrtuniUio drtVA a -Wedae throuah theonnosinaline&hfi thti tiri tim- terribls strain- Th aUlea 'admit It will win, the strength of the German position being emphasized in almost every dispatch from the front. London observers base the chief velopment of the German right wing, shown himself a master of strategy. Paris Sept. 19. Fragments of news from the front confirm the se rious character of the combat on the Aisne. Some of those wounded Thursday declared the fighting is even more violent than on the Marne. They say the losses on both sides must be heavy. The English are bearing the brunt of the counter ttacks, conducting themselves bril liantly. After four days of constant hammering the German artillery slackened its fire last night during downpour. Returning confidence shown in the return to Paris or many who took refuge outside on broach of the Germans. ' Great Losses. Official communications neglected! lQe Question nt 1, .,-u. i - .i- i . m WUIVU III lUB baWe, such as Marne, were almost ("Possible to estimate. Some unoffi- c:-l reports placed the allies' losses at fifty thousand, and thntu nf thu, Jrmans at one hundred thousand. The losses certainly were the great- et on recorH Strongly Entrenched. Germans are strongly en- i-aing on the river Aisne. with "lorcements from Cording to official Lorraine, ac announcement ae in Pari Berlin Confident of Victory. Berlin. sept. 19. Members of the "Qeral Staff here, in nrivatfi pnn- sation, manifest absolute confi: riK in t u i ... . ... f trance, In n i.uH ouT.nnTTiR nr tnp. nan pi i3 the P eadily growina' strnnirpr and ts Of cornmnnlQf' v.r oi- eu to permit of ,more efficfent pP'y of provisions anrLammunition, f hav lnS rather outrun the supply C cement in the rapid advance on e i- rencn army, according j to Viennay reports, rorunea ana ex ' nisht bulletin, is showing sigU3 'tended "a new defensive front from av'"?; j;hot tht v.r.!t anA 77vii t- nrnhnhvo ' artiith wft - nf T.fitnhfire. the 'k'I)lf'tfH ranlro 111. tU r - r J!)- I hr ji x "UHl'tin. art. v.. Kiln" owijr uut eureiy- t ,ns f ound in the center. Head- "ffint &1VC 11 u ""He irifrirmotv, ,ii xu L ' " of the battle line,, speakin 1 KJy as located between r18 ;m,(1 tllr. Hhowr of Stool orPArnc rloo rench aviators, .a' mile high, tllft most modern terror, accord 0 f counts of German wounded aiid: f F take almnit i tinrKiirkavi ffot1,P a ; . hope of. the allies in a possible en under General von Kluck who has have caused more surprise than ac tual damage. Germans Advancing on Fortresa. Berlin (Via London), Sept. 19. The German eastern army continues operations about Suwalki, Russian Poland, according to a General Staff statement: The army is now ad vancing on the fortress Oseourec, guarding the river Bober. Sixth Day of Battle. London, Sept. 19, The battle of Aisne, now on its sith day "and be ginning as a rear guard action, has developed into the supreme .conflict of the French campaign. The latest official news says there has been a lull In the. gigantic artillery duel. That is taken to indicate that today's struggle may be marked by tremen- uu. lullulIJ' euv-" ao made the battlefield -or Marne a scene of indescribable horror, and desolation. News from Berlin con cerning the position of the German forces has a more confident 'ring. A French officer from the battle front Is authority 'for., the statement that the strain on both sides promises soon to get beyond human endurance. He likens antagonists to pugilists and says soon they will be unable to inflict further punishment on each other. If that situation develops 'the only way for the allies to prevent a weary disheartening. Winter cam paign, it is argued here, will be a. successful, assault oh -the communications. Such an German assault, the allies admit, will I not be an eas r matter. I Petrograd- reports that General Rennekampf . fiajdefinitely" arrested the German advance: The. Austrians, in ajjersistcnt effort to save the rem- nants of their army, and re-establish it as fighting force,, have, according enysl. Report from Galicia declares the Austrian cavalry has been entire ly wiped opt. Frommany points of the dual monarchy come disquieting reports. Polai, the naval base in the Adriatic, . is said , to be , in revolt, while the people Of Vienna are re fusing longer to'- have; their attention diverted ' towards", the west, demand ing news of the sittiatiOn in Galicia, whence" hordes of, - the wounded Poles and' Austrian . soldiers are pour inir into the' capital, ' Daily, vio lent scenes outside the-, Ministry of . .... v. . " " " f-y " v " I A War builfling, at Vienna, are report ed. A Times dispatch from Bordeaux, dated Friday, says throughout yes terday the whole front was engaged, the fight again being hottest on the left flank, and the turning movement becoming definite. The enemy made a serie3 of vigorous counter-attacks. General French's army again has been signalled out for the enemy's particular attention, but their three attempts to get home upon it have been in vain. While th fighting is hard pn the easKsrn half of their front, the Germans are ' digging hard, in the center from Rheim' to . Ar gonne. Probably this 11.' form the pivot of the battle. 'J? ' Free of invaders. i Antwerp' (Via London), . Sep' 19. 1 garxrrta jtjiiuermonae' anu tjontrerseet-- yacu ated by the Germans. This Is ' the first time the places have been free Belgian capital of Brussels to Ant werp. . Wilt REOPEN THE EASTERN RATE CASE Washington, Sept. 19. 8he Inter state Commerce Commission has de cided to re-open the eastern advance rate case and will begin hearings here October 19th. The roads asked the Commission,, to modify the recent decision which granted increases west of" Pittsburgh, but- denied ad vances between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic. JAPANESE CAVALRY IS GETTING BUSY Tokio, Sept. 19. Japanese Impe rial troops, co-operaing with the Japanese Vfleet, landed at Laoshah Bay, September 8th according to an official announcement. " The cav alry captured Kio:Chow station and seized a train. CROSIER TENNESSEE SOON TO RETURN London, Sept. 19. The American cruiser, Tennessee', will . start for home October 1st, carrying practi cally all aimy officers who came on the government relief work. Affairs are beinglosed here as rapidly as Trrv alhlo V "1 - ' - r - Suspends .Dividend. I New Ydri, Sept. 19.-The direc tors ot thd United Gas and Electric Corporation,! . operating in various parts of -the South and Yest, today announced a suspension of the sim annual, thrc e per cent. dividend on the first preferred stock. See the Ifide Water Power Com pany's jBtatment on page "Seven. Advertisefiiefat. , Subscribe to The Evening Dispatch. 1 I V- , General Rennenkampf, commander of the Russian force in Prussia, which is every day pressing forward in its march on the German capital, FIIMSf! President Steps In On the Riv ers and Harbors Fight. ADVOCATES ONLY A RESOLUTION Which Would Provide Merely For Continuance of Present Projects Slump From Fif ty Three to Fifteen Millions Washington, .Sept. 19. The day. and night fight on the rivers ana har bors bill, in the Senate, showed sighs of a break today, with victory for the filibustering Republicans, when it became, known that the Pres ident favored abandoning the bill and substituting a new resolution to ap propriate twelve to fifteen millions to continue only the projects under way.--The orig'inal bill proposed fifty-three million dollars. ' BANKERS' PLAN v - f ' APPROVED BY BOARD f Washington, Sept. 19. The, bankers plan for one hundred "million gold fund to meet the' American obligation to Europe , was approved by the Federal Reserve Board today. National banks, central reserve and, reserve cities, will be asked to contribute TO WW T1 fir" ' The Czar has sent a special message of congratulation to Rennenkampf commending the splendid showing that has been made by his troops.. ,Y 'MS" TO START , MILITANT CAMPAIGN Boston, Mass., Sept. 19. The mili tant national campaign which yth0 temperance forces of the United States, led by . the Anti-Saloon Lea gue of America, are to conduct with the object in view of bringing aboat national prohibition through the me dium of an amendment to the. Fed eral Constitution, . is to be formally inaugurated in Massachusetts, during the week beginning tomorrow. The Massachusetts campaign will- 'last seven days and the plans call for meetings in ,350 or more cities and towns throughput, the State. It ia said the - forces will include the great est number of nationally known tem perance., speakers ever gathered with- ; in ' State bounds at one time. ' The campaign in Massachusetts will be followed by a similar campaign in Illinois. : Washington, D.v C, Sept. 19. To day marked the thirty-third anniver sary of the death of President Gar field, the second of the nation's chief executives to die at 'the hands of an assassin. A movement is now under way to mark the site where . the President was shot ' in the oldHPoto mac Railroad station, since.-.torn down. For.eighty days afteY recelr ing the shots fired by Guiteatk- the wounded President hovered .between lira N lif e and ' death, peacefully - passinKltions and taking an attitude merely away late on the evening" of Septeni ber 19th, at Long Branch, N. ;J., where he had been taken shortly be fore, Washington, D. C, .Sept 19.--A warning to ialfalf a ' growers . to avoid the use of tonimerclal " ' Turkestan Beed la contained nDepaJiment Bttlf letia No. 13f, of the UBIted tatsa Department of . Agriculture, which is shortly to be Issued under the tute "Commercial -. Turkestan Alfalfa Seed." Specialists of the department have been investigating the comparative merits of different, kinds of ,; alfalfa seed and have reached the conclu sion that there is nothing to recom mend the Turkestan variety for gen eral use in this country. It is, they say, particularly unsuited to the hu mid climate of the East which, as a matter, of fact, , uses niost of the Turkestan seed imported into this country. This Beed is also not suf- ficiently hardy to warrant its general use in the upper Mississippi Valley, where hardiness is an important fac tor. The investigators, however, are careful to distinguish between com mercial Turkestan alfalfa and spe cial strains of hardy alfalfas that have been developed from certain in troductions of seed, frqm Turkestan. Valuable varieties of alfalfas unques tionably exist in Central Asia, bnt these are at present only fitted for use in experimental work in breed ing. At the present time, approximately one-fifth of the alfalfa seed used in the United States is imported. Of this quantity, .practically all 95 per cent, in .the last twelve' months comes from Russian Turkestan. In thepatopfsaa' market, coercial TiirkftRtan ic tho fhoanoat aeotl nvflil- abler; in this cpuhtry; its wholesale nricft is leas'' iha'n-r that vflf ; domestic seea. in spite oi tnis fact, however, ar mistaken belief in its superior qualities ihas resulted in raising its retail price to a point frequently above that of domestic seed. No such preference is shown in the al falfa-growing regions of Europe. There French seed is commonly con sidered the best, with Italian rank ing next, and Turkestan last.- Under these circumstances, very little French and Italian seed finds its way to the United States, the bulk of the importations being, as 'already stated, the cheap commercial Turkestan. Fortunately, growers who wish to avoid this variety can readily identi fy it by the presence of Russian knapweed seeds. These seed Jiave not been " found anywhere except in, commercial Turkestan seed, and here they are practically always present. Russian knapweed is in some ways similar to quack grass, Johnson grass and Canada thistle, spreading both by seeds and under ground rootstocks. The seeds are slightly larger than those of alfalfa and cannot all be removed by any practicable method of machine clean ing. Their- chalky white color makes them especially conspicuous, and their symmetrical form slightly wedge-shaped distinguishes them WaDTTM SMWES CTJtt' f f Washington, Sept. 19. An official dispatch to the French embassy says: "The battle continued on the whole front, from the river Oise to the river Woevre, during the eighteenth, without important change in the sit uation at any point. At the left, in the battle of Oise, we occupy. Me narqueglise, Carlepont and cuts. On the heights , north of the river Aisne, we have advanced slightly in' few places. Three attacks attempted by the Germans against the English army have been checked. A1; Tryoaj from Craonne to Rheims, we - have repulsed a counter-attack executed during the night The enemy tried, but has not "succeeded in taking the offensive against RJieims. At the center, from Rheims to the Argonye mountains, the nemy is reinforcing its '" situation by important fortiflca- Of defensive." On the east of the Ar gonne and in the Woevre Valley the situation is unchanged, v At' the right in Lorraine and Vosges, the enemy Public in Asronv ' of SuftDensK Pending Announcement I COtJWTRIES WILL ;.iV' Die' eunrvin'iM i KV, ft 5. ,sCi .4 ' Viyid Description Given of thi - Field of Carnage Afler lit Was Swept By the Battle's Fury Famous Prutiidn , - ; uuara corps Wiped Uut ' London, Sept.- 19. The most crcttt aspect, from the British standpoint, ot the terrible battle raging in tifV western arena is the dreadfnl appre hension with which ' the ' 'pubTtto awaits pubUcation of the casualty I list of last week's fighting. Many "tt - . : ; -v- the nation's most famous regiments . are reported to have been mowej down in the terrific assaults on the heights the Germans held above the , . . . . river Aisne. The German pubiio m)6 .v ' ' - may expect a shock In this regard, for the battlefields give evidence,' ac- 1 :' ' '. t:.i cording to reports received here that the famous Prussian' - Guard corps was virtually wiped out. Telegraphing- trom Sejtajine.Soutii ' " : jcpernay, Times correspondent says r' -'1 ' J the terrlt6rrT over wiachthfiidondiTt. - . ; v v?Xu day's battle of Marne was fought ls ' :v.-.W now a picture of devastation," abom.L- nation death almost- too awful to describe, and German prisoners .are being used on the battlefield . search 4 for and burying dead comrades The extensive forest area scarcely has been searched for bodies, although hundreds of Germans and French must have sought refuge and died there. Some of the burial trenches are one hundred and fifty yards" tong. The dead were placed shoulder to shoulder, and often in layers. - from the notched seed of . other , spe cies often found in varieties ' of ' f alf a from other sections: TU knapweed seeds, however, are, not : usually found in large quantities and any lot of alfalfa' should, therefore be examined In bulk; Tb examinir tlon of small samples is ndt sufficient to show whether the alfalfa, conies from Turkestan or not, ' '. - ' ,'mmt. occupies positions defanfiyty, ganlzed close to the frontier, V' or- , Germans Claim Vahii$. V Berlin "(By 1 Wireless), Sspt This official statement frpmtth.SV' man headquarters was issutdV today: "It is reported that a decisive at-f tack is being made by the 'thirteenth and Fourteenth Army Corps and parts of other German ' division's south of Noyon. Beaumont las been stormed and twenty- five ' 'hundred French prisoners captured. , Attacks? along the entire battle front Are 'be ing easily repulsed. ' ' Many guns and prisbnets were cap tured, though the number is 'not' yet available. Invasion of the, Alphihe riflemen, over the Vosges IntOj. th) Bresiach Valley has beettt repulsed and the German eastern v army con tinues operations In Suwalld proV ince ,and is advancing against the . Russians. Dispatches - f font Angrant report the victory over 'the; Servians is far greater than at first? beUeVefli 'X. The Servians were completeljr;vrouted ; BUU U1MCU 111 UlKUl WDMl.'Ul,y ".r river. Many we re drowned. .-.; ':- :XrX Ml .. ! . . f i : - - m V.t';"v s 'Xii: ' yx. .-f..'-t;. '-'XX' . '' '' ' ' Si' I f ,-YJ xxx 'MXii, uu arrows- seejn to J lent ISCCUcS uuibuo - , ..w . e .w.. vv wuUWvv. -y -7 ' . i . j . . .-.yv:wSP' -r-. - ,:;;. :y:riXxfXxiXX
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