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In one case two women were wounded One bomb fell In front of the shop of a baker and wine merchant at Rue A! buy and Rue des Vlnalgraiera ; two on Qua! de Valmy, onu of whjch dW r, r explode, while the other' struck the walls of the Night Rjefoge, 'behind St Martin's Hospital. Two others dropped In the Rue. des, Recollets and Rue Marcln, neither of Vhlch explod ed. . . "The aviator, who sirred himself Lieutenant Van Heissen dropped man ifest or on which was written: The German army is at the gates of. Paris; you can do nothing but surrender.' " Paris. A German aeroplane flying at the height of 6,000 feet over Paris dropped a bomb into the city at 1:3Q o'clock in the afternoon. The bomb struck near L'Est Rail way station, not far from the military hospital but did no damage. Though startled by this threatening' occur rence Parisians remained tranquil. The official communication issued by the military gdrernor ordering that houses within the lone of action of the Paris forts be evacuated and rased has bean the subject of much discus sion and various rumors, have spread throughout the city. . General .Levrolx, military editor of The Tempa, takes a hopeful view of the situation, saying: "The Germans continue their turn ing movement on their right We have replied by assuming the offen sive at Novion Horcien and at Guise. The results is indecisive in- the first PARIS PREPARES TO FIGHT. Allit ies MadeReady For a Long Seige ay ine enemy. Paris. The decree Issued by the military governor ordering all resi dents of the district, within action of the city's defending forts to avacuate and destroy their houses within four days was a formal notice to inhabi tants of the military rone, although many army engineers recently made a tour of the environs of the forts and explained that tenants might be called on to destroy property that was deem ed an obstruction. Many houses in the line of fire are occupied by poor peo ple. Many of these families lack re sources and will be without refuge. Nevertheless they' took the situation without complaint.' ' Preparations for an, "entrenched camp also took another form. Enor-' mous stocks of food were placed in tha state warehouses for provisioning Paris. . , ..' , The Bois de Boulogne has been transformed Into a vast pasture, filled with cows and sheep. The anlmalB are guarded, by reserves. The bean- tlful surroundings of the Chateau of Bagatelle have been given over en tirely to sheep. The number of sheep pastured in the parks exceeds 1P.000. Very Little Change. lyondon. An official statement Is sued on Paris and telegraphed to the Reuter Telegram Company says: "The situation in the main remains the same. After a period of calm the battle has been resumed. A regi ment of the enemy's infantry, essay ing to cross the Metfse, was almost annihilated." Japanese Landing. London. A dispatch to The Daily Mail from Tien-Tsin says Japanese troops have been landed at several points on the coast near Kiao- Chow. Brought- 1,700. Boston. The Cunard liner Fran ronla, with' 1,700 American refugees from " Europe' " haa arilrecL. Seven times during the voyage the liner was balled by "warships five times by Eng lish and twice by French cruisers. Many Tourlaja Arrive. - New York. Upward of ,1,600 Amer ican refugees arrived here: from Eu rope. They came on the steamship St. Paul, of the American Line, from Liverpool, and the Espagne of the French Line, from Havre. Clive is Wounded. Cardiff, Wales via London Xt is re ported that the Hon. Archer Windsor Clive, second son of the Earl of Ply moth, a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, was seriously wounded at Mons. He is 24 years of age. Only 330 Saved. ' London. An official statement is ued says that of 1,200 men compris ing the crews of the five German war ships sunft oft Heligoland only 330 were saved. CaVI Reservlat Paris The ministry of War announ res that It has been decided to call out the class of 1914, which will give at least 200,000 additional troops, and also to call out the active reserve and the eldest classes of the territorial reserve. Repbrt to Washington: Washington. The American Em bassy at Paris reported that an aero plane had dropoed a bomb In the city GERMAN' VESSELS , . v f? ".': . '. BATTLE.' ON SEAS FOIicut HEUGOLAND, 6RITISH CLAIM W ' victory: N ' Will use the east Indians Natlvea of India to Help England. Germane Burn-HiatortC Louvain and Threaten! Bruesela. London. Fleets of , Great Britain f TOT'alaBttha're come ta f Lrtndou, victory lay j with the 'British. in a battle with , British warships off the Island of Heligoland, in the North Sea, the Germans are reported to' have lost two cruisers anSmany of their destroyers were bwdly balteredv v.The British' claimed not to have suffered Ihe loss- of- a vessel and de-: clared there were few fatalities on board the vessels of their fleet. 'The German casualties were not stated. The Island of Heligoland, which lies 45 miles off the mouths of the Rivers Elbe and Weser,. always has been re garded a point of great strategic value ftor the protection of the -Kaiser Wil- helm Canal and otherwise in the naval defence of Germany. Recent reports had It that a large part of the flower of the German Navy lay in the waters adjacent to the mouths of-the Elbe jend Weser. and in the Kaiser Wilhelm Cpnal. The' French Wai: Office in a state ment said laconically- that the situa tion aiongxits lines show ad no -change. adding that the Germans "apparently have slackened their march." That was all. One of v the most important an nouncements was made by Marquis of Crewe in the House of Lords. It was that Great Britain would draw on the native forces in British India to rein force her armies in Europe. The German forts at Tsiag-Tau fired on two Japanese cruisers reconnoiter Ing off the fortress. ' One of the cruis ers was said to have been damaged. Louvaln, a Belgian tqwn of 50,000 Inhabitants and with many historic buildings, is reported to have been burned by the" Germans as an act of reprisal for alleged firing on German soldiers by Belgian citizens. The Bel gians claim, however, that the people of Louvaln did not commit- the hostile act charged, but that it was the Ger mans themselves who fired on their fellow' countrymen. Because of the non-payment of a war levy of 140,000,000 the Germans, it is said, threaten to seize the famous pictures and objects of art In the Brussels museums. LONDON FEARS GERMANS. Afraid the Tueton Army Will Force Way Into Paris. London.; News of the gravest char acter came from France, where in a single week the aspects of the opera tions have changed entirely. Last week the allied armies were pursuing an offensive campaign on all the frontiers. Now according to offi cial news 'received from Berlin Em peror William is congratulating his people on the success of the German arms in the task of putting the "iron ring" around the allied armies from Cambrai, Department of Du Nord, France; to the Vosges, while Lord Kitchener, the British War Minister, came into Parliament with the an nouncement that troops from India were being called to help the British Army in France and that the British Army is to be reinforced Immediately. The only consolation offered the British public was the statement from Field Marshal Sir John French that in the heavy fighting against tre mendous odds the British troops, who suffered severely, bore themselves with conspicuous bravery. It already is realized that the ter rible struggle is only at its begin ning and that the German plan of campaign, openly revealed to Sir Wil liam Edward Goschen, then British Ambassador to Germany, by Gottlieb von Jagow, the German Foreign" Sec retary, as showiyby the official paper published afew- days ago. Burned Lovaln. London. The Belgian Foreign Min ister reports ,that the Belgian city of Lova4n, in the province of Brabant, has been burned by the Germans. , Fire From Safe Point v Peking. Military men here say that the warships, of the Allies, Including the Australian dreadnought expected in China waters soon, will be able to bombard Tsing-Tau wfth safety, owing to the range pftheir large guns, which is greater than that of the guns within the German fortifications. Great Lose Sustained. London. Premier Asquith announc ed in the House of Commons "that the British troops in Wednesday's fighting we're exposed to the attack of five German army corps. The losses on both sides, he said, were great. ' Bombard Malinea. London. The Germans continued td bombard Malihes, destroying or dam-, aging most of the monuments, accord ing to a dispatch from the Ostend cor respondent of the Reuter company. They have not entered the town. ; Russians in Allenateln. London.T The Russian Embssyjhere received advices from St. Petersburg that the Russians had occupied Allen stein, East Prussia, 35 miles south of Koenigsburg, after repulsing the Ger mans, who had reinforcements. Returned to Mexico. - Nogales, .Aria. General Villa cross ed the Mexican line and was received. by Governor Maytorena of SbnoraV preliminary to the conference of the contending Villa and Cafranza ' faoj tions. NEW TYPE OF BOMB; uPECI. RUSSIANS TO PIERCE GERMANY SHOULD TUET0N8 FORCE WAY TO PARIS, THE CZAR SHOULD "REACH BERLIN. BIG WAR NEWS SCARE ALLIES French Change Tactics From Brilliant Offensive to Better Protection of the Frontier. London. A closer veil than ever seems to be drawn over the progress of the war Little news lias come to hand concerning thje operations - on either front. . The Russians, however, appear to be continuing their advance in East Prussia towards Posen, with the Germans in retreat. The only news from the French side is that French troops were at tacked along the Alsace-Lorraine line, but repulsed all attacks successfully. There is no indication that the Ger man attack was in any great force but, if it .was, the French success shows that they now are in a strong position along this frontier from which they were driven only by great sacrifice on the part of the Ger mans. A more hopeful feeling prevails in England as to the strength of the French defensive position. The re pulse the French suffered at Char lerbi has been partly dhe to the de sire of the French army to achieve a brilliant incursion into Alsace and Lorraine which led them to weaken their forces on the Belgian frontier. Having recognized the danger of this course they now have reverted to what appears to experts to be a more legitimate strategy, abandoning their invasion of the lost provinces and concentrating their strength in the defence of the northern frontier. While it cannot be said that the British people regard, the absence of news and the withholding of the list of BriMsh casualties with . compla cence, they display a large store of patience and confidence in Kitchener and.thewar office and the feeling of depression evident on the first news of the reverse suffered by the Allies to some extent has disappeared now that it is known the' Germans must make tremendous sacrifices. Much is also hoped from the unex pected progress of the Russian armies in Prussia and the fact that the Aus trians have been compelled to aban don their campaign against Servia. The belief is held here that even should the Germans succeed in reach ing Paris, the Russians will almost certainly reach Berlin. Vessels Sinks; Eleven Perish. Seattle, Wash. Eleven lives were lost when the steel passenger steam ship Admiral Sampson of ( the Pacific Alaska Navigation Company was ram med and sunk by the Canadian Pacific passenger steamer, Princess Victoria off Point-No-Point, 20 miles north of Seattle, during a fog and thick smoke from forest fires. The Princess Vic toria brought the servivors to Seattle. Ships' Sailing Dates. Washington. Secretary Garrison was advised that the Bteamer Patricia of the Fabre Line, with accommoda tions for 2,100 passengers will sail from Marseilles September 4. The Sant 'Ana of the same line with ac commodations "or 1,900 passengers, will clear Southern Europen ports on these dates: Marseilles, September 10; Naples September 14; Palermo, September 15; Almerla, September 17. The Venzia and other vessels of the Fabre Line are booked for sailings in the near future. Germans Captured Here. Newport News, Va. Captured by the German cruiser Dresden when two days out of . Barbadoes, en route . to Newport News for orders, but later re leased after an agreement was made not to assist the British fleet in any way, the British steamer Lynton Grange arrived here and is awaiting instructions from her 7 others. Cap tain Simpson of the Lynton Grange, said that two days after leaving Bar badoes the German cruiser ' over hauled him and after ordering him to stop sent an officers on board. Flee Before Russians. St. Petersburg. ia London. The Germans in the Elbing district of West Prussia, near the Vistula River, are fleeing westward before the Rus sian advance.. Destroyed Defenses. London. A dispatch from Antwerp to the Exchange Telegraph Company saya t,he Belgian operations beyond Mallnes were cOuntinned throughout the? night. The Belgian forces suc ceeded in destroying defensive works constructed by the Germans. GUN OF BRITISH ARMY FRANCE DEPENDS" OH PRESENT BATTLE IF FRANCE LOSES IN PRESENT BATTLE MACHINE WILL BE CRUSHED. RECALL ARMY FROM ALSACE A French Statement Says It Will Be Necessary to Use Them Elsewhere to Check the German Advance. Paris. The war office has issued the following official announcement: The commander-in-chief, requiring all available forces on the Meuse, has ordered the progressive abandon ment of the occupied territory. MueW hausen again has been evacuatd. A new battle is in progress ha fween Maubeuge (Department of the Nord) and Donon, in Central Vosges. On it hangs the fate of France. Oper ations in Alsace along the Rhine would take away troops on which might depend victory. It is necessary that they all withdraw from Alsace temporarily to assure its final deliver ance. It is a matter of hard neces sity. West of the Meuse as a result of orders issued recently by the com manding chief, the troops which are to remain on the oovering line to take up the defensive, are massed as fol lows : The French and British troops oc cupy a front near Givet,1 which they gained by hard fighting. They are holding their adversaries and sharp-, ly checking their attacks. East of the Meuse our troops have gained their original positions com manding the roads out of great for est Adrennes. To the right we assumed the of fensive, driving back the enemy by a vigorous onslaught, but General Joffre stopped pursuit to re-establish his front along the line already decided on. In this attack our troops showed admirable dash. The sixth corps no tably inflicted punishment on the enemy close to Virton. In Lorraine the two armies have begun a combined attack, one start ing from Grand Couronne de Nancy, and the other from south of Luneville. The engagement which began a few nys ago continues at the time of writing. The sound of cannonading is not heard at Nancy as it was. The fifteenth corps, which suffered heavily in the last fight, had the gaps in its ranks filled and formed part of one of the two arniies. 1 executed a brilliant counter-attack in the Valley of Vezouze. The attitude of the troops was splendid, effacing all memories of their conduct on August 20. Austria Gives Japan Passports. London. A dispatch fronr Vienna to the Reuter Telegraph Company, by way of Amsterdam, gives the official announcement that the Austrian Gotj ernment handed his passports to the Japanese Ambassador. English Troops Well Provided For." London. Telegraphing from Paris the correspondent of "the Reuter Tel egraph Company says: . "A special envoy of The Temps who has return: ed from tho front, had an: opportunity of seeing the English troops. He was impressed by the. excellent commis sary arrangements. Huge cases of sugar, tea, cocoa, meats and vege tables anl enormous pots of jam had been provided for the men. . Every thing has been done, he said, In the minutest detail. British Are Satisfied. London. The British official news bureau Issued the following announce ment: "There has been no further general engagement. The condition of the British troops is in every way satisfactory." ' 30,000 Germans Attack Malinea. London. A dispatch to The Times from Ostend says that 30,000 Germans are attacking Malines, a Belgian city 13 miles "southeast of Antewerp. Skir mishing is general in Northwest Flan ders. Austrians Made Prisoners. Falmouth, England. The Holland American liner Potsdam from New York, August 15, arrived with 400 Ger mans and some Austrian reservists on board. No Mobilization, in Italy. London. A dispatch to The Times from Rome, says the Italian Premier Salandra, assured a committee of -dep uties that no mobilization was immin ent In Italy and . that if It did. occur later it would not meamany abandon ment of Italian" neutrality. TAUT 250-MILE LINE E BRITISH AND FRENCH ARMIES FIGHT AGAINST ADVANCE OF GERMANS. GERMAN CRUISER IS SUNK Wlthelm der Grosse Sunk by British' High Flyer Off African Coast. . , Gen. Joffreu Praiaea.. I.', - ; r . ' - fondQmTb conflict xt millions at lJs-inffTOgressi. -r--'Evefr the sinking" of . the German steamer t kaiser-Wilhelm der Grosse pales besides news: of ' the titanic battle nd the realization that the Allies are fighting to block the road to Paris, with the Germans hardly farther away than New York is from Philadelphia. Meanwhile the Russian host is drawing nearer to Berlin. Not even during the first great struggle be tween Europe and Asia on the far Manchurian Plains was the enormous Lbattle fought in such impenetrable silence as far, as concerns the outer world. Only the vaguest generalities are given to the people of Great Britain and France by tlfeir respective -Govt ernments. Probably the German people know as little as outsiders of what their' armies are accomplish ing. - Among the information the public obtained today was the report an nounced by Premier Asquith in the House of Commons that the army was engaged against a superior force and fought splendidly. Winston Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced the sinking of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in the House of Commons to day. He said: "The Admiralty has just) received intelligence that the German armed merchant cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,' of 14,000 tons, and armed with 10 4-inch guns has been sunk by the H. M. S. High Flyer, off the west coast of Africa. '.This is the vessel which has been interfering with traffic between this country and the cape and is one of the very few German armed auxiliary cruisers which succeeded in getting to sea. The survivors were landed be fore the vessel sank. The High Flyer had one killed and one wounded." COTTON GROWER HAS CASH. McAdoo Says Co-Operation of Busi ness Should Relieve Stringency. Washington. Notes with a maturity of not longer than four months, secur ed by warehouse receipts for cotton or tobacco, will be accepted by the Treasury Department from National banks as a basis" for the issue of addi tional currency whch may be used to help farmers plQk and market their cotton and tobacco crops. These notes, according to an an nouncement from the department will be accepted at 75 per cent of their face .value and must be presented through currency associations provid ed under the Aldrich-Vreeland law. In making this- announcement Secre tary McAdoo said there is adequate power under existing law to issue enough -currency through National banks to meet any reasonable demand and reiterated his statement that "it is not necessary to extend the note issuing privilege to state banks." He pointed out that he has power to issue one billion dollars of additional cur rency if required. Foujjnt Heavy Force. London. Premier Asquith announc ed in the House of Commons, that Field Marshal Sir John French, commander of the British expeditionary force, had reported that he was engaged against a superior German force. The British troops fought splendidly, and General French considered the prospects in the impending battle satisfactory. i Address the People. Paris. The new Cabinent for Nat ional defense decided to make a decla ration to the people of France, Parlia ment not being in session. First Wounded. London. The first British wounded from the Continent, numbering about 30 arrived by steamer at Folkstone from Boulogne. Had Talk With Wilson. Washington, The French Ambassa dor, Jules Jusserand, discussed the Eu ropean war with President Wilson Later the President told callers that the discussion was of a "general char acter. The Ambassador said that no protests, against alleged German atroc ities had been" presented. r British in Ostend. London. It is stated that British marines have occupied Ostend to pre vent the Germans from getting a foot hold on the English Channel. Bad Roads Help. Tsing-Tau. There is no evidence here of th-j landing of Japanese troops in the Kiao-Chow territory. It is .be lieved that the heavy roads of Kiao Chow after the summer rains will deter any Japanese attack for many days. Shelled an Island. Tsing-Tau. Vice Admiral SadakicM Kato from his flagship sent a wireless message to Governor Meyer Waldeck declaring a blockade off the lease territory of Kiao-Chow. Later the Japanese warships, appeared outside the harbor and shelled a small Island off the coast which was not occupied by the Germans. The German Gov ernor notified Willis R. Peck, Ameri can Consuls at Kiao-Chow that he had 24, hours to leave. Mr. Peck, however, elected to remain. OPPOS STREETS FILLED m BODIES OE THE SHI Charleroi Is Taken and Retaken Five Times in Three Days. FEROCIOUS STREET FIGHTING Roada So Jammed With. Dead '.That Those Killed. Remained Standing ' : Up'Where 6hot,. Resting on ' "Dead Brothers. ' - London. The Times correspondent. describing the fighting in and about Charleroi, says: "Already Charleroi has been cap tured and recaptured five times and its streets are filled with slain. "French infantrymen, in describing ' the ferocious street fighting, declared the roads so jammed with dead that those killed remained standing up where they were shot, resting on their dead brothers. "The first shell that crashed through , the railway station roof on Saturday was the beginning of a well-nourished bombardment. "The French troops made what amounted to a medieval sortie, but finding the enemy in much greater force than was expected were .com pelled to withdraw, and the bombard ment continued relentlessly. "When the Tur'cos (French-African troops), with legendary bravery, de bouched from the town with gallantry, which must surely live In history, they actually charged a 'German battery, bayoneting the gunners. Their losses, it is feared, exceeded those of the light brigade at Balaklava, for out of battalion of 500 Africans only 100 returned unscathed. Germans Keep on Advance. "Their bravery was, however, pow erless against the German advance. which crept foot by foot through the outskirts of the town to the heart ol Charleroi. "There, in the narrow streets of the town, the carnage was almost in describable. Before the railway sta tion, in front of which passes the canal, for two hours the Germans fought for the bridge. "Once they had captured it, after a heavy loss, the Germans gained ground all along the line, mastering successively the villages of March: lennes, La n delis and Montignies, and the country nearly as far as Walcourt French Fire on City. 'Later in the day the French artil lery in Its turn opened fire upon the stricken town of Charleroi. The Ger mans in the earlier stages of the en gagement had poured their shells upon the upper town. The French artillery now turned its hail of shells upon the lower portion of the city. "Under the supporting flrp of their artillery the French infantry advanced slowly in the face of stubborn resist ance upon the town they had just evacuated. They retook several vil lages and became once again" masters. "The last stand of the French was along the line between Thuin and Mettet. Both sides were completely worn out. The next morning (Mon day) before dawn the French artillery again bombarded Charleroi. Once more the indefatigable troops of France swarmed down the slope to ward the lower town, recapturing the villages of Chatlet, Chatlet-Inou, Bouf froix, Marchiennes and Couillet" Praises English at Mons. One of the railway station staff at Feignies, on the frontier between France and Belgium, who saw some of the battle until he was ordered way, told of the scenes near Mons. "We at Feignies," he said, "began to hear the artillery fire Saturday eve ning. All night we listened to the guns, and Sunday morning the wound ed began to pass toward Maubeuge. thirteen miles south of Mons. Shells commenced to fall near the railroad station near noon and we began to see the English artillery taking positions and serving their pieces with great precision. "As our train was about to leave the station seven uhlans clattered Into the town. The people, thinking them English, began to welcome them, when a patroj of French chasseurs galloped up and captured the Prussians." BRITISH COOL IN BATTLE . The correspondent of the Central News at Pajls sends the following: "I have been talking with British officers from the front, who tell of the wonderful coolness and daring of the British soldiers in the fighting around Mons. "The shooting of the British infan trymen on the firing line was wonder- ARMORED MOTOR CAR KILLS MANY GERMANS London. Lieutenant Henkart, who is attached to the general staff of the Belgian army, is likely to prove a great popular hero in the present war. He is said to have perfected a monitor armored .motor car Since the beginning of the war the officer has been engaged '-in recon hoitering in one of his armored cars. He has had several encounters w.ith SAY AUSTRIANS FLED IN FACE OF ENEMY London. The Nisbf correspondent of Reutera Telegram Company tele graphs as follows: "After the great victory by our army our forces are vigorously pur suing the enemy along the whole of their front. The latter made no re sistance, but fled with the greatest haste. i "The enemy's casualties were enor- ful. Every time a German's head showed above a trench and every time the German Infantry attempted to rush a position there came a steady, withering rifle fire from the khaki-clad men lying In extended formation along the wide battle front. 8how Careful Marksmanship. "Their firing, was noj the usual fir ing of nervous men shooting without aiming; rather It was 'the calm and careful marksmanship of men one sees on English rifle ranges firing with all the artificial aids permitted to the match expert. '"When quick, action, was necessary the men showed no nervousness, no excitement; they showed cool, me thodical efficiency for which the Brit ish army is noted. "If the British lost heavily, the Ger mans must have lost, terribly. One of the German prisoners said: 'We had never expected anything like it; it was staggering. . Britons Joke In .Trenches. ' "The British; troop's went, to their positions silently,' but happily. : There was no singing because it was forbid den, but as the men deployed to the trenches there were various sallies of humor in the dialects of the various English, Irish and Scotch counties. "The cockney was there with quips about Uncle Bill,' and every Irishman who went into the firing line wished he had money to buy a little Irish horse so that he might 'take a slap at the uhlans.' Wounded Get Best Care. "With the close of the first series of combats between the British and Germans the scene of Interest shifted to the Paris railway station, where the injured British soldiers were be ing taken. The handling of the wound ed was all that could be desired; everything was perfectly organized and without theatrical display. "The station at the time was crowd ed with Americans who were on their way to England from Switzerland. The Americans joined with the French in cheering for the first arrivals of British wounded from the scene of the fighting. While the crowd waited train after train rolled, by carrying fresh British troops to the front. ' English Cardinals Bless Troops. "I witnessed a notable scene on the road between Boulogne and Paris. Two English cardinals, Cardinal Bourne, archbishop of Westminster, and Cardinal Gasquet, abbot president of the English Benedictines, were on their way from London to the con clave at Rome. "Their train stopped on a siding, and, by a curious chance, a regiment of British troops, which Included in its ranks a large body of Irish Catho lics, was drawn up alongside for a moment. The cardinals leaned out of the window and gave the soldiers their blessing, which the Catholic sol diers, by spontaneous impulse, knelt to receive." TELLS OF SLAUGHTER AT ALTKIRCH FIGHT Paris. Private Jean Martin, who has been invalided home, told Le Matin how the French took Altklrch, in lower Alsace. Here is his story: Approaching Altklrch I received my baptism of fire and lost the comrade who shared my bed. A bullet struck the poor little chap full in the face. He never spoke again. After a whole day's maneuvering we came near Altkirch, which is com manded by a ridge. We advanced, our regiment being the center of the line. Our artillery was blazing away. When we reached the top of the ridge we saw at our feet a elope covered with cultivated fields. At the foot of the declivity were the station and town. What a descent that was In skir mishing order among the potatoes and mangel-wurzels. What music ac companied us of bullets whistling whistling from all sides. Grand Dieu, what a whistling there was! The Germans held excellent posi tions. In the outskirts beyond the town some of their mitrailleuses (quickfire guns) came into action hut thines were going well for us, all the same. We continued to advance under a hail of bullets. Then the "charge" sounded and the whole brigade dashed forward with bayonets fixed. The enemy abandoned their posi tions and retired. That evening we slept in Altklrch, my company being in the cemetery. In the second battle next day the One Hundred andTJNinth and One Hun dred and Tenth Grenadiers, who,, it was said, were commanded, by one of the imperial princes, tried to drive us ut.' For a long time the action was undecided. Suddenly the grenadiers gave way. We were in the edge of the wood, only 200 yards from the enemy. With a volley we dropped the complete line of them, but a new line appeared im mediately. It was a slaughter. Suddenly the bugle call sounded their retreat. A battlefield is a terrible sight. I am almost ashamed that I looked up on this one with almost savage pride. uhlans, of whom he has killed a con siderable1 number, practically single handed. His only assistants in his reconnoissances are a chauffeur, an engineer officer, and a sharpshooter. On August 15 -the' party killed five .uhlans, on August 17 they killed seven, and on August 20, near Water loo,, they faced a force of nearly 500 Germans and escaped after killing 25 with a rapid-flrer, which was mount ed on the motor car. On August 21 the party met a force af 30 uhlan scouts and killed 20 of them. mous. According to the -information obtained up to the present the Twenty-first, the Eleventh, the One Hun dred and Second and the Twenty- , eighth regiments were completely wiped out. ' The . commander of the Twenty-eighth was captured. The commander of the Twenty-first divi sion of infantry of the landwehr was killed. The. Austrians destroyed our quay at Tekia." Germany is growing L342.420 acres of sugar beets. DEAF WANT A FLAG! RESOLUTION ADOPTED URGING REPRESENTATION ON SCHOOL DIRECTORATE. NEW 0FFICFRS ARE ELECTED Association of Deaf Adjourns After Passing Resolutions and Naming" ' Place of Meeting. x , v Charlotte. With the election of offl- i'y V. ' cers to serve for tne ensuing term, the selection of Wilmington for the next biennial meeting and the adopt ion of strong resolutions urging the;' giving of recognition to the deaf on :,, th& directorate of the State Institution. , at Morganton the fourth biennial con- ' vention of the North Carolina Associa-: ' tion of the Deaf "came to a close at the . Mecklenburg Hotel here. The last night there was a splendid moving picture lecture for the benefit of those attending and the next day there was -' a big picnic at Riverside which con- , -eluded the entertainment features. V The Charlotte meeting, in the estima tion of those present, has been the most successful in the history of the organization. The attendance; has been large, the personnel hleh and the lectures given of extraordinary Inter- s est. The election of officers resulted as follows: Mr. Cnarles E. Jones of Lattimore, president; Miss Roma For- tune of Durham, vice president; Mr. RobeTt S. Taylor of Mount Olive, sec' - ' retary and Mr. John C. Miller of Mor?: . gahton, treasurer, the election of Messrs. Jones, ! Taylor and Miller be ing by unanimous vote. The most interesting and spirited discussion of the day was that center- ' - ing aDoui tne resolution onerea oy . the resolution committee demanding representation for the deaf on the . board of driectors of the school 'of. Morganton. There were several lively speeches and the resolution" wasr part of Messrs. J. C. and Robert Mil ler, who are teachers in the institu tion. They Indicated that they favor ed the resolution but the policy ot the administration authorities being : against it, felt that they could not vpte for it. The leaders in the discussion favoring the resolution were Messrs. Robert S. Taylor, Mlton H. Johnson, George Bailey and others. Prior to adjournment Miss Bessie" White of Charlotte gave a beautiful. , rendition in s'fens of the hymn "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." The resolutions of application were addressed to the citizens of Charlotte, Greater Charlotte Club, Mecklenburg and other hotels, local entertainment committee o which Mr. W. R. Hack- -ney is chairman; newspapers, rail-, , roads, Prof. W. I. Walker, Rev. G. C. -Wilder, Miss Robina TilHnghast and the retiring officers of the association. The North Carolina Potato Patch. Washington. The North Carolina Irish potato patch contains 30,000 acres his year and the total production will be approximately 1,693,000 busb els, according to estimates made by the United States Oop Reporting Board. The condition of the crop is 62 per cent of normal and the price at the present time is averaging around 96 cents cents per bushel. In Continental United States there are 3,708,000 acres planted to this product and this year's production is estimated at 360,614,000 bushels by the Federal Department of Agricul ture. This year's crop will exceed the average crop of the past five years by approximately 4,000,000 bush els. , The , Nation's production last year was 331,525,000 bushels, was produced on 3,668,000 acres of land and sold for $227,903,000, or an aver age of 90 cents per bushel. " Negro Doctors Close Convention. Raleigh.--The sixteenth annual con vention of the Negro National Medical Association closed here recently with the election of Dr. F. S. Hargrave of Wilson as president, to succeed Dr. A. A. Brown of Birmingham, Va. who is a native of Raleigh. Dr. W. G. Alex ander of Orange, N. J., was re-elected general secretary. About 200 negro doctors were here for the three-days convention. Big Brick Company. Hendersonville. The Brickton Brick Company lias been organized at Brick-", ton with the following officers: D. S. Pace, president; C. S. Calvert, vice president; J. C. Sherrlll, secretary and . general manager; J. L. McDowell, treasurer., The new concern has pur- -; chased 40 acres of clay, formerly be-, longing to Mr. McDowell. It has- a leO'horsepower boiler plant and' is equipped for manufacturing 25,000. brick a day with a possible capacity1' of 50,000. It has the latest patented devices for drying and burning kilns. ; Lady Catches Big Shark. Newbern. A shark, eight feet in length, and which was one ot the lar gest ever caught with 4 line In that section, was landed a few days ago near Morehead City by Miss Ada Komp of Newbern, who was a mem ber of a fishing and camping party who have been spending a week on "The Banks." The deep-sea monster pnt up a plucky fight for his liberty after being ensnared on the hook, bat was finally landed and carried ashore by the woman. For Caldwell County Roads. Lenoir. The bonds, wbich were To ted for the improvement of the roads in Lovelady township, this country early last spring, have at last been sold to a Hickory bank, and it Is on derstood that the money will now be available for the work at ad early date. The depression in the money market has delayed and prevented the sale of the bonds up to this time. The road committee of the township Is now making active preparations for thJB commencement of the work. 10 ..I'.;. wmm - -.- ?( mm - '-V;-i-; -mm -'-5 2 eut gave no aeaila., . . r j t5 t V r-v -r 4 V,. v . V ' tt.'lf . .fi-; if V s.
The Siler City Grit (Siler City, N.C.)
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