St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 26, 1914

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ot See & : Segre r.~ Co. from Set Dispatch Wane | eo ‘and Board Ads Last Week: Post-Dispatch, 2291 790 More th? th the eee ones -Democrat 466 M no mo Republic, Se. Times b.. OFC and Star combined. Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. EDITION. FINANCIAL MARKETS | VOL. 67. NO. 6. goa LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1914—16 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT. | —* ~ RENCH OPEN SECOND GREAT BATTLE WITH DOUBLE ATTACK ON MAIN GERMAN ADVANG GIVE UP ALSACE TO SEND TWO ARMIES AGAINST EN EMY IN LORRAINE ENGAGEMENT NEARLY 200 MILES—ON DEFENSIVE AT OTHER POINTS. | 7 BELGIUM PROTESTS 10 U. 3. AGAINS| LEPPELIN BOMBS Slaughter From Airship Called “War Against Women and Children” in Communication Addressed to Bryan, Who Says No Action Can Be Taken by This Country. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—E. presented protest at the State Department today against what he termed a ‘‘war against women and children’’—the Zeppelin airship attack on Antwerp. Ten persons were killed, the Minister stated, four of them women. Eight persons wére injured. Secretary Bryan was reticent, but intimated the State Depart- + ment could take no action. “Reported activity of Brand Whitlock, the American Minister, in officially protesting to Germany was de- pied by Secretary Bryan. ‘U.S. MINISTER SENDS PROTEST Whitlock Said to Have Com- plained to Germany Against Zeppelin Attack. By Associated Press. LONDON, Aug. 26.—The bomod-drop- ping exploit of the Zeppelin airsiip at Amtwerp promises to become a matter of the widest international consider- ation. The Belgian authorities say the attack was a clear violation of Aiticie 26 of the fourth Hague convention anJ they are preparing to protest officially to all the Powers against this manner of warfare. The Daily News publishes a dispatch from its Antwerp correspondent saying it is reported there that the American Minister to Belgium, Brand Whitiock, has sent an energetic protest to the German Government against the hurl- ing of bombs into Antwerp from a Zep- pelin airship. A dispatch to the Reuter Telegram its Antwerp correspondent says another raid on the city by a Zep- . pelin airship was attempted last night. Te effective measures taxen by the . Beigian military authorities, the corre- spondent continues, caused the German airship to retire. WITNESS TELLS OF ZEPPELIN ATTACK : Correspondent Saw Bombs Fall : e * : With Accuracy, Killing Ten Persons in Antwerp. BY KE. ALEXANDER POWELL. A Staff Correspondent of the New a —— and neem, ANTWERP, ‘Ate. 28.—At 1 o'clock tn the morning death came to Antwerp out of the alr. In my room in the Hotel St. Antoine, on an Upper floor overlooking the General Staff headquarters, I had just extinguished the light when a cu- rious humming in the air, like the sound of a million bumblebees, drew me to the window. A thousand feet above me - hovered an indistinct mass, which slowly resolved itself into the appearance of a ‘gigantic black cigar, - silhouetted itself —— the purple sky. Mewes a German dirigibie and sounded, 5 whee closer, like an automobile with the _-muffter open. _ As I looked something resembling a star curved across the sky, and | Cabinet, and to destroy Havenith, the Belgian Minister, other, until 10 in all bad happened. Accompanied by four Cabénet -‘ninis- ters and five heads of legations, all in our pajamas, I ascended to the hotel roof. Guns Unable to Reaeh Craft. Belgian high angle and machine gune now were stabbing the darkness with spurts of flame, and the rattle of mus- ketry was deafening, but they were unable to hit the Zeppelin, which disap- peared in the upper darkness. The de- struction caused by the projectiles was incredible, in both extent and horror. Capt. Williams of the United States Coast Artillery, who is here with money from the cruiser Tennessee, re- ports that the projectiles used were some form of shrapnel, with a terrible new explosive, and fired from a gun. One shell struck in the middie of the public weighing square, which is about the same size as Grammercy Park in New York. A policeman in the square was blown to pieces and six persons sleeping in adjacent houses were killed in their beds. Every building facing the square was damaged or demolished and every house within a radius of a block in every direction was riddled like a sieve. Another shell burst on the roof of a physician’s house in the Rue Escrimes, killing two maids who were asleep up- stairs. Gne shell fel] in a garden in the Rue Dubarry, wounding terribly a man and his wife. Another shell fell in the barracks in the Rue Falcon, killing one and wound- ing two inmates. Fortunately the regi- rent stationed there just had departed. A child was mangled in a fashionable residence in the Rue de Justice. A policeman in the public square lost both his legs. The quarter-inch thick steel gates in the Rue Lausanne were perforated like cardboard. The authorities are convinced that a deliberate attempt was made to kill the royal family, the General Staff and the the hospitals, banks and barracks. It has been suggested that the Ger- mans had ,onfederates displaying sic- nals throughout the city. In all 10 persons were killed, includinz six women, and probably ™ were wounded. All Americans here are safe. The population is highly nervous. The euthorities are mounting rearchlights end high-engle guns everywhere. With the court and all the depart- ments of the Belgian Government trans- ferred to Antwerp, and with the major portion of the Belgian army now be- hind this city's fortifications, Belgium today stands at bay, with its back against the wall. Though the officers of the General Staff profess to be confident that the Germans will not turn aside to attack Antwerp, but will press forward along the line from Liege through Brussels and Ghent toward Lille, heartbreaking soenes are being enacted daily in the suburb of Vieuxdie, for thousands of Centinued on Page 3%, Colums 3 | Broad Shaded Line Shows Field of Second General Engagement Which Is Nearly 200 Miles Long , LOUVAIN nF ‘ | © TIRLEMONT $1. TROND”) ROCHEFORT e Expert Finds Germans Have Better Leaders, Are Better Fighters vw By the Military Expert of the New York Evening Sun. Published in St. Louis Exclusively in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Special Arrangement With the Sun. T the moment when fighting is in A Progress, which the French War Office, with a passion for pictur- esque phrase: not discernable in Rus- sian or British official statements, has declared will decide “the fate of France,” it is perhaps timely to ex- amine the strength of the respective forces now engaged. Any estimate of numbers must be necessarily only an approximation, any attempt to fix definitely the division into respective armies impossible, since only the vaguest sort of statements have yet come to hand as to the Germans, and not even theese as to the allies. Certain facts we do know, however. Thus, to take the Germans first, their field army in peace consists of % army corps, amounting to 800,000 officers and men. On a war footing, the normal strength of .a German army corps would be raised to 48,000, making a field army of slightly more than 1,000,000. First Line 1,600,000. Again, the general notion is that to each army corps there would be at once be added a reserve division. This would bring the war strength of the German first line up te 1,600,000, and this is the force which Germany now has in the field. Behind it are follow- ing second line troops, who will pres- ently come into line, but need not be considered now. Of.the 2% army corps, either five or six have been sent east to meet the Rus- sian advance. Russian and English re- ports agree on the larger number. Accepting their statement at least pro- visionally, Germany has, then, six army corps, or nearly 40,000 troops, in the east, and 19 army corps. or 1,200,000, in the west, on.the great battle line from Switzerland to the Straits of Dover. To these must be added at least two Austrian army corps, aggregating about 50.000 each. In sum, then, the “German offensive’ may be fairly measured as 1,800,000, at the most. How Is Force Dividedt How is this vast force—almost twice as great as that which crushed France in 1870—disposed? Here the element of guess comes in, although reports of va- rious actions In Belgium have disclosed certain corps in action. Thus, the three Bavarian corps de- feated the French offensive toward Strassburg. and another German corps, with the two Austrian, hare defended Alsace. From Mets to @wit- serland, therefore, the (German ' ‘ ; . i Per ey As 22 Uae meds gy tee :. his on? a a esd mT eee 7 re —— strength in the army of the Rhine may be reckoned at not less than 350.- 000. Between Metz and Girst, that is, the section occupied by the army of the Moselle, which has been depleted by several army corps sent west across the Meuse to Belgium, there has been a considerable conflict about Neufchateau, which the Germans as- sert was a tremendous victory. In view of the magnitude of the op- erations described, it is possible at least three army corps, or 20,000, were en- gaged. The rumored strength of Ger- man forces constituting the armies of the Rhine and the Moselle may thus be counted as seven German and two Aus- | trian army corps, or 550,000 men. Subtrdct Rear Guard. There remain, then, 12 army corps which constitute the main German or- fensive now operating on the Sambrs and the Meuse against the English and French. But since Belgian troops are still in the field about Antwerp, and Liege holds out, it is fair to oe the Germans have assigned one army?! corps to deal’*vith these. At the least, their losses and thi@ir rea> guards must be reckoned as amounting to one corps. There are left. then, il army corps, or approximarely 700,000, for the great battle now going on from Givet to Lille. Against this formidable host of 1,- 300,000 Germans, what strength can the allies muster? The standing army of France consists of 21 army corps of the same strength as the German. This would mean a field army of about 900,000. French army corps, like German, are susceptible of expansion, and it may be assumed that France has also added a reserve divi- sion to each corps, thus raising her field army to 1,300,000, assuming, as it is fair to do, that she has been able to bring over her Algerian corps. , British and Belgians. As to the British and Belgians: The expeditionary army of England is reck- oned at 167,000. Not lees than 100,000 have been landed on the Continent, pos- sibly more, and reinforcements may be rent over. The fiela army of Be'gtum is counted at 19:,000. Burt its present value, after the terrible two weeks’ campaign, is problematical. #@f it can take care of a German army corps, operating as it can on ‘the rear of genera) operations to- wards France, it will do its maximuni. To attempt to fix the disposition of the various French army corps is im- possible, since all information has been Continued on Page 2, Columa 5, > 7 si che spi eee ee Ct way ae aie Bika Be a bY. OINVILLE 7 | Kaiser Loses Russian Colonelcy; Tears Off British Decorations LONDON, Aug. 26. HE Express publishes the fol- Bg lowing, which, however, is not confirmed elsewhere: “When Sir William Edward Goschen went to say good-by to Emperor William, the latter stalked into the room where the British Ambassador was waiting. The Emperor was wearing several Brit- ish orders and medals on his breast and these he tore. off, saying: ‘Teil your King that that is what I think of him and his medals.’ Whereupon the Emperor marched out of the room.’ The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Times says the Czar has is- sued an order dismissing the Ger- man and Austrian sovereigns and Princes from honorary colonelcies in Russian regiments and depriving them of Russian decorations. This action, unprecedented in European wars, is due to charges of inhuman treatment of Russian subjects by Germans and Austrians. a 2 EPINAL PR Se seta SKIES TO BE FAIR; COOLER WEATHER TONIGHT THE TEMPERATURES, o-~c@ Yesterday's Temperatures, High 74 at 4p. m. Low 66 at 6 a. m. NF DACHSCHU IS SOME wale DOG. ~ Official fore- cast for St. Lovis and vicinity: Fair tonight and Thursday; cooler tonight. For Missouri— szenerally fair to- night and Thurs- (lay. somewnat cooler tonight in south and east portions, For Llioia— Generally fair to- night and Thurs- day; somewhat cooler tonight in south portions. Stage of the river. 15; a rise of .1. BAND CONCERTS TONIGHT Carondelet Park—Nee! Band: 7 to 10 o'clock. Free Mertes Tonight. Ponuuac Square—s to W o'clock) Poepping’s * oath eh ¥ ATEN S MADE. 0 BLUW UP A BANK IN LONDON LONDON, Aug. 2.—‘‘An attempt to blow up one of the chief London banks,”’ says the Evening News, ‘“‘has led to an official warning to all banks to examine thoroughly. upon delivery all deep boxes deposited with them. “A harmless looking deep box was presented at a London bank for deposit in the strong room. A sharp ear caugi? an ominous ticking, and an infernal! ma- chine was discovered in the box.’’ American Boy Scout Corps to Aid Paris Red Cross PARIS, Aug. %—An American Boy Reout corps organized in” Paris by George Peixotto, the painter, was placed at the disposal of the American and En- glish branches of the Red Cross ambu- lances as messengers and genera! help- ers. The boys will be affiliated with the British Boy Scouts, and wear their uni- forms. King Albert Said to Be With the ian Army at Malines PARIS, Aug. %-—A dispatch to the Havas Agency from Antwerp says that King Albert ts at Belgian Army Head- quarters, at Malines, which is midway between Brussels and Antwerp. — WAR OFFIGE SAYS FATE OF FRANCE DEPENDS ON RESUL ee oe, ce ; - F rench Attack Began Monday, but No Report of Progress Has Come From Paris or Berlin—German Prince Was Killed by a Shell Be- fore Namur on Sunday — Belgians Active Back of Malines. Up to noon (6 p. m., Paris) no report of definite results of the second great battle had reached this country from either Paris or Bertin, atthough the fighting had been in progress then three full daye. According to the earlier official statements, France, having caught — » from Monday to Friday of last week, reformed her defeated armies, and then, giving up all thought of beloved Alsace, hurriedly withdrew her invading army from that territory and launched a double attack ageinat the main German advance which is coming through Lorraine, in a cee perate effort to check the march on Paris. The last bulletin from the French War Qfice contains the ominous’ admission that on the general engagement now in progress hangs the ete of France. | By ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS, Aug. 26.—The French War Office was silent this morn- ing. No official announcement had been, issued up to 11 a. m. Unofficial military opinion is that the fighting along the: French-Belgian frontier continues. Quiet confidence exists in Paris. that the allies will hold off the German attack and take the of- fensive when the proper hour arrives. | Neither did the war office issue its usual evening statement, No reason for the Jack of official announcement today was given. It was expected that an announcement would be made tonight. French Made Progress Yesterday : _ WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The French Embassy received the following dispatch from its Foreign Office, dated yesterday: “The movement begun vesterday by the commander in - has been followed all day with the greatest method and the enemy is enatve to stop it. ‘It is confirmed that the army corps of the Prussian guesl was much exhausted. The Prussian guard was attacked terrifically by the Algerians and suffered great loss. ‘The Prussian attack against Nancy: was unsuccessful. “The Belgians comihg from Emberse have been able, by an energetic offensive movement, to recapture Malines and to push back the Germans to Vilverve. ‘‘The Russians are following with great energy their move in Galicia and routed a cavalry division. ‘“The Serbs have routed the Austrians from Chibets and their own territory. “The spirit of the population remains excellent. fight to the finish.’ German Prince Killed Befere Namur They will BERLIN, Aug. 26, by wireless to the Associated Press by Nauen and Sayville, L. I.—According to official announcement made 4 ere today, Lieutenant-General Prince Frederic of eshiecnks’ . was killed by a shell before Namur, Ang. 23. No news of the situation on the eastern and western froute oy Germany has been given out today. (it was officially announced In Paris today that a German Prines had been killed in battle. The French office taought he was Prince Albert of Schies ee. wig-Hoilstein-Sonde! burg-Glucksburg. An earlier dispatch gave the name pat Prince Adalbert, and said he wae the Kaiser's uncle. This was In error. es Prince Frederic of Saxe-Meitfingen was born in Ii. He wae the third eg of George, late Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. He was married in 1889 to —— : Princess of Lippe, and had six children, = siehimaabtininlettctygpiewtianeiersdeir hor ey Belgians Destroy German Ds LONDON. Ang. 26, cory A. dispatch from Antwerp to the Exchange her breath after the staggering Blow delivered by Germany im the fighting — ca cluding the small contingent of British. along her second Hine of defenae, ~~