St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 6, 1914

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EDITION VOL. 67. NO. 47. ———_—_ ho ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, , OCTOBER 6, 1 1914-20 PAGES. PRICE C ONE CENT. FINANCIAL MARKETS Sea RENCH CONTINUE TO EXTEND THEIR LEFI Germans ‘Launch New Counter Flank Movement — ee ee ~ ——> «=r —— EE oe He of Hard Battle Between French Infantry and Prussian Guards at Chateau Mondement EE “2 -- Drawn by the famous rortrayer of scenes of action, R. CATON WOODVILLE of the Illustrated London News staff. GIVE AND TAKE WITH LITTLE CHANGE. ALONG THE CENTER et British Lancers and French Troopers by Briliant Ride Get Between German Guard and Ammunition Train, Cutting Off Supplies—Cen- sorship Tightened. By ASSOCIATED PRESS. PARIS, Oct. 6, 3:04 p. m—The following official communics- tion was given out in Paris this afternoon: ' ‘‘On our left wing, the front is extending more and more widely. Very important masses of German cavalry have been re- ported in the environs of Lille, coming from forces of the enemty which are making a movement in the region to the north of the line between Tourcoing (in the Department of Nord, seven miles northeast of Lille) and Armentieres (nine miles northwest of Lille). ‘*In the vicinity of Arras and on the right bank of the River Somme, the situation shows little change. Between the Somme and the Oise there have been alternate advances and withdrawals. however, failed. ‘‘On the right bank of the Aisne, north of Soissons, we have, with the co-operation of the British army, made‘a slight advance. We also made some progress in the vicinity of Berry-au-Bac. ‘Phere is nothing to report from the rest of the front. ‘‘In Belgium the Belgian forces defending Antwerp have occupied strongly the line between the River Rupel and the River Nethe; against this line the attgens of the Germans have failed.*’ The presence of German cavalry in force in the vicinity' of Lille ts evidenee of a new. movement to counter the French flanking operation which tas been pressed with so much determination in an effort to envircle the German right wing. Lille is legs than 20 miles from Doual, the approximate head ot Near Lassigny the enemy undertook an important attack, which, iy | __ The ancient Chateau of Mondement around which the fight here portrayed raged, is north of the Marne and but a short distance west of Epernay, the great wine|' center of France. During the battle of the Marne, which began Sept. 7 and lasted four days, it was captured and recaptured four times by the opposing forces before Holy. was finally carried by the French. the French advance and within easy striking distance. - Takine Lassigny as the elbow of the French. battle line, it now extends roughly for 80 miles due north to within 10 miles of the Belgian border, and _ Louis for considerably more than 1 miles to the eastward. - Published in St. eee ee Post- -Dispatch by special iin Printing _and Publishing Co. ’ Copyright, 1914 by the _ exclusively by the arrangement with the | Illustrated London | News a -_——_- —- --— -4~— ke ite) f > Sins gO eyes ‘ > TLUNOIS MAN WHO — ‘gnti-cigarette movement. from these provinces have joined the ~-NDED PRISONERS IN GERMANY HELD Edward Page Gaston of Harvey, Lecturer, Arrested on Secret Charge. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World. BERLIN, Oct. 6.—Without making public the charge against him, the Ger- man authorities yesterday arrested Ed- ward Page Gaston, nalist and lecturer. as ne was about to! leave the city. Ambassador Gerard is’ endeavoring to obtain his release. Gaston recently distributed blankets. underwear and clothing among British prisoners of war here, but it is assumed that this charitable act could have had no bearing on his being taken into cus- tody. an American jour-| os ee Several years ago Gaston was the London manager for Funk & Wagnalls, hvew York publishers. Some years later he was one of the American delegates ty a world. prohibition conference at London. Me was once decorated by the Sultan of Turkey. Gasten aiso came into prominence in London at one time by refusing to pay the education tax imposed. by the Government. His home is in. Harvey. lil., and his sister. Lucy Page Gaston, is the leader of a national Russia Has Only Half of Her Trained Men in Field PETROGRAD, Oct. 6—An imperial order, just published, but dated some time back, mobilized certain provinces of the Russian empire. When the men eolors there will remain many more provinces to be mobilised. ‘As vet Russia has not brought to bear more than about haif of her ‘tota) availiable ‘fighting forces. Russia, tere she approaches: exhaustion, can pat 90,000,000 trained men into the field. Franz Lehar Nurse at Front Has His Brother as Patient Correspondence of the Post- Dispatch. BERLIN, Sept. 21. RANZ LEHAR, the Viennese musical comedy composer, is serving with the Austrian’ army at the front as a nurse. One of. Lehar’s patients is his own brother, a Major of infantry, who is seriously wounded. Walter Bloem, the German writer, whose home is at Dusseldorf, has been wounded in the arm and thigh while serving at reserve Captain of the Twelfth Regiment of Gren- _ adiers of Frankfurt. Frederick Pfannschidt, a sculptor of Vienna, has been killed. He was a reserve Captain in an Aus- trian regiment. It’s Long Way to Petrograd for New American Ambassador LONDON, Oct. 6.—George T. Marye Jr, of San Francisce, the recently ap- pointed American Ambassador to Russia, has been in London severa!) weeks, studying the most available routes to the Russian capital. He has finally decided to leave here next Saturday by way of Flushing. thence through Germany and then across the Baltic to Stockholm, from which port he will sail for Petrograd. Special facilities have been promised ov the various wovernments thnrevugu whose territory he will pass. ee RN ee ee pee ee German Plan Work for Their 240,000 Prisoners Correspondence of the Associated Press. BERLIN, Sept. 24.—The Germans now claim to’ have 240,000 prisoners of war, about 7000 British, 40,000 Bel- gians, 100,000 Russians and the res‘ French. So far the prisoners have Aad to do little manual labor, but it is intended to put them at work drain- ing Swamps and repairing roads. Sale of Liquor Absolutely _ Prohibited in Warsaw LONDON, Oct. 6.—A Warsaw dis- patch to the Reuter Telegram Co. says the sale of spirits and wine is pro- in. firet- E Pais, hotels and che oolubes and. that | dry city, * Wareew ie now a Britain Demands Entire Product of Clothing Makers LONDON, Oct. 6.—According to the Yorkshire Post, the War Office is tak- ing drastic measures to obtain an ade- quate supply of hosiery, underclothes, gloves and other woolen goods for the army and navy. All the manufacturers-in csicanter, the chief center of the woolen industry, have been informed that their entire product of heavy goods must be placed at the disposal of the War office and that ifa single garment is withheld by a manu- facturer or is supplied to any firm }whatever, the War Office will at once take over the factory and run it, giving the firm a certain percentage of the profits. Essad Pasha, Turk, Named Provisional Ruler of Albania PARIS, Oct. 6.—A Havas dispatcn from Wurazzo, dated Oct. 4, says the Senate has named Essad Pasha Presi- dent of the provisional Government of Albania. His 10,000 Albanian troops oc- cupy strategical positions in the city. Essad Pasha was formerly Albdhian Minister of War and was also Com- mander in Chief of the Turkish forces at Scutari in the Balkan War. He was opposed to the rule of Prince William of Wied, who was appointed to the Al- banian throne by the Powers. Round-the-World Journalist Wounded in Battle in France PARIS, Oct, §.—Andre Jager- schmidt, the French journalist who made a round-the-world record trip a few years ago, was wounded in a bayonet charge near Meaux. Jagerschmidt enlisted and became a Corporal. His shoulder was splintered by a shell and a bullet took off one of his fingers. He will recover. London Newspaper Prints Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address LONDON, Oct. 6.—The Chronicle to- day prints prominently Lincoln’s Get- tysbuig address with the comment: ‘This same hope that the present war will lead to a new birth of freedom ani- mates the people of England today.” Advertise your property as though you believed its sale or rental to be impor- tant, by keeping it listed in the Big House, Home and Real Esta. Directory, | ER RR ER A ER AE LNG AE EE AY AIR am. ee RS oom JAPANESE SEIZE GERMAN ISLAND TQ PROTECT TRADE Washington Believes Tokio Has No Desire Permanently to Occupy Jaluit. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct no design to violate in any sénseethe un- dertaking she gave at the beginning of her military opera- the Japanese em- the landing of Japanese bluejackets on Jal- uit Island, one of the Marshall group of German Pacific possessions, is regarded at the embassy here as within the pledge. Without direct advices from Tokio, the officials are confident that the sole pur- pose of the Japanese landing was to pro- tect commerce, a privilege specially re- served in the Japanese undertaking. It was known that Jaluit had been made a base for German cruisers in the South Pacific,. which were preying:.on British and Japanese commerce. It was said, too, that supplies had been gathered there by the German Government According to the understanding here, the Japanese have no desire to retain possession of the Marshal! Islands, as was evident by destruction of the Ger- man fortifications, arms and ammun!- tion there. These certainly would have been retained if the Japanese designed to establish themselves permanently. As soon as further use of Jaluit as a Ger- man base has been made impossible, it is expected the islands will be vacated by the. Japanese though a cruiser may be left on guard there. The group may be passed into British povsession. as was German Samoa. eee 6.—Japan has the war to confine tions to the Far East, bassy here announced today, and French Fieet Again Bombards Aus- trian Port of (Cattaro. ROME, via Paris, Oct. 6—The French fleet in the Adriatic is again bombard- ing the Austrian port of Cattaro, accord- ing to the Corriere d'ltalla. i _ eee | | Sy ine ee aR un 9e 8 RON Oy ety <A eee Each Army Trying to Cut Other’s Railway, Expert Points Out By the Military Published 7 York Sun. in St Louts Exclusively in Post-Dispatch, by Special Arrangement ‘ith the Sun. HE latest German drive at the allied left is little more than a return to operations which have been pushed intermittently for two weeks, indeed, since the moment when the allies first thrust out their flanking move toward Belgium. .«\s it stands now, the allied battle line forms a right angle, the lower side stretching from Verdun to Ribecourt, Rheims and thence alongs the Aisne, the other going straight north, east of Amiens, west of St. Quentin to Arras, and daily being carried toward Belgium. At the elbow where the two lines meet, south of Noyon and along the Oise, the Germans Rave for days been trying to dive in a wedize which would divide the portion of tre allied line facing north from thet facing east. Could they succeed, they might conceivably break the whole allied force into two parts and concentrate against that be- tween the Oise and the Meuse, while restrained the other with in- ferior forces. St. Louis through thev This was the meaning of the des- perate fighting reported last week at Tracy-Le-Mont, which is just east . of the Oise, in the angle formed by the Aisne and the Oise. Here they were squarely repulsed. Former Stroke Fatied. Refore this, and at the time, the Paris and London press were prom- ising the speedy withdrawal of Von Kluck to Belgium; they made an even more vicious drive just west of the Oise and south of Noyon, and as far west as Lassieny. All along this line they succeeded partially. The allies were driven down the slopes of the Lassgny Heights, out of retreating half « A Expert of the New the =~. Pi Aten an lee a tenia ae RO Se, 8 LO ee om oe | Saeceoee root again end. prownted. further . —“Qsutiseed ou Fase & Columns. mee we German advance—succeeded finally, to judge from the latest official statement, in retaking Lassigny. M-antime French and presumably English tro»ps were steadily beinz meved behind the battle line, whic! faced east towards the né@rth. Fass. ing the Somme at Amiens, they struck sist to Pesnonr. emi St 'Nnen- tin, Dut the Cermans, ertting troops vnon the: vrd.iptiv threw the attacking forcee back wntil © chess stood 2) miles back vf St. Quertin. and, in fact, simply prolenged the seneral battle line of the allics’ cing north trom Bore, «s far ws Albert Both Reinforced. Now the Germans launched against this, force, which had become the extreme left of the allies, violent at- tacks which centered west of Bau- paume and east of Albert. But the allies, on their side, rettring slightly, but keeping their main line still in- tact, brought new forces up beyond their extreme left, and sent them from Arras at the Germans standing about Douai. Once more fresh Ger- man troops restored the balance, and drove the newest French flanking parties back until they in turn made contact with the allied line from Roye and Albert and thus carried it to Arras. In all these operations, then, it will be seen that there was nothing but check and countercheck. So far , SiG ‘ the French, whose objective was the rallroads going north from Tergenier, St. Quentin and Laon to Igium, were constantly driven back when they struck at these lines. Manwhile, as the Frencr * stretched north, it in turn bt dependent more and more on fat! ways, mainly upon the railway from Paris through Amiens to Albert, Arras, Douail. which finally passes between the German lines at Valen- dennes. Just as the French, if a4 strike east for some ™ would be able to cut the rall- tt 1 AAP LNA OLA, A Ei LL LLL ALE ALLEL AE. = » : = ere ea Fort Near St. Mihiel Taken by Germans After Hard Fight. BERLIN, Oct. 6, by Wireless to Sayville, L. L—An order of the day written os Gen. von Hoehen, published officially, says that Fort Camp des Romains, on the, River Meuse, near St. Mihiel, after a number of hard fights has been taken by the Germans. Kive French officers and more than 500 men were made prisoners. The remainder of the Freneh force perished in the ruins of the Casemates. Yielding of Allies Does Not Shake Paris Confidence of Final Success PARIS, Oct. 6.—Despite the official announeement that the allies had vielded yesterday, confidence today in the ultimate suecess ef the French and English in the great action on the left wing of the battle front in north- ern France has by no means diminished. Meanwhile without repose and with no sign of a truce the tremendous battle of we of men is going on, each side trying by every possible means in its power to gain the advantage. Military Experts See No Importance in Setback. The military crities, among them Lieutenant ‘Colonel Rousset of the Petit Parisien, refuse to attach any importance to the setback or the yielding of territory, declaring them to be the inevitable retreats which can be offset by a progressive momement. He cities the fact that Napoleon Bonaperte at Marengo had to retreat three times in the face of the Austrians, which did not prevent him from finding there one of his most brilljant victories as well as one of the most profitable The familiarity of the Freneh with the territory is frequently of opt siderable advantage to them. The marshes of Saint Gond near the Petit Morin River are perfectly sold in the dry season, and the Germans bete had made all preparations for an important surprise attack. The night before this was to oceur a heavy rain made the swamp @ regular lake and turned the positions to the disadvantage of the Germans. The Freach merely stuck to their positions, and while the enemy was in distress is the soggy ground, annibilated large numbers with their artillery fire. The dig- ging of false trenches and all kinds of efforts which will redound to sd- vantage are being resorted to by one side or the other. The’ lists of dead printed in the newspapers are growing. They some- times furnish the only news of the soldiers since their departure to the front. A force of 90 architects and engineers and 3000 workers is ready te repair the damage in the war zone. Attacks on the Meuse Repulsed. The following official communication was issued by the War Office last night: ‘‘The general situation is stationary. On our left wing the action otill continues. ‘‘In the region of the Argonne and on the heights of the Meuse we have repulsed night and dey attacks. ‘‘Grand Duke Nicholas has addressed co the Ministry of War, to “7 vw Trgnsmisted to Gen. Joffre, « telegram one eer em |