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IORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1914.
Attack London
TENCH SOLDI
(IEH
CARRANm. REPORTED TO Have
INDICATED WILLINGNESS
TO RETIRE
Germans Claim That Supporting Fleet Has Be
Forced Back And That Heavy French
Attack Ho Been Broken
imviht weer vene’demnes
wal (Not. Submit Hedgnation Hut
Convention May Reconsider
Action of Mexico City
Convention w u
By Associated Press. ^
PARIS, Oct. 26—These extracts
from the letter of an unnamed
French soldier to his father in Paris
are published by the Figaro:
“Wounded in the stomach about
6 o'clock in the morning, 1 am left
in the rain and in mud so deep that
1 am obliged to lean on my elbows
to keep by head out of it."
“The battle continues to rage. 1
am between the two camps and.
without exaggregation, more than
150,000 bullets pass over me. Some
struck at my aides and I expect
each moment to receive one which
win cut short the spectacle. I re-
main thus helpless from six in the
morning until four the next after-
noon and the rain does not stop. It
is then that I appreciate the need
of an umbrella. 1 who never carried
one, I unbutton my coat, but I am
unable to determine the gravity of
my wound for there is aa much mud
as blood.-*.
"Toward two o'clock there la a lull
in the firing. 1 await the stretcher
bearers, but like sister Anne, they
do not come. The hours seem atroc-
iously long, although I no longer pay
any attention to the rain which con-
tinues. Finally, towards 4 o’clock
in the afternoon 1 see coming in
place of the looked for stretcher
bearers—the Germans.
- This time ft is for good”. I say
to mysell. “1 am done for. A. blow
from a rifle butt or a throat of the
bayonet and they would finish me.
A last thought of my family and 1
try to take my own rifle and end it.
It in useless. The gun is no more
.than a lump of mud, or sticky clay.
There are five long minutes dur-
Co ing which I exist with a calmness
vnat su rprises me. AG erm an asks
me i French; "How are you?"
MI, showed him the place where
Ram wounded. -
Peek -
in grey which makes them almost in-
E visible. In war. I speak of this to
them. They answer:
'Indeed with your red trousers
we can see you a long distance. You
make superb targets.’
"The Germans went on their way.
promising to return to look for me
as well as others who like myself
lay on the battle field. 1 take hope.
It seems good to be alive, although
I am in a sorry plight.
“The hours pass; night arrives. It
still rains. Day breaks. No one;
neither stretcher bearer nor my Lor-
" raines of the day before. It is not
until four o'clock in the afternoon
of the second day that the Germans
come back. I have passed 34 hours
in reflection In rain, with a wound
which caused me much suffering.
"The Germans put me on a can-
vass with two pieces of wood at
either end. They carry me to a
hamlet, about a kilometer and a half
distant, and stretch me out there in
open air, still in the rain, but on
firmer ground. Then they go back
to search for others. They bring
thus 700 or 800 wounded, of whom
400 are French.
"I am soaked. 1 am famished. 1
munch with Joy a bit of army biscuit
which I find delicious. Upon my
urgent entreaty, a German consents
to give me a glass of wine from his
flask which he has Just filled I
thank him. That warms me. The
German is going away, when he
changes his mind and demands pay-
ment for his glass of wine. I Jab-
ber a little German. 1 understand,
and give him a ten sou piece, the
only money 1 have left. He takes
himself off content.
“Some German officers come to
talk to us. One of them says to me:
"It is your government’s fault
that you are here.’
“They all speak French. 1 note
the remarks of this officer, because
it appears to me to Indicate a cur-
ious mentality.
The third day of this calvary,
they put us in a barn’on the bay
We have as yet received no care 1
bey the Germans to take off my
clothes I have been unable to
share a blanket which happens to
be here. I don't know to whom it
belongs, but necessity stifles scrup-
lea They are quite willing to do
what I have asked. My coat, my wa-
ter-soaked trousers, which were’llt-
tie less than packages of mud, are
removed. My falling shoes, my un-
der -drawers and socks, follow the
same route. My feet and my wound
make me suffer. I take out my lit-
tle pocket scissors. I cut my shirt
an.1 flannel belt free of my wound
which I have not seen, ft is dis-
tressingly long, but nothing aston-
ishes me any longer, after what 1
have seen. I make, •■ good as ft Is
bad, a dressing out of the fleet aid
things in my pouch. Then I roll
myself up in my blanket. I have
no longer anything military except
my cap and I am almost naked For-
tunately my jersey keeps me warm.
This operation completed fuel a
great relief
‘ They sort the German wounded
from the French. Home hours af-
ter they bring in the sanitary ser-
.-2-425222*27227.200
set to work with, first- dressings.
"WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 26 —
Indications that General Carranza
had agreed to retire in deference to
the wishes of the Mexican National
Convention at Aguas Calientes were
contained in official dispatches to
the State Department today. General
Obregon and a committee from the
convention were informed by Carran-
aa, it is understood, that he will not
again submit his resignation, leav-
ing to the convention, reconsidera-
tion of the action by the Mexico City
convention. It is believed he will be
permitted to run for the presidency
at the election.
Mexicans Ou Trial.
•PHOENTX‘"AF2, Oct. 26.—Nine
Mexicans of Miguel Ortiz’s band
were arraigned today in federal
court charged with conspiring to
cause a revolt among the Yaqui Ra-
dians. They were arrested in Au-
gust after the discovery of a plot to
sieze the militia's arms sad ammu-
nition. If is said they planned arm-
ing the Indians then raid Phoenix,
and dash for Mexico. -
Holy War in Mexico.
* At. PASo’" ter.. Oct. ...
“Holy war’’ is reported in Mexico
by Americans and Mexicans return-
ing from GuadlaJara. telling of anti-
constitutionalist uprisings In central
Mexico by Priests.
SHORT Conn Chop
PREDICTED FOR TEXAS
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 26-
The Texas corn crop of 1814 will
less than the one of PS"5,5!!
Many militaryexperts have
thought the purpose of the Germans
in taking Antwerp was to sweep on
the English Channel and there find
g base for an attack on Zeppelins
on London. If they take the north
Belgian cities like Ghent and Ostend
they may move on to the French
coast and eventually take Dunkirk
and Calais. The trip from Calais
across to London would be very
short, and ft is likely If the Ger-
mans came Into possession of it
there would boa panic in London. -
With the failure of the first groei
German rush toward g Paris, when
the kaiser’s masses were repulsed
in the battle of Marie and driven
back to the present linos, military
and naval experts predicted that the
next great German strategical move
it’s reported a
snst London. To
■ any effective-
he Bergian coast,
MNaenflal, was at
rile. This desi-
bein attained, and
t, German subma-
boats are being
CHE. In pieces, like
ottage, to the
ships of the
ar been engag-
trovers, and
(8 borne the
etion there has
a. The recall
Aonine of the are taken by
some of the experts to denote that
the time has arri
for a combine
submarine and
d win he
AST
in October, the 1*14
around 125,400,000 bush
ing to the government expi
is 2,000,000 bushels more than the
estimates of September 1st showed.
In 1913 Texas produced 163,200,000
bushels of corn, the largest yield
since 1908, when the output was
around 201,000,000 bushels. The
average annual crop of the past five
year period has been 120,286,000
bushels.
LUMBER OUTPUT
OF TEXAS HEAVY
ORANGE, Tex., Oct. 26.—The
lumber eut of Texas In 191.1 was one
IL UUTTUN
NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN
TO STATE DEPARTMENT
DEFINE ATTITUDE *
“naron, n. d. oar w-F
Cotton was specifically mentioned as
neither absolute nor conditional con-
traband war, and can be shipped on
neutral ships to the belligerents, ac-
cording to two notes defining the at-
tidue of Great Britain to the Plate
Department.
Wilson Opposes Cannon
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26.—.
President Wilson has joined the
fight against former speaker Cannon
of Illinois by a letter endorsing Rep-
resentative O'HsIr who defeated
Cannon at the last election. The pres-
ident is also giving h's support to
James H. Hawley of Idaho, Edward
Johnson of South Dakota and James
H. Moyle of Utah.
of the largest in history and amount-
ed to 2,080,471,000 feet, according
to data compiled by the United
States Department of Commerce TO HONOR FATHER
and Labor. Texas ranks sixth with
other states in this respect. The
largest production ever recorded for
any year in Texas was in 1907 and
amounted to 2,229,590,000 feet. The
total cut for Continental United
States was 88,387,009.000 feet, or
three-quarters of a billion feet under
that of the previous year.
Missouri Rate Hearing Tomorrow.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. 26.
—The Public Service Commission
will tomorrow hold the first hearing
upon the application of Missouri
trunk line railroads for authority to
increase their passenger, freight and
excess baggage rates. The Com-
mission has refused to allow the
roads to put the new schedules into
effect. The hearing is to determine
the reasonableness of the proposed
new rates. The presumption is that
the commission will permit- the roads
to present evidences upon the ques-
tion of fallen revenues, put its ex-
ports on the books of the roads and
make investigations which will not
necessitate a physical valuation.
They make one for me with tincture
of iodine. But at the moment they
are going to put on the bandage, the
Germans take away the French doc-
tors and the wounded Germans. We
in our turn, are transferred to Libe-
court.
“We are now at the end of the
fourth day of this exercise. They
have warned us that we are prison-
ers. Tonight we learn that the Prus-
sians are retreating. What is going
to happen Will they take us along
or leave us to ourselves? For there
are not Lorraines only in the Ger-
man army. All night the troops
march under our window. One hears
the noise of tramping feet and gut-
teral commands.
“Outside of this dream of Infernal
horror which I have had for eight
days, I am highly hopeful for the fi-
nal results of the war, because I am
able to prove one thing, which has
greatly surprised me, I confess. That
is that the replenishing of supplies
and ammunition is marvellous. We
have never lacked bread, nor meet
nor cartridges a single da* The
service is marvellously organized ft
is one of the great successes of this
war it is not as in 1870.
”1 have at last slept and In a bed.
I have no lover. Only in my sleep do
I dream that they are transferring
me end that it rains. But this little
hallucination is disappearing:
"I embrace you wih all my heart.”
OF SUBMARINE ‘MRPARE.
Special to The News.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26 —
Officers of the Navy Department are
searching for a decendant, prefer-
ably a young, unmarried woman, of
David Bushnell. She Is wanted to
act as sponsor for one of the new
submarine tenders under construc-
tion for the United States Navy. The
new submarine will be named "The
Bushnell," in honor of the father of
the' submarine, whose experiments,
conducted 140 years ago, gave to the
world the proof of the posibilities
of under-sea fighting.
David Bushnell, the father of sub-
marine warfare, whose name is scar-
cely known to builders of the sub-
marine fleets now operating in the
European war, waa born In Saybrook
Conn., and in his freshman year at
Yale projected a submarine boat, the
first capable of locomotion of which
there are any authentic records. His
brain first conceived the idea-of at-
tacking the submerged hull of a
ship.
Bushnell's first submarine resem-
bled a tortoise. It was less than eight
feet long and six feet in height. It
had a brass head, fitted with eight
• glasses, through which the operator
directed the ship. The powder mag-
azine was hung at the stern, and
was so designed that it could he fas-
tened to the keel of the vessel and
a clock-work attachment set going
so that the explosion would be delay-
ed until the submarine could get out
of danger.
Bushnell’s invention, though bril-
Hant, was never a success. In the
summer of 1776, it was taken to
New York to operate against a
British man-of-war lying in the har-
bor. This waa the first use of a tor-
pedo in naval history. The plan fell
through, because of Bushell's Illness
which made it necessary to send a
substitute, and by the inability of
the amateur operator to find on the
enemy's ship any wooden surface or
copper which could be pierced.
1B August, 1777, Bushnell floated
a machine guided by a line against
some British ships near New Lon-
don. It demolished a ship, and this
was the first successful use of tor-
pedos in history.
Bushnell was a bachelor, but had
a brother to whose children he left
his estate. He visited France, and
then went to Warrenton, Ga., where
he became a teacher. He is said to
have used the name “Bush” in Geor-
gia. ‘
V AND
......
Nadeljo Gab
AUSTRIANS REPORT MANY VICTORIES
Russian Official Report Claims Big Battle Developing In Beet And
T-h of Successes In Every Engagement With Invaders Alto
That Austrian Resistance in Galicia is Breaking Under
Hammerlike Blows of Russian Advancing Army
air force’s of the kaiser on the Eng-
lish coast.
Despatches from Amsterdam
quote an unearned German aviator
as saying that Germany’s aerial in-
vasion of England will be made In
February. While there,may be oe-
casional raids before that-time, the
general assault by Zeppelins and
aeroplanes, he says, will not begin
until then because Germany will not
be ready earlier. Forty-six Zeppelins
will then be ready, it is said.
Thia aviator in quoted as saying
that Germany is building 200 aero-
planes of a new and very large type,
especially for the attack on London.
These machines, he says, will be ca-
pable Of carrying 1,000 pounds be-
sides the aviator and bomb throw-
er. Aviators are now being trained
to operate them.
HDINAND
—Gavrio Prinzip
wes student of
, and twenty of
Prinzip’s accomplices were found
guilty today of killing Arch-duke
Francis Ferdinand and his wife, ac-
cording to a Rome dispatch, report-
Ing a dispatch-dated Monay from
Sarajevo, Bosnian.
-— - — 1
COLORADO SOON Tr TAKE
CONTROL COAT MELDS
By Asreciated Press.
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 26.—Gov-
ernor Ammons of Colorado, has an-
nouneed that the State will be ready
to assume control of the coal strike
fields about November ■*, and would
ho notify President Wilson.
Eighteen hundred federal troops
have been in control of the fields
since May 1, when the militia was
withdrawn. * The reorganized mill-
tia contains fifteen hundred accord-
ing to Adjutant General Chase- and
a hundred thousand rounds of am-
munition arrived today.
MILLIONS SHPPED
BY PARCELS POST
By Associated Press.
BOSTON, Oct. 26.—Five million
dollars in gold, arrived here by par-
cel post from the Philadelphia mint
today. It was the first such use of
the mall.
LANGFORD GETS DECISION
OVER JMFF CLARKE
By Associated Press.
JOPLIN, Mo., Oct. 26.— Sam
Langford of Boston, outpointed Jeff
Clarke of Joplin tonight was the de-
cision at the end of ten rounds.
Nationals Win.
POTLACH, Idaho Oct. 26.—All
Star Nationals 12. Americans 1.
Panama Canal Map.
PANAMA. Oct 26 —A wall board,
12 feet long by three feet high bear-
ing a map of the (‘anal and its ap-
proaches. painted on the wood, has
been mounted in the port captain’s
office at each end of the Canal, and
push pins standing for ships, will be
used to give a visual representation
of the status of traffic at any time.
Where the Comet is Keen Tonight.
GENEVA, N. Y. Oct 26.—Ac-
cording to Dr. William R Brooks,
director of Smith Observatory and
professor of astronomy st Hobart
College, the Delaven Comet can be
seen tonight with the naked eye
above the bright star Arcturus The
comet has been increasing in bright-
ness .on its way below the Big Dip-
per toward Arcturus.
1 WEATHER
By Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 26—The battle for the straits of Dover, on
of the most sanguinary of the war is continuing with unabated fury
and without gain on either side.
The Germans at the cost of a trrible loss of life, succeeded in
crossing the Yser between Nieuport and Dixmude but were not able
to further their advance. Further to the south, at Armentieres
Lille, LaBassee, and Arras battles are raging. The whole country
side is reeking with the blood of thousands.
GERMANS DRIVE SHIP BACK
y BERLIN, 0.26.The general headquarters’ report, data
Monday, says: “West of the Yser Canal, between Nieuport and Dix-
mude which are still occupied by the enemy, our troops attack po-
sition which are obstinately defended. / The co-operating British
fleet was forced back by our heavy artillery fire, and three ships-
were kit on the afternoon of October 25. The ships now keep opt
Near Ypres, the battle is stagnant. Southwest of Ypres and
west and southwest of Lille our attacks are progressing. The Enge
NIEUPORT VIOLENTLY noM-I lish suffered great loss in the street fight, leaving five hundred prison-
LI
BARDED ACCORDING TO RE-
PORT FROM PARIS y
"piais. o se.—The ordeini
communication tonight says "in Bel-
gium, Nieuport has been violently
bombarded In the effort of the Ger-
mans to continue on the front be-
tween Nieuport and , Dixmude
according to latest advices with-
out any result whatever being reach-
ed. All the front comprised between
La Passee and Somme has been
equally the object of violent attacks
at night all of which have been re-
pulsed.
On the remainder of the front
there is nothing to report.”
Famine Threatens Beslans
By Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 26.—Nearly
seven million Belgians are facing
famine unless they receive help Im-
mediately, according to American
Minister, Brand Whitlock There is
less than two weeks supply of food
In the cities and the country condi-
tions are worse.
Though the Germans seized the
food In some of the cities for sol-
diers they disclaim responsibility for
feeding the Belgians.
on Steamer Released.
or Associated Prep
LONDON, Oct. 26. — The British
government was satisfied after ex-
amination of the innocence of the
destination of the cargo and ordered
the release of the American oil
steamer Brindilia. The question of
the transfer of the vessel from the
German to the United States flag
will not be raised by Great Britain.
Bring Big Guns.
By Avenrinted Press.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 26.—The
telegraft learns that two forty two
centimetre howitzers and ten twenty-
eigh centimetre guns have arrived at
Bruges and the Germans have also
posted guns between Zeebrugge and
Heyst nine miles north of Bruges. It
says the position of the allies is Im-
proved near Nieuport.
Falling Floor KO Three.
By Arepeisted Props
YOUNGSTOWN, Oct. 26.—Three
man are dead and three others tn
the hospital as a result of the col
lapse of tie third floor in the new
hippodrome building today, burying
seven under tone of concrete and
stoel.
French Steamer Sunk
By Nemriplated Press.
DOVER, Eng., Oct. 26.—The
steamer Admiral Ganteaume was
sunk by a mine outside the Boulogne
harbor and passengers and peasants
twenty were drowned through
the panic while transferring passen-
gers to the channel steamer Queen.
Local Weather Forecast.
Fair Tuesday.
Yesterday’s temperature:
7 A. M......48 7 P. M. .....43
Maximum ...52 Minimum ..43
1913 Max ...42 1913 Mln ...26
St. Louis Methodists Celebrate.
Special to The News.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 2C—An ef-
ficiency conference was opened today
at the Centenary Methodist Episco-
pel Church, in honor of the seventy-
fifth anniversary of the parish, which
was celebrated yesterday. Bishop
Hendrix remained in town for the
conference. Moray Carleton, Rev. L.
E. Todd and President Paul Line of
Central College were the speakers at
the afternoon session.
Aa a further- feature of the anni-
‘Washington Forecast, 1 Aa a further- feature of the anni-
WASHINGTON, D C., Oct. 26.— I versary, the delegates will attend
Went Texas—Fair Tuesday and Wed- the dedication of Barnes Hospital to
nesday. morrow afternoon.
ers.
the heavy French attack brok
", AUSTRIANS REPORT SUCCESSES.
By Associated Press.
MANCHESTER, N. H., Oct. 26.—The Austro-Hungarian
Ambassador here has issued the following official Vienna statement,
received by wireless: “Our armies and the strong German forces .
are in nearly uninterrupted line from the Carpathians to the neigh-
borhood of Plock sixty miles northwest of Warsaw against the
Russians. The strong Servian and Montenegrin forces, which have
entered Southeastern Bosnia were defeated in a three days battle
and forced to retreat.”
RUSSIANS REPORT MANY VICTORIES.
By Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 26.—A Havas agency dispatch from Petrograd,
gives the following official Communication:
“Combats upon the route leading to Petrokoff and Radom
are assuming the character of a great battle with a sixty mile front
from Rawa to Nowemiasto and Binlobregi as far as the mouth of
the river Iljanka. On the evening of October 24, north of Rawa, we
attached the Germans with the bayonet, inflicting great loss. In the
village of Morchilaio, we buried seven hundred Germans. In the
bayonet attack near the village of Mazamerjeff, we captured two
batteries of field guns. -
Our troops are in command of the forest of Nemglove south-
east of Rawa, where we made four hundred prisoners. In the forest
between Radom and Kozenitz, the combat continues. We have
progressed along the routes from Nova to Alexandria capturing
numerous prisoners and guns.
The stubborn resistance of the Austrians in Galicia is weaken-
ing and our troops are making vigorous progress south of Sambora
and Staromiesto, where they took eleven cannon.
The entire valley of the river Spryne is covered with the ene-
mies’ bodies, estimated at five thousand. The Germans attempts
to resume a partial offensive on the eastern Prussian front has been
repelled. .
GERMANS USING BIG GUNS. 8
PARIS, Oct. 26.—The Germans' smashing tactics along the
North Sea coast line was continued incessantly when their big guns
were turned on Nieuport and the Allies had to withstand the con-
stant attacks of masses of troops. Yesterday’s crossing of the Yser
was apparently for moral effect as the Germans were confronted by
solid lines of troops and were blocked.
The Germans have executed a number of night attacks on the
left wing and in the vicinity of Lille, where they encountered stub-
born resistance.
The Allies commanders are sparing their men and giving con-
stent relief* to the troops on the firing line, sending them to villages
in the rear to play cards in the cafes until the baglee recall them to
the firing line.
Sometimes villages change hands several times in the count
e day. On the line from Soissons to Craonne, the Allies are
to have obtained a slight advantage today. On the east wing
French are credited with a gain which it is claimed endanger
German communications. The French have here pushed
leaving only a strip a dozen miles wide for the German reti
The French are said to have occupied every position a
tance in Vosges. 1
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