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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1914)
' pp""1 ' WHEN A MAN IS IN TROUBLE HIS FRIENDS ARE VERY LIBERAL- WITH ADVICE AVI1AT YOU "NEED (Ham Stnwa NO WAR NEWS comes through foreign points with nut (mini riMisnrnil. nml nvnn that .... 0,i,pr follow mny Imvo; wlint you Le ninii' other follow mny want. The want ads I" Tim T"es " help rlnR joii both toBtrtli.'V Phono 133. j sort Is hnnl to got. Hut wlint thcro Is we publish The only Associated i'rc,s,a report in suutnwest urogon. MCMIiKH OF TII12 ASSOCIATED IMIEsjS VOL XXXVII. Estnl)IlHliC 1H7H 4is Tho Const Mnll. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1914 EVENING EDITION. A Consnlldntliin of Tinier, Const Mull nml Coos May AtHcittar No. 39 mm BOTH SIDES CLAIM ADVANTAGE IN TODAY': POR REPORT ffiflUI 1 W SIXTY IILES OF PARIS 10DAY France Hurries Additional Forces to Fortifications Around Cap ital and Prepares For Siege Consternation "in 'GrcritCCity Today. CAPITAL MAY BE MOVED TO BORDEAUX ' TO REDUCE TROUBLES OF SIEGE Thousands of Residents Leaving for West and Southern Dis- '(rjdts Trains are Crowded With Exodus of Residents :600,TJDOiJVIorcTrroops Called Out.' (By Associated Press to The Cons Bay Times,) PARIS, Aug, 31, All night long troops from the south and west armed at the capital and passed around the cily to the encircling fortifications, The municipal administration is act ive in completing detailed plans for defending Paris, 'No offnrdl information regarding the military situation was announced up to noon loday, The usual animation noticed in the stieets of Paris was caused chiefly by the thousands of persons preparing to leave the capital, It is felt that the fewer non-combatants left in tine clly.ithe better can arrangements he made fot defending ;lhe city, Tickets for trains leaving Pais today to the west andsouth were sold out last night, Linos of penplo are slrcitlhellffor blocks from the railway sta tions today, They were so eager to leave that they thus took early position!, waiting foT Mho 'ticket office to open at six o'clock tomorrow morning, 'All'tickets for today were sold out, Whohj families with their Imnd "baggage, camped in the lines, eating and slewing as besttlhoycoiild, It was reported that one Gormany army was within sixty miles rf'lParis, .FRANCE 'iTO REMOVE (DARIiTAL FROM PARIS (By Associated Press (to The Coos Bay Times,) WASHINGTON, D, C Aug, ;32,-.France is considering the advisability of moving tho seat'of her government from Paris to Bordeaux as a iirecautlonar.y measure, according to official advices received hu, o today, FRANCE .CALLS OUT 60M)00!MDRE TROOPS (By Associated Press to The Coos Bay Times,) "HARISi uiKi 3K Additional Ficvich Torcos, totalling six lUndred thousand men, will be ready for active service in the 'loxj.-six week. as a result of a decision to call out . the 191-4 jwuhh men and elder dlasses of reservists, The reservists will e eqjpped and ready for the field Jn sa few -(lays, QRFICIAL H8BN.CH STATEMENT OF DEVELOPMENTS (By Associated Wess to The Coos Bay Times,) PARIS, Aug, SUi An official statement issued this evening iummmVes the station as follows; "On the tight, after par tial chedks, we have taktn the offensive, the enemy retiring before us, In the tentral, we have had alternative checks and successes, On the Reft, tlit Anglo-French forces were obliged jo give way. Our mmies imain intact, The -morale of the troops tsmellent, despite considerable Josses. i SAFE ROBBERS GET ABOUT $3,000 LOOT AT GARDINER, TRIBTY Officially Announced in Berlin That Kaiser's Troops Made Prisoners of Great Russian Army During the Fighting r Among Swamps and Lakes of East Prussia 'AUSTRIANS ALSO CLAIM VICTORY OVER RUSSIANS ALONG FAR-FLUNG BATTLE LINE Make Escape After Blowing Safe, Taking $2000 in Cash and About $1000 Worth of Jewelry Stole Tools From ' Mill Company's Blacksmith Shop. TWO WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN BOAT WITHIN 25 FEET OF BIG ROBBERY Were Afraid to Leave and Give Alarm Other Residents London Dispatch Announces That Fresh German Forces Have Thought Explosions Were Dynamiting on Railroad Work Did a Neat Job. (Special to The Times,) Been Rushed to the Russian Frontier and Are Taking The Offensive Against Invaders. (By Associated Press to The Coos Bay Times,) Jr DtTDI IM A.., Ol AM.-l,r,r. 4, Anr.,s,!nswl D.'nnn M GARDINER, Or,, Aug, 31, -Safe-blowers last night entered! "ft the office and store of the Gardiner Mill Company, blew the , slans had been taken prisoners by the Germans during the big safe open and secured about $2000 in cash and then rob-1 fighting In East Prussia, principally at Aretelsburg, Hohen hed the jewelry department of about $500 or $1000 worth of stein and Tannenburg, The list of prisoners taken includes jewelry, They escaped and left no definite clue, It is believ-' many officers of high rank, The German attack was across ed that three men pulled off the Job, They were evidently ex-;swamPs ?i15j2kIS.,DM.MP crMT ..,., BIIM1UI(( - ports with nitroglycerine, doing about as neat a Job of safe- (RcW ' TllfiKro time after mldnieht Entrance LONDON, Aug. 3 1. -An official telegram received here de- wnJAIOT midnight, tntrance daros lhal fresp German forcos appoared t Russ VlebvclK but thought that'feffittnT Pi,ltS " laWng th ffe,1SiV they wcreechoes of the blasting which is being done constant- fe ai otrimiq pi aim wir-mmce mcn dmcciamc -3d ' ly on the i:aihoad work in the vicinity, , rTOJK Mrs, Andrews and children and another woman from Scotts- RFR, 8 tl ?s l ?n J IZnL I T'Ln n burg wene Aboard the steamer Juno which was tied up at the' J,EnS mill wharf for the night, They heard the blowing of the safe, ,0 RS f..i?n m.ni f7MIf lAu,fil cLSl 'Ki te saw the mpii hnl rlirFnnt rlnrn n Ipivp thn hnnl tn xmn Ihn ! . Ill tllO AUStlO-HUIlgary theatre Of War, decisive battles jaw the men, hut did not dare to leave the boat to give tnehavo been , progress fo. 8evera, daySi flw forcoS) wilcl '"in conseouence, the robbery was not discovered until theTX8t?,!u5."?3EraA,!!!f P"isy.?f' fr Russia,1s MW Sffiflfi davCOmPany arriV6d aUhe ffiCe and St0,' F rX pSK Open IOI Hie Clay, hftfnro 7nmncn Thn Aiie(rlin Knttln frnnl c.rnnl,no n rltoinnnn General Manager oflB !, HinsdalofSftL Gardiner Mill Com-!of four hundpi?"d..tW'V '""'" paw, stated today that the job was evidently done, by . men ,. . Wffi K2?ff A" CR" ": , V, ..WWVW.HiWV, , ,wuU ly IIUUUUU "J MI.IMI wtio were familiar with the s ihat strangerb had made a s tiiMtiM U -,! I i! i i . I i I UlclUUll, Jl U bUIU lllctt It III Ul L IJU nrni Tm udv of it within a week or so and m "fcn L '"".LV"" V f ,!t!..!,J 4i l.. ...ill, ! , IIKIUU JUUIIU IIUIU lUllclVi UUIUUIIIb UUO "Thfl riooh used woStaken from tho Gardiner Mill Company's ' ""SlgSi y?BVmh,l!!?80nt 'S f,,0W8! 1M3 hladksmith shop. They were left behind, ,,b wounded, 1761 missing, Aug, 31, The twelfth list of German casualties names, The total Gor- Hi UlilE CHASES JAP F 1 0 ( Bv Associated Press to The Cons Bav Tlmns.1 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 31, The Japanese liner Chiyo Ma- JAPAN CLOSING IN ON GERMAN F0I1IS IN CHINESE CITIES NOW (By Associated Press to The Coos Bay Times,) . TSJNG, ShangTung, China, Aug, 31, Cannonading was neard here at interval throughout the day, It is believed that the Tsing Tau forts are engaged with the Japanese blockading fleet, PEKING, Aug, 31, Information received that Ta Chien, a small island outside of Kiao Chow Bay, has been occupied by the Japanese, The German fortifications of Tsing Tau front on Kiao Chow Bay, ENGLISH WARSHIPS HALT i S. VESSELS CARRYING GERMANS umJBy Associated Press to The Coos Bay Times,) , .HONOLULU, Aug, 31, Officers of the Pacific Mail Liner Uiina, which arrived today en route to San Francisco from the Went, reported that British war ships are off Hong Kong and are boarding all vessels, including those under American flag, and removing Germans and Austrians bound for the scene of hostilities, Three Exnlosions. There were three .explosions some time between 2 and 3:30, according to the best advices, , The combination was knocked off the outer door and the! first charge put in there. Two other charges were used, but whether both of these were used in blowing open the inner door j or two were used on the outer door is not certain, One Guarded Dock. One of the burelars stood euard wliiln thn nthprs mnrln llifi haul. The one on cmard was seen bv Mrs. Andrews. Sim was in. arriving here today, reports that Saturday nifilit she was aroused and came up out of the cabin of the Juno and looked chased four hours by a German cruiser, but escaped by crowd up at him, The Juno was tied up within twenty-five feet of me on all speed, The cruiser appeared from the rear about where the safe was blown. Mrs. Andrews snvs that while she 8:30 at night, throwing a searchlight Oil the Cllivo's stern. saw him plainly she does not think she could identify him. Nbt ; The liner successfully kept out of range of tho cruiser's guns, ucmviHiva airm civuuan oi cHrvionird NEW YORK, Aug, 31, The British steamship Holmwood has been sunk by a German cruiser off tho coast of South Africa, according to a telegram received by the owners of the Katherlne Park, which has the Holmwood's crew aboard, The French Foreign Office has discussed the idea of having the capital moved with foreign diplomats so they could make proper arrangements, It is considered probable that Ambas- sauor nei tick win remain in rans 10 care lor Americans snouia Paris be invested by a German army, Development Of The Day Reported By Associated Press Dispatches To Coos Bay Times (By Associated Press to The Coos Bay Times,) Terrific fighting continues on the Austro-Russian frontier. Both the combined Austrian-German forces and the Russians claim the advantage, Berlin reports the capture of thirty thousand Russians, A news dispatch from St, Petersburg tays the Russian advance in East Prussia is proceeding and lepeats the earliei Russian claim of success in Galicia, British official reports say fresh forces of Germans have appeared on the Russian frontier, News dispatches indicate the Germans are pressing toward Paris and that one army is within sixty miles of the French' i i n r i r i . i capuai, rans is preparing ror a siege, uuigomg trains are filfejjffijl JQJ-!"iJ3.tan-fe- and going all the time, it will be hard to trace the thieves, Phone Line Down. The telephone lino between Gardiner and Coos Bay wa& down from Saturday until this aftornoon, The trouble was be tween Marshfield and North Inlet, so that it does not seem like ly that the Gardiner robbers cut the line, , .jtudiS! z word was snokon between her and the bandit, She and her family and friends from Scottsburg were en route to the beach to camp out and instead of going to the hotel, spent the nielit on the Juno, Watchman at Mill. The Gardiner Mill Company has a watchman at the mill, but this is some distance from the office, This was the first robbery in the history of Gardiner, Took Mostly Gold. It is estimated that about $500 of the cash taken was in currency and the balance was in gold, mostly $20 pieces, Some silver was taken, Just what jewelry was taken cannot be told until an inven Tory of the stock is taken, Watches, rings, pins and other valuable were among the goods taken, Mr, Hinsdale said that owing to there being no bank at Gar diner, they were compelled to carry( some cash on hand for their business, He said they made it a rule to carry as little as was possible, Left One Safe. There was another safe in the store, but this was not mo lested, It contained mostly paper and records of the company, There were about $100,000 worth of bonds in this safe, but these would have been useless to the robbers, So far. as can be ascertained, no papers were taken, the rob bers confining themselves to cash and jewelry, Like Myrtle Point Robbery The Gardiner robbery is not unlike the Myrtle Point Bank robbery last November, when a haul of $10,200 was made, Both jobs were done neatly, showing expert work, In the bardiner onices, the cnarges of nitro-glycenne were just sufficient for the work, The offices were not molested much, A window was broken and a desk damaged some, The safe is a complete wreck, : Sheriff Quine, of Roseburg, was called and will be there soon, Word was sent to Sheriff Gage and the other Coos County officers, Owing to so many railroad laborers coming ten fciMntr