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THE MORNING OREGOyiAN. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1914. ' t , 1 2 4 MONS LIKE INFERNO, DECLARES BRITON Wounded Soldier Says Allies Mowed Down Germans as They Reached Hillock. HALF OF REGIMENT DEAD Kaiser's Men, Afler Advancing, At tack "With Cavalry l-Yom Behind, Survivor Narrates, and Are Decimated In Charge. LONDON', Sept. 1. 4 A. XI. The fol lowing story of the fighting near lions was told to an express reporter by one of the Britisn wounded who was brought here Monday: "We had left the shelter of a little forest and opened out, supported by the North country regiment. Our Colo nel warned us that the German Infan try was advancing. "We had hardly extended ourselves along the grass when patches of blue end green were seen on the skyline and soon battalions of the enemy were made out following each other at regi ment intervals. Battle 1 Inferno. "Our batteries let rip and gouged holes through them. 'Bravo!' shouted my platoon commander as he watched through his glasses. "Now the order was given to fix bayonets. Before the enemy arrived, the artillery fire had increased until It was an inferno. German aviators were directing their guns, and at times we fired on aeroplanes, but our shots were ineffective. Our gunners had an awful time as the cavalry got around behind us and charged right up to the guns. Few of the Germans escaped, however, for whole platoons rushed to the rescue, emptying their magazines as they ran. Half of Regiment Killed. "A moment later the Germans were on us from the front. We let them come until their breasts rose above the neighboring hillock and then we decimated them. They fell back in confusion and dropped to tne ground. "Scores of machine guns were turned on us and we were ordered to prepare to charge. On the word of command, we sprang from the ground as one man and with yell after yell charged the advancing Prussians. As we neared their ranks we fired indiscriminately and only a few remained to cross bay onets with us. The remainder rushed off and were shot in the back as they went. They left more than half their regiment on the field in killed and wounded." BOKK WAR TRICK SAVES DAI (silencing ol Guns at Moils Woos Germans On, Then Cannon Roar. LONDON, Sept. L Wounded men in the hospitals of Boulogne relate to the Express correspondent their incidents of the fighting between the British and Germans. One of the men, he says, told of a trick which the British learned In tlie Boer war and which worked well against the Germans. "The enemy," he said, "before send ing their infantry against our positions, opened a hot artillery fire. Our ar tillery replied, at first warmly, and then gun after gun of the British batteries went silent. " 'What's up now?' I asked a com rade. There were a few minutes more of artillery firing from the Germans and then infantry came on in solid for mation. We received them with rifle fire. Still they came on and still we mowed them down. They were getting closer and we could plainly see the dense masses moving. Then suddenly the whole of our artillery opened fire. "You see. our guns had not been si lenced at all, and it was a trick to draw the Germans on. They went down in whole fields, for our guns got them In open ground. It was Impossible for those behind to come up past the dead." 70X00 RUSSIANS CAUGHT (Continued From First Page.) Rome declares news has been receivel there from Bucharest, Roumania, set ting forth that the Russians have In flicted a crushing defeat on the Aus trisns in Gallcia. The Russians inflict ed a loss of 20,000 on the enemy, who gi .ight to cross the Vistula. A dispatch to the Times from St. Petersburg gives the following com mer. l on the Russian operations against the Austrians: "The Russian operations against the Austrians are considered by recognized military writers to have reached the stage when decisive victories may be within reach. Capture of the railroad center 40 miles south of Lemberg in volves the rupture of railway com munication with the Austrian fort resses on the Dniester and in Buko vina. Thus the southern part of Galicia, as well as Bukovina, is severed from the remaining portions of Galicia. ex cept by a circuitous route across the Carpathians. As a result the iron ring is closing around Lemberg. Lnormoui Lvss Suffered. "According to the Russko Slovo, the losses suffered by the Austrians in their desperate attempt to strike at the vitals of the Russian position in Poland aggregate teus of thousands of men. including the Sixth Austrian Corps, which, on its retreat between the Western Bug and the Wieprz rivers, was almost annihilated." A dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph Company from Cetttnje says the Austrians, supported Dy tne attaro batteries and their fleet, on Sunday re attacked Mount Lovchen and Budua. The Montenegrin positions were being seriously damaged when the British and French fleet appeared, silenced the batteries and forced the Austrian ships to beat a hasty retreat. The Montenegrins, under Prince Peter, immediately began a counter attack on the Austrian forces and re pulsed them. They killed 250 men and took many prisoners. Including several officers. Two pieces of artillery also were captured. Russian Kcd Cross Admits Jews. LONDON. Sept. 2. A Moscow dis patch to the Central News says It is announced that on acccunt of the ex istence of war, Jewish doctors and stu dents will be admitted to the courses of the Russian Red Cross Society. Their admission in normal times is for bidden by law. Riugefield Lodge Visits. RtDGEFIELD, Wash.. Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) Between S3 and Jt) Rldgefield Oddfellows went to Vancouver last light with a local candidate for the lodge who was taken into the order. TWO PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING AUSTRIA'S MILITARY OPERATIONS. . ,MMMM"Mi v" J." ' I I The World's Greatest Detective . J ..... - & III Many Other Late Events I Photos Copyright by Underwood ft Underwood. ABOVE STAFF OFFICERS AT REX Paris Fails to Thrill When German Repeats Exploit. ONLY SARCASM EVOKED Monoplane Ffcils to Do Damage With Seven Missiles Gun fires Four Shells, British Infantry Men Join in Fusillade. PARIS, Sept. L A German mono plane dropped several more bombs in the streets of Paris about 6:30 o'clock to night One fell at the Rue Michiodere and the Rue iu Matre Septembre. near the Credit Lyonnais, and another near St. Lozane station. One bomb fell in Rue de Hanovre, near Avenue de I'Opera, without doing" damage. Another in Rue du Mail did not explode. It broke through the roof of a bouse, but did minor damage. A bomb fell in the court of a house in Rue Jubert and blew out the windows, but did no damage. Bad Marksmanship Indicated. Another bomb has been found in Rue de Moscou. It was loaded with bullets. This was evidently aimed at the St. Lazarre station. The bombs found in Rue de Hanovre and Rue du Septembre probably were intended for the Bank of France. The results show that either the Germans must have been bad marksmen .or the bomb.throwing was intended for its moral effect chiefly. The operations of the German aero planes over Paris have been watched with eqanimity by the people. The first dar the operations caused some nerv ousness among the women; the second day it was already an old story and the third day it provoked for the most part sarcastic remarks concerning tne Inefficiency of the German marksman ship. Bank Guns Eire at Plane. A gun mounted on the bank fired four shells at the aeroplane today and English infantrymen fired their rides epeatedly. The report that the monoplane had been brpught down by the fire of ma chine guns in the outskirts has not been confirmed, but it is certain that it was struck, because it was seen dis tinctly to careen before it disappeared from the view of those who were watching in the city. ONE REGIMENT LOSES 800 German Casualty List in East Prus sia HeaTj- in Proportion. LONDON, Sept. 1. A dispatch to the Evening News from Copenhagen says that the 12th German casualty list in East Prussia gives the losses of the Forty-third Infantry, from Koenigs burg, as about 800. The other regi ments engaged, notably the Sixty-fifth Landwehr. from Coblents, and the Fusilleers, from Rostock and W'ismar, lost several hundred men each. The correspondent adds that General Von Hohenborn has been appointed to represent the German War Minister, Major-General Erich von Falkenharn, in Berlin during the minister's absence at the front. Socialist newspaper correspondents have received permission to be at tached to the German general staff at the front. GERMAN ABUSE IS DENIED Ketnruing Americans Praise Treat ment Accorded Them. ROTTERDAM, Aug. 21. (Corre spondence of the Associated Prese.) Americans who found themselves in Germany the first few days of the European war were in nowise molested and the German government took every step to protect them. This Is the total of a declaration made here by Ameri cans returning from Germany. Several instances of abuse and personal danger were recorded, however, but in every case the excitement incident to the MORE BOMBS DROP g:S DEPOT AS SHAMBLES DEZVOU8. BELOW GLIMPSE OF FIELD COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT. I III III Fni 1 W T . Ik M It i I I The Mix-Up at Murphy s declaration of war, mobilization and re suiting high spirits of the people were responsible. Then, too, the few cases recited to the Associated Press corre spondent occurred in out-of-the-way places and tourists touring the empire in automobiles were the principal suf ferers. German villagers, unable to dist.'.n. guish the Americans from the English, stoned travelers, threatened them and molested them in hotels, but as soon as it had been made clear that the vic tims of their wrath were Americans the most complete apologies were of fered. In most cases the offenders were Immediately arrested and puniehed summarily". On August 5 the German Emperor Is said to have himself issued a decree, according to which the burgomasters all over the empire were to be held personally responsible for all harm be falling foreigners, especially Ameri cans. There is every reason to believe, from the accounts told by American refugees, that the Germans went out of their way to take care of the vis itors from the United States. It must be said, however, that they were subjected to the severe military rules so suddenly applied and that those without passports were in some cases detained until identification had been established. CZAR RENAMES CAPITAL ST. PETERSBURG SOW KNOWN AS PETROGRAD IX RUSSIA. German Construction in Spelling Title of City Founded by Petr the Great Ordered Eliminated. LONDON. Sept. 1, 10 A. It, A dis patch to the Reuter Telegram Com pany from St- Petersburg says that by imperial order the City of St. Peters burg capital of the Russian empire since 1712, will henceforth be known as Petrograd. This change eliminates the Teuton construction in the name by which the chief city of Russia has been known since it was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. In 1300 the Swedes founded at the mouth of the Neva the settlement of Landskrona, which was destroyed by Novgorod in the following year. The territory remained in the possession oi that city and later of Moscow until the seventeenth century, when- the Swedes founded the Town of Nyon, at the junc tion of the Okta with that river, and the fortress Nyonschanz. on the op posite shore. In 1703 the fortress was taken by Peter the Great. The foundation of St. Petersburg marked a revolution in the history of Russia, as it signalized the definite assumption by that empire of a place among the Baltic powers. Peter I divided the supervision of the work of building the city between him self and his lieutenants, and by 1712 sufficient advance had been made to permit the transfer of the royal fam ily from Moscow. During the reigns of Catharine I and Peter II the Russian population of the capital decreased considerably. Anna Ivanovna revived many of the measures of Peter I. and Elizabeth Petrovna, following the policy of her predecessor, greatly increased the population of the capital and added much to its archi tectural beauty. Catharine II also took great interest in the growth of St. Petersburg and enriched it by many beautiful palaces, some of them in tended for her favorites. VETERANS SEE WAR SCENE Enrolment ot Canadians Observed by Grand Army Men. DETROIT. Sept. L With a salute of 21 guns from the revenue cutter Morrill, a fleet of six excursion steam ers, loaded with hundreds of Civil War veterans, today headed out for a cruise in the Detroit River. The river trip was considered the principal event on to day's programme of the -iSth National encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic A semi-official meeting was held in Light Guard Armory to night, at which Governor Ferris wel comed the aged soldiers to Michigan. One of the points of interest for the veterans is the armory in Windsor. Ont.. across the river from here, where men are being enrolled for service in the European war. The Grand Army men are receiving every courtesy from the officers in charge of the armory. BELGIAN REFUGEES SUFFER Wife ot Paris Banker Tells of Seeing Boys With Both Their Hands Cut Off, Babies Lying on Cold, Wet, Cement Floor, Helpless. PARIS. Sept. L Mrs. Herman H. Harjes. wife of the Paris banker, who, with other American women, has been deeply interested in relief work, visited today the North Railroad station and was shocked by the sights she saw among the Belgian refugees. "The station," said Mrs. Harjes, "pre sented the aspect of a shambles. It was the saddest sight I ever saw. It is impossible to believe the tortures and cruelties the poor' unfortunates had undergone. "I saw many boys with both their hands cut off so that it was impossible for them to carry a gun. Everywhere there was filth and utter desolation. The helpless little babies, lying on the cold, wet cement floor and crying for proper nourishment, was enougli to bring hot tears to any mother's eyes. "Mothers were vainly beseeching the authorities for milk or soup. A mother with 12 children said: 'What is to be come of us? It seems impossible to suffer more. I saw my husband bound to a lamp post. He was gagged and was being tortured by bayonets. When I tried to intercede in his behalf I was knocked senseless with a rifle. I never saw him again. "The work which the Red Cross is doing is excellent, but unfortunately it has not sufficient members to cope with the situation. Also its equipment is poor. I saw babies being bathed in dish pans in cold water, no hot water being available. Dr. Andre Collin, who is in charge of the relief work, is al most worshiped by the people, owing to his untiring efforts in their behalf. "I am told that the French authori ties are doing all that is possible to relieve the misery, but the funds are short. 1, with the help of a policeman, took as much coffee and bread and pro visions as an auto would hold into the station and was greeted as a fairy god mother." TURKEY 10 ACT SOON MOHAMMED AX ARMY OF 200,000 . MEN TO BE FORMED. Sending of German Officers to Com mand Sultan's Troops Construed as Indication of War. WASHINGTON. Sept. L The British Embassy has been informed by a cable from London that German officers had gone to Constantinople to take charge of the Turkish army, and that a dec laration of war from Turkey was ex pected. Plans are already under way to ask the American Ambassador at Constantinople to take charge of Brit ish Interests there. The Turkish Ambassador, Arustem Bey, expressed doubt today that the Turkish army was mobilizing and about to fight on the side of Germany. He said the Turkish army was mobil ized three weeks ago. ROME. Sept. 1 (via Paris.) A tele gram received in Rome from Berlin announces the mobilization of the Turkish army. Following1 the advice of Field Mar shal Baron von der Goltz, it is said the Turkish government will form an army of the first line composed of 200,009 men, all Mohammedans. Seventy-two superior German of ficers, forming the German military II Oc ADMISSION 1 Oc mission at Constantinople, have been incorporated in the TurKisn army. auu will participate in the war. Th nriivnn nf the German officers in the army is interpreted to mean that Turkey will fight on tne sme ul . -many. ALLIES AID MONTENEGRINS Anstrians Then Repulsed at Mount Lovchen and Budua. riNnrvM Kent. L. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Cettinje says that the Austrians, sup ported by the Cattaro batteries and thr fleet Sunday, reattacked Mount Lovchen and Budua. The Montenegrin positions were being seriously damaged when the English and French fleet ap nr.d. silenced the batteries and forced the Austrian ships to beat a hasty retreat. The Montenegrins, under Prince Peter, immediately began a counter attack on the Austrian forces and repulsed them. They killed 260 men and took many prisoners, including several officers. Two pieces of artillery also were cap tured. PARCELS POST'S AID ASKED Chicago Market Commissioner Pleads for 100-Pound Limit. CHICAGO, Sept. 1 The efforts of the Chicago market commission, redoubled because of war-time prices, to solve the high cost of living problem by re course to the parcel post resulted to day in an appeal to Washington by the commissioners to have the weight limit on parcels Increased to 100 pounds. At present the limit is 50 pounds. The investigations of the commis sioners have disclosed many obstacles in the way of the dircet producer-to-consumer plan and not the least of .v,.. ta EtimlHltv of a. few rural postmasters, who are charged with per mlting perishable products to be sent "mn.nhanill" which are thUS doomed to decay or to be crushed. CASTAWAYS SOUGHT AGAIN Revenue Cutter Bear to Try Anew to Reach Stefansson Party. NOME, Alaska, Sept. i. The United attu, ,-..v,.mif. nutter Bear is to make another attempt to rescue marooned membera of the Stefanson party on Wrangell Island Just as soon as weath er here permits the steamer to depart in safety. Nothing has been heard of -i -..atqn i ,-hrpii lr i n mr L 1 . a . i , - Taimyr, which also endeavored to res cue the stranded crew of the Karluk. The Bear brought several sailors from the whaler Elvira, which was crushed in the ice near Demarkation Point last Fall. Some of the ship wrecked men were taken to a hospital here for treatment. SEA FIGHT IS REPORTED Gold Ship Hears Cannonade Off Coast of Norway. LONDON. Sept 1, 5:12 P.M. The Westminster Gazette publishes a dis patch from Gothenburg, Sweden, say ing the Wilson line steamship Oslo has arrived there from Hull and reports having heard heavy cannonading as she passed through the Skager-Rak, the waterway between Northern Denmark and Norway. 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