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TITE MORXiyG OIIEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1914. 3 SERVIANS GQNT1NUE TO PRESS FIGHTING REPLY OF KAISER IS EXPECTED SOON SCENE Or CAMPAIGN IN EASTERN EUROPE, SHOWING LOCATIONS OF RUSSIAN INVADERS IN THEIR EFFORTS TO REACH BERLIN. Wounded Are Filling Vienna; k Thousands. More at Other Washington Optimistic Over Peace, as Four Other Treaties Are Signed. SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW FRONT LACE CORSET IN OUR CORSET DEPT. Cities Tax Red1 Cross. JEWS REDUCED TO WANT WARRING NATIONS NOTIFIED Austria Orders Youths Born In 1894 to Join Home Defense Army, and Others Heretofore Rejected Are Called to Service. VIENNA, via Paris. Sept. 15. A re port from Budapest relates that the fighting with the Servians, which be gan several days ago. has not yet come to an end. Servian troops, which crossed the frontier at several places, ere arousing much uneasiness among the local population. This entire Ser vian movement Is without importance, the Budapest report avers, but it does afford ground for anxiety. Such com munlcatlons, worded in a studiously ambiguous manner, appearing' In the newspapers, are making the public in creasingly uneasy. Amid all these terrible anxieties the aged Emperor of the dual monarchy, I'Vancis Joseph, Is reported to be in ex cellent health. Newspapers Labor Under Difficulty. The newspapers of Vienna are la boring under great difficulties. They are supplied with bulletins of less than a score of words each, from which they draw the most fantastic descriptions of what is transpiring. The few war cor respondents who are accompanying the headquarter's staff telegraph chiefly official bulletins in slightly garbled language and supplement these reports vith remarks on the magnificent weather and stories of the heroic deeds of Austrian officers and men. Meanwhile railroad trains are bring ing hundreds and even thousands of wounded into Vienna. On two days last week there arrived respectively in the capital 240 and 3200 wounded sol diers. It certainly is a fact that the total number of wounded in Vienna to day aggregates more than 20,000 men, Hed Croud Resources Taxed. There probably are many more thou sands already in Budapest and thou sands more are scattered at Cracow, Prague, Gratz and even as far as Inns bruck. . The resources of the Red Cross are being taxed to the utmost and 11 classes of society are rendering aid. Mrs. Frederick C. Penfield. wife of the American Ambassador, has organ ized a corps of Red Cross workers In the embassy. Already she has sent over 100,000 bandages to Red Cross head quarters. Thousands of Gallcian Poles, chiefly Jews, are in Vienna without means of support and are forced to beg for food and shelter. The Hebrew charitable so cieties are doing all they can to succor their unfortunate co-religionists. Free meals on a generous scale are dispensed daily. Youths of SO Called Out. The public apprehension that all has not been going well with Austria is evidenced by a military order, issued under the laws providing for the na tional defense, calling on youths born In 1894 to Join the army for home de fense. In ordinary circumstances these young men would not have been sum moned to the colors until next Spring. Men born In 1892 and 1893 have, up to the present time, been rejected when appearing for enrollment. Now they have been ordered to join the army. It Is Intimated further that they may be called to active service within a short time. SERBS ELATED OVER VICTORY Iletreat of Austrians From Semlin Cause of Te Deum In Cliurclies. PARIS. Sept. 15. The taking of Sem lin by the Servians has caused great manifestations and rejoicing In Bel grade, according to a dispatch to the Havas Agentfy from Nish. A Te- Deum was sung in all the churches today. On the afternoon of September 10 two Austrian monitors approached the Servian capital and fired about 50 hots. The Servian artillery at Belgrade and at Semlin replied, driving them off. A majority of the Serbs, and Croats who live in Semlin remained In the city. The Hungarians, Germans and Jews fled. The flight of the Austrians, the dis patch says, resembled a panic. The de feat of the Austrians on two sides soon became apparent, as many of the wounded were being transported to terrain. The Austrians took away sev eral prominent hostages. AUSTRO DESERTERS JOIN SERBS Montenegrins Also Aid Ally Along Bosnian Frontier. ROME, via Paris, Sept. 16. A dis patch received here from San Giovanni, Albania, says the Montenegrin troops have joined the Servians, and fighting under Servian Generals, headed by Gen eral Vukotoch, have repulsed the Aus trians all along the Bosnian frontier. "There was fighting Saturday, Sun day and Monday," the dispatch con tinues, "and the Servians now are pur suing the enemy. The Austrian cas ualties amounted to 4000. Seven hun dred men were taken prisoners and 500 men of Slav nationality deserted the Austrians and joined the Servians." BOURNE'S WORK PRAISED Efforts of Railway Mall Pay Com mittee Ijauded In Speech. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. (Special.) Although disagreeing with some views expressed by Jonathan Bourne in his report as chairman of the com mittee on railway mall" pay. Repre sentative Lloyd. Democrat, from Mis souri, Is warm In his praise of the work done by the former Senator from Ore gon. In a recent speech In the House Mr. Lloyd, who Is a member of the committee, dissented from certain fea tures of the report criticising the Post office Department and then said: "I wish to say to Senator Bourne's credit, however, that in writing the re port he has done splendid service. He deserves the commendation of everyone interested in this great subject for the manner in which the Investigation was conducted, the success of the commis sion's work and the bill that It recom mends, which, in my Judgment, If adopted by Congress, will settle the question of railway mail pay for many years," O AT UPPER RIGHT ARE KOX1GSBIRG AND ALLENSTEIN, IN DISTRICT WHERE RUSSIANS AND CER MANS ARE IN CONFLICT. AT LOWER RIGHT ARE LEMBERG AND FRZK1IYL, WHERE RUSSIANS ' HAVE DEFEATED AUSTRIAN'S. - E RULE TO WAIT British Commons Passes Bill Suspending Operation. RECRUITING IS AFFECTED Jolui Redmond Expresses Hope New Spirit Will Be Developed by Irish men Fighting Side by Side In Common Cause. LONDON. Sept. 15. After the Union ists had made a formal protest and had left the chamber, the House of Com mons today passed through all Its stages the bill introduced by Premier Asquith. to suspend the operation of the Irish home rule and the Welsh dis establishment bills. In the House of Lords the motion for a second reading of the home rule bill was adjourned on a vote of 93 to 29. Introducing his bill. Premier Asquith strongly repudiated tne assertion that the government had violated any of its assurances not to proceed with con troversial legislation. To have post poned the passage of the bills until after the termination of the war, he said, would have had a deplorable ef fect on the Irish race all over the world and on Irish recruiting. The Premier promised that before the home rule bill came into operation the government would introduce an entirely new amending bill. Opposition Leader Protests. Andrew Bonar Law, the opposition leader. In the course of whose speech the liberals left the chamber, entered his protest against the bill Introduced by Mr. Asquith. Mr. Bonar Law charged the govern ment with trading on the loyalty of the Unionists to their country and said that Mr. Redmond never had made a greater mistake than he had in Insist ing upon this victory. At the close of Air. Law's SDeech all the Unionists left the House, the oddo- sitlon leader declaring they would al low the government to do what It liked with the suspensory bill. John Redmond Supports Bill. John E. Redmond, the Irish Nation alist leader in the House of Commons, replied to Mr. Law in a speech support ing the bill. The Irish leader ex pressed the hope that In the interven ing period when the Ulsterists and Na tionalists were fighting shoulder to shoulder, a new spirit would arise all over Ireland, making a real settlement possible. The Welsh and labor leaders havine expressed their satisfaction with the bill, it passed through all the staeea with cheers from the Nationalists and the ministerialists. In the House of Lords,' In the course of a debate on the Marquis of Crewe's motion for a second reading of the home rule bill, adjournment was taken. AUSTRIAN ARMY IN PERIL (Continued From First Page.) Vienna and are seriously reducing th food supplies, according to Rome and Vienna dispatches to the Exchange Telegraph Company. Hum The newspapers of the Austrian cap ital have ceased to print the names of the dead and wounded, admitting that they have not space to include them all. All the schools have been trans formed into hospitals. Railway dining cars also have been requisitioned for this purpose. RrsSIAX SACRIFICE EXTOLLED Service Costly to Herself, Priceless to Allies, Says Briton. LONDON. Sept 16. A Petrograd dis patch to the Post says: "It is only now that the opportunity presents Itself to exhibit in due pro portions the self-sacrificing strategy of Russia at the very opening of the war for the purpose of lightening the task of her allies. "The immediate necessity was to pre vent the destruction of the French army by rapid diversion. This Russia accomplished magnificently. Her raid in East Prussia, right up to Koenigs berg, the ancient coronation city of Prussian royalty, at onco relieved the pressure upon France by compelling Germany to withdraw her best troops from France and replace them with re serves. This movement is still in prog ress. "The services Russia performed wer - - "3 " 3 7 Rl costly to herself, but priceless to her allies. "The orders given to General Ren nenkampff, the dashing cavalry leader who commanded the raid Into East Prussia, were such as to prove conclu sively Russia's loyal self-sacrifice in the common cause. There were but scanty chances that Russia could suc ceed in reaching suitable territory for a decisive battle. Nevertheless, Rus sia nearly accomplished this, for she got wthin one march of the historic battlefields of Eylau and Frledland. Rennenkampff's orders were to take hia forces as far as possible into Prus sia withont regard to losses. . "It should be put on record now, when changed circumstances are com pelling Russia to return to a strategic scheme more advantageous to the de velopment of her enormous resources, that she already has withdrawn a con siderable force from East Prussia, and no surprise will be felt here If Russia withdraws entirely within her own frontier." RUSSIAN" DEFEAT IS ASSERTED General Von Ilindeiiburg Reports Casualties Are Heavy. BERLIN, Sept. 15. (By wireless to New York, via Sayville. L. L) It was officially announced in Berlin today that General Von Hindenburg has tele graphed Emperor William that the Rus sian army of Vilna, composed of the second, third, fourth and 20th army corps, two reserve divisions and Ave divisions of cavalry, have been com pletely defeated by the Germans. The Russian casualties were heavy. The number of Russian prisoners is Increasing, General . Von Hindenburg goes on, and the destruction of the Rus sian army continues. There have been spoils of war in enormous quantities. The Russian army of Grodno has been defeated at Lyck. It comprised, in addition to the 2 2d corps, the rem nant of the sixth corps and a part of the third Siberian corps. Prince Joachim, the youngest son of Emperor William, wounded in battle, is reported to be doing well. A dispatch received here from Con stantinople says that certain British naval instructors in Turkey, accused of having committed depredations, have been prevented from doing further harm. It is further declared in this message that the wireless apparatus has been removed from the British em bassy in Constantinople. LONDON, Sept." T5 The following German official statement by Marconi wireless has been received here: "The Austrian troops have repulsed the Servians all along the line of the River Save, and there is now no danger with regard to Semlin." AUSTRIANS DESERT GERMANS Captured Officer Says Dishonor Never Will Be Forgiven. LONDON, Sept. 15. Reuter's corre spondent with the Russian army on the western frontier says two German di visions participated in the battle of Krasnik, which stretched over a front of 100 versts (about 66 miles) and in cluded several armored entrenchments on the hillside. "Many shells went over Krasnik," the correspondent adds, "but did not dam age the town. The Russians finally broke the Austrian front and the Aus trians abandoned their whole position, disregarding the Germans, who, al though they were fighting bravely, had to fall back on AnnapoL One of the several German officers captured by the Russians said: " 'The Austrians called on us to aid them and then deserted us. The Ger man army will never forgive this act of dishonor." "The Austrians took up another posi tion, but were again dislodged and re treated across the frontier, leaving the fields strewn with the bodies of men and horses. The peasants are wearing the boots and clothing the Austrians discarded in their flight. "Little damage was done to that por tion of Poland which the Austrians temporarily held." Retreat Likened to Panic. LONDON, Sept. 16. The Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent says: "The first German army, which has been stiffened by several divisions, has virtually ceased to exist. The Germans are retreating like a panic stricken mob. The Russians have crossed the lower reaches of the River San without opposition. "With the Russians already south of the San River the significance of Przemysl and the other strongholds of the district has been heavily discount ed. These fortresses were intended to cover the great triangle between the Vistula and San Rivers and the Car pathian Mountains. They have proven useless for that purpose and the ques tion now is whether the beaten and de moralized armies can even reach safe ty at Cracow. . "Other refuge there is none. The situation looks almost as bad for the eastern as for the western armies of the Germanic allies." , JAPANESE ARE NEAR Vanguard Reaches Kiau-Chau City; Cavalry Follows. GERMANY WARNS CHINESE Charge d' Affaires at Pekin Notifies Foreign Office His Country Re serves Right to Reprisal for Neutrality Breach. PEKIN. Sept 15. A report of German origin received here today says a vanguard of about SO Japanese has ap peared at Klau-Chau City, which is five miles north of the Klau-Chau boundary. Three hundred Japanese cavalrymen are close behind them. The German charge d'affaires in Pekin. Baron Von Maitzan, nas notified the foreign office that his government reserves tne right to deal with China, at the present time and in the future. as it sees tit, because of the alleged breach of neutrality on the part of China in permitting the landinar on Chinese territory of Japanese troops wuose aestinaiion was itiau-Chau. The German government further reserves the right to exact condensation for tha losses which it and German subjects may sustain as a result of this action. The German charge disputes the Chi nese contention that the situation is analogous to that which existed during the Ru8so-Japanese War. He declares that China .should have given notifica tion of the extension of the fighting zone Deiore tne Japanese landed, there by giving the Germans equal oppor tunity to make use of this territory. In a previous protest Baron Von Maltzan declared that the Chinese gov ernment should have handed the Japa nese Minister in Pekln his passports when Japanese troops landed at Lung Kow. The Japanese legation, on its side, has protested to the foreign office against the acts of German and Austrian soldiers, clad as civilians, in traveling from Tientsin to Tslng-Tau by the Chinese railroad line. 1000 HEN DEFEAT 3000 FRESTCH- SURPRISE GERMANS IN caMp, CAPTURiaro guss. Over Hundred Prisoners Taken After Fight of Two Hears Belgians Accomplish Like Feat. LONDON, Sept. 15. The correspond ent of the Reuter Telegram Company at Antwerp relates in a dispatch how a German cavalry force. 3000 strong, with machine guns and supply wagons, was surprised last Monday at Rous brugge, between Hoogstade and Pope ringha, close to the frontier, by a Tench cavalry xorce of 1000 men, who put them to flight and captured many of the machine guns and much am munition. The Germans were In camp when the French fell on them. A fierce engagement, lasting two hours, ensued. One hundred Germans were captured. The French lost about 30 men, in cluding two officers killed. A battalion of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of the Belgian line, the cor respondent continues, blew up the rail road bridge between Alost and Ter monde. This battalion later swooped down on a German battalion in camp, killing 60 of them. The Belgians In this engagement captured nine supply wagons, a field kitchen : and several motorcycles. Senator Borah to Speak. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 15. Senator Borah will deliver the principal speech at a for mal opening of the Republican cam paign in Indianapolis Thursday even ing and the following night he will speak at Peoria. Schnlte Signs With Cabs Again. CHICAGO, Sept. 15. Frank Schulte, veteran outfielder of the Chicago Na tional League club, yesterday silenced reports that he would become a Fed eral Leaguer by signing a three-year contract with the Chicago club. The 10 day clause was eliminated from the contract. President Delays -Reply to Dum Dun Communications From Kaiser and President Pol near e Belgians to Bo Received Today. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. That Em peror William's reply to the informal peace inquiry or the United States, which it is hoped will open the way to end the European war, is expected within a few days was revealed to night. The feeling of optimism in Admin istration circles was heightened today by the signing of treaties between the United States, Great Britain. France, Spain and China, which, it is believed, "will make armed conflict between the United States and these nations almost, if not entirely, impos sible." The treaties provide that all dis putes which cannot be settled , by di plomacy shall be submitted to a per manent commission for investigation for one year. Foreign Embassies Notified. Similar in principle to the 22 treaties signed with Central and South America and a few European countries, 19 of which have been ratified by the Senate, the four compacts signed today are regarded by officials and diplomats here as the most advanced step which the American Government has taken to forward the cause of peace. Immediately after the conventions were Blgned, Secretary Bryan dis patched telegrams to the American Em bassies and Legations in Germany. Russia, Austria and Belgium, notify ing them of what had occurred and expressing the desire of the United States to sign similar treaties with those countries; all of which have In dorsed the principle of the peace plan. Japan Alone Remains Aloof. Japan alone has not accepted the principle or entered into negotiations. It became known today, because of the desire of the ministry there not to confuse the Japanese public while the alien land controversy is being ad justed. Members of the Cabinet and Admin istration officials attended the signing ceremony in the office of the (Secre tary of State. Mrs. Bryan and per sonal friends of the Secretary were present. Afterward Mr. Bryan issued the following statement: "The signing of four treaties today, with Great Britain, France, Spain and China, brings under treaty obligations more than 900,000.000 of people. These, when added to the population of the United states and the population of the 22 countries with which similar treat ies heretofore have been signed, bring under the influence of these treaties considerably more than two-thirds of the inhabitants of tue globe. Armed Conflict Minimised. "As these treaties all provide for In vestigation of all matters in dispute Deiore any declaration of war or com' mencement of hostilities, it is believed that they will make armed conflict be tween the contracting nations almost. If not entirely, impossible. The Gov ernment is gratified to take this long step in the direction of peace and Is not only willing, but anxious, to make slmlllar treaties with all other nations, large and small." The cabinet officers, ambassadors and ministers who were present at the signing of the treaties were present at a luncheon at the University Club later. Speeches were made in advo cacy of peace, but no direct references were made to the present European war. As a cabinet officer said later, the conversation was "entirely neu tral." Secretary Bryan arranged the follow ing menu: Neutrality Soup French Olives White Radishes Spanish Omelette English Mutton Chops Rice Croquettes a la Pekln - French Peas Corn O'Brien Miami Salad American Ice Cream Oolong; Tea Dim-Don Protests Unanswered. President Wilson, It became known today, had made no reply to the mes sages from Emperor William and President Polncare of France relating to the use of dum-dum bullets in the war. The President will receive tomorrow the commission of Belgian officials who have come from their country especially to lay before him their com plaint against alleged violations of civilised warfare in the German in vasion. It Is generally understood that the President will make a general state ment after the Belgians have seen him, covering their protest as well as the messages from the German Emperor and the French President, and reiterat. lng the neutrality of the United States. R0UMANIA JS RESTLESS Advances Toward Italy Unfriendly to Austria Reported. ROME, via Paris, Sept. 15. It Is said here that Roumanla is making ad vances to Italy for common action to ward Austria, and that Roumanian pol iticians are expected to arrive here shortly to arrange an understanding between the two countries. The Radical party today passed a resolution of sympathy with Rou manla. The Radicals sent greetings to the Radical party in Roumania and ex pressed the hope that Italy' and Rou manla would proceed together "for the triumph of Latin civilization." The anarchists have voted to stand with the French, Brittsh. Russian. Bel gian and Servian people in the contro versy and to oppose the Italian gov ernment's neutral position. CZAR EXPECTS' ITALIAN AID Triple Alliance Partisan Minister Believed Only Obstacle. ROME, via Paris. Sept. 15. The Glornale d'ltalla publishes today a dis patch from Petrograd saying the at tention of the Russian press is centered on the attitude of Italy. . In Russian political circles, the news paper says, the Intervention of Italy In the war Is considered inevitable. According to one belief, the Italian government is only awaiting the resig nation of Foreign Minister San Glul- lano, who. besides being a partisan of the Triple Alliance, also Is ill. Herzog Suspended Indefinitely. CINCINNATI.' Sent. IS XT.nao-..- Charles Herzog, of the Cincinnati Na tional League dub, has been suspended model if eat With a wondronsi longf sweeping back line and elastic Inserts to insure absolute ease and comfort this new model la admired by all who see It. There is a vast difference between the average corset and the MODART especially between the average corset with the elastic sections and our new MODART model illos traced above. Don't fan to CaUnxxl 8e it. cLipmanXVctlc & (3 cJ'MercWvLa. fU Merit CM .Modart indeflnitelv hv PrA.M.nt tr.. - .i National League, for disputing a decis ion ui tne umpire in a game played here xast ounaay. Red Cross Needs Million. RAN TTP IWHTCfA c- . c rr.i oovi. irf. 1HO Ul' rector of the Pacific division of the t Where the PARAMOUNT Pictures 1 Are Today, Thursday Friday, Saturday IH ennena jFOeB3mia.in I al-'W'IWITimLMtJIaJUMlll 1 1 Hill nmwi'ML;.iH';MUJu jiMiiyj In the Famous, Emotional Society Drama The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch By Mrs. Burton Harrison A Superb Dramatic Illustration of the Noblest of Human Emotions "Mother Love" Played by Daniel Frohman's Famous Players The Best Pictures Are Paramount Pictures ATTRACTIONS TODAY UNTIL SUNDAY: STACKED CARDS Thrilling Kay Bee Drama of Political Trickery, Showing How a Reform Candidate for Mayor "Was Ruined bv His Enemies. "A SECRET AGENT FROM RUSSIA" Thirteenth Episode of "The Million Dollar Mystery Thrilling, Spectacular. 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