THE 3IORXIICG OREGOMAX, 3IOXDAT, JANUARY 23, 1913.
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I BUSY IN FLANDERS I
$ Intense Bombardment but No
it:
Infantry Attack Reported
Near ZiHebeke.
it'
FOES CLOSE IN ALSACE
:!'
Trench in .Argonne Taken and He-
taken Several Times in 48 Hours.
Germans Report Taking 50
I Chassevrs Prisoner.
PARIS, Jan. .25. The following com-
j munictiion wu issued by the War
1 virica tonight:
j "There lias been an inteifse bombard
J( tnent by the Germans jn the region to
II ine norm oi Zlllobeke (Flanders) and
j! lively firing near the Chateau d'Here-
i nag. but no infantry attacks. Some
1 Mir lis have fallen on Arras and flrins-l
lias occurred to tho north of the town.
"In the rezion of Albert, the enemi
es discharged several bombs against
J.a Boisnelle, but our artillery forced!
l.im to- cease this attack. Active!
skirmishing has occurred near Carnov.
"Jn the Argonne. fighting in the re
gion of Four de Paris has come to an
! end. we have conserved all our posi-
; lions, except about 60 meters of
It trench, which was destroyed by the
" heavy bombs of tbe enemy. .
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PROGRESS OF PAST WEEK. "
January 18-c-Russia in third successive victory destroys another
Turkish corps in Caucasia.
January 19 German air fleet raids Sandringham and other towns
in England, doing damage near the King's palace.
January 20 Great Britain resorts to conscription in South Africa.
."" January 22 Russian advance in Translyvania reported checked by
Austro-Hungarian forces.
January 24 German cruiser is sunk and two others damaged while
attempting raid on East English coast.
EARLIER EVEXTS OF THE WAR.
June 28. 1$14 Grand Duke Francis Ferdinand, heir to Austrian
throne, and his wife assassinated in Sarajevo. Bosnia, as result. of Fan
Slavic propaganda. ;
July Si Austrian sends ultimatum to Servia.
July 28 Anstrla declares war on Servia. Russia mobilizes against
Austria.
July 29 -Austria bombards Belgrade. " -
July 31 Germany demands that Russia demobilize. Belgians and
Germans order mobilization.
August 1 Germany declares war on Russia. . ... .;' ";'V
August 3 German troops enter Belgium.
August 4 Great Britain sends ultimatum to Germany demanding
respect for Belgian neutrality. Germany declares war on France and
Belgium. Great Britain declares state of war exists with Germany.
August 6 Austria declares war on Russia.
A u trust 7 French enter Alsace.
August 10 France declares war on Austria.
Austria. Great Britain
demanding that
it
!
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F'ors Clowe ToKether la Alsace.
in Aisace tne struggle is in pro-
press today in the region of Cffholz
ana in that of Hartmanns-WeilerkoDf.
where we are in contact with the wire
entanglements established by the Ger
mans, but as yet there is no news of
-' the operations of the day."
' The latest official statement said:
"In the region of IS'ieuport and Lom
baertzjde. the enemy, by a violent
'' bombardment of - new positions, cap
tured by us, prepared an attach which
he has not been able. to carry out. Our
: artillery, in fact, dispersed gatherings
" cf infantry which, with fixed bayonets,
" were preparing to make the assault.
Around Tpres, there have been ar-
tillery engagements of varying inten
sity.
, "Near Rutoire (in the neighborhood
. of Veimelles) our artillery has com
f 1'elled tho enemy to evacuate an ad-
vanced trench.
.ermaa C.ukm S I Irnrrd
"In the valley of the Aisne. our bat-
teries have reduced to silence or de-
molished several of the German guns
they have also compelled the enemy's
' airships to make a detour and destroy
1 ed entrenchments near Soupir and
- lleurteblse.
r "Near Berry-au-Bac (Hyi 108), our
Infantry has taken a trench.
r "From the Aisne to the Argonne in
t the sectors of Prunay. Souain. Perthes,
i Beausejour and Massiges and to the
-north of Villa-sur-Tourbe, the firing
rof our artillery continued and was ef-
fective against the enemy's works.
- "In the Argonne. in the region of
St. Hubert and Fontaine Madame, an
Infantry engagement continued in
: portion of an advance trcch which has
I been taken, lost and re-taken several
- times during; 48 hours.
"Between the Meuse and' the Vosges
" a thick fog has prevented operations.
Lost Trench He-taken.
"In Alsace, in tne region oi Han- , . - n .
- manns-weiierkopf, in spite of the ex- Duke of Orleans Again Tries to
r treme difficulty oi tne grouna. we nave
- made progress on our right. Hear
- feteinbach. an attack of the enemy.
I directed from Uffholz and prepared for
1 by a violent bombardment, mesisv him
- for a short time master of one of our
- trenches .which has been re-taken by
- a vigorous counter attack.
BERLIN". Jan. 24. By Wireless to
r London. The official statement Issued
i. todav by the German general army
- headauarters. said:
i' "In the Western theater. January 23
rassed generally without special in
- cidents. Two French attacks were re-
- nulsed In the Forest of Argonne with-
r out difficulty. We made progress in
r the, Vosaes mountains, on the summit
of Hartmanns-Weiler. northeast -of
bteinbach. taking 50 French mountain
chasseurs prisoners.
August 12 Montenegro declares war on
announces state of war exists with Austria.
August 15 Japan sends ultimatum to Germany,
she withdraw ships and evacuate Kaiu-Chau, China.
August 17 Belgian capital moved to Antwerp.
August 20 German army enters Brussels. ,
August 2S Japan declares war on Germany.
August 25 Austria declares war on Japan. - - .
August 28 British fleet victor in sea fight in Heligoland Bight.
Germany losing cruisers and torpedo-boat destroyers.
August 31 St. Petersburg becomes Petrograd again.
September 3 French capital moved to Bordeaux.
September S Great Britain. France and Russia sign agreement to
- make no peace save together. .
September 7 German right wing, under Von Kluck. after having
approached within few miles of Paris, begins retreat from the Marrie.
. September 16 Russians reach Przemysl.
September 21 German submarine U-9 sinks British cruisers Cressy,
Hogue and Aboukir in North Sea.
October 9 Antwerp capitulates to German forces.
October 16 Germans enter Ostend, on English Channel. British
cruisers sunk by German submarine. . -
.- October IT Four German destroyers sunk by British cruiser In
North Sea. :
October 20 Japanese occupy Ladrone Islands, in Pacific Ocean.
. October 27 .British super-dreadnought Audacious, third in tonnage,
and armament in British navy; sunk by torpedo or mine off north
coast of Ireland. . .
October 23 Turkey's warships bombard Russian ports and sink
gunboat; Prince' Louis of Battenberg resigns as First Sea Lord of
British navy because of Austrian birth.
October 31 Turks annex and invado Egypt; German submarine
sinks British cruiser Kermes.
November 1 British squadron defeated by German fleet off Chill
ean coast.
November 3 Great Britain and France formally announce state of
war with Turkey.
November 7 Tslng-Tau, German stronghold in China, falls.
November 10 German cruiser Emden destroyed by Australian
cruiser Sydney: German cruiser Koenigsburg bottled up.
November 26 British battleship Bulwark blown up and sunk near
mouth of Thames from explosion of own magazine.
December 2 Austrian army occupies Belgrade.
December 7 Germans occupy Lodz, Poland.
December 8 German commerce destroyers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau,
Leipsiz and Nurnberg destroyed off Falkland Island by British fleet.
Cruiser Dresden escapes.
December 14 Servians recapture Belgrade and inflict decisive de
feat on Austrians.
December 16 German fleet raids east coast of England. Hartle
pool. Scarborough and Whitby bombarded. Eighty-four persons, mostly
clvillans."kllled.
December 25 Seven British warships and the same number of hydro-aeroplanes
raid German naval base at Cuxhaven and escape.
December 28 United States demands of Great Britain and allies
early improvement of treatment of American cargoes.'
January 1 British battleship Formidable sunk In English Channel
by German submarine.
January 6 Russians defeat two Turkish armies in Caucasus.
' January 1J Great Britain concedes protest of United States against
cargo seizures is right in principle. Right to examine ships is re
served. January 13 Count von Berchtold, Foreign Minister of Austria, re
signs after difference with Hungarian Premier; Turkish force occupies
Tabriz, Persia,
LOYALTY ISvSHOWN
Fight for France.
MANY FOLLOWERS FALL
Monarchists' Organ Cites Deatlis in
Battle of More Than 1C0O Mem
hers of One Organization to
Show Support Is Given.
GIRL LIKE PA'S HEROINE
Booth Tarklngton's Daughter,
Flees AVlth Playmate.
10,
dirts .Tun. E (Correspondence of
the Associated Press.) The royal exile
law which prohibits members of any
former ruling family in France to serve
In French armies, cuntinues to do
thorn in the patriotic pride of the Duke
e n.uDna nd other royalists. The
nnir. who recently failed in his at-
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 17. Being oni tempt to enlist as a private in tne rng-
I vears old. there is some douDl l Hah -army, has also raiiea w b "
whether Miss Laurel Tarklngton. wnose reply from his appeal to rremiet
iu itnnth TArklnsrton. has reao LiDni that Parliament be asked to sus
any of the adventures of Penrod. thelpjnd the law in his case. His latest
boy whose exploits recently nave Deen piaji is to bring me quesnuu
moi. famnlia hv ner dafl 8 Den. fist .hamhur n the Iorm OI a Lneiiuil' iuici
at any rate little Miss Laurel has just pellatlon by one of the royalist depu
passed through an aoventure oi ner ues.
Awn whicn leaves renroa navints i i. Ann njitifiec. one oi me ngur
nothing "on her" whatsoever. out royalist leaders and editor of the
Mrs. Louisa Fletcher TarKington, Action Francaise, says mat amonB
laurel's mother, a few days airo took I loe-endn that have vanished
the child for a visit to the home or tne the "notion that the royalists nopea
mother's cousin. Stoughton A. Fletcher, I for a disastrous war on the supposition
where Laurel found a playmate in that a monarchy might be rebuilt upon
Stoughton A. Fletcher, Jr., one year tv,e Tuins of France.'
older than she.
"Let's get away
place," suggested
morning.
"All right. Where! we go?
Stoughton.
"NTork," promptly responded
adventurous young woman.
They started afoot, having only 3a
cents between ther-. Lte featuraay
night they reached Acton, a town ten
miles from- their starting point. It was
cold and dark. They went to the home o
George Swails with a marvelous story,
Tvere from N York, an' an- we
were out playing an' we got lost an'
from this slow
Laurel Saturday
inquired
the
We have been represented," he said,
royalists first and Frenchmen aiter-
ward. We are doing all we can to
prove that we are for France first and
for monarchy aiterwara.
Many Royalists Die i" Battle.
Twelve hundred of our members.
most of them otneers, nave aireaay
fallen in battle. We have lost seven
of our presidents of sections, and among
the staff of the Action Francaise, Pierre
Gilbert and Alfred de Bret de Nanteuil
have paid their debt to their country.
The heroic Mayor of Verneull, Rlgaud
da Verneull. assassinated by the uer
mans for his firmness in defending the
:,rh;VDtheyrdeSwail," yng1 Population was president of the section
-Mr. Fletcher declared himselr to be
"John Coburn." Little Laurel promptly
added. "My name's Ann Coburn. too.
Swails and his wife gave the young
sters supper. Meanwhile automobiles
from the Fletcher place were burning
up all tbe adjacent roads looking for
them. After supper the fewails in
formed the Acton police about the pair
they had on their hands and it was not
long before one of the searching mo
tor parties had the youngsters on the
way back home. They were none the
worse for their experience outside of
having shattered their reputations for
veracity.
Mr. and Mrs. Tarkington have been
living apart for about three years and
Laurel has divided her time about
equally between them. She knows her
New Tork very well, but forgot how
far It was from Indianapolis.
Happiness ef Colore Meat.
Atchison Globe.
A colored man Is apt to be happy,
but if he has gold in his teeth it's a
cinch.
A Man Whe Smoked.
Exchange.
The rule Is that a man who smokes,
smokes too much.
Active mlnlnr of pitchblende, the eMef
source of radium, has been beguB In India,
near Bombay.
of Verneull.
"Pierre de Jouffrey, one or those ener
getic royalist leaders who formed the
organization called 'Camelots du Roi'
from Grenoble, and Lieutenant Ber
noud, another 'Camelot du Roi,' were
the two heroic survivors of the French
detachment that resisted 60 days behind
the enemy's lines.
'Noel Trouve, Rene Auoigny, nanus
Plateau, Octave de Barralle are other
members of the same organization who
have been killed in battle.
Followers Number 100.O0O.
Neither the Action Francaise nor the
'Camelots du Roi." two organizations
which are closely allied in the royalist
propaganda, talk about their numbers,
but there are 30 groups of the former
and 300 groups of the latter, some of
them, particularly in Paris and in tbe
Vendee, numerous, and It is said to be
conservative estimate that tbe new
energy given to the royalist movement
by these organizations has resulted in
the enrollment of 100.000 followers.
"The organization of the 'Camelots du
Roi' was incidental to a movement
started by Charles Mourraa and Leon
Daudet for a monarchic propaganda
through the medium of the daily paper
Action Francaise. Young royalists who
volunteered to act as newsboys, in order
to spread the gospel, "were prohibited
from crying or offering papers for sale.
because they were not recognized by
the poiMM as -cataauoiav wmcn means,
vendors, consequently they all regis
tered themselves with the prefecture of
police as camelots, and from this be
ginning developed the powerful organ!
zation whose mischievous pranks have
caused no little anxiety to the police. .
Support In War Pledged.
"Among other projects attributed to
them was the proposed abduction of
President Faliteres, as a result of which
the chief executive at one time gave
up his former promenades on foot from
the Elysee to the Bois du Boulogne.
At the outset of the hostilities the
'Camelots du Roi' sent a representative
to the government to assure them that
they need look for no obstacle from the
organization during the war, at the
same time the Action Francaise an
nounced that until peace should be re
established they would support tbe gov
ernment. Thus far the royalists have
faithfully followed this policy and have
considerably strengthened the hands of
the government in the prosecution of
the war."
"DIE WACHT AM RHEIN"
The Interesting History of the Ger
man National Hymn.
New Tork Times.
"Die Wacht am Rhein," which is the
German national hymn, and is being
sung now by all Teutons, whether at
home or on the battlefield, was written
by a certain Max Schneckenburger,
who was born In the little town of
Thalheim, in Wurttemberg. Schneck
enburger was a druggist's assistant in
Bern when he composed the poem in
1840.
At that time, says The Neue Frele
Press, France was vociferously de
manding a march on the Rhine that is
to say, war with Germany and Ger
man patriotic songs began to be heard
from one end of the stream to the
other. The subject of the songs was
almost exclusively the Rhine itself,
which each nation proposed to cross in
order to get to grips with the other.
Schneckenburger's poem, produced un
der these circumstances, was included
in a collection of verses written by
him, and published under the name
German Songs." The poem in question
had no great success, and would have
retired into oblivion if it had not had
the . fortune some years later to fall
into the hands of an obscure liedertafel
leader named Carl Wilhelm, who set it
to music and managed to have it per
formed at the silver wedding of the
Crown Prince of Russia, who, after his
victorious campaign against France
became the German Emperor. W
Truth to tell, even this did not suf
fice to bring the song into popularity.
and it was only .in 186S, when the
Wacht am Rhein' was sung in Dres
den by the Leagurof German Singers,
that it was received with enthusiasm.
becoming, after the declaration of war
in 4870, the national hymn. The Ger
man government wanted to present the
composer. Wilhelm, with a yearly pen
sion of 3000 marks, after peace was
signed, but lie died in 1873. Poor
Schneckenburger, too, had died In 1849,
without the faintest Idea of the posthu
raous fame his name was to enjoy as
having written the national hymn of
his country.
The manuscript of "Die Wacht am
Rhein" passed into- the .hands of an
heir of the drug clerk's best friend, and
later was left by him to the Museum in
Bern, where It now hangs.
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RUSSIANS PUT BACK
Austrians Frustrate Flanking
Attempt, Taking Prisoners.
GAIN IN GALICIA REPORTED
Czar's Troops lose Trendies Xear
Tarnow and Are Building Third
Defensive Iiine at Eastern
End of Battle Front.
GERMANY INVITES TRDE
Foreign Buyers Assured Visits May
May Be Made With Safety.
BERLIN, Jan. 24 (by wireless to Say-
ville, N. X.) The Lokal Anzeiger pub
lishes a notice to foreign buyers as
suring them that 'travel in German is
neither difficult nor dangerous.
The notice declares that the Leipzig
trade fair will be held as usual and
says that buyers need not hesitate to
visit, either In the tear of any hard
ships or that their orders will not be
VIENNA, via London, Jan. 24. Corre
spondents of the Vienna papers tele
graph from the front that" the Russian
atempt to outflank the Austrian right
wing in Southern Bukowina has been
frustrated and that the Russians "have
been thrown back near Kirlibaba. The
Austrians. according to these dis
patches, have captured a number of
prisoners and quantities of war ma
terial.
An official communication issued to
day reports that there has been no Im
portant change on any front, but that
the Austrian artillery Are compelled
the 'Russians to evacuate some trenches
south of Tarnow, Galicia.
BERLIN. Jan. 24. via wireless to
London. The official statement issued
today by the German general army
headquarters said with reference to the
Eastern situation:
"No changes took place in Prussia or
In Northern Poland. Our attacks on
the branch of the River Sucha at Bor-
zimow were successful. The enemy's
attacks were repulsed wtih heavy
losses to the Russians. Russian at
tacks in the region to the northwest of
Opoczno (Southern Poland) tailed."
A special dispatch from the Austrian
headquarters says:
"The Russians are working in a big
force on their third line of defenses
eastward of Gorlice (Galicia) and sur
rounding it with wire entanglements.
Their tirst lien la weakly manned.
which leads to the impression that the
Russians at this Important point of our
front are thinking only of a defensive
some kilometers in front of our artil
lery line. Our well-built infantry po
sitions etzend to thei palace grounds of
Gorlice."
FAMOUS PHRASE EXPLAINED
(Continued From First Poje.)
which, to base a public accusation that
Belgium long before had abandoned
Its neutrality in Its relations with
Great Britain. Nevertheless I took
Germany's responsibilities toward the
neutral states so seriously that I spoke
frankly of the wrong committed by
Germany."
"What was the British attitude on
the same question?" asked the Chancel
lor.
British Selfishness Charged.
"The day before my conversation
with Ambassador Goschen, Sir Edward
Grey, British Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, had delivered his wel
known speech in Parliament, in which,
while he had not stated expressly that
England would take part In the war,
he had left the matter In little doubt.
'One needs only to read this speech
through carefully -to learn the reason
for England's in vretitenonni OIN. . . .
for England's intervention in the war.
Amid all his beautiful phrases about
England's .honor and England's obli
gations, we find it ever and over again
expressed that England's interests its
own interests call for participation in
the war, for it is not in England's in
terests that a victrious and, therefore,
stronger, Germany should emerge front
the war. v -
"This old principle of English policy,
to take as the sole criterion of Its
action itsp rivate interests, regardless
of right, reason or consideration of hu
manity, is expressed in that speech of
Gladstone's In 187Q on Belgian neutral
ity, from which Sir Edward quoted.
Gladstone Doctrine Quoted.
"Mr. Gladstone then declared that he
was unable to subscribe to the doctrine
that the simple fact of the existence
of tC guarantee is binding on "every party
thereto, irrespective altogether of the
particular position in which it may find
itself at a time when the occasioin for
action on the guarantee arrives; and he
referred to such English statesmen as
Aberdeen and Palmerston as support
era of his views.
"England drew the sword," continued
the Chancellor, only because it believed
it sown interests demand it. Just for
Belgian neutrality It would never have
entered the war. U
"That is what I meant when I told
Sir William Goschen in that last inter
view, when we sat dow nto talk the
matter over privately, man to man, that
among the reasons which has impelled
England to gb into the war was the
violation of Belgian ueutrality.
Hope of Peace Destroyed.
"I may have been abit excited and
aroused," said the Chancellor. "Who
would not have been at seeing tbe hopes
and the work of the vwhole period of
one s i.u&ncetiorsmp going ror naught?
I recalled to the Ambassador my ef
forts for years to bring about an under
standing between England and Ger
many; an understanding which, I re
minded him, would have made a gen
eral European war impossible, and
which absouutely would have guaran
teed the peace of Europe.
'Such an understanding," the Chan
cellor interjected parenthetically.
would have formed the basis on which
we could have approached the United
States as a third partner, but England
had not taken up this plan and through
its entry into the war had destroyed
forever the hope of its fulfillment.
In comparison with such momentous
consequences was the treaty not a scrap
of paper? England ought really to
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cease harping on this theme of Belgian for England extremely vulunble. fur
neutrality." said the Chancellor. "Docu
ments on the Anglo-Belgian military
agreement which we have found in the
meantime show plainly . enough how
England regarded this neutrality. As
you know, we found in the archives of
tbe Belgian Foreign Office documents
which showed that England in 1911
was determined to throw troops Into
Belgium without the assent of the Bel
gian government If war had then
broken out; in other words, to do ex
actly the same thing for which, with
all the pathos of virtuous indignation,
it now reproaches Germany.
Observance Depended on Opinion.
"In some later dispatch Sir Edward
Grey, I believe, informed Belgium that
he did not believe England would take
such a step, because he did not think
English public oplnon would Justify
that action. Still people in the United
States wonder that I characterize as a
scrap of paper the treaty whose observ.
ance, according to responsible British
statesmen, should be dependent on the
pleasure of British public opinion a
treaty which England had, long since,
undermined with military agreements
with Belgium.
"Remember, too, that Sir Edward
Grey expressly refused to assure us
of England's neutrality, even In the
event that Germany respected Belgian
neutrality.
I can understand, therefore, the
English displeasure at m characteriza
tion of the treaty of 183!) as a scrap
of psper, for this scrsp nf paper was
nisninjr un excuse bcrore tlio world tor
embarking in the war.
liaacellor Feels Deeply,
"1 hope, however, that In the United
States you will see clearly enough tliut
England in this matter acted solely on
the principle of 'right or wrong, my
interest.' "
The Chancellor during the conversa
tion had twice risen to take a few Im
patient steps about the room, lie spoke
calmly enouvh, but with un undercur
rent of deep feeling, particularly when
he mentioned his efforts for an undec.
standing with England and worbi
peace, which he had hoped would romo
from them baaed on un agreement be
tween Great Britsln, crmHhy and the
United States, and with a note of thor.
ough conviction In the Justice of the
German position toward Helglimi.
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