THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. AUGUST 30, 1914. BURGHERS SHOT BY FIGHTING IS HEAVY MAP SHOWING WHERE RUSSIANS HAVE ENTERED GERMANY. Fugitive From City Destroyed by Invaders Tells of His Hasty Flight. Investment of Koenigsberg, Occupation of Altenstein by Russians Reported. FAMILIES ARE SEPARATED ENGAGEMENT IS GENERAL TROOPS IN WIN ON RUSSIAN BORDER Germans Who Retired From Gum blnnen Said to Have Concentrat ed Again to Give Stubborn Resistance to Foe. LONDON, Aug. 29. A dispatch from Paris says the French War Office an nounces it has direct Information that the Russian army has completely in vested Koenigsburg and occupied Al lenstein. both in East Prussia. The Germans continue to retreat, according to the report. A dispatch to the Times from St Petersburg says reports are circulating there of the fall of Koenigsberg. Stubborn Engagements Fought. The Russian advance in East Prussia gave rise to three days of prolonged and stubborn engagements in tne vicin itv of Soldau. Allenstein and Bischoffs hure- where the enemy had concen trated the army corps which retreated from Gumblnnen and some fresh troops. Allenstein has been successfully occu rred hv the Russians. The German losses were particularly heavy at Meuhlen. between Osterode and Nordenburg, and the enemy is in full retreat. Battle I in,- 00 Miles Long. On the Galician front the fighting had on Wednesday assumed the character of general engagements developing in the southern districts of Lublin and in Eastern Galicia, on the roads of Lera berg. The front of the battle extended for 200 miles. At first the fighting was more of the character of attack and counter attack, but gradually the Aus trlans were compelled to assume the defensive. A Russian foot regiment, in a hand-to-hand fight with the Seventh Hun garian Reserves, captured their colors and nearly annihilated the enemy. Troops Taken Vetward. A dispatch to the Evening News from Copenhagen says: Ordinary railroad transportation in Germany has been suspended for the present, because the railroads are en gaged in carrying troops from the west front to the hard-pressed east front. It is declared that East Prussia is be. ing "overrun" by the Russian army. Koenigsberg is a strongly fortified seaport of Prussia and the capital of the province of East Prussia. It con sists of three parts, the Alstad. the Kneiphof (on an island) and Loehe-nicht- It contains many noteworthy Structures. The industrial establish ments include locomotive works, iron foundries and flour mills. The popula tion is about 200,000. The distance from Koenigsberg to Berlin is 388 miles. GERMANS TELL OF VICTORY Berlin Reports Situation bi East Prussia Encouraging. BERLIN, Aug,. 29. by wireless to the Associated Press. News of the defeat of five Russian army corps to the south of Allenstein is made public here today. It is regarded as encouraging and as greatly relieving the situation in East Prussia. It is said to insure the flank of the German positions. Allen stein is about 60 miles south ot Koe nigsberg. The Associated Press has been in formed from official Austrian sources that the battles which have been in progress for several days past are ex pected to be decisive. Austrian troops are pursuing the Russians from Kras nlk, about 20 miles north of the Gal ician frontier, in the direction of Lub lin. There Is no invading army between the River Bug and the River Wieprz. (These rivers are affluents of the Vis tula and embrace a territory located to the east of Warsaw.) Austria, according to this same au thority, has invaded Russia and has oc cupied the region in front of Zamose. Zamose is a strongly fortified town of Russian Poland on the Wieprz, 45 miles southeast of Lublin. The Austrians hold the region to the west, north and southeast of Lemberg, Galicia, and have advanced toward the Dniester River against strong invading forces of the enemy. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. A dispatch from Berlin to the German Embassy says:'"-'- -- "German forces in East Prussia, com manded by General Von Hindenburg, have defeated in a three days' battle near Gilgenburg and Ortelsburg the Russian army, which was proceeding from the river Narew five army corps and three cavalry divisions strong. The German forces in pursuit of the de feated army crossed the Russian fron tier." ADVANCE RAPID, SAYS RUSSLV Foreign Office Reports Activity All Along Its Line. NEW YORK. Aug. 29. Colonel Niko. lai Golejewskl, the military attache at the Russian Embassy at Washington, made public here tonight cable mes sages from the Russian Foreign Office in St. Petersburg regarding Russian war operations. The messages were as follows: "The Russians are approaching the forts of Koenigsberg, driving in the advance post garrison. Dispatches have come into headquarters that the Rus sian troops have taken possession of the bridges on the River Alle. On the Galician border, a battle near Tomashef and Monastyrskaia has been successfully begun. Further to the eastward our troops are energetically closing In on Iwow (Lemberg), of which town our advance troops are already in reach. Our cavalry is actively clearing up the country in front of the advance of our columns. "On August 25 . our cavalry, having overtaken an Austrian cavalry division to the west of Tchertkoff, forced the latter to fight, dispersed It and took a battery of horse artillery. "On the Eastern Prussian frontier on August 25, 26 and 27 a battle was con tinued near Saldau-Allensteln-Bischofs-burg. where the enemy has concentrated the army corps which retreated from Gumbinnen. reinforced by fresh troops. "Allenstein has been taken by our troops. The Germans suffered espe cially heavy losses in Muhlen, between Austrode and Medenburg. where they are in full retreat. In the vicinity of Petrokoff our cavalry defeated three German squadrons reinforced by a company of cyclists. Of the latter 127 were taken prisoners. "In aGIaola on August 26 a series ot "In Galicia on August 26 a series of of a great battle, which was developing In the southern districts of the prov ince of Lublin and Holm and in Eastern Galicia. "At first the battle had the character , r I ills hi A 9 Iff ) V ? UAL 1 8 ( J?) s . . T- T ZONE OF HOSTILITIES AND PRINCIPAL POINTS MENTIONED IN t RECENT DISPATCHES UDICATKU. , i of a bataille du recontre, but later on many parts of the Austrian line were forced to take a defensive position. One of our infantry regiments in a hand-to-hand fight took the colors of and almost completely annihilated the 11th Gonwed (Hungarian) Regiment. An energetic advance is being continued." ROYAL ORDERS EXCHANGED Emperors of Germany and Austria Bestow Honors on Each Other. LONDON, Aug. 29. According to Ber lin official dispatches received by Mar coni wireless the Austrian Emperor, in a telegram to the Emperor of Germany, says: "The splendid victories gained by the German armies under your command over your powerful enemies are due to your iron will. You have sharpened and swung the mighty sword. ro the laurels which adorn you as victor, I should like to add the highest military honor which it is in my power to con fer, by asking you to accept the grand cross of Maria Theresa. "Knowing how highly you and your army value the' achievements of Gen eral Von Moltke, I bestow upon him the commander's cross of the Maria Theresa order." The German Emperor has bestowed on the Austrian Emperor the Order Pour le Merito, and on General Baron Conrad Hotzendorf the Iron Cross of the first and second class. EAST PRUSSIA BLEAK Land of Dreariness and Mo notony Hit by War. VIOLATING ORDER ALLEGED Contempt Is Charged Against Pacific Telephone Company. John B. Coffey, receiver for the North western Long Distance Telephone Com pany, yesterday filed a petition in United States District Court asking that the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com pany be adjudged in contempt of court. The petition charges that the Pacific company has violated the terms of the decree of March, 1914, in which the court ordered interchangeable use of the Home and Pacific telephones in the Hotel Benson. Mr. Coffey charges that the Pacific company induced the Ben son management to remove the Home telephones from the rooms, connections then being made in such a way as to cut off the Northwestern Long Distance Company from all long distance busi ness originating in the rooms. KAISER BLAMED FOR WAR British Field Marshal Says Germany Could Have Preserved Peace. LONDON, Aug. 30. Field Marshal Methuen, in addressing a recruiting meeting at Devizes last night, said nobody grumbled at the German Em peror's desire to make Germany a great empire, but that Emperor William wished to make Germany the one em pire of the world. Lord Methuen asserted that the Em peror, by raising his finger, could have preserved the peace of Europe, but that he preferred to cause the death of hundreds of thousands and suffer ing and misery to millions. The Field Marshal declared the Em peror would find that Germany would get her wings clipped. It might be a long and terrible struggle, but the allies would win in the end. Any eligible man who refused to come for ward when the country needed him was nothing but a coward, the speaker said. VARIETY GIVEN LANDSCAPE GERMANY'S WAR CHEST RANKLES THE FRENCH. French hatred for the Germans dates back to the defeats of the Franco-Prussian war. which cost France, Alsace and Lorraine and a $1, 000,000,000 Indemnity. More recently the Germans have op posed the French plans in Morocco. Out of this $1,000,000,000 Indem nity paid to them by the French, the Germans took $30,000,000 and placed it in-a tower on the Island of Spandau. The Germans call this their "War Chest," and have ever since 1871 planned to use it to mobilize their army quickly in time of need. Now that they are again in the field against the Germans it ran kles the French to know that this war fund of blood jtnoney wrung from their own pockets has been used to hasten soldiers over their border toward Paris. It is the old scores of this sort that will send the Germans and the French at each other's throat with great ferocity. However, Germany's course in keeping this war fund locked up in a tower for 40 odd years is probably more spectacular than practical. In the first place the purchasing power of gold has de preciated at least 50 per cent dur ing the interval. So the Germans can buy only half as much with the war fund today as they could have In the first place. Further, they have lost at least $60,000,000 in interest, for a fund locked up in a tower can draw no Interest. Losing $75,000,000 to keep $30,000,000 handy is certain ly an expensive precaution. Little to Choose Between East Prus' sia and Russian Steppes and Armies Are Contending Among Familiar Scenes, Now. BY NIKSAH. Where the Russians forced an en trance into Germany is one of the bleakest, dreariest lands in the world mostly a brownish-gray dead level of rye, oats, potatoes, wire grass, marsh and sand dune. It is here that the Germans have reared some of their great interpreters of the tragic of end less monotony, and it is certain that there cannot be many much more fit ting places in which to prepare for such a task. The gray wasty fastness of East Prussia nurtured the stern disregard of life displayed by many of the Prus sian kingdom's noted soldiers. Before the desperate efforts of the central government to turn this out lying province into highly cultivated farm land. It was better to risk going most any place else than to return to It. Something of Its Inhospitable scenery and climate must have entered deeply into the Prussian soul and made these people the cold, precise and de termined followers of duty which they are. There is little to choose between East Prussia and the Russian steppes. Russian and Prussian are contending among familiar scenes, and the hard featured surrounding nature should give them strength to accomplish hard and relentless deeds. Still, under the encouragement of the central government there have come Into being in this country lately many highly organized estates. End less fields of grain and potatoes give variety to the landscape and relieve the chill of wire grass and sand dune. One sees here and there the rambling stone and mortar homes of landlords and the more modest homes of peasant farmers. Orchards1 of northern fruits are planted at rare- Intervals. The greater part of the east and southern districts of the province is thickly studded with lakes, which will help to oppose a barrier to the invading forces. MANY SUBJECT TO CALL WARRING POWERS HAVE MILLION AND HALF IN AMERICA. Triple Entente and Belgium Repre sented by 782,068; Dual Alliance by 050,962 Not Naturalised. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Approxi mately 1,500,000 unnaturalized foreign ers, more than 21 years old, natlces of warring European nations, are in the United States, according to latest re ports of the Census Bureau. Most of those undoubtedly are liable to mili tary duty ana many of them have gone forward to join the armies. Including women and children, there were 9,865, 479 foreign-born in the United States who came from nations at war. That Is about one-tenth of the entire popu lation of the United States. The nations of the triple entente and Belgium could call on 792,068 of their countrymen in the United States for military duty, while Germany and Austria-Hungary could call 650,962. These unnaturalized foreigners over 21 years old were divided: Great Britain and Ireland, 197,626; Canada, 150.718; Rus sia and Finland. 418.428; France, 16.6Q5. and Belgium, 8691. On the other side Germany had 127,103 and Austria-Hungary 523,859. In addition to these, the other Euro pean nations might call from the United States men who have not been natural ized here as follows: Italy, 468,442: Switzerland, 10,338; Norway, 34,478; Sweden, 52.041; Denmark, 14,107; Hol land, 11.706; Portugal, 18,444; Rou mahla, 12,569; Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro combined, 14,552; Greece. 58,208; Turkey, 37,494, and Spain, 9213. WANTS CORDW00D. I have' a beautiful, nearly new, $600 walnut player piano, with 72 music rolls, which I will trade for cordwood, f. o. b. cars. Address H 1547, Orego nian. Adv. Houses First Destroyed by Bom bardment, Then Town Is Set on Fire Citizens Escorted on Way by Soldiery. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 29, by way of London. The correspondent at Rosen nt th Worvrfelshlad. interviewed a fugitive from Louvain, who gave his experience in that city. "Monday evening." he said, "gun firing suddenly resounded in the streets. I did not know the meaning of it, but some declared that the Ger man troops had fired on each other. The Germans, however, insisted the shots had been fired by the lnnaDiiams and that several soldiers had been killed. "The fact is that throughout tha night heavy field guns bombarded the town, destroying many houses. We sought shelter in a cellar and at day break prepared for flight, we nasuiy packed our valuables and hurried to the railway station. There the refugees were parted, the men being placed on one side and women and children on the other side of the sta tion square. Near the statue of Gen eral Van de Weyer, which stands in front of the station we could see the bodies of six burghers who had been shot. Group of Priests Sbot. "The town was now one flaming mass. At last, escorted by German soldiers, we walked to Campenhout, where we saw the shooting of seven priests in a group. "Our party of 73 men were hand cuffed like criminals and locked in a cnurch with only the cold floor to lie on. Additional prisoners arrived at intervals. Outside the cries and lamen tations of women and children arose. Within the church an imprisoned priest gave absolution. "When we left the building Cam penhout was burning fiercely. We were h t inr we. wouiu ue act nco. . . n Tjiiivain. Return! UlUBk icuii. to that city,' I was once more taken driven In front of German soldiers across the country without rest or food and used with otn prisoners as a cover for the troops. Wife and Children Gone. "Wtien we ar rived within a short distance of the Belgian outposts, I received permission to go my own way. I arrived at Mallnes, proceeding on a iiii.-i. .oin tn intwflm T am un- 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 n 1 V " " ' aware of what has become of my wife and children. ah my iiuura " T luas tnlri thoucrh lUlveu iiuui i.i. , . , ji it ,..alf that- the hlirco Qltl I1UL SCC JL ilijow,., i master and several prominent . wnt Tha .Itv hn.q hfifin liDUVaill wcio auut. completely cut off from all communica tion with the outside. POVERTY SEEMS IMMINENT (Continued From First Page.) Pacific Sailings Postponed. YOKOHAMA, Aug. 29. The sailing of the American steamers Minnesota and Manchuria for American Pacific ports has been postponed. Among the passengers booked to sail on the Min nesota for Seattle today were Count von Rex, the German Ambassador, and his staff, who left Tokio upon Japan's declaration of war against Germany. racks, permanently stationed just out side of Scarborough, but as a rule laz ily half-empty, were crowded with drilling soldiers in service uniforms. Tired men lay sleeping on the road sides. The holiday-makers, caught in the midst of their annual holiday, were making abortive attempts at amusing themselves, and we had to ride between a crowd of them in masquerade, their faces painted, many of them dressed as American Indians. Shops Are Empty. Except the provision shops, the shops were empty. No one tuougnt ot Duy ing hats and gowns, and women for got to shop. Bands of Boy Scouts and frnnns of soldiers Interrupted progress on the steep main street, incongruous among the merrymakers, me niuwi fleet from Scotland, which lives by fol- i i v.a HoT-i-inc frnm nort to OOrt. spends August in Scarborough, an en tire village trom norm ocuim"". living mostly on the sea. Yesterday, on the side streets, the fisherglrls walked slowly, knitting jerseys and stockings, their Doats lyine mie. ui- dered in by the Admiralty. iney should have been busy on tne oock, t.c hnnria Hinniner into barrels of salt herrings, their fingers deftly cut ting out the gills and throwing the fish into other barrels faster than one could count, as Charles Keaae nas so well described them. With the fish ing fleet ordered off the North Sea, fish has doubled and trebled Its cost. In the harbor three torpedo-boats lie constantly on guard, occasionally scuttling up and down the coast to scout. We could not put up our horses in nf ttiif a dn7pn stables: 18 soldiers' korses had just come into the first Dlace. the stable was run witn au at the second; the third was filled to capacity. Anti-War Signs Torn Down. TUnri ia n Oup.ker element in Scar borough that has always opposed war f all kinds. in tne ooer wai, lug Rowntree Cafe, a tea shop where luncheons are served at noon and where tea and scones and cakes are opular at 4 o clock, had an its win ows smashed on account of the anti war feeling, rosters that the Rown trees put up of "Peace at Any Price" were being torn down and put up igain as soon as tney were aown, ana lust as we passed, the police were giv- ntofa that Tin more slErns of the i"6 - d kind were to be posted or there would e a riot. A ,.-..1- i rr,. trnn rTIresa rOKA 1(1 the. nnint flAiir that hfiri heen 38 cents a stone (it is bought here by the 14 pounds) was then 60 cents; sugar, oatmeal, hams, tea and bread ,'ere douoieo in price. iieui nas guiie h nnnrn. nil cl hilt flllV flUTl hlltchpl" t- CHU, iiiuuoij , - - has bravely and stubbornly declared hat, though he nas to Duy most ot nis . fiTfiThltant rtenlers he will lose his profit and keep prices to the rdinary level until ne is actually sen ng at a loss. Every effort is being lade, especially by the small dealers, o prevent panic. Coal has not changed ts price at all, and there is the prom se that, unless the mineworkers cease ,-ork, there is little reason for its rise. rotll n.nvlcfnn ahnn In L...kn,MiiTh a r l, T-efiiincr tn sell tn .'LJI DUI UUpU u-.u ...... any but their regular customers, and ..n ..ii in in ho Etnnnprl YiiavmAnr n n niivnrv demanded, and orice beiner the market price at time of delivery j instead of that of purchase. Food Belne Bought I p. I'anic-strickcn buyers have bought in enormous quantities. Where the orders are known to be for hoarding purposes, the shopkeepers are refusing them. Tea, that English staple, is be ing bought up right and left, and an order given early, but refused, came from a family of husband and wife in u. tiny house with a single maid. It Clothes With a Pedigree For quality, style, character and taste we back these Stein Bloch and Atterbury System Clothes against the field. Four important points when you're picking a winner in a Fall suit. Come in and look over the display. All the new fabrics and color tones all the correct models. $20 to $40 BEN SELLING Leading Clothier Morrison at Fourth was for 100 pounds of tea and 60 sides of bacon. Tramps have cropped up from no where and straggle by, angry when refused, for there are now too many to supply. It is practically certain that the gardens will be stripped in the night, and already chickens and ducks have disappeared by the dozen. Our solitary policeman finds It quite impossible to prevent the smaller kind of pillage; his round is one of 10 square miles. On our ride back, along the country roads, we were "passed by a dozen whizzing automobiles, carrying officers going to join their corps, and at least 60 soldiers, in groups of five and six, their legs dangling loosely from un saddled requisitioned horses. At two smithies, soldiers stood at their horses' heads, while shoes were being altered. Doctor C'ountlnB Beds. The doctor of our district, a practi cal surgeon, as all English country doc tors must be, is in charge of the Red Cross "local." He hailed us from his motor car: "I've just stopped at your place, he said. "How many beds can you let me have for wounded men? I may want tn cnmA men nn there. We expect some wounded in. and I'm counting the spare beds in the district. Two houses, the two nearest our own, and the country houses of Leeds manu facturers, have been converted into hospitals: Lord Airedale, with a large house half a mile below us. has offered 80 beds, and every private house along the line is anxious to give what it can. if only one or two beds at a place. An Englishman's home, we used to.be told, was his castle; now it bids fair to become his hospital. That there must soon be fighting in the North Sea seems Inevitable, and quite likely just off our cliffs. We have heard several times the distant boom of cannon, and every smallest village in Britain is praying for her fleet. Germans are not popular here, but those who live in England are, I think, being treated with more con sideration than the British and some of the Americans we hear of in Ger many. But the policeman, alarmed by some rumor, roused us at midnight last night and solemnly asked us if we were Germans or Austrians. When we showed him our American passports, viseed for Russia, where we went In June, and stamped from end to end with Russian police permission to en ter and leave Russia, he apologized profusely and swore that he had mere ly wanted our definite assurance. How to Tell Germans Is Asked. "But how." he asked, "do you tell a German? 1 suppose I may have passed a dozen within the last 24 hours, and one was Just arrested who has been spying all around Cloughten. Aren't they beery-looking, and haven't they very big, red cheeks and noses? 10 run them down pretty smart if I see any of them!" Like most of our English neighbors ... o.a morAlv wnltlnir. anxiously wait ing, for decisive news. No one In Eric land wants this war; everyone hope for its early termination. Everyone la humanely trying to alleviate the suf fering that Is certain to come, and to morrow afternoon I go to the first Red Cross sewing meetlnK to help make garments for the wounded. This Is the countryside that, until a week ago, was the quleteit I hav ever seen. Then It was a landscape slumbering under a heavy peace and quiet, an almost affluent prosperity. Today It Is a landscape quivering; with expectation, listening for cannon, fac ing poverty and war. FRENCH PROVE GALLANTRY Paris Gives Out Reports of How Heroes Met Heath at Duty. PARIS, Aug. 29. An official com munication says a general commanding an army has mentioned in the army orders of the day the names of six under-lletitenants killed In battle Au gust 20. Second Lieutenant Vlalla, of tho fourth battalion of riflemen, fell mortally wounded at the moment when at the head of his setclon he was making a counter bayonet charge. The other five were mentioned for con spicuous gallantry. The War Office adds: "These cita tions In orders to the army are tho supreme recompense which It Is pos slble to give their memories and to their families." 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