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.
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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.
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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-
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aware of what has become of my wife
and children. ah my iiuura "
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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
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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
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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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