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THE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1914 EVENING EDITION.
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SIX
NEWS
OF
General Von
mm
SIXTY-SEVKN YEARS OLD WHEN an nnuy major.
THI-i AVAR REGAN, 1CAISEH HAS Ho wont into this war a general,
MADE HIM 1'IELD MARSHALL with two decorations for brnvory.
AND AX IRON CROSS MADE Tho kaiser 1ms made lilin a field niar-l-'ROM
CAPTURED Hl'SSIAN shul, nnd nn Iron cross of 1914 1ms
CANXOX HAS HEEX ADDED TO
..., .. ,..v ,v
i ANCO-PI USSIAN WAR. ' ' I At the battle of KonlmmU In tho I . " tr f tho SS.lt.mK an. Mil-1
I Austrian war of 18(50 with only i ia wlu 1h orv,n ns .f,r8t "OMto11" I
UERLIN, Dec. 23. .lust what has a)mt (m.y mm lm,pp ,8 comi;ltIllI ' nut In tho (Jornmn army, writes his ,
boon happening in the UusBO-Gorman ,,0 too. jm A,IBtrInll i,at,ory without aIlt ln tllf3 tJon"ft y- wrltca ll13 J
department of the war Is more r ' othei. nmlll,nnco, IIe le(I the ohurBO I m,or nn acoouiit of tho ongnico
lcss of a mystery. Wo only know on tlB )mltory m, when Ulruo f , nients around YproH. ,
for certain that a General Von Hln-, tho gnm ,IU, 1)C(m ctinluroa, ho ton, "Kull of fight and confident of j
denbcrgls, leading tho kaisor's or-' tnncil hy a bl,llut n tho hend. 0I,8J' victory," ho says, "our young1
inles In 'a colossal struggle, tho most Young Hlndenburg lay on tho ground ' rKmonl8 "tarted to march against .
Important perhaps of any in the war. for g0V(jral IIllnilt n'ml ,,,, 80i,ior8 tho enemy. Wo were qluto certain
Of General Von Illndonburg him-' supposod him doad. Gradually they ' ,lmt 1'rovltlenco had endowed tno ,
solf, the world knows very little. He -
fore ho came, like Cincinnati!!, from
iiiB form nnnr Mneilnlniri? in take
"in ..w... --..0 .. -.- n .
command of tho million or moro
fighting men Germany and Austria
havo nssomblod In tho oast, ho was
Icsb widely known than n Ilerlln ca-
bar'et singer.
tl I- ..,t.nl.l ll.nl If nnvni.n lmil
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predicted to tho Inhabitants of tho
lalto regions of East Prussia that tho
oldorly man who rodo and wnlked
about their lakoa continuously was
ono of tho woiIiI'h groatost military
ittrntoglsta ono would have dubbed n
fool or a Jokoster.
Old Von Hindenberg n groat gen-
oral? What nonsense, llo was n
general, true, but a worn-out ono,
shelved by tho kaiser beciiuso he wan
it crank on "ltustilaii InviiiloiiM," and
the defouslvo proportion of tho lakes.
ItusMmi Invasion Ilk Hobby.
Hut now, since Von lllndeiiberb
has jiroved tho dofouslvo prnjiertleK
of IrtVcs and tho Russian Invasion
has been a fact, a doubt Is ralsod
that tho kalsor over Hliolvod him. Of
ficially ho was retired. Actually ho
haB spout all IiIh time for tho last
throo or four years studying tho best Twelve days lator ho was ln tho bat-! s n cloar, practical demonstration
way to check tho czar's troops If thoy tlo of Sedan, whoro ho led his com-! Hitch a clear demonstration that our
ovor started for Ilerlln. j pnuy In a charge. At tho close of battalion vas reduced to half Its or!-
Von Hlndonborg Isn't known by tho battlo, Captain Illndonburg was Initial size in a few oucouiitorH. Wo
that name hardly at all In Uorinany. decorated with tho Iron Crois by the ' suddenly realized that tho English
Ills full namo Is Paul von Honeckon- omporor. f Tho other day ho rocolvod j mercenaries could not bo routed with
ilorff nnd von Hlndonborg. Tho first another, cast from tho Russian can- moro hurrahs, and thut thoso smooth
part noeius to suit Germans. Ho was lion, to keop company with tl.o ono faced gontlemon used tho long legs
born In Pason In 1847, tho son of made from captured Fronoh guns, 'not always for running away, but
WAlt DRIVING AVOMEX
TO SUICIDE, SHE SAYS
Mi-h. Kehwltnmcrof International Suf
frngo Cotiurll Says.
NEW YORK, Doc. 23. Mrs. Rosll
kn Bcliwlmmor, secretary of tho In
ternational Council of Equal Stif
fr.itrn. who nninn linrn tivn wnnlin iil'O
from Europe, told tho Joint mooting
of tho Eastern Council of Reform
Rabbis and tho Now York suction of
tho Council of Jowlsh Women nt
Temple Emmanuel that thoro has
boon a groat iucroaso ln tho number
of sulcldos among women In tho Eur
opean countries now nt war.
Sho spoko particularly of condl-! ",,or ,lllIeB nft01' n "0lniont has vicinity of Rerolaore, though .without
tlons In Austria, whoro, sho $mU, tho ' I"1""'! " lll" Kroups trudg-HUCC088, j ono of tll0g0 nttac;k3 &0o
policy of tho government is to mip-' ,M nU,n uiipnrontly j.erfoctly con- Kng:iB:, soldlors and twonty officers
pioss all now of casualties and to j ,"",ei1 "'j'1 without a worry In the r0u to our hands,
seek to onllvon tho spirits of the pop- w"rl', Yot Mt n,'tt the-v n" llmr "Tho English trouchos woro most-
ulaco by forfilddlnif mourning ml ! for '"tlons. slid In tho morning start y , arranged as In- bo quite luvlsl-
by having bunds play imtrlothi nnd ' off Rln ln n 0,,a fonnallon. 1 . 1 1 to the naked eye. Whon wujuul
lively nlrs In the public squares. -j Rni j0,j tIHt (his method of BOt '"' 1:o f',"t trenelimi wo woro
".Millions of womon and clhldron murhliiic htu proved a gront puxxlo ""tonlshod tlt their systematic con
In Oalloln, Poland, Hungary, East t0 ti,u ooriuan airmen In trylna; to "truotlon as regards depth, sldo pro
Prussia and oastorn Franco aro drlv- estliuwto the nunibor of troops tlmt tHt!"0 against upllutarlng of ghells,
on fiom tholr homos by the oncom ,. n,0VjnK, when the eoliimus aro l),eu;,tft'oik and f.oorlng. Tho tronqlt
Ing ariuloe" she said. "Often their m 8tnmg out, It Is sltuost ImpoMible Wo1'8 "on,," aU "xcollontly nr
honios aro burned. Thoy havo i from any height to tell whethor what '""H"11 for n '"" taiui. Wo wore
plnco to go, nothing to oat nnd no (nie eo v a battalion In close fur- l"rt,cllltt,!y astonished at tho Iron
knowledge of tho husbands, brothor i inntloii ur u eonmunv ntrnnir nut ' u,", s,oel w01'1. '"'"t into the bronst-
and sons. Is It any wonder thoy go
Jnsauu? H tho war cannot bo stop-
pod I ask whether tho censowhlp etui
not bo ended nnd women told where
tholr liusbauds are, whether alive or
dead.
"Anything Is bettor than tho nwfiil
tragedy of silence. It Is killing lhujimMli ,.i,,.jji ,,yfi ,,ow, ,i,0! frequently occurred that wo found a
bast women in tho world; women woild, and In tho nioiith I havo been disproportionate .number of dead to
without whom thoro cannot be a new , wUh l0 unny , )mvo ot g()0n nJ. ,0 vo,.y fW ,vl1t (lofoU,ur8t Wfl
Europe. Talk or suMering In RI-' .iirder. On tho road nnd In tho soon discovered that a largo number. '
glum. It J awful thoro, but In ill.'cu,)f ) Mi)m (1ontoiited and happy, of the '.load' wero shumnilug and
ola and Austria It Is far worse be- ,Q11K aB , wt!ftlluu. l8 fll0i jt'ihwo wero easily tickled Into life
caiisu of this silence and umniuw llio IllllBl IlB aiimltta(l ,iloy luoU mtlo wltll a lmyoilot.
iiuuiDor m people involved is so niucii
gruhtor,"
Cqiigroisiaun-uJoct Moyor London
uiKiJio on "Socialism nud Religion" ,
at the meeting of the Kufurui Rabbis .
In Temple Isniel, Lenox avenue and
120th streot. He told thorn (hat tho
churches havo boon slow to roooguliio
now social and Industrial conditions . ". ".-"'
and that their present weakness Is twenty lives have alroady bean avod
not dlio to tho indlfforenoe of tl.o "V t'lHck tUlo dog belonging to an ,
masses, but to tho Indifference of tho.'nu,bl,,aco cor "' iha 1n,88ln ,
... . ,,,, 'battlefield. In penoo times tho mil-
cmucii loqocrs. ...,..,.. ... ,.
Ho said tho working man will uov
e'r attpnd and support tho oluirch 1111
til tho church becomes somothlng
moro thnn n bulldlnif whore people (
gnthor onco a weok to bo bored to
death with rohttbhed sermons nbout
things that do not concern them.
MIOItHY CHHI.snns
Havo you tried Thp Times' want'Jdcsif tholr ullar s soon as night
v conies, uouorally tho only tlmo tho
greatest m w gi day
Hindenberg
been nddod to tho olio ho won In
T.rn fn,lv.ri.r v..r. n,,
, Logan to rotront, but, when tho ad-
Vnnco guard reached tho spot whoro I
i.n inv i, ..,,., ,.,. it Inn.i n. i
, (,u (ij nu I'tttup) ii u ovviiivu to i
though ho had suddonly bocomo con-
j BC08 that tho victory ho hail won j
' ns In Jootmrdv. Tho bullot had on-,
j y KrnZcd his bond, toarlng open tho
I scalp, but not oven marking tho '
, iildlll. Willi fliwnr ntiHiimlnani llmx
before ho sprang to tho head of his
inon and ordered another chargo
Thls tlmo they took tho throo roinaln-1
lug guns of tho Austrian battery, j
Wlion that wun dono young Illiiden-'
burg fnlntod.
(Jlven it Hiiro HiTomtloii. '
A few days later tho omporor con-1
I forrod on him tho Order of tho lied
j Knglo, with crowed hwoiiIb. This Is ,,!lr" ,r patriotism and Incapable of
un order that Is' ordinarily conferred i "ucrlflcij.
only on majors or officer of h Igherj '".Sooner than wo thought wo wore
rank. For a subaltern to net it wan upon tho uuoiiiy. First wo caiuo upon
most .iiiiiHtial. n dead EitKlbthniau, thou two wound-
In tho Fruuco-Pruiwlnii war Hln-led English officers, thou nn English
i denburg was a captain, and ho took prisoner. Tho prisoner nnturally
part In tho Htorinlng or St. l'rovat, i
near Motz, one of tho bloodiest on-,
IgaKementH or tho war, In which tho
I Gorman loss was 10 por cent of those
' engaged. That was on August 18.
RUSSIANS OX.. MARCH.
. ( Tlm KnitlHll nfnIl(ry wl,it.h ,,.
car Aitofuirt rn.. m co. nr Ttrai i ' l,0,,0,, "8 nt Yl"' "t lo considered
LONDON, Hoc. 2!!. A letter from , n"'"K their host troops. Thoy tlo
Wnrstiw says tlint Ui'iiinroliliiK Him-ro.l,l,u.1 l.,,olr positions with onorgyj
slnii soldiers liresont nn odd picture, i"1"' "1lni u",, whon drlvon back'trled ,
"Tho ltiiislan roglmonts on the ""'" u,ul "B"1" t rocovor tho lost,
march nro tho most Informal orgnhl- fonnil. ln thoso ondoavors thoy i
zntlon In tho world," It says. "Ahead woro Ktipported offlclently by tho
rldo a fow officers, nnd then, in no
l'"tUiilai- formiRlon
como tho
troons. soniQ on ono sldo of tho rontl
and soino on tho other. Toward Oio ",ul "M'ol ontisod onormoiiB dnm-1
roar they stragiclu off In dwindling " ""'"K our troops. j
streams, wandering nbout tho fields "Ab tho rroiintllnj; of the Eng
aml plodding horo and there, Just as ' "Hh fo,C08 ''' our tr0l,a mn(l It"0" .
though ottch was off on nn Individual "10r n,ltl ,110l' fo,t. tho English In-
tour. rmitry tried again nnd again to broalc '
I ll i-niiirlt ii It ii t ii in,.tt..i.ln.lli I.. il. '
M(Wt BMM0I ,MIU-, Hd uinMos
wliieh can be soon and estlmaltxl coi-
redly from a great distance.
"Tho iiioio one sues of tho ludlvl-
dual of the Russian army, the more the shaving outfits which every Eng
ouo cullies to like tho common sol-, llsh ddler iiii'ilo.
iIIor ,.. 0 u t)l0 10gl MOl)li.Iin,.
,igln , nlu."
-MERRY CHRISTMAS
DtX.S SAVE MVKS.
r,tls ,,,, Vn,MM,llo All, , as(l.
tul Corjih at l'ltnil.
(Pr amUii livt la Cwm Iit tIim.i
lkti.111 TV l.. Oil f.un ,l.n.
IIIHI l Hll IIIIIIIUIU WUlUlllli'K HI I""
railway station at Halle.
Th ihnV wlntav iilvhtu nml tli
. .. . . .,, tll0
WOUIlllw, 0ipeCftiiy dlffloult, but
g)ce ho Bml,ul.ulC0 ,mrtlog bogan
Uglg Uoga u Uie,r beaivh fow
Wo,nilcd ,nra have brut overlooked
.... 0 fft R a tr0B8 0 l)dla
German War
, View
(Ily AiwwIiiKJ Prw to Cckm lUy Tlmn.1
HERLlN, Dec. 21 .English ool-
n Kl "BlltorU 011(1 roHOlllCO-
"" "" 10" lv l" ''""
tho,r ,,I"IB nwil' t"o fnator. Thus
wo advanced by long and short
i
iarc9 through Flanders, the groat
COIllulory. Wo wero dollghtod with
thc onitlful Flemish landscnpo nnd
wlUl tho InlItnutH. whoso langungo
wo B00n "n8ol to understand, ov-
" 8 lllt-,y Speedily cntllO to Ullllcr-
stand ours.
o thought of tho English boI-
"Hers as tho comic papers aro wont
to portray thorn. Thoro wero a few
who warned iih agnitiBt posslblo iin-
deroHtimation of the ouoiuy, but their
misgivings wero quieted by our polnt-
'"K l that thoso wero mercenary
troops, Hired at n row ponco u day,
of gront Intercut to our uoldlers.
'Wondor If tl.o morconary can shoot?'
wo asked oursolvi. An hour later
Homo of his comrudoB gave us an
nnswor to that (iiiestlOii. Thoy gave
Momotlnios for desperate and danger
ous chnrgoH. ,
fll' ol tllolr floI(l nrtlllory. Thoy
lina lalH0 transported ihonvy naval
" to Yprow, and tho English sholls
bii U lift ll ui I llliun. Illll L1CU1111 1 III I III!
xvo,'k''- Tll fl"0'' wore designed
wllh "" c,,' ,n "xlinuiu comfort.;
, Our men captured thoio a great store
!of ovcolleut inoserves, corn hoof nnd
lam, mid many also Keeured one or
..WiIOI1 Wll ilttl, ,,. .,,.. i,
"la somo cases the English had
dug trenches, but hud not occuplod
V. em, and to deceive us had put
lurge round turnips and similar oh
jtvctj along the breastworks." i
MERRY CHRISTMAS '
wounded oan bo searched for, tho :
1lMialltd ni'n ultimml n.i.l ,1... .1 ..
""- " 7'' ' 7 ',' ' , H "
i t across he battlefield. Instead!
or barking when thoy (Ind a wounded
"U )w' " rl"K "U'U 80,M0 alclo
r tho victim's oqulpnient. ns a cap,
i ..'m... ,. i,.-.. ti,.. ... .1
"" B-u.u. t hvj iliu IIIUII IIU
on the leash and they load tho nm-
bllluiiee I1IP11 to tho snot wliara lli.
WBunUotl soldier llos. In this in....
nor lumdrods havo beon saved on tho '
dloront battlefields,
At first some of the animals lea 1.
the soartlurs to men airea y dad.
but t ey Irani with surprislui? rapid
to conltno their attentions to the
living,
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