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< INDIAN FIGHTERS WITH THE BRITISH FORCES NEWS OF THE WEEK Germany Is Preparing to Attack Great Britain Amsterdam— Reports are current in I Berlin that the Krupps have completed j enormously heavy guns o f a calibre | x s s tts p 959S9S3XX8K Native troopa from India are being hurried to Europe to assist the allies, t.ichment to arrive, on its way to join General FYench's command. HAPPY HERO OF NAMUR Geimans Occupy Principal Seaport City of Belgium. 7 own Is Deserted, Business Houses Boarded Up and No food To Be Obtained. Berlin, via London and The Hague— An official statement issued here Sat urday says: “ The Germans occupied Bruges Oc tober 14 and Ostend October 16.” Amsterdam, via London— The Tele- graaf’s correspondent at Sluis, Nether lands, 10 miles north o f Bruges, re ports that the Germans have occupied Ostend without resistance. The Bel gian troops retired to France. The German forces in Belgium are now in touch with their main army, whose right wing rests at Veurne, the westernmost town in Belgium, near the North Sea and 26 miles southwest o f Bruges. Austrians Report Re-taking Stronghold on San River British lo w in g Turkey. Aeroplane Brought Down. Ostend — Soldiers returning to Ost- end from the action about Ghent say that the allies are becoming skilled in winging aeroplanes. A German avi ator, who was observing the allies' movements near Ghent last week, was brought to the ground by skilful firing from the field guns. "1 Res“ of "w“ Ws Him gliout the World. The Japanese ’ have bombarded the forts at Tsing Tau. Twenty-seven cases of reported in Vienna. cholera are At the fall o f Antwerp 20,000 troops were made prisoners. The senate has agreed not to levy a war tax on medicines. The] slayer of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria says he is proud of his deed. An English war expert has warned Great Britain o f a possible invasion by Germany. Four thousand prisoners and 400 guns were taken by the Germans at the fall o f Antwerp. A German submarine is responsible for the sinking o f a Russian cruiser, together with 568 men. Ferdinand, nephew of the late King Charles, o f Roumania, has ascended to the throne o f that country. The French and English govern ments have ordered 50,000 tent stoves from a Pennsylvania firm. Manchester, Mass. — The Austro- It is claimed that Italy has spent Hungarian embassy here has an $1,000,000 a day since the war, began nounced the receipt o f an official wire in preparing her army for war. less message from the home govern The Boers, subjects of Great Brit ment as follow s: ain, are said to be in revolt and wish “ Our advance in Galicia has forced to establish their own republic. the Russians to lessen their efforts against Prezemysl. Friday morning President Poincare has signed a de- our bombardment greatly weakened World’s Baseball Series | cree admitting fresh meat to France the Russians, who began to withdraw Won by Boston Braves free of duty until further notice. part of their forces at Lancut. Our Boston— The Boston National league The first chamber at The Hague has advancing columns met strong Rus sian forces, fighting with which still is club completed the most remarkable passed a measure providing for the continuing. Kuzwadow, on the San, : record in modern professional baseball second war credit o f $20,000,000. has been retaken by us. The Boston “ Braves” won the by defeating the Philadelphia Ameri “ Polish refugees in Vienna give in- | world’s series from the Philadelphia cans in the fourth and final game o f formation that the Russians, after the Athletics by taking four straight occupation o f Lemberg, sent the fam- , the world’s series at Fenway Park games. ous Polish library, housed in the Osso- ! Tuesday by a score of 3 to 1. A Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam linsky Institute, to St. Petersburg, j Beginning with their rush from last says the exportation of petroleum from The most prominent public edifices in j place in the senior league in the mid- The.Netherlands has been forbidden by the town have been undermined and the Russians have declared their in die of July, the Braves have broken royal decree. tention to blow them up as soon as traditions and records in the National ___ general _____ ____ The staff of Kiev alleges they are forced to leave the town. sport with speed and abandon during | dumdum bullets are being used by Aus- This news has created consternaton the last three months. trjan troops. Eight cases of these and anger in Polish circles.” They emerged late in the afternoon j bullets have been obtained, The embassy further reported that champions of the universe, leaving a According to a telegram from Con- the Russians are retreating every trail o f startling surprises and upsets where; that the German-Austrian line in their wake which it will be hard to I stantinople, Turkey has informed Ger- j m a n y t h a t 0 w i n 8 t o 8 l a c k o f money has advanced to new positions in Rus duplicate in years to come. Last and far from the least of their . she win have to demobilize her army. sian Poland and that Russians who had crossed the Carpathians at three places accomplishments was the overthrow in Princess Mary o f England has ap had been thrown back with heavy four consecutive games o f the world- pealed to that nation for' assistance in losses. famous baseball machine o f Connie sending a Christmas present to every The advance o f the Austrians in Mack, with its hundred thousand dollar soldier and sailor o f the allied armies. Servia, the embassy said, was proceed infield, home-run heroes and corps of Two detachments o f the American ing slowly before the main Servian skillfully blended veteran and youthful Red Cross arrived in Vienna Wednes army and that the Servains and Mon pitching stars. tenegrins are retreating from the di To the victors belong the spoils and day. One proceeded to Hungary and rection of Sarajevo, after several bat the credit, and unexpected as was the the other to the hospital in the suburbs tles. crushing defeat, the Mackmen took it of Vienna. in sportsmanlike spirit, praising the Strict measures are being taken in winners and offering no excuses for Rome to check the attempts o f some of President Wilson to Open their failure to hold their national the belligerent countries to engage Land Products Exhibit league rivals in check. In fact, none Italians for work on fortifications and Portland, Or. — Everything is in are available, for the Bostonians for intrenchments. readiness for the opening o f the Manu the Bostonians out-played and out- Noel Buxton, member of the British facturers’ and Land Products show in gamed their more experienced oppon parliament, and his brother, were shot Portland October 26. Woodrow W il ents in every game and departmennt by a Turk while on their way to at son, president of the United States, o f play. The best that could be said tend the funeral o f the-king of Rou has accepted the invitation o f David of the Athletics by their warmest ad mania. Both were seriously wounded. M. Dunne, president o f the Manufac mirers was that the team, neither col The London Mail reports that Brit turers’ association o f Oregon, to open lectively nor as individuals, appeared to get going in the form shown in pre ish gunboats overhauled and captured the big exposition. a mysterious steamer which was try President Wilson will file his tele vious world series. ing to pass the Downs off Deal. It is gram in Washington to reach the land supposed that the steamer was trying products show at 9 p. m. the night of Fraud Convictions Stand. to sow mines. October 26. The message will be re San Francisco — The United States ceived under a canopy o f American Circuit Court o f Appeals denied an ap The Belgian government, before re llags and Oregon roses. When the peal o f Charles E. Houston and John moving to France, says a dispatch first tick o f the telegraph instrument H. Bullock from their sentence in 1912 j from The Hague, ordered all male cit is heard the electric current will re to a year in prison and fines o f $2000 izens between the age o f 18 and 45 to lease the clapper in a bell over the each on conviction o f conspiracy to de- enter the army within two days or be booth and thus announce the opening fraud the government in the sale of treated as traitors, o f the exposition. coal. The appeal was made on tech- j To accommodate the many communi nical grounds which were upheld in one \ The Italian dirigible balloon No. 64 ties in the state o f Oregon to exhibit dissenting opinion. Houston and Bui- | reported that while flying over the at Portland, it was necessary to build lock were found guilty in the Federal Adriatic sea she discovered Austrian two annexes to the armory. The tem courts in Washington of having com-1 floating mines. The naval command porary buildings add more than 25.000 bined to exact exorbitant prices for I ant of Venice dispatched five tugboats square feet o f floor space and with the coal delivered to army officials in Se- j to pick up the mines in this vicinity. main floor o f the armory give a total attle in 1908. Between them Houston In a dispatch from Rome, the “ i" 80,000 square feet o f and Bullock obtained $92,041 o n , 9pondent o f the Central News says exhibit space, the largest exposition o f checks signed by Quartermaster J. E. that Montenegrin troops are now only the kind ever held w-est of Chicago. Baxter. The government charged that eight hours’ march from Ragusa, the The exposition is under the auspices [ they had stifled all bidding and that Austro-Hungarian seaport in Dalma- o f the Manufacturers’ association of the moneys obtained were far in excess ; tia, the fall o f which is believed to be Oregon and the North Pacific Land j o f a reasonable price for the coal. * I imminent. Products Show association. Opening The Petrograd Courier publishes a October 26, the exposition will con- i Return o f Belgians Up. j report to the effect that a German tinue until November 14. The leading j Berlin-—Negotiations are in progress Force which entered the Warsaw, Rus- business, fraternal and social organize- j between The Netherlands and Germany 1 sian f ' an. T°l_and, after two days o f tions in Portland will have special I for the return o f Belgian refugees in kard fighting, was cut in two and days at the exposition. The Netherlands. Permission has al- driven back on the Lodz, Petokoff and ready been given for the return o f wo- ^ le^ce l'ne- The newspaper says it is Italian Foreign Minister Dies. men. A question has arisen, how- , »»verted that 10,000 German prisoners Rome—The Italian foreign minister, ever, concerning the military age of were taken. Marquis Antonio di San Giuliano, died Belgian males. Many of the Belgian The London Morning Post asserts at 2 :20 p. m. Saturday. men in Holland are said to be soldiers that it has proof that the British fleet The illness o f the marquis attracted who donned civilian attire before cross- has received official orders not to ar- deep attention because o f its possible ing the frontier. These refugees are rest nationals o f "belligerent powers in bearing on the Italian policy toward becoming a burden to Holland. The neutral ships. In an editorial the the war in Europe. The marquis was German government recognizes this newspaper demands to know who is presumed to be friendly to Germany. and is trying to solve the problem. A responsible for the order, what it It has been said recently, however, conference was held between the Ger means and how it can be reconciled that Premier Salandra's policy o f neu man envoy to the Netherlands and the with Great Britain’s obligations to her Dutch minister o f the interior. trality would not be changed. allies. J London — A correspondent of the Daily News, telegraphing from Ostend describing the entry o f the Germans, One of the heroic defender! of Na- says: "Ostend awoke Thursday morning mur who found his wife and child with the resigned expectation o f some waiting for him on hla return to Zee- catastrophe. The previous night b ru n e. thousands o f refugees assembled in the hope of leaving by a morning boat, Germans Suppress Noted but no boat arrived. Neicspaper of Socialists “ Some hundreds already had taken Berlin — Although the German So refuge in fishing smacks alongside the quays to escape to France or England. cialists in the Reichstag voted for the The remainder crowded together in 6,000,000,000 mark ($1,260,000,000) groups on the quay, looking anxiously appropriation to carry on the present for something in the shape of a boat. war, and although the members o f the “ The town was deserted. Not a party went to the front as enthusias single person traversed the streets. tically as did the non-Socialists, their The shops were all closed and their ' political creed has not altered. They windows boarded up. No food was to still condemn and oppose the policies of the government and denounce what be obtained.” they term “ class consciousness." When the war is over, they say, Religious Songs to Tune they intend to take up anew the battle ot Yankee Doodle Opposed to “ free the proletariat from the yoke o f capital,” and to take the reins o f D e tro it- Setting the old-time hymns government out o f the hands of the to tunes that savor of the modern bourgeoisie. music hall or ot "Y ankee Doodle” These aims are set forth by Vor- was deplored by Bishop Edward W. waerts, the chief organ of the party, Osborne, of Springfield, III., at a in a remarkable article which has led meeting here o f the fifth province of to the indefinite prohibition o f the the Protestant Episcopal church in the paper's publication. This is the second United States. The remarks o f Bishop penalty inflicted on Vorwaerts, its ap Osborne were made during a debate on pearance having bees recently prohib- the report o f a committee appointed to j ited for three days because of an ar prepare an inexpensive selection o f ticle giving what the military author- Sunday school hymns. ities considered too many details about " I want to be assured that none of I the German campaign in the South- these hymns will have irreverent i west. tunes,” said Bishop Osborne. “I notice that ’Jerusalem, the Golden' is Typhus Attacks Germans. among the hymns listed. I have London— “ Typhus has broken out in heard that hymn sung to a tune that i the German lines, particularly to the sounded like ‘ Yankee Doodle.’ The north o f Soissons," says a dispatch latter is all right in its place, but its i from Paris to the Exchange Telegraph place is not in the church o f God.” ' company. It was explained that most o f the “ The French are taking the utmost hymns had been authorized by more precautions to prevent the disease that 50 years o f use, and the report ¡from spreading to their ranks. The was adopted. troops already have been vaccinated twice. ” l.ondon — The Amsterdam corres pondent o f Reuter’s says that the Frankfurter Zeitung publishes a com munication from Constantinople which says the British ambassador. Sir fmuis Mallet, asked the women o f the em bassy to leave the city, and told them: "Y ou must accept the hint without asking the reasons.” The photograph shows the first de collected near Kiel awaiting a favor able opportunity to sail for England, according to the statements o f a Brit ish newspaper man who has just re turned from Berlin to Amsterdam. Artillery officers assured this corres pondent that the new Krupp guns have a range o f about 25 miles and probably are destined for use at some channel port in event the Germans secure a foothold there. He also says that the aeroplane factories in Germany are j working day and night supplying ma chines and that 200 aviators are qual ifying for military service every week. “ The British are more hated than either the French or Russians,” he said. “ The Germans would rather capture one Englishman than 20 others. In Germany England is blamed for it all, rightly or wrongly. She is accused of being at the bottom of this war. Neither officers nor men of the German army seem to have much regard for the British army as a fighting machine, but they freely ad mire the pluck o f the British officers and the rapid range-finding abilities of British artillery. "Judging from what I saw in Ber lin, that city at this moment holds an other five or six army corps o f able- bodied young men attached either to the first or second reserve or to the landsturm. The same proportionately may be said o f all the other German cities. Everywhere I was struck by the boundless enthusiasm for w ar.” --------------------