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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
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Native troopa from India are being hurried to Europe to assist the allies,
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.”
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