Image provided by: Hood River County Library District; Hood River, OR
About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1914)
SCENES These photographs, Just received from Europe, give some Idea of the appearance of Louvaln after the destruo dlon of that once beautiful Belgian city by the Germans. The main picture Bhows the students' quarter and the In vert a glimpse of the Place de la Concorde, where were many hotels and cafes. GERMANS GAIN ANTWERP FORTS Belgium Moves Seat of Govern ment to Ostend. Western Wings Extended and Ad vance Guard Is Said to Hold Position Near Arras. London Dispatches from Amster dam Thursday say that the Germans continue to bombard - Antwerp, that two more defending forts have fallen and that the Belgian government has been moved to Ostend. Meanwhile the French account of the battle of the Aisne says that the battle on the allies' left wing contin ues with extreme violence, the line be ing extended more and more. The German account says that the advance guards of the opposing forces are in touch north of Arras. . ' A dispatch from Amsterdam says : "A message received here from Ghent says fighting of a violent char acter has taken place between Aude narde, 15 miles southwest of Ghent, and Leupeghm, a small town about a mile south of Audenarde. "After an hour's engagement the Belgians received reinforcements and threw back the Germans with heavy losses." An Amsterdam dispatch to the Reu ter Telegram company says : "Among the refugees who left Ant werp were Cardinal Mercier and the minister of justice and other high offi cials. They traveled by automobile to Flushing, from which point they pro ceeded to Ostend. "More than 10,000 fugitives have arrived at Rozendaal, at which place the bombardment of Antwerp can clearly be heard." BRITISH SUBMARINE SINKS SECOND GERMAN DESTROYER London Submarine E-9 of the Brit ish navy, under command of Lieuten ant Commander Max K. Horton, Thursday made another raid into Ger man waters off the mouth of the River Ems and succeeded In sinking a Ger man torpedo boat destroyer. This same submarine, under the same com mand, made a Bimilar dash and ' sank the German cruiser Hela off Heligo land September 13. As on the former occasion, the E-9 returned safely to Cotton Sent to France. New York For the first time since war started in Europe a direct ship ment of cotton from this country to France was made Thursday. It is sup posed most of the cotton which has been reaching France has gone through Great Britain, but Thursday's consign ment was to Havre. The total exports of cotton were 29,812 bales. This in cluded 8405 bales to France, 6478 to Great Britain and 7456 to other points on the Continent. More than 12,000 bales went to Japan and approximate ly 1250 to Mexico. Prince Adalbert Lives. Berlin Stories appearing in the for eign press asserting that Prince Adal bert, the third son of Emperor Wil liam, had died in Brussels, are declared to be untrue. Prince Adalbert is in the naval service, and when last heard of was acting as navigation officer aboard the dreadnaught Prussia. Prince Joachim has been wounded and Prince Oscar suffered an attack of heart trouble, but, beyond that, it is said that all members of the imperial family are well. AMID THE RUINS OF it zJ4dfe' wtfelS SERVIAN LAD A FIGHTER This twelve-year-old Servian boy fought hard In the rifle pits at Bel grade, and proved himself a first rate shot lit Is the pet of the soldiers and shares their hardships and perils. her home port. The action took place at 1 o'clock and was witnessed by the Dutch coast guards on the Dutch island of Schier monniekoog, in the North Sea, off the province of Friesland. The weather was clear and the sea calm and the destroyer could plainly be seen cruising before the mouth of the Ems. Suddenly the observers saw a high column of water rise near the bow of the destroyer. The vessel turned over and sank in three minutes. Shortly after the explosion the peri scope of the submarine came above the surface of the water for a moment, but as soon bb those on board observed the plunger had struck its mark the vessel was again submerged. A German cruiser and torpedo boat came quickly to the rescue of the crew of the destroyer, who could be seen swimming about in the vicinity of the disaster or clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship. English Aid Belgians in Defending City of Antwerp London The Morning Post's Eng lish correspondent in Antwerp makes the following statement : "The Belgian field artillery is co operating effectually with our heavy artillery. Our infantry is entrenched on the narrow bank of the Nethe, op posite the main German forces. Two German attempts to cross the river have been smothered by our artillery." The dispatch is the first Intimation that English forces have gone to Ant werp and are co-operating with the Belgians In the defense of that city. A dispatch to the Central News from Antwerp says : "The Germans have been repulsed. They asked for a two-hour armistice to bury their dead but Belgians refused to comply." Duke Spares French Art. Paris Duke Emst Gunther, of Schleswig-Holstein, brother-in-law of the German emperor, with other Ger mans recentlv Visited Pierrefnnda. French town where Clement Bayard, a ! Paris manufacturer, has a borne. En-! tering M. Bayard's house, the Duke j left for the manufacturer an autograph ! note reading: "I restore your home with its beautiful objects of art in the i same state as I found them, without j breaking or damaging, as the servants can testify. You see the Germans are J not barbarians, as has been charged." t LOUVAIN JAPANESE STOP ATTACK IN NIGHT German Loss Is 48 Men, While Japs Lose Only Five. Invaders Proceed Without Further Diplomatic Controversy; Con sul Instructed to Leave. Tokio It is officially announced that German infantry at Tsing Tau deliver ed a night attack Monday against the Japanese, but were repulsed. The Germans had 48 killed and the Japan ese five killed and eight wounded. The cannonading on land and sea In the vicinity of Tsing Tau continues. Four Japanese shells hit the German boat litis, which retired into the inner harbor after an exchange of shots. Pekin Without further diplomatic controversy, the Japanese are proceed ing along the railway to Tsi Nan. Their troops at Kei Hsien, who occu pied the Btation there, have been rein forced. The Chinese have not with drawn from the line, but are not op posing the Japanese march. One Chinese was killed by the Jap anese when they took over the Kei Hsien Btation. The Chinese foreign office proposed to Japan that China assume control of the railway line which is owned by Germans, expel all German employes from the district and guarantee that there will be no further transfer of the road until the war is ended. The Jap anese have contended that it was nec essary for them to occupy the railroad, as otherwise it would be used by the Germans for the transportation of war supplies for Tsing Tau. The American State department, up on the advice of the American minister to China, Dr. Paul Samuel Reinsach, who arrived in Pekin Wednesday, has instructed Willys R. Peck, the Ameri can consul at Tsing Tau, to withdraw from the Kiau Chau district. The le gation sent the message by wireless. Fifty Thousand Irishmen Enlist in English Army Dublin The number of new recruits for the British army obtained in Ire land amounts to about 26,000. More than 8000 of these are the Dublin dis trict, 4000 from Cork district and the remainder from Belfast. . Many of the southern recruits be long to football and athletic club classes. There is not such a rush to join the colors from the agricultural districts as was expected, as there is a lack of men of available age. Emi gration has left Ireland with a much greater population of the old and real young men than there is in England, while she already has a much larger proportion of men in the army than has England. John Redmond and his colleagues are addressing recruiting meetings in var ious parts of Ireland, and their appeals are expected to be fruitful. Man Is Killed by Slap. Dixon, 111. James Sinn, a druggist, of Morrison, and manager of the Mor rison baseball team, was held to the Whiteside county grand jury a few days ago for murder. During the ball game between the Morrision and Charlotte, la., teams, Dorsey Palmer, who was intoxicated, mistreated a young son of Sinn's and Sinn slapped him with his open hand, fracturing his windpipe. Palmer fell from the seats to the ground and lay there during the 13 inning game. His death was discov ered at the cloee of the game. NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in Brief. Two feet of snow is reported In Macleod, Alberta. The plight of Americns In Turkey is said to be serious. Canada's first consignment of troops to aid the allies has arrived at South ampton. A cargo of dyestuffs consigned to America and seized by the Germans has been released. British war office reports large loss of officers, 236 are killed, (86 wounded and 822 missing. It is reported that the king of Bel gium has marched out of Antwerp at the head of a portion of his troops. Leaders of the opposition party in Japanese legislature are opposed to limiting Japanese activity in the war. Borgerhaut, a suburb of Antwerp, has I een set on fire by the German bombardment, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam. A German aeroplane flying over Paris and suburbs Saturday morning dropped two bombs, one of which wounded three persons. Among the few neutrals remaining in Antwerp, where not alone shells from the guns of the Germans, but bombs from their aircraft, are falling, are H. W. Diedrich, the American con sul, and the members of his staff. A dispatch to the Havas Agency from Cettinje says: "It is reported here that the Roumania Prince Ghika, who has arrived at Scutari, will try to profit by the present critical moment to have himself proclaimed Prince of Albania." "The communal council of Ostend has passed unanimously a declaration that the town is ready for every sacri fice in order to resist the German ad vance to the last moment, " says the London Daily Telegraph's Ostend cor respondent. The French authorities have seized food supplies valued at between $1, 500,000 and $2,000,000 which had been deposited on the docks at Havre by a German firm. The action was taken to prevent the supplies from being taken abroad. A Petrograd dispatch states that a member of the Russian duma, who has just returned from Galicia, declares that the Russians captured the heights between four and five miles from Przemysl and that the Austrians have several times vainly attempted to re take them. A dispatch received in Rome from Russian headquarters says that the in timation has been given to the Aus trians holding the town of Przemsyl, Galicia, that they will be permitted to surrender with military honors, but that if they refuse the Russians will give them no quarter. A dispatch from Petrograd says the Russians have driven the Germans from Wloclawek, Russian Poland, 35 miles southeast of Thorn, East Prus sia, and have fortified themselves within a few miles of the fortress of Thorn. The German left wing in Poland is said to have been partly en veloped. A dispatch to the Havas Agency from Rome says : "It is reported that at a meeting of 27 Liberal and Demo cratic members of the chamber of deputies, a resolution was adopted de claring that armed neutrality corres ponds with the exigencies of the mo ment. The resolution also expressed confidence in the government" German newspapers publish articles expressing satisfaction that the British and Japanese attacks on Tsing Tau, the fortified position in the German leased territory of Kiau Chau, have been repulsed. They declare that the splendid defense of the Tsing Tau gar rison is an indication that the promise of the governor of the colony to defend the territory to the bitter end is being carried out. A Petrograd dispatch to the Tele graph, dated Saturday night, says that nothing is ascertainable there of the reported battle at Cracow. News has been received at Petrograd, says the dispatch, that Archduke Frederick has been replaced as commander-in-chief of the Austrian forces by the heir pre sumptive to the Austrian throne, Prince Charles Francis. Telegraphing from Ostend, a corres pondent says: "The steamer Ard mount, loaded with grain, which left Dover for Zebruge, Holland, struck a mine. Her crew of 35 were saved." The steamer, a vessel of 3510 tons, commanded by Captain Ronald, sailed from Galveston September 9. The Ardmount was owned by the Ashmount Steamship company, Glasgow. The outer forts of Antwerp are said to have been pierced by the Germans' heavy guns. Lieutenant Tassoni, under-secretary of state for war of Italy, has resigned, owing to a disagreement with General Grandi, the war minister. "General" Charles T. Kelley, who started to lead an army of 1500 unem ployed men to Washington last spring, and whose followers were dispersed in Sacramento, Cal., by police officials and a fire hose, was released from the county jail after completing a six months' sentence for vagrancy. ( Oregon-Washington to Get lenth of $20,000,000 Fund Washington, D. C One million dol lars of the $20,000,000 appropriated by congress to continue river and har bor Improvements was allotted by the secretary of war for work on the Co lumbia river, this amount being deemed sufficient to keep construction under way unitl another river and har bor bill can be passed. The total allotment made to projects in Oregon and Washington was $2, 032,500, as compared with $2,710,976 carried by the river and harbor bill at the time it encountered opposition in the senate. Oregon and Washington combined received more than one-tenth of the full amount appropriated. Other amounts allotted to Northwest ern projects are : Celilo canal, $625, 000 j Lower Willamette and Columbia below Portland, $200,000; Willamette and Yamhill, above Portland, $26,000; Columbia, Celilo to the mouth of the Snake, $20,000; Columbia, Bridgeport to Kettle Falls, $35,000; Snake river, $5000; Coos Bay, $70,000; Coquille river, $26,000; Siuslaw, $5000; en trance Grays Harbor, $110,000; inner Grays Habror and Chehalis river, $15, 000; Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, $6000. The liberal allotment made to North western projects is a result of strong recommendations made by the River and Harbor engineer board, which re cently visited Oregon and Washington, and was favorably impressed by the work in progress there. It is noted that the allotment for Coos Bay is $20,000 greater than provided in the river and harbor bill, and the allot ment for the Columbia river from Bridgeport to Kettle Falls is $10,000 greater than the river and harbor bill carried. Allotments for the mouth of the Colubmia, for the Celilo canal and for Grays Harbor are the same as provided in the river and harbor bill. A note worthy feature of the allotment is that only those projects which were author ized in the house bill received funds under the apportionment just com pleted, and the new items inserted in the bill after it reached the senate have been disregarded by the War de partment. Items for which no allotment was made and the amounts proposed for these projects in the river and harbor bill which failed are: Nehalem, $116, 175; Coos river, $3000; Siuslaw, new project, $112,600; Columbia at Cas cades, $10,000; Willamette locks, $80,000; Clatskanie river, $1000; Wil lapa river, $100,000; Grays river, $500; Puget Sound, $25,000; Skagit, river, $40,000. The amounts allotted for other proj ects in Oregon and Washington have been reduced below the amounts car ried by the river and harbor bill, it being the opinion of the engineers that the money set aside by the secretary of war will be adequate to continue work until another river and harbor bill is passed and the money thereby ap propriated becomes available. Allotments, made for work in Cali fornia include Los Angeles harbor, $42,000; Oakland harbor, $98,000; Humboldt harbor and bay, $200,000; Sacramento and Feather rivers (work of the California Debris commission, $60,000. The largest allotment is $3, 750,000 for the Mississippi river commission. Teutons Take Yankee Dye. New York Dyestuffs valued at $500,000 shipped from Basel, Switzer land to the firm of Walter F. Sykes & Co., of this city, and consigned for America by way of Rotterdam, Hol land, were seized September 14 by the German government. Such is the in formation contained in a cable dis patch received here. A protest against the 'seizure has been lodged with the State department at Washing ton and Secretary Bryan is said to have notified Ambassador Gerard to urge release of the shipment. Gift Exceeds $800,000. New York The sum bequeathed by Mrs. Frank Leslie, who died recently, to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the suf frage leader, is in excess of $800,000, in the opinion of William Nelson Crom well, one of the executors of the estate. The will has been filed. The entire residue of the estate is left to Mrs. Catt, with the expressed desire that it be used in the furtherance of woman suffrage. Specific bequests to individuals, mostly relatives, total ap proximately $130,000. Frenchmen Claim Alsace. London Telegraphing from Belfort, France, the correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "The Germans are try ing to make the world believe that they still hold Alsace, but as a matter of fact the French are there in thou sands and so well established that the enemy has not dared to attack them. There is nothing in front of the French force of occupation. If they wish they can walk right through to the Rhine." Citizen Attack Punished. Rome, via Paris A telegram re ceived here from Berlin says: "The civilians of Lanaeken, Bel gium, having attacked German troops, reprisals were necessary. Lanaeken was bombarded and its church de stroyed. Along the road between Lanaeken and Tongres all the houses were burned." Army Bars White Handkerchiefs. New York The British consul gen eral here declined a present of several dozen white handkerchiefs for use of the soldiers at the front. "The Brit ish soldiers are not allowed to carry white handkerchiefs", he said. "An enemy seeing them might mistake them for a signal of truce or surrender." ANTWERP FALLS, LONDON RUMOR Another Report Says That 3000 Germans Are Captured. No Fewer Than 200 Kaiser's Dig Siege Guns of Large Calibre Hurl Destroying Shells. London The Morning Post Saturday says that it has been informed by a good authority that Antwerp has fallen. The official press bureau says it is unable to confirm the foregoing. The Daily Telegraph Rotterdam cor respondent, telegraphing Friday, how ever, says: "A more hopeful view prevails here regarding Antwerp. Refugees from, that city declare that not a single Ger man soldier has yet entered Antwerp." "Stubborn fighting is proceeding be fore the Antwerp fortifications," says the Daily Mail's Ostend correspondent, teleraphing Friday. "Four assaults have been repulsed at No. 4 fort at Vieuxdieu. The bom bardment of the town appears to be diminishing somewhat in intensity, "According to the latest advices the Belgians made a successful sortie from Antwerp, which resulted in the cap ture of 300 Germans and forced the enemy to recross the River Nethe, abandoning their guns at Linth." "Every sign indicates that Antwerp is falling," the Daily Chronicle's Ant werp correspondent says in a dispatch dated Thursday. "It is possible the town will be surrendered. "The main streets are deserted, but there are 20,000 panicky people on the quays and around the railroad sta tion, waiting to leave. "The town is in flames throughout the southern section and no attempt is being made to quench them." The Daily Chronicle's Rosendaal, Holland, correspondent, . under date of Friday, Bays the situation in Antwerp is critical and that the town is virtual ly deserted except for the Belgian troops. "Every house here," the correspond ent continues, "is packed to the roof with refugees, and other refugees are camping around the railroad stations. Antwerp's civil guard was disbanded on Wednesday." An Amsterdam dispatch to the Reu ter Telegram company says that 32 German merchant ships, including a large number of steamers, have been, blown up in the port of Antwerp. A dispatch to the Daily Express from Antwerp says : "At 3 o'clock Friday morning all the back part of the city was a mass of flames. "The Iobs of life in the city is ap palling. The aristocratic suburb of Berchem has been burned. "Thousands of refugees are arriving here and the steamers for England are packed," Reuter's Ostend correspond ent says. "In the Biege operations against Antwerp the Germans are using no fewer that 200 guns of 11, 12 and 16 inch caliber, some of them having a range of more than eight miles. The bombardment of Antwerp Saturday be gan at half past nine o'clock at night, and stopped at 10, only to be renewed with increasing violence at midnight. Belgium Famine Frotest Is Made to America Washington, D. C The Belgian minister filed with the State depart ment a protest from his government against the threatened famine in Brus sels, said to be due to the ravages caused by the German army. The message from the Belgian foreign office and filed with the department says: "The civil authorities of the Brus sels agglomeration inform the govern ment that Brussels faces famine. Violating once more the rights of man kind, and namely, article 43, of the fourth convention of The Hague, the German army, after having taken away from the population an important part of its resources, is getting ready to let it starve. The same informa tion is coming from Namur and Lux emburg. "The Belgian government protests with the utmost indignation against this revolting act of barbarism and brings it to the knowledge and appre ciation of the civilized nations." "The Brussels agglomeration" is the name given to the city proper and the surrounding suburbs, which are formed into one civil community." Educator Defends Kaiser. University of California "The Eu ropean war came about against the in terests, against the desires and against the efforts of the German Kaiser," said President Wheeler, in a recent address. He described a long talk he had with the emperor in June, 1913, just before he celebrated the 25th anniversary of his accession. During the conversa tion the kaiser reviewed the experi ences and problems of his empire. The president, who is a warm friend of Emperor Wilhelm, maintained that the ruler had always advocated peace. Four Killed in Tornado. Joplin, Mo. Four persons were killed and five were injured, two prob ably fatally, when a tornado swept a farming district nine miles southwest of here Saturday. The four killed and three of the injured were members of one family.