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lint Jfflto Jilite I ffinnnmifir Today's News Printed Today H 1 V i ' , ZLjI i: TXwTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1911. bNTBAWsNDNEW tTYvfNTH PRICE TWO CENTS stand a, nva cent fiffiTftilFIKRI IN W UBME rlCil POINTS OUT DMQQ A RTIIUIATF1 4 fir Din DMT M STIll Mill J ilppi j RESULTS OF MOVES n. ntou, lltDflHUI m MiitFiimni rug I on battlefields AUSTR AN LOSS IN RUSSIA IS WlllNG,aiMi3" TWO DAYS AT 1 25.000 Jorspci in the west frrew more serious today: Kman successes in the east more pronounced. I Paris and London aimces uctidicu urc uwmau icuwi b France general. The retirefnent 01 ens Kaiser s rigm mug lu mc um ui- ,-ard was-becoming a rout, it was said. r.i, RriHsh nursued hotlv. killing and wound- -tram taking numerous prisoners and capturing much j Position after position, town after town, was evacuated y the retiring Germans. lThe Germans hammered at Verdun, but the French Vere crowding them hard in this direction as well as to he northward. . , , , . T The French were gaining ground aiso in Lorraine. There wa3 more and more talk of bringing the French inf fmuoi-nmpnf. hnck f mm Bordeaux" to Paris. JCiUUlgu'M... ) The Belgians were re-occupying many towns which the Germans had evacuated. j It was believed they would shortly re-establish their '"iflital in Brussels. 1 lung Aioert was at uie nom in ptsrsun. 1 rhe czar'sj war office insisted that the Russians' "gen- f il odvnnpf pnnhirmps" t.n the westward. I There was ample evidence, however, that the Germans . ere driving them back in East Prussia, j In fact, the Russians themselves admitted they would 'remain on the defensive in that quarter until the Austri an? were completely crushed. j An important German victory was claimed at Lyck, inning the way for an extensive invasion of Russian Po jhnd from the northwestward. I Gmu forew were also advancing jiitirwd from tie River Alle and ex jvnted Hon to n a the siege of Konigs- I News of doinei to the southeastward more eoafluting. I The Bussians Claimed victories in the i!h of Russian: Poland and in Galicia,! 'mhiaf the capture of tho town of. jltasszow ind asserted that General; J'm Auffenburgs Austrian army was' danger of annihiliation. I m German purees came the asser-: i m that Germans an.l Austrians had Wl the Russians near Lemberg and s'Mt the latter tere retreating. 1 Teutonic sue- 3aes in the ttouth of i I '.wia Poland Km also claimed, j I'owa Prince Alexander of Servia! was capturing more towns in 'the Aus trian province of Slavonia. Servians were reported to have in vaded Hungary near Belgrade. . Servians and Montenegrins' were threatening Serajevo. Turkev grew more threatening. British fleet was reported ready to crush the sultan's naval power if the Turks sided with Germany and Austria Hunaarv. Indicating that they did not think the end of fifthting near, representa tives of the British government talked of having at least 1,000,000 of King Oeorge s troops on the continent oy the summer of 1915. An Australian naval force occupied the Bismarck archipelago, a German possession in the Pacific. ilARIONHOpYARDIS PICTURED FOR fflOVIES: run the plant will also furnish the steam for the dryer, Mr. Liveslev s vard is equipped witn lectric lights and a spraving system which is pronounced second to none in the state. With the noD nckinz ma Uresi7 Yard and IlicM Ma.-hf tJ chine ai1,1 ft gasoline system of hop (V ' m .nltivof in vwon to: Ba Shown at the 4 Maria; cultivation which he will install next year, his yard becomes a center of in terest for hop men as one of the most up to date hop yards in the country, P lo date hop yard 0n theij W t TS Picture'' for the1 !iT "nfairvit,itwho wiii: "ftfrooon 1 tlme- Yester- i is wonderful J .r7 ex- I ' " 'n'itH tu t ploa8e'1 wih itii J tZnrmt 0f crop1 1 h Iv at ,abor con,li i '-M bv 1J "pkl machine wa Z 'M5t j I . .A Clementsi Hnnt T RUSSIAN TKOOPS IN TEAN8YXVANIA WI nf h.i.. ' in th . . a- Th first Bucharest Sept. 12. Rus sians today were invading Transylvania, an Austro-Hun-garian province to the south of Galicia, pouring through the Carpathian mountain passes from Galicia and Bukovina op- apposed. The Russian occupation of t'.ie province of Bukovina was prac tically complete, all the chief towns having been seized. The slav population were wel coming the invaders. ' V:rt but CARRIED QUARTER OF me, MILE BY COWCATCHER KT TTOve,. un.il :f , ftiT L i' telFPHH ,h.Vi. Vh! the buggy now, Medford. Ore.. Sept. 12. Injured when -a Southern Pacific freight train in which they were try,, on. .-.. ' iratinv 11 iarr - r ' rrv 41.- . . . . Ti -Picking n hon . a.. I . . "y 1 nuine late yesterdav. Mrs. B. 1 . Van- 11 k.. ; ,11 " 19 Dyke, aeed 27. of Phoenix. Ore., is at ,roled to their ?M the point of death today nd her 7' the enfir. 1. . .. "i year-old son. Frank, is in a serious con- BOO nicVinnl",... !wrf . 1 '""on. ' BPSrCh Mrs. VanDvke's skull was frac Bhe was mile on the en- cowcatcher before the train could brought to a stop, . 1 i i .. .. . nr. n.. r '.carnea a quarter of a 'ia L ,.1 h aA . '"r,K''' more '".j'T.U the ,1,1 "lr1 on 4it. " -'"M nr.. ""'I's ani the ' mriit L i a in.... 1 r "'. The' '-.-.. :th is. ' out- the . into 1 '" it; f"-Jel,.T':.ro ' m!' 'gine to! The Weather 'Just A8our" DAY P0 s l7 Fair toaight and bunday: wanner Sunday, winds. westerly AMMUNITION IS SHORT AND THE FOOD SHORTER a I'm Allies On the Left Outnumber Germans It Is Claimed Two to One raris, .Sept. 12. Tho German right wing's retreat in northeastern France was reported degenerating into a rout todav. Tiie men's ammunition was runnine short and their food supplies shorter. 'mat the seat of the French govern ment would be shortly retransfcrred from Bordeaux to Paris was geuerally predicted. The worst of the fighting at the cen ter was in the Argonne district. the Germans had retired from Se zanne and Vitry-Le-Francois. They had been reinforced but to'ind themselves unable to resume the offensive anywhere. To the northeast of Paris tho first and second British cavalry divisions, assisted by French cavalry and artil lery, had cut a large German force off trom its base, killed or wounded half its number, taken 0,000 prisoners and captured 15 cannon. Prisoners Nearly Starved. The prisoners were said to be fairly starving when they fell into the allies' hands and devoured the British beef and biscuits ravenously. " As a result of tne general retreat of the German right, the kaiser's forces were badly separated. Generals Von Kluk s and Von Buelow s armies were split into detachments and retreating in different directions. British bicyclists surprised a German battalion isolated in the woods, killed loO of them and captured the rest. It was said the allies' losses were less than the Germans' in the ratio of oue to three. Learning a lesson from German transportation methods, the French were commandeering automobiles whole sale. They were greatly facilitating the forwarding of supplies and ammu nition to the fighting lines. A heavy rainstorm in the fighting zone was hampering operations which still, however, progressed despite all difieulties. The Germans were especial ly handicapped by the miring ot their cannon in the marshes. Scotch and Irish Rivals. Now reported that the kaiser's gen eral staff had been at the actual front at the center and left, looking over the ground with a view to changing the German plans. General Gallieui, military governor of Paris, was so confident that danger of an attack on the city was over that he had sent a considerable part of the gar rison into the field. The gunners, how-' ever, still manned the forts. j Tue allies' left outnumbered the Ger mans today by 2 to 1. A majority of tho wounded Germans captured in that field of fighting were suffering from bayonet thrusts. They declared the British relied upon the bayonet almost entirely, referred to them as "wild men," and asserted that not even shrapnel checked thein. The Irish and Scotch regiments were spoken of as especially terrifying. The two nationalists have shown a keen rivalry throughout toll the fighting, and whenever cither has conspicuously dis tinguished itself, the other has invar iably attempted to eclipse its exploits. William Philip Sim' Story. Paris, Sept. 12. I have just seeu General Gallieui, the military governor of Parts. ; Ho predicted that tho battle of the Marno would prov to have beon the high tide of the German offensive. He said he did not think the kaiser's forces would recover the ground they had lost and expressed the opinion that the dauger to Paris was over. It was his belief that, by sending the city's defensive army into the field to help the allies' left wing, he changed the entire situation. Observing that the left under Gen eral Von Kluk had outdistanced the supporting German center and reacheff j Proving and that the French center was I holding its ground, tho Paris command I or hurled his entire available force Haiupi i lie Kaiser s rigni. By this move the allies wero given a force which outnumbered General Von Kluk 's army and threatened its destruc tion. Its retreat was so procipitate that it was compelled to abandon quantities of supplies. It was not safe yet. Military Governor Talks. Gallieui explained' the success of the German crown prince's army on the ground that the kaiser detailed his best strategists to advise his son and gave him the flower of Ihe fatherlaud's forces. Reports that the crown prince had been aent to east Prussia he discredited. Tho change from offensive to defen sive tactics had affected the morale of the German army badly, the general added, while the chango from the de fensive to the offensive had exactly the opposite effect on the French. "Tho German war machine," he con cluded, "was constructed entirely for offensive running. It works poorly since it has been reversed and sent to running backwards." f i J sjs c ic sfc AUSTRIAN TROOPS RUSHED TO FRANCE London, Sept. 12. Austrian troops are rushing from Prague to the aid of the Germans in France, it was asserted in a Rome dispatch received here this afternoon by the Stai. sjc sc 5(c fc sjc sc s(c sc sjc jjc ?jc sfs Jc By J. W. T. Mason, (Former London Correspondent for the United Press.) New York, Sept. 12. It was apparent today that the outrunning by the Ger man right wing of the rest of the kai ser's advance iuto France was primar ily responsible for the confusion into which the Teutonic campaign against Paris has been thrown. News that tho German right had reached Provius before its repulse gives the key to the mystery. Provius is 50 miles southeast of Pi'.Ks and dominates the highways which the German center and left would have to use in enveloping Paris from the south ward. Driving down from the northward the right reached it too soon. Unchecked to tho east of Taris the wing crossed the River JUarne to join the Germans coming from the eastward. But the Germans from the eastward failed to arrive. They were held in the Cataluuniau fields district, where Attila and his guns wore defeated in the fifth ceutury. Right Was Isolated. The speedy German right was there fore isolated. The Paris garrison emerg ed and fell on its flank and during the past week it has be-n forced backward until today it was 50 miles northeast of Paris, near Soissons. That the defeat of the German right was duo to deep strategy on the allies' part is refuted by frank admission in London and Paris official reports ear lier in the week that tho Germans' movements were puzzling. They were, puzzling because thoy were due to a serious error in calcula tions of tho time necessary for the Ger man center and left to swing around Paris. Someone among the higher German military authorities seems to have blun dered badly anil German strategy is now seriously affected, for it must now rearrange its objectives. Tho German attack on Verdun was an attempt to open the door into France from tho east, an alternative to the un fortunately-chosen route through Bel gium. Verdun is the northernmost point of tho eastern French frontier fortifica tions, which extending along tho Mouse 40 miles to Tonl, after tho strategic 40 mile opening between Toul and Epinal, continue along the Moselle to the Swiss Frontier. Would Worry Trench. The German capture of Verdun, if followed by the occupation of the other defenses between there and Toul, might seriously interfere with a French in vasion of Lorraine and greatly benefit German lines of communication, since the most direct approach from Germany by rail to the present field of military operations is by way of Verdun. The Russians' attempt to resume their march on Berlin met with a fresh re pulse. Tho Germans were shoving tho Rus sians out of Fast Prussia at about the same rate that they themselves are re tiring from France. The battle of Lyck, rcportod as an important German victory, occurred 13 miles within the East Prussian frontier and Russian Poland is again in danger (Continued on page 8.) D STORY 0 m is ID (By Karl It Von Wiegand.) Aix-La-Chapelle, Germany, Aug. 29. (By courier to New York via Rotterdam to escape British censorship.) America has not the faintest realization of the terrible carnage going on in Europe. She cannot realize the determination of Germany, all Germany men, women and children in the war. The German empire is like one man. And that man's motto ia "Vaterland Oder tod!" (Fatherland or death!) English news sources are reported here as telling of the masterly.retreat of the allies. Here in the German field headquarters, where every move on the great chessboard of Belgium and France is analyzed, the war to date is referred to as the greatest offensive movement in the history of modern warfare. This eity is just behind the apex of a wonderful triangle. This triangle is formed by the Ger man offensive lines, closing In on the British-French-Bclgian lines. It is mov ing with relentless swiftness, hammer ing at every point. It is driving the allied armies south and west toward Paris. The German Plans. Yet no one here knows whether Paris really is the objective. The French offensive is to be crushed. The British are to be driven away from their seseoast bases. After that Paris will be taken but before then there will be fought the greatest battle the world has ever wit nessed. , Tonight the German patrols are threatening Ostend. Part of the right wing has been pushed southward beyond Lille. The combined Brtish and French forces have been defeated with heavy losses at Maubeuge. The army of the crown prince has taken the fortress of Longwy by as sault, after demolishing it by bombard ment. And by this movement and the cap ture of Lunevillc, near Nancy, the French center has been pierced. From Lille to Belfort the French lines have been thrown back in utter confusion and the Germans are in force on French soil. French Outgeneralled. French and Belgian prisoner admit that the French have been outgeneral led. Up to tonight there has not been a real French victory. The French forces were trapped in Alsace-Lorraine. Realizing that the French temperament was more likely to be swayed by senti ment than by stern adherenee to the rules of actual warfare, the German staff selected its own battle line and waited. The French did not disappoint. Thev rushed across the border. They took Altkirch with littla opposition. Then they rushed on to Mulhausen. Through the passes in the Vosges they poured horse, artillery and foot, all branches of the service. 8trassburg was to fall, and so swift was the French movement that lines of communication were not guarded. Then the German general staff struck. Oerman troops from Paarburg, from Strassburg and from Metz under the command of General Von Heeringen, attacked the French all along the line. Thev were utterly crushed. The' Germans took 10,000 French prisoners and more than 100 guns. Petrograd, Sept. 12. riaving failed to reorganize his shattered Austrian forces, General Von Auff enburg, who has been fighting the Russians in northern Galicia and the south of Russian Poland, was retreating today, ac cording to the Petrograd war office. Total Austrian losses in the past two days were placed at 125,000, including 80,000 captured. The prisoners were being sent to concentration camps in the Russian interior. It was stated that the Austrians and their German re inforcements fought desperately but the Russians charg ed them irresistibly and they finally began retiring. Cos sacks were in pursuit. The prisoners included two division generals. The Austro-German center in Galicia, near the junc tion of the Vistula and San rivers, was reinforced Friday and 600,000 Russian reinforcements were on their way to join in attacking them. In Russian Poland and Galicia the czar had 1,250,000 troops operating. As the Danes See It. Copenhagen, Sept. 12 Almost unbroken German suc cesses against the Russians in East Prussia were indicat ed by all advices received here today. The Russian version was that the czar's troops were merely acting temporarily on the defensive but accounts of the fighting read much more like Russian defeats. Having concentrated on the River Alle, the Germans certainly were advancing, the Russians retiring before them. A Russian army corps was also stated definitely to have been beaten by the German troops when it attempted an East Prussian invasion, from the southeast at Lyck. An early German attempt was expected to raise the Russian siege of the Konigsberg citadel. Change in Russian Plans. Petrograd, Sept. 12. Russian suc cesses in Galicia and Russian Poland wore reported by the war office today. The left wing, it was stated, had been cut off from the Austrian force operat ing under General Uankl in northorn Galicia and southern Russian Poland, and it was declared its annihilation was imminent. The reported Russian capture or Toniaszow was confirmed. The unofficial admission was made that there would be no further opera tions on an important scale in East Prutiisa until the Austrians had boon crushed completely. Instead, it was said the Russians in the north proposed to remain largely on tiie defensive for the time, engaging the Germans' attention, however, while another Russian force inarched on Ber lin from a different quarter, presum ably from Galicia through Silesia and to the northwestward. Berlin, via The Hague, Sept. 12. Tha Germans were repulsing the Russians la East Prussia today, the war office an nounced. Tho czar's troops wore retreating in disorder from German territory toward tho frontier, it wag stated. The speedy raising of the Russian siege or the oast Prussian city of Kouigsborg was predicted. Combined German and Austrian forces were said to have checked the Russians near Lcmberg, and to be driv ing them backward. Strong German and Austrian bodies were reported op erating again in Russian Polaud. In general, the eastern situation was declared to bo much improved. No announrcment was made concern ing the progress of fighting in the west. The Terrible Krupp Guns. Alsace-Lorraine is now reported cleared of Ifrench troops. The Oerman offensive plans were well laid. No army that ever took the field wag so mobile. Thousands of army automobiles have been in use. Each regiment has its supply. The highways were mapped in advance. There was not a cross road that was not known. Even the trifling brooks was accom panied by enormous automobiles filled with corps of sappers who carried bridge and road building materials. How well this worked out was shown when Namur, which it was boasted would resist for months, fell in two days. the terrible work of these great Krupp weapons, whose existence had; been kept secret, is hard to realize.! One shot from one of them went through what was considered an im pregnable wall of concrete and armored steel at Namur, exploded and killed 150 men. And aside from the effectiveness of these terrible weapons, Belgian prison ers with whom I have talked here men who were in the Namur forts declare their fire absolutely shatters the nerve of the defender, whose gun have not sufficient range to reach tbem. The armies of Crown Ifinee Frederick William and of Crown Prince Rtip precht of Bavaria, are reported here as moving in an irresistible manner on to trance. Losses Are Appalling. In a three days battle before Metz it is declared the French were terribly cut op and forced to retreat In almost )Jt )c s(c sc sc sjc sjc sjc sjc ))t s(c s(i )Jc ic )Jc )(c BASEBALL TODAY )C)(i(C9C(9fC3(S( 5jc s6 )C )(( )c 3( ))C )(C National. First gamo R. H. E. New York 00000000 00 4 1 Philadelphia.. 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 x 1 7 1 Marquari, O 'Toole and Meyers; Alex ander and Killifer. First game Chicago Pittsburg Lavender, JTagorman and Adam's and Coleman. Second aame New York 2 10 2 10 11 08 12 0 Philadelphia.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 n 0 00 2 3j Fromme and McLean; iviayer, war shall and Killifer, Burns. R. IT. E. Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 14 7 2, Boston 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 5 2, Aitchison and McCarthy; Tyler, James and Gowdy, Second game R. H. E. Chicago 0 3 1 Pittsburg .. 4 9 0 Humphreys and Bresnaban; Kantlc haner and Coleman. St. Louis 3 9 2 Cincinnati 18 2 Griner and Snyder; Fittory and Clark. Hendrix and Wilson; Ford, Moran and Blair. R. H. E, .. 4 11 2; ..5 2 Archer; R. H. E. American. Boston-Washington game postponed; rain. R. II. E. Philadelphia 1 6 1 New York 2 7 5 Bender and Schang; Keating and Sweeney. R. H. E. Detroit 4 7 2 Chicngo 2 10 3 Reynolds and Stanage; Wolfgang and Schaik. r. n. e. Cleveland 3 9 1 St. Louis 5 6 3 Hagerman and O'Neill; Weilman and Agnew. -mi STEAMER MAITAI CHASED BT LEIPSIO 'Continued pa page 8.) Federal R. H. E. St. Loui 3 8 3 Brooklyn... 5 9 1 Keupper and Simon; Chappelle. and Land. First game R. II. E. Kansas City 7 13 2 IJittsburg . 4 10 1 Cullop and Easterly; Walker and Berry. First game R. H. E. Indianapolis - 4 7 5 Baltimore . 6 8 2 Kaiserling, Billiard, Mullen and Riiriden; Bailey and Jacklitsch. First game B. II. E. Chicago , 6 13 2 buffalo 14 1 San Diego, Cal, Sept. 12. Driven hundreds of miles out of her course to evade capture by the German cruiser Leipsio and with her officers, crew and , passengers in a state of nervous anx iety, the British steamship Maitai, which sailed from Wellington, N. Z. August 20 last, bound for San Fran cisco, arrived here today and anchored. Captain Carson changed his course several days ago and headed for San Dingo harbor because of failure to re .oIva wiralou nipHMnffcn from the steam er Moana, out of San Francisco, inform ing him that the coast was clear. He feared that he had sailed almost into the mouth of the enemy, as the Oerman cruiser Leipsic waa reported to have been sighted off San Diego early today. If this is true, the Maitai has been bottled up in this harbor and may be forced to remain here indefinitely. FIRST SNOW IN MOUNTAINS. Butte, Mont., Sept. 12. The first snow of the season is falling in Butte n1 vu'lnitv. H beiran at 8:30 o'clock jlast night and continued this s'tcuwi'