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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-9-10, Page 7• 72,000 RUSSIAIS LAIDED Amsterdam Story corroborated by Passengers Who Arrived on the Mauretania at New York A des,patch frena New York says A Russian army . of 72,000 men, transported from Archangel,- Rus- sia, was landed at .A.berdeen, on the east coast of Scotland, on August 27 and were conveyed on ,special trains to • Harwich, 'Grimsby ,and .Dover, where transports conveyed. them to Ostend, in Belgium, .ac= cording to officers and passengers of the -Cunard Liner M.aurentania, which reached here from Liverpool. Every precaution was taken by English sand Russian military au- thorities, person's on the Maure- tania, said, to keep the fact that foreign sroldiere wire being trans-' ported to Englund from becoming known, and the service on the Last �s railway lines was •ups ended Coat x lwazy � suspended , during the ;seventeen hours the troop trains were on their journey: The passengers said that ,the trip of the Russian troops from Archangel to •Aberdeen occupied three days. Despatches from Ostend estate that a large body of troops, was landed from transports at that place, and it is evident that these were the troops referred' to by the passengers on the Mauretania. The sending of Russian soldiers by 'sea from. Archangel, which is on the White Sea,necessitating : a trip through the. Arctic Ocean around the north coast of Norwiay into the North. Sea, instead of from one of the much more 'convenient ports of the Bahia,' is explained by the fact that ships' from Baltic ports have 'to pass through the narrow Oattegat an •o•rder to reach the North Sea. The block ^s d• be G�attegat is understood ,to acted . by a considerable .Gentn•an fleet. GERMAN FORCES IN FRANCE Stories That They Had Been . Withdrawn Frontier De to Go to Russian�,Denied ,nied A despateh from London says: The Havre oorrespondent of the Daily Chronicle, telegraphing: under date of Sept. 2,says• : "It is well not -to rely too much. an. the ,statements thiat German troops are being withdrawn to •strengthen the forces facing the Russians. ' I hear that the Ger- mans are strengthening, not weak- ening, their forces in France. The German right is stated to : have fiffmt- been considerably reinforced. The Germane plan is to smash.,,,a way through to Paris from that direc- tion. "Mere _ is 'great indignation aunong the members of the British Arany Medical• Corps at the way the Germans have treated the 'wounded, their own wounded as well as the enerny's, Members of the oorps say that when a, German is seri- ously wounded his. comrades shoot him dead to save trouble." BORDEAUX THE NEW CAPITAL Ressagg c'to Citizens Issued by .the French Ministry. A despatch from Paris says ; The seat of the French Government, it is announced, will be transferred from Paris to Bordeaux, The Gov- ernment issuedat midnight Thurs- day, through the Ministry of the Interior, a proclamation -bringing this -to the knowledge of the people of Paris and giving their reasons for the change. The significant' fear ture of the proclamation is that Paris is soon to becomea, pivot in the manoeuvres betw•ee i the shied armies and the German's. For this reason the Government naturally cannot rem,ain here. Prisoners Attempt to Escape., A despatch from London says: A score of German ,prisoners taken during the naval engagements off Heligoland, headed by a. son of Ad- miral von Tirpitz, the German Minister of Marine, tried to escape from the prisoners' camp near Edin- burgh. Their 'attempt put the camp in temporary confusion. It seemed for .a while as if the 'attempt would succeed, but all the prisoners were captured. Young Tirpitz was grab- bed as he was cl'ithbing over the boundaries of the 'eamp..: All the men who attempted to es' - cape are now confined in Edinburgh Castle. - A NARROW ESCAPE FOR, KING ALBERT A despatch from Landon 'says: King Albert came within an ace of death during a sortie on Malinee. He was directing operations from his motor ,tsar when a Shell burst ten yards away, blowing off the rear wheels of the car. --a--81 -11I. ;JAPAN LANDS ntoovs. Said to Be a Violation of China's Neutrality. A despa'to11 ,from Pekin, China, says 'Japan has landed between 10,000 and 15,000 troops frotn eigh- teen transports at Lungg-Kow, a newly-opelted port ,about.100 miles north of: Tsin,g-Tait. This is de, dared to have been done in viola- tion- of : China's -neutrality. ' The German Legation has protested to. the Foreign Office -against anire fringetinent of China's peutrality•lay Japan. The' protest followed the landing of -a Japanese div"fsion at the newly -opened Chinese port of Lung-1Gow, 100 -miles north of Tsing-',tau. A despatoli from Washington says: Chinese officials have' oalle,cl'. the attention of American Cotasular officers ,at Chee-Fee to the landing: of several thousand troops by Ja- pan on Chinese territory at Lung - Ko N'S, near Tuang-Haien. This, Chinese-officials claim,.' is a disti.net •• violati,onof .neutrality:. A.USTRIA.&S DEFEATED. They Viet With Serious Disaster in Bosnia Invasion. A despatch from. Nish, 'Servia, says An official statement, issued on. Wednesday, gives new and fuller details of the battle of Sedan. The Austrian force, it says, was com- posed of 200,000 men and held a .fa- ' arable position. By its retreat it admitted defeat. The Austrians left on the field of battle 10,000 dead and more than 2,000 wounded. "Altogether," continues the state- ment, "40,000 of the enemy : ,were. placed hors de combat. We have sent to the -interior more. than 4,000 men whom we took prisoners, and have captured 60 guns, muoh am- munition, the material for ` the. construction of a 600-anetre bridge and a train. The battle- was of great importance!beeause it was•de-. cisive. The enemy retreated to. Santzek." SUNK BY A MINE. Vessel Engaged in Search Blown Up ' —Six Lives Los i A despatch from London says: The steam drifter Eyrie, engaged in mine sweeping operations in the North•Sea, struck a mine on Wed- nesday morning and went to the bottom in three minutes. Six mem- bers of the crew are missing; five were saved. CLAUDE GRAHAME-W:l:J1ITE ADMIRAL Olt TILE AIR A despatch from London says: Claude Grahame -White, .the noted aviator, has. been ,appointed a tem- porary flight commander in the Bri- tish navy. Richard T. Gates, who recently resigned from the Royal Aero Club, has been :appointed a temporary flight lieutenant. DISASTER I1 RETIREIE1T Germans Mast Continue, Even' Though Annihila- tion Awaits Them A despatch from London says A correspondent of the Daily Chroni- ole• telegraphs : "The Germans undoubtedly are at an unsafe distance from their base, They :,have been unable to avail themselves of ithe Belgian rag - c,_ ways and there is an insuf cienoy of 111- animal and motor transportation.. Every da.y's delay of their forward movement serves ''to diminish the German chances of ultimate sue - cess and to render more :precaraoils the position of the invaders.' " They cannot attempt to . retire without the risk of an irretrievable disaster, Therefore they are alanost certain to enntinue to "seek to eiush the allies' line, even though annihila- tion :subsequently await them under r: the walls of Paris." Girl SpyX Plana. It A despatch troan London says :, "A German girl spy was arrested by. English soldiers on She bridge over the Oise River at Lacroix. In her � al e an of 1 bh possession were the plans roads and bridges around . Paris. She looked to be•not more than 17 years of age. A German spy, dressed in an English uniform, w:as caught the same day and shot amane- irately by an English 'officer because he . made a gesture as if to take saoanething'•out Of his pocket instead of obeying on order to throw up his lands." British Veteran Killed. A despatch from London says; Among those reported! in the' War Office casualty" dist ' as killed in France is Lt. -Col. 0. A. H. Brett, D.S.O., of the Suffolk Regiment.; Lt. -Col. 0. A. H. Brett was a vet- eran of the 'Ha,zara (British India.) expedition and of the South African War. In :the latter ' campaign the was mentioned" in despatchee for gallantry, He was severely Wound- ed in -action ;and received the Die-: tinguished ' Service Order .medal with three .clasps. He, was born in 1865, the /son . of Lt. -Col. Arthur' Brett, of the Second Dragoon Guards. Austrian Steamer Sunk. A despatch from London •say's: The sinking of. the Austrian •eteameer Bathori by a British cruiser, in the Bas Of . Biscay,'' is reported. The Austrian refused to heave to until the cruiser put ashot across her bow. The warship then took off the crew of 26 and sent the steaaner to the bottom. The prisoners taken included a 'Gerinan Imperial - staff officer. • Referring to the appalling losses; of the anser's' troops, the corres- ponden continues : 'A few snore such delays land' the fourth German ,army anvadung.lsTert)hern France will have destroyed 'itself completely. No army ` 'that, ever existed could endure and survive the terrible losses sustained. by the Germans. Whole divisions of infantry Thaw been blotted out of existence' by the deadly fire of the British. The enemy clings to the formation : of attacking • en masse, Pt is little wonder if demoralization is beginning to appear in the shat- tered German tanks. The infantry has .last its. elan,. ''It no; longer die. dash in pushing 'home its at. tack. The fearful punishment to which it has been subjected is be- ginning to tell." BATTLE CRUISER L1ONt WHfC H CARRIED. ADMIRAL BEATT.Y. 6-111111ANS TRY T[RNIG WATCH NEW YORK HARBOR. British Cruiser Remains Near—Pas- senger 'Steamers Sail. A despatch from New Yolk says The hawk -Pike watch .which British cruisers halve maintained on New York harbor vas continued on Wednesday. Every vessel entering port within the past 48 hours. has sighted the low-lying, grey figure of One of the British eruisers. The White Star 'liner Oi pi•c'-sfa;iled Wednesday morning bound for Liv- erpool, and the American liner St., Paul and the 'Red Star: liner' Vader - land were due . to said later - in; the day. The Olympic and. S+t. Paul booked less than 300 pa.ssengers'bee tween theme . the Vaderland had none. The•latter had been in port since the war `.began. She "was to have sailed three weeks ago with Belgian reservists, . but the reser- vists ap'paren'tly were .slow in •re- sponding to the oa11. She will now go to Liverpool instead of Antwerp, to bring back American refugees. t E]D1AN STEAMER ( .r EKED A despatch from New York says: Sir Courtenay Bennett, British Consul -General in this city; an- nounced on Wednesday' afternoon that he had been informed by a trustworthy friend that the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm had been captured in nearby waters .by the British flot- illa of cruisers and: taken, a war prize, to Bermuda. His .ihforma •tion, he, said, had not been con- firmed, but he . thought it to be tine. The Kronprinz Wilhelm sail- fled from New York 'with darkened lights and all: the coal she could get 'aboard, on the night of. August 3, a day or so before the declaration of war between Germany and Great Britain. She has not yet been re - 'Ported as arriving at any port. First British Casualty List A despatch from London says: The names of British officers killed or • wounded, in the fighting in France last week were made public on Wednesday night. The list con- tains -the names of melt familiar throughout the United' Kingdom both through their military., prow- ess and their social standing. Vir- tually all the •crack regiments are. affected. ' Among the . killed are Robert Cornwallis Maude, sixth Viscount Hawarden, a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and Major Victor Reginald Brooke, military secretary of the Viceroy of India. KILLED -36 'officers and 127 men. • WOUNDED -577 officers and 629 anen. MISSIN9-95 officers and 4,183 men. Among the • officers missing are Lieut. -Col. 'A. W. Abercrombie, of the Connaught Rangers ; Lieut. - Col. D. C. Boger, of the Cheshire Regiment; Col. C. F. Stevens, of the Royal Artillery; and Col. 11. M. Thompson, of the medical corps. The percentage of casualties to the officers is high, .a mute tribute to their heroism. It is carefully ex- plained that this is only a partial report and that it does not deal with the recent fighting. The re - Port comes from General Frendh.. Speaking generally, a cavalry 'bri- gade contains '300 nien while "three divisionsless one .infant'' bri- gade" would be 41,000 men -a to- tal of 41,800. The loss was accord- ingly about 12 per cent. At Paar- deberg the British loss was 8 per cent. Further reports of British casual- ties are expected with little delay. 'As regards the men, as disting- uished from officers, it is known that .a considerable ,proportion of the missing were wounded men who had been sent down country, and of wthom particulars were not avail- able at headquarters. In the missing are included those wlio have not been accounted for, and the list of missing may coin- prise oin , >ise prisoners not wounded and pa pso stragglers as well as casualties. Neglect. Paris and •March t� the East and: South-east 'a A ,despatch from London says: "The :situation in the French thea- tre of war has not. undergone sub- stanti'al change: The position of the allies is ,well maintained. "There are indications that a German movement is developing in an eastward' and south-eastward. direction." The following officiala.nanounce- •ment was made by the Paris Mili- tary Government : "The movements of the oppos,ed armies outside . Paris continue with-• out airy attempt having been made to -day by :the enemy against our various positions."' Earlier in the day this statement was issued by the Preach Military Government, referring tor the situa- tion on the previous dray : "Around Paris the ; movements of the opposing armies continued with.: out a decisive battle. "In the north-east, in the region of Verdun, .the German forces have suffered come checks. "Iia Lorraine and the Vosges oAir troops report new . artia1 success-. es,'' A •t F. -Ne M ov ,nt.- - zI eanti The -French War Office at Bor- deaux sent the following oomti una--' cation to the Press Bureiar "On .our lett ihe,,enerzy appeians,.:. to neglect Paris to pursue its tu'n- ing movement. It has reached La' Ferte-Sous-Jouerre(Department of Seine--et-Marne, eleven miles; sea,st'. of Meaux), passed. Rheims and des- cended on the west bank of. the, river in Argonne. This manoeuvres has not Isucoeeded mors than on preceding days. "On our right in Lorraine land in Vosges the fighting proceeds, with alternative fortunes, Meubeuge, whiolbb is being violently bombarded, resists vigorously:" Right' Wing Checked. "It is learned" on .good authority that the advance movement of the German right wing has been ,eheck- la ed for the last two days under pres- sure from:the left wing of the allies. Theenemy has been oompelled 6o retire on St. Quentin. A big force of German cavalry • that was ad-' vancing on . Compiegne was vigor- onaly .repulsed and forced to eban-- don several pieces; of artillery. It app•ea,rs that the attempt to envelop, the -allies' left wing was frustrat- ed.'' FOUGHT IN THE SKY. French• Airmen Smashed German Aeroplane to Pieces. A despatch from Bordeaux, via London, ,says : The Petite Gironde states Pae tact s that when a German Taube aeroplane tried to o.pproath Paris it • was attacked near Vincennes by two French airmen. The French aviators sent a charge of grape shot into the wings of the Taube, sanash- iang it, to pieces. FELL IN. NORTH SEA. Aviator and Mechanician Rescued' By a British Submarine. A. despatch. from Harwich, 'Eng Eng- land, says: A British submarine has brought in a German airman and his mechanician who were found floating on their fallen aero- plane 60 'mules off ,the coast. After rescuing the ,men . the submarine sank the aeropla-ne. EYERYTllIG WAS WIPED OUT. Corpses of Germans Filled the Meuse' Until the River Overflowed A despatch from Paris says: Ed- ouard Helzy, ,ef Le J•,ournale, re- ported to be raw serving with Aloe co1•ors, writer. under date of Sept. 2: • "It would be difficult to esti••:mate - the number of Germans. killed 'last week. Whole regianents were,anni- hilated at .some points. They came out of the weeds, .section by . eec- tion. One section, one shell--'a•nd everything was i,ped out. "At two or three places, which I TYPE OF VESSEL TEAT PLAYED A LARGE PART assn forbidden to name, corpses fill- ed the Meuse until the river over- flowed. This is no figureofspeech. The river -bed literally was choked by the :mass of -dead Germans: The effect of ,our ;artillery surpasses even our dreams. The Germans use out-ofectiite shrapnel, which the Turks used in the Balleans. Its dam'a'ges are so slight .that one 'af our artillery regiments fought for a week, losing onlyeight killed and 14 wonmcled " zie of Britain's Many Subm.arino Warship';. CARLOAD OF HORSES GIVEN. Animals Worth S'i,000 for (Miters Froin Vancouver. A despatch from Ottawa' says: A carload of horses, the gift of fifteen prominent citizens iii Vancouver, is on the way to the camp' at Valvar- tier. The horses ars valued at $7,000, and will be utilized as offi- cers' chargers. H. II. Stevens; M. P., is among the donors. Germans 'Lost 20,000. A d?sp.a,tch 'front Copenhagen says: The' 'thirtieth list of losses :stcffe.red it the war ie printed in the German :pres's. Otte instance is given where a whole isilantry . regiment, Which had be Se 'stationed at Zabern, is lost. The 43rd Prussian- infantry. licgimcxit,a.lso suffered very heavily. More than 10,00.0 Mecklenburg troops have beta lost in Alsaotl