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FRENCH ARE AROUSED
BY ALSATIAN SUCCESS
ALTKIRCH AND MUELHAUSEN
ARE OCCUPIED WITHOUT SE-
VERE FIGHTING.
GREAT WORK OF REVENGE
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General Joffre So Characterizes Ad'
vance Into Alsace in Proclama-
tion at Muelhausen.
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Paris.—The Invasion of Lower Al-
tace by a French army under Gen.
Joseph Joffre, the French command-
er In chief, has awakened great en-
thusiasm in France.
French military authorities, while
recognizing that the occupation of
Altkirch and Muelhausen by French
troops is not of high strategical im-
portance,. believe the successful ad-
vance of the French army so far
across the German frontier will have
considerable moral effect.
It Is reported unofficially that Kol-
mar, farther to the north, has fallen
Into the hands of the French. None
of these three places was strongly
fortified and all lie outside the line
of real German defense, being re-
garded as outposts of the strongly
fortified cities.
Official reports of fighting between
the French and German troops state
that the French losses were “not ex-
cessive,” while those of the Germans
are declared by the French to have
been “very serious.”
The inhabitants of Altkirch, which
the French troops captured after a
fight Friday, received the visitors
with great rejoicing. The older men
embraced the soldiers after they en-
tered the town. After the place was
occupied the French proceeded to
Muelhausen, which they entered with-
out resistance. Muelhausen was not
occupied by Germans when' the
French troops arrived.
Gen. Joffre, commander of the
French forces, issued this proclama-
tion at Muelhausen:
“After 44 years of sorrowful wait-
ing, French soldiers once more tread
the soil of your noble country. They
are pioneers in a great work of re-
For them what emotion it
forth and what pride to com.
the work which they have made
the sacrifice of their lives.
French nation unanimously
them on and In the folds of
flag are inscribed the magic
‘Right and Liberty. Long live
»! Long Live France!'”
Llsation inhabitants are said to
been so overjoyed at the ap-
pearance of the French army that
thejr tore up the frontier posts.
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GERMANS CONTINUE
FIGHT FOR LIEGE
BELGIANS MAKE HEROIC RESIST-
ANCE AGAINST GREATER
NUMBERS.
White Star Liner Sails for England.
New York.—Loaded to her carry-
ing capacity with provisions and coal,
the White Star liner Olympic sudden-
ly left her pier here Sunday and
sailed for Liverpool. The Olympic
was permitted to leave the harbor
Without question. As the vessel
•teamed down the bay she met the
American liner New York coming in.
Cheers were exchanged by passen-
gers on the New York and sailors on
the British vessel, which carried no
passengers and it is assumed is re-
called to British waters to serve as an
auxiliary war vessel or transport.
E Forta° Not Seriously Damaged,
Paris.—Details of fighting around
fjlege statb that the forts, there were
not seriously affected by the fire of
the big German siege guns. During
the two days* cessation of fighting
Vi ore than 60,000 civilians were em-
8 ployed in throwing up entrenchments
between the ring of forts, which are
•aid to have rendered the city almost
Impregnable.
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News Print Paper Is Getting Scarce.
Watertown, N. Y.—There is only a
few days’ supply of news print paper
on hand in all the mills of this coun-
try, according to Frank L. Moore of
Watertown, president of the Amerl-
*ean Paper and Pulp association. Sev-
<enty-flve per cent of the chemical
jpulp used in this country comes from
Htha war zone in Germany and from
pforway and Sweden, and all the shlp-
cnanta have been stopped, according
ta Mx^foore. Some mills, however,
piiautinture their own sulphite.
MAY BE VICTORIOUS ANY TIME
Advances Made by German Army
Wednesday Indicate Victory
for Invaders.
Brussels via Paris.—After having
suffered a serious check and heavy
casualties at the hands of the Bel-
bians at Liege Wednesday, the Ger-
man troops returned to the fray with
redoubled ardor and Thursday were
pouning away at the forts with siege
and field guns and rifles.
In the fighting of Wednesday the
estimates of the German casualties
ran as high as 8,000 men. The in-
vaders also are said to have lost a
large number of guns. In one attack
a German infantry division support-
ed by cavalry marched onto mined
g#bund. The Belgians detonated the
mines an an entire battalion of Ger-
mans was killed. Wounded Germans
to the nximher of 1,20ft were picked
up on the battlefield. 4
It is estimated that in the fighting
40,000 Germans were faced by 25,-
000 Belgians.
Slaughter Appalling.
In the attack on Fort Parchon,
northeast of the city, the Belgians
permitted the Germans to draw up al-
most to the walls of the fortress.
They then turned loose their guns
and the slaughter is reported to have
been appalling.
Under the terrific fire here and
from the other forts the Germans
were forced to retire all along the
line.
A detachment of Uhlans penetated
the city Wednesday night with the
intention, it is said, of capturing
high officials. They had reached the
building where the officials bad
quarters when all were surprised and
killed.
Germans Expected to Win.
German shells breached the walls
of two of the fortresses which were
captured. Efrtim the other forts, how-
ever, the Belgians continued to pour
a deadly rain of shot and shell into
the advancing Germans.
Despite the heroic resistance of
the Belgians, it was felt in Brussels
that, the inavders, by reason of their
great strength, could not much , long-
er he denied and that ultimately they
must gain the city of Liege, whence
they are expected to press on to-
ward iNamur in their march across
Belgium to the French frontier.
At Namur, which is strongly forti-
fied, it is asserted the Germans. will
meet with resistance as strong as
that at Liege.
BELGIANS REPULSE ' MRS.WOOD.TOWWILSON
GERMAN ARMY CLAIMED BY DEATH
ATTACK ON BELGIAN CITY OF
LIEGE RESULTS DISASTROUS
FOR INVADERS.
WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT PASS-
ES AWAY AFTER LONG
ILLNESS.
SEVERAL
L0SS WHITE HOUSE CAST IN GLOOM
Votes $500,000,000 for Army Increase.
London.—The house of commons
unanimously passed a war credit of
$500,000,000 for the increase of the
British army. This is the second
war credit passed by the house, $525,-
000,000 having been voted two daj^
before. Premier Asquith said that
Field Marshall Earl Kitchener want-
ed power to increase the British
army to 500,000 men. He told the
house that the white paper issued by
the government showed how strenu-
ous and unremitting had been the
efforts of Sir Edward Grey to secure
honorable peace for Europe.
CARLOS MENDOZA
Carlos Mendoza, former president of
the republic of Panama, has been re-
elected to that office, defeating the
candidate of Preslde’nt Porras.
THIRTY-EIGHT DIE IN WRECK
Passenger Train and Motor Car Col-
lide With Fatal Results.
Joplin, Mo.—Thirty-eight persons
were killed and 25 injured in a colli-
sion between a passenger train on
the Kansas City southern railway
and a Missouri and North Arkansas
railroad gasoline motor car running
on the Kansas City Southern tracks,
near Tipton Ford, ten miles south of
here. Mistaken orders are said to
have caused the accident.
According to reports, both the mo-
tor car and the train were running at
a high rate of speed when they met.
With the collision came the report of
the explosion of the gasoline reser-
voir of the motor car, setting both the
motor car and the train afire. Every
person in the motor car was killed,
it is said.
The injured, pinned beneath the
wreckage begged piteously to be re-
leased as the fire attacked them, but
the fire, quickly spreading, made it
impossible for the uninjured to assist
them.
The motor car was shoved back
300 yards by the tr,ain and was left
suspended over the locomotive.
None of the passengers on the train
was killed, although the engineer and
fireman were injured.
TWO LINERS REACH HALIFAX
Battle Was Fought Between 25,000
Belgians and 40,000 Germans, With
Latter’s Losses Great.
Brussels (Via. f’aris)—Several thou-
sand dead and wounded is the toll
paid by the German army of the
Meuse for its attack on Liege. The
Belgians made a heroic defense, re
pulsing the Germans after heavy and
continuous fighting.
The fortified position of Liege had
to suppoft on Wednesday the gen-
eral shock of the German attack. The
Belgian forts resisted the advance
fiercely and did not suffer. One Bel*
gian squadron attacked and drove
back six German squadrons.
Eight hundred wounded Germans
were transferred to the city of Liege,
where they are being cared for.
Prior to the attack on Liege Gen.
von Eramich, commanding the Ger-
man army of the Meuse, issued a
proclamation calling for an open road
through Belgium for the advance of
his forces and suggesting that pru-
dence would show it to be the duty
of the Belgian people to accede to
this to avoid the horrors of war.
The Germans committed repressions
against the civil population of the
town of Vice, eight miles northeast
of Liege, burning the city and shoot-
ing many residents.
Gen. Linaer in the official report of
his operations in the Liege district
states that in Wednesday’s battle 25,-
000 Belgians were engaged against
40,000 Germans. The success of the
Belgians was complete, the German
army corps retreated into Dutch ter-
ritory.
French troops are reported to have
entered the province of Hainaut, a
frontier province of Belgium, and to
have joined the Belgian army.
Enormous Gas Well Struck In Okfa.
Ardmore, Okla.—A gas well at a
depth of 160 feet in tho Loco fields In
•ection 9, 8 south, 5 west, is making
16,000,000 feet of gas. It is escaping
through 15-inch casing and the roar
can be heard four miles. The Okla-
homa Diamond company is drilling
the well and the gas is owned by the
Lone Star Gas company of Texas.
Steamship Rammed in Hudson River.
New York.—The steamer Iroquois
of the Manhattan line crashed into
the Berkshire of the Hudson Naviga-
tion company line, Sunday in a dense
^fog in the Hudson river, cutting 18
feet into the Berkshire’s center and
ripping her almost to the water line.
Both boats were carrying passengers
from Albany to New York, the Berk-
shire having nearly a thousand on
hoard. There was a rush to the decks
by her passengers, but officers quick-
ly reassured them and there was no
panic.
British Cruiser Sunk; 131 Lost.
London.—An admiralty report says
the British cruiser Amphipn was sunk
by striking a mine. .Paymaster J. T.
Gedge and 130 men were lost. The
captain, 16 officers and 135 men were
saved. A previous report said the
German mine layer Koenigin Luise
probably had placed some mines be-
fore she was sunk by the British tor-
pedo boat Lance. The Amphion was
a light cruiser of 3,440 tons. She
was attached to the third destroyer
flotilla under Capt. Cecil H. Fox,
commanding officer. Her regular
complement was 292 men. She was
commissioned in April, 1913.
German and Russian Cruisers Sunk.
London.—-A dispatch from Tien-
Ts‘n says that the Russian cruiser
Askold and the German cruiser Em-
den both have been sunk after an
engagement off Wei-Hai-Wei, China.
The Emden was a protected cruiser
of 3,592 tons. She carried ten 4.1-
Inch guns and was fitted with two
torpedo tubes. The displacement of
the Askold was 5,905 tons. Her
armament consisted of 12 six-inch
guns and eight three-pounders. Af-
ter the battle of the Yellow sea, in
the Russo-Japanese war, she was In-
terned at Shanghai.
No Definite Reply to Mediation Offer.
Washington.—Receipt of President
Wilson’s offer of good offices has
been acknowledged by some of the
warring nations in Europe, but nope
of tho respokefe constitutes anything
in the nature of a reply. Officials do
not know whether it has been re-
ceived In Germany. The response
from the Russian foreign office said
the proposal had not been brought to
the attention of Emperor Nicholas,
because be was moving about the
country directing war preparations.
Mauretania, With More Than 1,600
Passengers, Arrives In Port.
Halifax.—Two trans-Atlantic liners
flying the British flag bound from
Liverpool for New York, put into
Halifax Thursday as a haven from
German cruisers.
The unexpected arrivals were the
mammoth Cunard liner Mauretania
and the big Cedric of the White Star
line. Both had been warned by the
British cruiser Essex of the presence
I of hostile vessels in the North At-
lantic waters and advised to make
with all haste for Halifax. The Es-
sex herself convoyed the Cedric into
port.
| It was early in the day when the
I Mauretania surprised Halifax by
steaming into port. Arrangements
for convoying her passengers to New
York were still in progress when
word reached here that the Cedric al-
so was making for the harbor.
The Mauretania brought more than
1,600 passengers and the Cedric more
than 1,000. It already had been ar-
ranged that the Mauretania’s pas-
sengers proceed by land.
CURRENCY PROVIDED FOR TRADE
Secretary McAdoo Declares Financial
Situation is Well Cared For.
Washington.—After two days of
conference with bankers and a care-
ful investigation of conditions through-
out the country, Secretary McAdoo
in a statement declared the financial
! situation to be excellent and an-
j nounced there would be sufficient cur-
| rency to move crops and meet ail j
; demands of business.
“The passage by unanimous vote by j
: the house and senate of the federal ;
; reserve act, whereby the secretary of 1
■ the treasury is vested with power to !
j issue additional national bank cur- j
rency exceeding even $500,000,000, as j
j in his judgment, may he necessary to !
protect the business situation in this j
j country, puts at rest any question as i
! to the ability of banks to take care of
I the situation.”
Holland Declared Under Martial Law. j
The Hague.—Martial law has been j
! declared in all parts of Holland. It
i is officially announced that tip to the j
j present time the Germans have not j
invaded the Frencli frontier.
Turkey to be Neutral.
London.—The French embassy In
London has been informed of the dec-
laration of Italian neutrality and that
Italy will probably call out j one or
two classes of the army, but with no
aggressive idea. It is added that Italy
does not intend to reinforce her
troops either on the French br Aus-
trian frontiers. It is also announced
officially that Turkey will proclaim
her neutrality.
Funeral Services Held in Whit©
House East Room Monday After-
noon—Burial Tuesday.
Washington, Aug. 7.—Mrs. Wood-
row’ Wilson, wife of the president of
the United States, died at the White
House at 5 o’clock Thursday after-
noon. Death came aftei a Drave
struggle of months against Bright’s
disease with complications.
The president was completely un-
nerved by the shock and his grief
was heartrending. He bore up well
under the strain, however, and de-
voted himself to his daughters.
The end came while Mrs. Wilson
Two Regiments of Uhlans Destroyed.
Paris.—Two regiments of German
Uhlans have been destroyed; by the
Belgian army, according to an official
announcement given out Wednesday
night by the French war office.
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Prussian Cavalry Suffers.
Brussels (Via. London).—The news-
paper IjePeuple says an early landing
of British troops in Belgium is ex-
pected.
Le Peuple asserts that in the fight-
ing between Germans and Belgians
near Vise a platoon of Prussian cav-
alry was almost annihilated by the
enfilading fire of the Belgians from a
building on the bank of the river. The
Prussians in revenge, the newspaper
srys, fired on civilians.
At Flemalle, near Argenteau, a
Belgian force surprised a body of
Prussians and killed seven out of ten
officers and 80 men. The Belgian
losses were two officers killed and
ten men wounded.
Think German Army Holds Warsaw.
Washington.—The Russian imperial,
staff has announced a decision not to
defend Warsaw, the capital of Rus-
sian Poland, according to an official
diplomatic dispatch received here.
War college experts Interpret this an-
nouncement as an admission that
German and Austrian forces have oc-
cupied Warsaw, about 100 miles from
the border. Meager reports received
by official Washington leads military
experts to the opinion that the Ger-
man and Austrian advance along the
Russian frontier is being pushed far
more vigorously than the operations
In Belgium and against the French
frontier.
British Takes Over Warships.
London.—The British admiralty of-
ficially announces that the govern-
ment has taken over the two battle-
ships—one completed and the other
nearly completed—ordered in England
by Turkey, and two destroyers by
Chile. The battleships have been
named the Erin and Agincourt.
Warburg and Delano Confirmed.
Washington.—Nominations of Paul
i M. Warburg of New York and Fred
j eric A. Delano of Chicago as members
of the federal reserve board were con-
| firmed Friday by the senate. With
i the confirmation of Mr. Warburg and
Mr. Delano the new banking board is
| complete. Other members are W. I’.
G. Harding of Birmingham, Adolph C.
Miller of San FranciBco, Charles S.
Hamlin of Boston and Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo and Controller
of the Currency Williams as ex-officlo
i Ottoman Empire is Mobilizing Forces.
I London.—Turkey has informen
j Great Britain that the forced of the
'Ottoman empire are being mobilized,
i The mobilization, Turkey says, is a
! precautionary measure and Turkey
| will remain absolutely neutral. In
| some quarters, however, it is believed
1 this step is being taken by j Turkey
in the fear that the Russian Black
sea fleet will attempt to force the
Bosphorus and that Russia may even
land troops on the Turkish shores of
the Black sea and seize Constanti-
nople.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
was unconscious. Her illness took a
turn for the worse shortly before 1
o’clock in the afternoon and from
then on she gradually grew weaker.
Family at Her Bedside.
Kneeling at the bedside at the end
were the president and their three
daughters, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U.
S. N., and a nurse were in the room
and just outside a door were Secre-
tary McAdoo and Francis B. Sayre,
Mr. Wilson’s son-in-law, and Mr. Tu-
multy, his secretary.
During the day Mrs. Wilson spoke
to Dr. Grayson about the president,
whose health she thought more about
than she did of her own.
Concern for Husband.
“Promise me,” she whispered faint-
ly, “that if I go you wTill take care
of my husband—”
It was the same touch of devotion
which she so many times had re-
peated, her constant anxiety having
been that the president not worry
about her and be disturbed in offi-
cial duties.
At 2 o'clock Mrs. Wilson still was
unconscious, but her strength almost
had departed and a few minutes later
she sank into the sleep of uncon-
sciousness from which she never
awoke.
The sun was easting its long shad-
ows from the Potomac to the south
grounds, coloring the fountains, gar-
dens and elins. Just at the hour of
5 death came.
The president and his daughters
were in tears. Secretary Tumulty
walke slowly to the executive of-
fices, his head bowed. Quietly he
announeed to the correspondents that
the end had come. A pall of gloom
settled over the executive mansion
and the offices. There was an im-
pressive silence everywhere. Secre-
taries. attaches, clerks and servants
seemed oevrcome.
Funeral services for Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson were held Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock at the White House in
the historic East Room, where a few
months ago she witnessed the mar-
riage of her daughter .lessie to Fran-
cis B. Sayre. Burial was Tuesday af-
ternoon in Myrtle Hill cemetery,
Rome, Ga , where Mrs. Wilson spent
many of her girlhood days, and where
her mother and father are buried.
Both houses of congress adjourned
when Mrs. Wilson’s death was an-
nounced and for a brief time the
wheels of the government virtually
stopped.
The flag on the White House drop-
ped, gates were closed and the si
lence of death spread over the White
House for the first time since 1892,
when Mrs. Benjamin Harrison passed
away.
Mrs. Wilson was 50 years old and
when she came to the White House
was in robust health.
IAZE OLD COTTAGES
Ancient Buildings of England Be-
ing Pulled Down.
Houses That Have Stood for Hundreds
of Years to Be Done Away With
and “Jerry-Built Monstrosities”
to Take Their Places.
London.—Now that an epidemic
seems to be on the point of setting in,
if it has not already started, of pull-
ing down old cottages whicty have
stood for hundreds of years and re-
placing them, it is to be feared at
public expense, by jerry-built mon-
strosities, it is of urgent importance,
remarks a writer in London Country
Life, to put on record the aspect and
arrangements of the old buildings
about to be destroyed.
The earliest existing type of cottage
in England has been admirably de-
scribed by Mr. Sidney Oldall Addy in
his Invaluable book, “The Evolution
of the English House.” Unfortunately,
that work lacks the profuse illustra-
tion it so well deserves, and the lack
is especially felt in respect to this
historically most important of all the
types. Cottages, he says, of the ear-
lier type are still found in Gloucester-
shire, are common in Yorkshire and
Lancashire, and are “doubtless to be
found in every English county,” In
this, I think, he is mistaken, for I can
find none of the type in question in
Kent or thereabouts, nor have I been
able to get a photograph of one from
anywhere.
I leave the Interested reader to re-
fer to the book for a full explanation
of the term and the reasons in an-
cient architecture for the dimensions of
a “bay.” “The principle of construc-
tion of the house of one bay was sim-
ple. Two pairs of bent trees, in form
resembling the lancet-shaped archea
of a Gothic church, were set up on
the ground, and united at their apexea
by a ridge tree. The framework so
set up was strengthened by two tie-
beams and four wind-braces, and was
fastened together by wooden pegs.
The bent trees or arches -were placed
at a distance of about 16 feet apart,
and the space included between them
was known as a “bay.”
These pairs of bent> trees are
“forks” (in Latin furcae) or they were
called “gavels,” or “gavel-forks”
(hence the word “gable”). Nowadays
they are called “croks,” “crucks” or
“crutches.” Thus a cottage or bam
is said to be “built on crucks.” Where
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Old “Teapot Hall.”
the trees are straight, the pairs aife
called “couples of siles,” and there are
other local designations. The only ex-
ample of this earliest type given by
Mr. Addy is “Teapot Hall,” Dalderby,
or Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire.
In this case the angle timbers, like
the poles of a Whymper tent, are
straight, so that even here we lack a
perfect example of the type Mr. Addy
says Is common.
Out of this most rudimentary type,
says Mr. Addy, “the next evolutionary
step was to make the walls
straight (i. e., vertical), while etill re-
taining the original construction. . . -
The change was accomplished in the
following way: The ends of the tie-
beams which braced the ‘crucks* to-
gether were lengthened outwardly, bo
that the tie-beam became equal in
length to the” width of the cottage.
“Upon the tops, or at the ends, of these
extended tie-beams, long beams,
known as ‘pans’ (Yorkshire) or ‘pons’
(Lancashire), were laid, and then the
rafters were laid between the ‘pans*
and the ridge tree. Finally a side
wall was built (on each side) from tho
ground as far upward as the ‘pan,’ so
that the ‘pan’ rested on the top of this
wall.”
Some of tho early English grave-
stones erected over the ashes of burnt
burials were evidently intended to rep-
resent houses. One of the models
obviously imitates the simplest type of
cottage, the one with the bent forks
rising directly from the ground. An-
other incorporates the second type,
where the side walls have been made
vertical. The third shows a more
elaborate half timber building with
decorative patterns modeled or painted
on tho surface of the filling in the
manner described by Tacitus as em-
ployed by the Germans of bis time.
Under these little models were the
pans containing the ashes.
“Movies” an Aid to Suffragettes.
St. Louis.—Suffragettes who are
too timid to make public speeches
may have Gaem photographed and
placed before the voters by th®
“movie” machine.
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