Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - September 16, 1914, Waterloo, Iowa Universally the Favorite Paper in Waterloo WATERLOO REPORTER Chicago Sept ally fair tonight mad wett portion tonight WATERLOO SEPTEMBER 16 1914 PRICE THREE CENTS GERMAN ARMY IN DEFENSIVE ON BATTLE FRONT Extreme Weit Portion of Army FiftyFive Miles Northeast of Paris General Staff However Announced Early Today That the Situation on the West Front Was Still Favorable and That the Allies Had Not Won a Victory at Any Were Advised to Look With Confidence to the Outcome MAP SHOWING POSITION OF AN ARMY DEMOCRATS A NO FREIGHT TAX Capital and Surplus of Banks and All Brokers Placed Under List VICTORIES SCORE AGAINST AUSTR A PARIS CREDITS REPORT THAT WILLIAM WILL ENTER FIELD Berlin Correspondent Says Kaiser Will Take Chief Command in East Statement Says Servian Invaders of Hun gary Have Been Defeated Along the Whole Learns That Two Austrian Annies Have Effected a Juncture at Rzeszow An official French statement issued in Paris at 3 oclock this afternoon stated that the German army was fighting a defensive bat tle along its front from Noyon a town on the Oise river 14 miles northeast of to a point north of Verdun This would indicate a battlefront of approximately 110 miles the extreme west at a point 55 miles northeast of Paris The German general staff announced early today that the situ ation on the west front was still favorable It was added that the allies have not won a victory at any point on the whole battlefront and that the Germans could look with confidence to ttre outcome A report that the German emperor Avill go to the scene of op in east Prussia credited to a Berlin correspondent is pub in Paris Solid line shows position of German army on Sunday Sept 13 after retreat Line of crosses shows position of Germans one week previous 10 BE ftT FRONT Berlin via London Sept Daring German Aviators Abduct Village Magistrate in Aeroplane Act Necessary to Save Their Lives from Hostile Vil lagers Two Other Airmen Down by Shots Were Lost in Forest official statement issued at Vienna declares that the Servian wound of Prince Berlin via Sept Tt i est so ot William is heal TWO interesting stories of the experi invaders of Hungary have been defeated along the whole line ng despite the ences of German aviators during op Demonstrators against Italys attitude of neutrality were a shrapnel ball thru the thigh i The empress and the surgeons are having considerable trouble in keep the military in Rome last night l i sources According to advices received in Rome probably from Austrian two Austrian armies in Galicia have effected a juncture at 32 miles north of Przemysl during op in the country have been received here from the front The first is the recital of two officers ing the patient quiet in bed He who were forced to land their ma sists be ought to be able to rejoin his chine near a hostile Belgian village command in a fortnight The prince treats the wound as because of motor trouble and whose a I experience ended by the abduction of It is at Tokio that Japan scouts have occupied the j trifle He smilingly greeted an old j the trembling village magistrate iu It is HI uau I palace servant whom he had known an aeroplane the second is the ex railway station five miles from the bay of Kiau Chan German Army in Strong Positions Paris Sept 16 p ni The following official communication was made public here today During the days of the 14th and the 15th of September the rear guards of the enemy with which our pursu ing forces were in contact were rein forced from the main body of the army The enemy is engaging in a de fensive battle along their entire front on which certain of their po show strong organization This front is bounded by the region of Noyon the plains to the north of Vic Stir Aisne and Soissons Laon the in the battle in the Marne region are still characterized in Berlin as fa The general staff has authorized the announcement that nowhere along the line of battle have the British or French forces won a vic tory Xo remark of two aviators whose aero plane was down in the midst of An officer who was with Prince the country They managed since childhood with the Am I not a lucky Joachim when he was wounded tells of the incident BIDES A MILE UNDER FIRE It was during the hottest part ot the battle he says shortly before to find shelter in a forest where they wandered for five days without food Finally they were found half delir by advancing Germans The two officers who had to land the Russian resistance was broken a Belgian village were attacked I with fever that the prince who was with tne local residents who armed found them details of the BULLETINS staff as information officer was dis fighting in i patched to the firing line to learn France are given out and it is said now the situation stood He rode off that no decisive turn of events seems j with Capt von and probable for some time to come had to traverse the distance almost a mile under a heavy hail of shell and occasional volleys He came thru safely and stood talking with the officers when a i shrapnel burst in their vicinity The j prince and the adjutant were both 1 Sept Iff a j hit the latter receiving contusions on Rome dispatch to the Exchange the leg but the shot not penetrating graph company gives an official anj DANGEROUS TRIP TO REAR made in Berlin that Gerj An emergency bandage checked many has established a military gov over in Russian Poland U I which runs daily announced that a Japanese Tokta 16 that Sur aeroplane dropped on the bar the bleeding but it was a long and j Washington dangerous task to get him back to the first bandaging station about a mile to the rear under fire Prince Joachim who was already themselves with shotguns One of the Germans succeeded in seizing the village magistrate as a hostage and while he kept bis pistol at this head his companion repaired the motor Then they made the magistrate mount the aeroplane which luckily was able to ascend with three passengers and sped away The other two men whose machine was wrecked when it came down were dazed and stunned from their lall were immediately at tacked by French peasants armed with pitchforks and scythes The Germans held these men at bay with their revolvers until they reached the dense woods in which they hid Peasants and soldiers hunted them systematically for days They spent anxious hours crouching in holes like rabbits while their pursuers fired shotguns and rifles into every sus thicket They lived on beets and the only water they had was clew which they sucked from leaves Their minds almost gave way under the strain and they were burning when a German patrol ALL LEGAL PAPERS WILL PROVIDE TOLL Telephone and Telegraph Mes sages Some Receipts Char ters Contracts Etc Washington C Sept on by tho Democratic caucus and administration leaders the war revenue was refrained today to eliminate tho freight lax and provide special levies will tax banks I troops is deemed unnecessary i Specifically the American forces were withdrawn at the urgent appeal of Gen Carranza first chief of the constitutionalist army who is in charge of the executive power in Mexico City Sept SECRETARY OF A A V IX NEW YORK New York Sept E Sullivan secretary and treasurer of the Amateur Athletic union and American Olympic commissioner in with capital and surplus not exceed ing a year and for each additional slock brok ers pawn brokers com brokers custom house brokers proprietors of theatres museums and concert halls circuses public exhibitions bowling and billiard balls per alloy or table dealers in leaf tobacco to according to volume of business dealers in to bacco manufacturers of tobac co and cigars to STAMP TAXES The stamp taxes proposed subject to probable revision by the commit tee in detail are follows Bank checks 2 cents drafts or b of exchange inland 2 cents for each promissory notes 2 cents for each money orders 2 cents per express receipts I cent freight receipts or domestic bills of lading 1 cent telephone messages cowling 15 cents or more 1 cent bonds SO cents of do posit 2 cents per certificate of damage 25 cents certificates not otherwise specified 10 cents churt ers to brokers con Metis 10 cents conveyances 50 cents for each telegraph message 1 life insurance policies 8 cents on each marine Inland lire casualty fidelity and guaranty one half of one jier cent leases cents to mortgages or conveyances In trust 25 cents for each pow er of attorney to vole 10 cents pow er of attorney to sell 25 cents pro cents warehouse receipts Sept follow ing summary of tho recent fighting in from the Russian point of view has been made public in Petro grad thru demiofficial channels Russian troops are pursuing the Austrian with energy and the de feat of the enemy continues Cer tain Austrian army corps have been virtually annihilated Russian forces have passed the River San The eastern Russian advance guard is approaching Przemysl The rapidity with which military opera tions are being conducted has made it impossible to determine accurate ly the of the enemy but It may be said they are becoming collos sal According to such Information as has come to hand the Austrians have lost in the neighborhood of 25000 In killed and wounded this In addition to 100000 prisoners 400 pieces of ordnance and a number of standards In all directions the roads are crowded with artillery transport wagons and ammunition which have been abandoned in mass during tho precipitate retreat of the enemy On the River Vistula Russian troops have taken possession of an accumulation of material for bridge building and they destroyed several steamers one of which was armored The active participation of Gor man army corps in the fighting has been revealed at several places along the Austrian front as for instance at The Russians captured pieces of long range German ar tillery in addition to some 5000 Ger man prisoners at this point At other places on the front several doz en largo German guns many of which bad been prevented by lack of time from being used in the fighting feli into their hands tests 25 25 cents Was Mobilization Ordered July 10 Paris Sept 16 a is that significant papers were found ia the possession the German General Friese who was made a prisoner and brought to Paris on Sept 14 One was a ietter it was stated inflicting punishment for not replying immediately to the mobilization order and was dated July 10 Evacuation of Vera Cruz was ordered recent Olympic games died here to heights to the north and to the west ot Rheims and a line which to the north of Ville a Tourte to the west of Argonne racks of the Germans at i day Mr Sullivan was operated on at a The American soldiers ana hospital on Monday for intes yesterday by President Wilson Mortality Among Germans Is recommended for the Iron Cross for under Gen Funston who have held trouble and never rallied He bravery before Namur received the Mexicos principal seaport since from the A A U track before he was eion and which is continued thence land that the machine returned safely j wounded The prince who has many beyond the Argonne hy another line j to its headquarters I friends in America conveyed thru his passes north of Varennes a j point that has been evacuated by the Sept 16 a enemy and reaches the river Meuse In the neighborhood of the was seized by the fleet April 21 last and championship in will embark for home as soon as Baltimore on Sunday and was strick en late that night with the illness transports can go after them and adjutant his thanks for assurances shortly afterward all of the war which resulted in his death Forges which is north of Verdun During the pursuit of the enemy executed by our troops after the bat tle of the Marne the Germans aban numerous prisoners to our hands To these men there has been added a large multitude of stragglers were hidden In the forest No exact accounting of these pris or of the war material captured by us so far has been possible It is for this reason that the minister of war who does not want to give out figures which might be considered fantastic refrains from the details of these AUSTRIAN ARMIES London Sept 16 a dispatch to the Express from Rome states that the two Austrian armies Central News dispatch from Koine j quotes a telegram from Basel Swit to the stating that the Germans are reported to have received orders to retire as far as the right bank of the Rhine com evacuating France Belgium and Luxemburg except a few light draft vessels will be withdrawn during the brief progress Tlle order for evacuation was for before be was wounded i announced at the White House of American sympathy and interest The officer who told the story said the of BOURSE POSTPONES DAY OF SETTLEMENT already had gained the admiration after a lon cabinet meeting It is and respect of his fellow officers and his men for his pluck and daring via London Sept tQ the 400 guns taken from the Austrians hy the Rus sians in are more than 301 heavy German cannon hearing Initials of Emperor These i came from the region occupied by at Low Figures announcing German prisoners arrived at Lublin Washington D C Sept imports touched the lowest point reached in any month the concluding chapter of the second Berlin via Copenhagen and Lon don Sept 16 a di armed conflict between the United i of the bourse have decided to States and Mexico in which a score j postpone the settlement from the last of Americans lost their lives nearly September until the last of Octo Paris Sept 16 a of wounded Germans who ar rived at La Rochelle yesterday 151 were in such a grave state that they could not be transferred from the station to tho hospital and several died hiring the day The mortality generally among the German wounded is much higher than the French Of 7000 French wounded in the hospitals at Vichy since the war began over 2300 have commanded by Auffenberg have General Danil and joined forces at a hundred were wounded and Tne rate of on out wards Mexicans were killed standing obligations was fixed at or wounded 6 A The reasons for the step were set i forth in the following statement from rn iv the White House rOR nT The troops hare been ordered i pueblo Colo Sept entire T Cooke aviator was killed in a 000 feet in his aeroplane an exhibition flight over Vi point reached in am month since j View f 6 B Cooke September ami August exports C of lowest point reached in any J bile giv General of Boers Accidentally Killed Capetown Union of South Africa by London Sept 16 p General Jacobus Hendrick de a Key the well known Boer general has been accidentally shot dead near Jo General de la Key accompanied by General Biers who has just resigned bis position as of tho defense forces of the Union of South Africa was returning yester day evening by his automobile to his farm when the police who w watching for a gang of desperadoes known to be using a car similar to that of de la Rev challenged the general It is evident that General de la Hey nor the men in the war with him heard the chal lenge for they proceeded without stopping The police fired and a bul let entered General de la Keys heart General de la Rey was born in 1848 He was a member of the of the Transvaal and commanded the Lichtenburg burgh ers during the Boer war during which he won a high reputation as a military leader After the war lie went to England with Genera De Wet and General Botha and took an important part In the peace negotia tions ST LOUIS INTERESTS TO HOLD MUCH COTTON Columbia S C Sept thousand bales of cotton w be taken to St Louis interests in the movement be ing promoted for holding the crop until the European emergency passes over been cured and have returned to the front while many more are on con leave Most of the French wounded are suffering from bullet wounds while most of the Germans have shell and bayonet wounds Will Renounce Italy if She Refuses to Join the Allies Imports jof merchandise during August 1914 lion The further presence of thr the state fair grounds today o ta Paris via London Sept 10 to preliminary just Petit prints b the bureau of forein completed by the bureau of foreign telegram from via commerce department stating that the German emperor will of totalled proceed to east Prussia and assume in An chief command against he j in Auj gust 1912 while in the eight months j ended with August imports were val ued at against 156300228 in 075234 in 1912 August exports amounted to 337545 compared with 020 in August 1913 Sept 10 p cording to official announcement made this afternoon the German winy is fighting a defensive battle along Us front from Noyon to a north of Verdun 13 miles northeast of Jaro slau and 32 miles due north of Prz In the course of this oper ation the dispatch says they lost 40 per cent of their numbers BERLIN JS Berlin via Copenhagen Sept 16 a German general staff announces situation on the west front is still favorable It declares that the French and English have at no place on the whole battle front won a victory and that the Germans can look with con to the outcome Other than this no news is obtain able regarding the progress of opera tions AWAIT OF Vienna via London Sept 16 Berlin hy wireless via L p Hoefer deputy in and Banat were now clear I Sept German prospects chief of the Austrian general of the enemy Servian Army Is Reported Beaten Corina queen of Havana cigars announced today that the Servian which crossed the river Save into Hungary had been defeated s its entire line and that I C Brings in 525 Daily Members of the Retail Merchants association will be interested lo know that the local officers of the Illinois Central have chocked its sixteen passenger trains for a period of seven days from the tors reports and that the results are gratifying They show that a total of 3675 passengers purchased tickets to Waterloo in one week or an average of 525 a day This was an average week when the weather was good and farmers were busy Nothing special was going on in Waterloo to attract visitors at the time the records were made No doubt there are weeks when this figure would be increased 100 a day The territory from which the Illinois Central draws this business to Waterloo as a shopping center extends from Dyersville on the east to Webster City on the west and to the Minnesota state line on the north comprising the best agricultural district in northern Iowa The style show and similar events should ho provided in connec tion with good transportation facilities to attract the fall to the best city in Iowa Other ronds doubtless bring in proportionate numbers of visitors Paris Sept ef forts to induce his native land to join with the allies In their war on the Teu tons having failed Gabricl le the author wright has an that unless Italy takes this action he renounce his Italian cit and become a Ser vian subject A Song of the Dardanelles a poem by which with others made up a book of war songs was suppressed by the Italian minister of foreign affairs a few months ago because he feared it might offend Aus tria NORTH FH SCENE OF Purpose of Whether to Fight to on Lint or Simply to Cover a Retreat IB Not Yet Clear to the of the Allies GERMAN COMMANDERS SHOWING GREAT SKILL Allies for the Moment Have Re Their Position But the Next Move Is With the Germans London Sept 16 p second great in northern France since the south bound of the Invaders AM Its check IK now apparently in lo the northward of the River The opposing are arrayed from the Aronne hills thru Rethel to Chateau and near the prac tice camp of Soissons where the pro gram of the French summer maneu vers contemplated cavalry training on a larfie scale for this very date the Germans propose to fight to A finish at this position or plan merely to cover their retreat to the Hirer Is not yet clear but the German arc showing the same skill In retreat mod th sumo skill In keeping their forces in tact the allies showed a fortnight The German rush into France and back thus far has brought no deci sive results and until a pitched bat tle on a huge scale Is fought and won neither side is in a position to claim that It has secured more than the opening advantage In the war game The allies for the moment re their perilous position and have turned the Ubles on the ers Nit the nert move Is with the Germans whose are still In force and on ground more or less selected hy themselves The It seems nothing Austrian armies that Germany will have more and more to rely mainly on herself hence there will be a greater inter dependence of events in the eastern and western fields of operations What new forces Germany can put into the campaign in the western area must henceforth depend in a great measure on how far she can neglect the Russian movement on Breslau the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia 19 miles south east of Berlin The war indemnities demanded hy the German troops in towns War in Belgium and France reach total of Only a small part of this sum has paid Belated News of German Retreat Soissons France Tuesday Sept 15 by way of Paris Sept 16 p German right wing retreat abandoned Soissons yester day at tne same time leaving also the southern bank ot the River Aisne The German re northward continued dur ing Monday night The French In their pursuit crossed the river The French artillery is today heav ily in action on the other bank of the Aisne The only interruption of the almost Sabbathlike stillness here is the crash of French artillery con at a point scarcely 300 yards from Soissons mingled with the les sened roar of other guns further distant TOMORROW Funeral services for the late Mrs Lorinda Champlin will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 1 oclock at the Walnut Street Baptist church by Rev J Bunyan Smith the pastor Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery JAPANESE OCCUPY RAILWAY STATION Tokio Japan Sept rail way station at Kiau Chou five Wiles from the bay of that name and oppo site the German fortified port was occupied on Sept 13 by Japanese scouts according to an of announcement made today Try the Martin cigar If through error of the car rier boy or other canre thU pa per should not be Rt your home by oclock ptaM phone and copy of will ba tent After I
