The Holly chieftain., 1914-08-21
EMPEROR'S DECISION AFFECTS
SUBJECTS ALL OVER
WORLD.
GERMANS ROUT FOES
ARMY RUSHED FORWARD AND
ALARMS SPREAD AS CAPITAL
is MOVED TO ANTWERP.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

AoHuOh, aug. IA IdIlS ulSpdlCA
received in London this morning de,
clares authentic information has been
obtained that the Gar will at an early
date sign proclamation granting to
the Jews In Russia full civil and po-
litical rights, placing them on the same
footing as the rest of his subjects,
This information has excited as much
attention here and is regarded fully as
important as the news from the Far
East telling of Japan's preparations TO
enter the war. The dispatch also an
nounces that the Car is making ar
rangements to go to the front with his
troops and assume personal command
Of Russian military operations In tho
field.
The proclamation giving the Jews
unrestricted equality has been preced-
ed by proclamation in which Russian
Poland is guaranteed complete auton-
omy and the right to large measure
of representative government.
These two political reforms an
nounced by the Emperor are said to
have aroused tremendous national
spirit. Dispatches say that great out
bursts of enthusiasm have greeted the
news that the Car Is going to the
front.
Huge parades have taken place IN
ST. Petersburg and in other large cit
les of the empire.
French Sweep on to AIsace.
Paris, Aug 1S.-Bayonet to bayonet.
the French have grimly forced their
way across the passes Of the Vosges
mountains into middle Alsace.
When the French troops occupied
the town of Schirmeck, twelve kilo
metres beyond Saales in Alsace, they
took twelve field guns, twelve cais
sons and eight rapid-fire guns, accord.
ing to official dispatches. The French
cavalry then pushed on to Mulbach
and Lutzelhausen.
The official press bureau of the war
office has issued statement saying
that French troops. In the course of
rapid advance along the valley OF
the Schirmeck, have thousand pris
oners. The scene of the fighting OF
the last few days in upper Alsace,
the official announcement continues,
shows the great destructive effects Of
the fire of the artillery. Trenches
abandoned by the enemy are filled
with dead and wounded.
Panic Reiens in Belgium.
London, Aug. 1S.-Fighting with ter
rifle fury, the advance guard of the
German cavalry has broken through
the line of the allies in northern Bel
gium and is battering its way toward
Brussels. Panic reigns in the Belgian
capital and late yesterday the seat Of
government was hastily moved to
Antwerp, the northern port, and defen-
sive measures rushed.
Correspondents describe the plains
of Belgium as a veritable inferno, a
scene of horror ten times that offered
by the field of Gettysburg. Thousands
of dead and dying choke every road.
Nowhere have the Germans halted.
Reinforced constantly from the hosts
to the rear, they are sweeping toward
the French border. One detachment
of Uhlans is declared to have got with,
in ten miles of the line to the south
of Brussels.
A military train from the fortress
Of Namur bound for Brussels was
forced to detour because Of large
force of Germans between the two
cities.
Uhlans last night we're on the Dor.
ders of Waterloo. The Kaiser, the
crown prince and two other imperial
princes are reported to be en- route to
the front. Last night they were at
the great fortress of Mainz.
The Emperor's departure was made
the occasion Of great outburst OF pa
triotism in Berlin.
To the south of Namur and in the
vicinity of Dinant the Germans are re-
ported successful after severe repulses
Sunday in which the casualties were
frightful
In the first attack, the Germans,
from hastily thrown up field trenches,
ripped open the advancing columns Of
French, hurling them back, shattered
and broken.
A Brussels dispatch, telling of the
battle, declares that suddenly the
strains Of the Marseillaise resounded
through the French ranks and with
splendid gallantry the soldiers of the
republic reformed and charged, carry
ing the German works by storm.