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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
ACCOUNT OF GERMAN INVASION
OF BELGIUM SENT BY AN A. P.
CORRESPONDENT BUT IS censored
Claims German Army Swept Opponents Before Was Poured
Over Southern Belgium into France-Cap-
of Men and Equipment

the forward movement of the German
columns was so fast that when the
correspondent reached the scene of the
recent engagement, the firing line has
advanced fully 10 miles southwark An
extensive trench system, laid out by
the French infantry, marked the
French retreat
The German wounded, in all cases,
were Immediately cared for and the
dead buried as fast as the army con-
tinued on the march, while the French
dead were left unburied and the
wounded in some cases were left on
the battlefield for three days before
being given attention.
Large numbers of the French
wounded were brought into Solre- Sur
Sambre from the surrounding woods,
whittier many had dragged themselves
to escape. Every conceivable kind of
building, such as the chateau, school
house andin was used as hospitals,
and here the wounded received prompt
attention, the French wounded being
accorded the same care as the German
wounded.
"A large proportion of the French
wounded died for lack of prompt at
tention and long exposure in the open
without food or drink. No cases
were observed where French medical
men were left behind to take care
of their wounded. The German medi-
cal corps was fully occupied with the
treatment of it's own wounded and
has fastened onward by the forced
| marches of extraordinary speed and
duration made by the Germans.
THE French dead in all sorts of
conVeyances, were common sight,
and squares and cemeteries with un-
! finished graves gave mute evidence
| of hurried French retreat.
Dove shaped German aeroplanes
| whirred constantly over the country
and occasionally one saw French av-
iators far enough aloft to be out of
| range of the special German guns de-
| signed for the destruction of air craft.
Il saw a duel between French and
| German, machines, both of which were
disabled in a hard battle. After ca
reening downward in giant circles,
| the two machines plunged to the earth
| almost side by side and were com.
| pletely shattered, the aviators being
instantly killed by the fall. While
! aloft both the pilots and their as
sistants kept up a lively exchange of
revolver shots, which at first were inz
| effectual and then simultaneously
| they reached their marks, judging by
| the disturbed equilibrium of the ma
chimes. After vain efforts by the av
| iators to regain control, both ma
| chimes fell 70 the earth like meteors.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12

London, Sept. III A. MA cores
pondent of The Associated Press. who
has been through Belgium sends a long
message from Rotterdam, from which
something has been deleted at the
beginning. 1t was also rather heavily
censored throughout and appears to
be an account of the invasion of Bel
gium obtained from a German point
of view. The story follows:
From Brussels the German army
poured over southern Belgium into
France like a flood tide, spreading like
a fan in the directions of Beaumont,
Meubeuge, Mons and Lille, joining in
the south of Belgium with other Ger
man army corps proceeding from
GenblouX, Dinant and Givet.
They went over the French border
without serious resistance, the French
scattering before them in great disor-
der, leaving behind much war mate
rial and all sorts of personal equip
ments, their retreat extending as far
as the forest of Normal in northern
France.
Several rear guard actions occur
red. resulting in considerable losses
To both sides and bringing up the
losses Of the Germans in Belgium to
about $4,000.
From the Bnche country south
ward in the direction of Maubeuge, in
Vulnerable skirmishes occurred from
Aug. % to Aug. &c. At Bray, Just west
of Rinche the French and English
were repulsed by the Germans, the
former then retreating to Bonnie Es-
perante. where, after another skirmish
they fell back through Merbes, Saint
Marie and Merbes- Le- Chateau, 10000
English retiring TO Jeumont at the
same time.
ENGAGEMENTS in the vicinity of
Buissierre and Thin constituted the
most determined resistance offered by
the allies. After two days continuous
artillery duel. which raked the sur
rounding country and demolished al
most every structure, the entire right
wing of the allies withdrew far to the
southwark This gave the Germans an
opportunity TO sweep through Beau
mont and approach Maubeuge from the
south.
Meanwhile the other corps had ap-
preached Maubeuge from the north,
entirely investing the fortress. The
English and French were driven across
the Sambre river on Aug. %. where,
on the south bank of the river, in a
3o-mile front, fighting continued for
three days.
THE correspondent first saw actual
firing in the direction of Maubeuge on
Aug. IS, when white puffs of the Ger
man shrapnel clouded the horison; but
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
Waterloo.

U.1
There was sound of revelry by night
And Belgfum's capital had gathered then
Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright
Ihe lamps shone Ger fair women and
brave men;
thousand hearts beat happiIv. and
when
Music rose with its voluptuous swell.
Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake
again,
And all went merry as a marriage bell
But hush! bark! deep sound strikes like
rising knell!
Did We not hear it? No; twas but the
wind, :.
Or the car rafting Ger the stony street;
On with the dancei let joy be unconfined;
NO sleep till morn, when Youth and
To chase the glowing hours with fytnp
feet
But bark; that heavy sound breaks in
once more
As if the clouds its echo would repeat.
And nearer, clearer deadlier than before.
Arm! Arm! 1t is-it is-the cannon's OPEN
ing roar!
Within window'd niche of that high
hall
Sat Brunswick's fated ehieftain; he did
hear
That sound the first among the festival.
And caught it's tone with deaths pro-
phetic ear:
And when they smiled because he deem'd
1t near,
| His heart more truly knew that peal too
Which stretch'd his father on bloody
bier,
And reused the vengeance blood alone
He rush'd into the field, and foremost
| fighting, fell.
All. then and there was hurrying to and
And gathering tears and tremblings of
distress,
And cheeks ali pale, which but an hour
/ ago
Blushed at the praise of their own lowell
ness;
And there were, sudden partings such as
! press
The life from out young hearts, and ohok-
| ing signs
Which ne'er might be repeated; who
could guess
If ever more should mee1 those mutuaf
eyes.
Since upon night SO sweet such awful
morn should rise
And there was mounting in hot haste;
the steed
The mastering squadron, and the clatter-
ing car
Went pouring forward with impetuous
| speed,
| And swiftly forming in the ranks OF war /;
! And the deep thunder peal on peal afar :;
And near the beat of the alarming drum
Reused up the soldiers ere the morning
star;
While thronged the citizens with terror
| dumb,
Or whispering, with white lips-"The foe.
They come, they come.
Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,
| Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay,
The midnight brought the signal sound
of strife,
The morn the marshaling in arms-the
day
Battles magnifcently stern array!
The thunder-clouds close Ger it, which
when rent
The earth is coverd thick with other
clay,
Which her own clay shall cover, heapd
and pent,
Rider and horse-friend, foe-in one red
| burial blent.
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Believes Many of British on Casualty
List Will Again Take Places in Line

London, Sept. 1.-f3.45 A. M).-The cor
respondent of the. Daily Mail at Rouen
has great hopes that many of the British
numbered in General Sir John French s.
list of casualties will turn up again. He
has every ground for expecting, he says,
to see 1000 or more of these men soon
back in the firing line.
For the past two days" he says, 81
have been informed while on journey
towards Paris, that the 18th Hussars no
longer exist, yet it is certain that half
of their 100 will 500 nreappear.
"At nightfall of Sept. 2 the 18th Hus-
sars, exhausted after four days fighting,
Stacked rein near Compaigne. They had
experienced Ill luck early in the day
when taking so Uhlans prisoners.
Through this they had expected to get
some remounts. but the Germans were
worse off than they.
THE 18th were to have a nights
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
VIVID ACCOUNT
OF ONE INCIDENT
OF WARS HORROR
Found Young Man in Loft of
House and Shot Him
Before Family

London, Sept. Zone of the most
vivid accounts of an episode of war
comes from the Lokal Anzeiger of Aug.
"A. 1t is a letter from Paul Oskar
Hoecker, a Berlin playwright, now
serving as captain of the Reserve.
His play "A Nation in Arms" is be-
ing given at the Berlin Opera house.
He describes. a mission on which he
ives dispatched to search for arms in
Belgium village In which shots had
been fired by civilians on German
troops. His instructions were to sum
mon the villagers to deliver up their
arms and that those in whose possess
sion arms were found, after they de-
clared that they had none, were to be
instantly shot.
Describing a visit to Jungbusch, he
says that at one house were found an
old man, a woman and a girl Of 13.
Then a terrible thing happened. A
sergeant and a private dragged a
young fellow out of the house. They
had in his hand a Belgian rife loaded
with FIVE cartridges. From the open
ing of the roof he may have aimed at
many an honest German. The youth
had to put his hands up. Stammering
and deadly pale, he stands there.
Who is this YOUTH l ask the old
man. AS If struck by lightning they all
three fell on their knees waiting. The
woman groaned He is my son. For
Gods sake. you are not going to kill
him.? and the little girl sobbed as if her
heart would break. The prisoner tried
to escape but was put up against the wal
by the men.
II had to picture to myself by force
the German patriots riding through the
night with the bullets of treacherous
Francstireurs whistling round their he'll
NETS. and think of the tall figures and
bright eyes of our German fellows, in
order to master my nerves in face of this
sorrow and fulfil my orders.
He has to be shot. Three men!
Ready
THE three commanded. who were faith
ers of families. two from Breton and one
a farmer. did not turn a hair. This is a
just business. We had got ruffian who
merited no compassion. The volley rang
out. The trembling body collapsed to the
ground AMI did not move again. Three
tiny holes were visible in the blue blouse.
The boys eyes are closed. His face has
not changed its expression. Death by our
rifle is painless.
1--WE ought to burn the old mans
Quick march, l ordered. The three
peasants are still kneeling on the ground /;
the corpse lies up against the wall"
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one gigantic irnpersonal dragon--like
mechanism that rolls forward until 1t
meets another similar machine when
the crash of the two mechanical mon
sters is a thing more fearful than any
demons night mare.
Mighty motors control tons Of death
dealing destroyers. such as were be-
You'd the conception of conquerors
who had only muscles of beast to bear
their war engines. Grotesque shapes
whirl through the air while Cyclops-
eyed searchlights and cracking WIRE
less tell how mankind has pitched its
greatest scientific triumphs to the
most base work of rending bodies and
destroying its own creation. The
whole financial system Of two hemi-
spheres reels for a moment before the
shock and then goes down In ruins
A blazing proof that the business of
death is the browning business of cap
italism before which all else must gave
way
This is no petty competitive war
with many armies degrees of battles
rival establishments in the manufac-
ture of death and damnation. 1t is the
triumph of efficient trustified monop-
olized destruction.
The Napoleanic wars were compel
tive individualfstic. They formed a
whole set of rival battles, produced a
flock of individual heroes, ended in the
establishment of continent full OF
squabbling, jealous, competing nations
This war is one CHASTITY nionop-
1Zed cataclysm, one awful whirlpool
of blood drawing to itself and down
into its fearful NAV all the once
rival nations. 1t is to wars what the
trust is to ministry the end of an old
and the opening of new era.
Thos. Greenhalgh, Auburn.
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rest, screened by 10000 fresher troops,
but at o'clock in the morning. with
out warming, shells burst over them
and their horses stampeded; but to as
sert that the regiment was annihilated
is to stretch the imagination. The
same applies to the Dorset regiment.
Meanwhile many hundred stray
glers are giving good accounts of
themselves. At Chantilly so of them,
of all regiments, laid a quick firing
trap for patrol of Germans. The enc
my was allowed to pass one Maxim
concealed in a hedge and to ride on
to the muzzles of two others ahead.
They were caught between the two
fires and the British moved them
down The survivors were taken pris-
oners."
The correspondent quotes other in
cidents to prove that stragglers are a
force to be reckoned with.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
Deafness Cannot 9. Cured.

by local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way TO cure deafness.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infiamed condi-
ton of the mucous lining of the Eusta-
chan Tube When this tube is inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing. and when 1t is entirely closed,
Deafness Is the result, and unless the In
fiammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition.
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh.
which is nothing but an infiamed condi-
ton of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
r. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for sonsttpa.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
Caring for tho Louvre.
youths Companion)


Those who visit the Louvre do not
suspect the labor that is necessary in
keeping the building in order. 1t must
be protected at night against fire and
burglars by watchmen who, with revolt
vers at hip and dark lanterns in hand
make their nightly rounds, accompan-
led by two police dogs.
Upstairs and down stairs, and along
the corridor, says the Paris correspon-
dent of the New York Sun, the distance
they travel amounts to four miles, and
In every room the watchmen must
punch" the clock that shows whether
the rooms have been inspected and how
often.
During the night, the most valuable
works of art are kept under lock and
key. When the galleries are closed to
the public, clever piece of mechanism
is set in motion that carries the royal
jewels, worth millions of dollars, into
a special burglar-proof chamber. The
Venus de Milo, too, has her own spec
ial bedroom. An iron shutter rises
from the ground in front of her. and
hides the marble features of the god
dess.
In the early morning, an army Of
custodians pours through the rooms,
and the process of cleaning begins. A
force of one hundred and fifty men set
to work with brooms, busters, and 40 Or
polishers. The custodians exceed the
strength of company of soldiers on a
war footing: there are one chief cus-'
todian. three under chiefs, twenty sew
en- superior and one hundred and
forty eight inferior custodians. To
these must be added the Louvre's arti-
sans. for the great place has its own.
works department, and almost its own
factory.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
wing of the Austrian army from
the troops which were operat-
ing around Tomaszow and Rawa,
in Russian Poland.
THIRTY EXHAUSTED
GERMANS CAPTURED

Paris. Sept. 11.-(6.50 A. M.).-During the
third days fighting in the battle on the
Marine, a detachment of the French
which had chased the enemy out of a
village was hailed by an old woman, who
led them to barn where there was still
so Germans, telling them to make no
noise as they were asleep. man crept
noiselessly into the barn and found the
Germans sleeping so soundly that it took
half an hour and Tremendous shaking
to wake them. One explained that he
had not slept for three days. They had
been harrassed by the French and Eng
lish and the evening before they had en-
tered the barn, where all fell asleep from
sheer exhaustion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
TRUsTIFlED AND sYsTEMArIzEp.
Thos. Greenhalgh of Auburn Writes
Concerning War-Business of KILLING.

To the Editor of The Lewiston Sun:
The world is just beginning 10 learn
that in more ways than was at first
dreamed of this war is like no other.
There are no battles in this war.
There is only one long battle The
vast number involved under the ap-
plication of the highly trustified bust
ness methods of today to the industry
of killing men and destroying property
makes possible the employing of the
murderous plant continuously. Relays
of men with no union restriction
slaughter one another with the most
hideously efficient machinery that was
ever dreamed of by the devils of de-
struction.
Whole populations are swept into
the military net and all capable of the
strenuous trade of death are forced to
serve The entire. army becomes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
Amends Vreeland- ID
rich Act to Make IS
Instead of 80 Per
Cent. Security
Made Necessary by Financial
Conditions Growing Out of
European War-Senate Adds
Several Amendments All
Privileges Extended to State
Banks and Trust Companies

Washington, Sept 1.-THE emergen-
cy currency bill, amending the vree-
land-Aldrich act so as to make rs in
stead of 80 per cent. the amount of
commercial paper to be accepted from
banks as security for emergency cur
rency, passed the Senate today with
out a roll call and now goes to the
House. The measure Is one of those
made necessary by financial conditions
growing out of the European war
The Senate added several amend
ments to the bill One amendment
adopted today by a vote of 80 to 10
provides for the issue of emergency
currency through state banks and
trust companies to insure wider dis
tribution of the relief extended.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia
proposed the amendment which was
generally supported by southern SEN
ators, who declared that only by is
suing emergency currency to the
state banks could the needed circu-
lation be brought to the small farm
er anr small merchant They assert
ed that the national banks could not.
or would not, loan emergency cur
producer who most needed it,
Under the amendment, all of the
privileges conferred on national banks
under the Vreeland emergency cur
rency act is extended to state banks
and trust companies having a capital
ization of $25, 900 or more, and a sur
plus of 20 per cent.
The Senate voted down. 80 to10, a
proposal that cotton producers should
be given preference in the loaning of
emergency currency in cotton states
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
SHOOTING FOLLOWS
AN ARGUMENT OF
TURKEY OFFICIALS
Rumor That War Minister Has
Died from Wounds
Received

Paris, Sept. 11.-t6.43 A. MA dis
patch to the Havas Agency from
Rome says:
"A telegram from Athens to the
newspaper Vita says that a violent
discussion arose between the Crown
Prince of Turkey and Enver Pasha
the Turkish minister of war on the
subject of the political policy of Tur-
key.
'Enver Pasha, becoming greatly ex-
cited fired two shots from a revolver
at the Prince, who was slightly
wounded The Prince replied and shot
Enver Pasha in the leg.
According to another version. Enver
Pasha has since died of the wounds
received in the duel with the Crown
Prince"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
RUSSIANS DEFEATED

London, Sept. 12.-1.55 A. M.
A Reuter- dispatch from Ber-
lin says:
"The general staff announces
that the 22nd Russian Army
Corps of Finland has tried to
force an entrance into East
Prussia by way of Lyck. The
Russians were defeated at
Lyck."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
London Official Circles Interested in
Bernstorff's Visit to the White House

London, Sept. 10.-G025 P. M.).-Wash-
ington dispatches received here intimat-
ing that the recent visit of Count Won
Bernstorff, German ambassador to the
United States, to Secretary of State Bry-
an was for the purpose of getting Presi-
dent Wilson to make another tender of
his good offices as mediator in the pres
ent war, have been read with interest in
London official circles.
The foreign office is without any fur
Their communication than the first receiv-
ed from Secretary of State Bryan con-
corning peace negotiations and English
diplomats are not expecting the United
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12

States to take additional steps to nego-
hate peace at this stage of the conflict.
English officials insist that they exerted
every effort to avert the war. and now
being in the field the allies must fight un-
til the issues are definitely settled for all
time.
The British government is said to be
confident that even the extreme peace ad-
vocates of England are giving their
hearty support to the army and navy in
the present conflict and are unwilling
that the English should give serious
thought to peace overtures until they are
positive there is a genuine desire for
peace on tie part of their opponents.
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German Staff and Emperor William
At Luxembourg at German Legation

at several places has been destroyed"
Semlin is an important town of Aus
tria- Hungary in Slavonia. 1t is located
on the tongue of land formed by the
junction of the Danube and the Save
opposite Belgrade, Servia, with which
it was connected by a railway bridge
across the Save.
1t was from Semlin that the Aus
trian infantry and artillery, in con-
junction with the monitors on the riv-
er. began their fighting on July 20
against the Servians. The Servians
early that morning blew up the bridge
connecting Semlin with Belgrade. An
intermittent bombardment, according
to reports, has since been kept up by
the Austrians in Semlin on Belgrade.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12

London, Sept. u.-(S22 a. MA
Reuter- dispatch from Rotterdam
quotes the Nieuws Van Den Dag as
saying that it learns that the German
staff and Emperor William are now
at Luxembourg, where the Uhlans are
camping in 700 tents. The staff is quar-
tered in the house of the German le-
CATION.
During the night" the dispatch
continues, the legation is guarded by
aeroplanes, which pierce the air with
searchlights in order to prevent hos
tile aeroplanes from approaching the
town unobserved. A French or Bel
gian aeroplane succeeded in dropping
four bombs, without, however. doing
any serious damage. The railway line
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uncie's Criticism.
youths Companion)

(1 outhS COmpanlon1
Suavely pertinent is the criticism OF
age. Old Mr.. Blank, who was the guest
of a gay grandniece at Newport. had
watched her on her social round for q
month.
One day. Unexpectedly. she said to
him. Well. Uncle Dan, what do YOU
think of it all?"
My dear" he said. after a delicate
pause, Z am constantly reminded of
the sage saying of clever French
man Life would be quite bearahl9
IL it. were. not for. its nleasuraa.s-.
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Revolver With Which Murder of
Mrs. Louise Bailey Was Committed

back of the residence of DIR. Erwin Car
man. where the shooting occurred. The
district attorney refused to affirm or deny
the reports.
DIR. Carman, whose wife is charged with
the murder of Mrs Bailey, denied knowl-
edge of any revolver being found about
this place. In any case, he declared.
there was no warrant for saying that the
revolver belonged to his house