The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-09
BOMBS SET FIRE.

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that hostile aeroplanes threw bombs
at the Zeppelin hangers at Cologne
and Dusseldorf on Thursday after
noon. The former was uninjured but
damage was inflicted at Dusseldorf.
German Official Statement.
The official communication of the
German general staff given out at Ber-
lin in the evening of October is con-
tanned in dispatch to Reuters Tele-
gram company from Amsterdam. 1t
says:
From the western scene OF war
no facts of decisive importance can be
mentioned. Small progress has been
made near st. Mihiel and the Ar
gonnes. > q
Before Antwerp, Fort Breendonk, Ito
{, south of Antwerp has been taken
and the attack on the inner fort line
has begun. The bombardment Of
quarter of the town lying behind was
begun after the declaration OF COM
mander of the stronghold that he took
the responsibility.
1.-THE airship hall at Dusseldorf has
been hit by a bomb thrown by a hos
tile aviator. The roof Of the hall was
pierced and the cover Of an airship
in the hall was demolished.
I'm the east the Russian column is
marching from Lomza Russian Po-
1and) and has reached Lyck Cast
Prussia) just beyond the frontier and
almost directly west from Augustowo."
Good Words for Wilson.
Berlin, Oct. Sit is officially an
nounced that the Germans continue to
make progress at Antwerp and that
they are already over the flooded area
along the river Nethe.
A writer in the Militair Wochenblat
warns the people against an excessive
optimism regarding Antwerp as the
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, able to continue a desperate resistance.
The newspapers are reprinting Pres
1dent Wilson's reply in effect that 1t
was unwise to express final judgment
on the dumdum protest and expressed
the opinion that an accounting would
come at the wars conclusion when the
nations will assemble to make a set
Element. The newspaper comment on
this reply is most friendly and is to the
effect that any other answer could not
be expected
Tages Zeitung, in this connection,
says:
I'VE have a clear conscience from the
point of justice and humanity in this
war and can look the world unfearingly
in the face. We however. do not need
world. In the last instance the Ger
man people united with the emperor
are alone competent to decide the cor
rectness of Germany's course"
&EOp TtpOTtS LOT oCIODoT SHOW InaI
potatoes. sugarbeets, clover and alfalfa
are middling to good. Autumn plant
ing Is making good progress, despite
the earlier drouth.
Hospitals Shelled.
London, Oct. "a dispatch to the
Chronicle from Rosendaal, Holland,
says:
"severe fighting is proceeding out
side Of Antwerp. am informed that
shrapnel struck the Erasmus hospital
in Fontaine street, breaking many
windows. In Turnhout and it's vicin-
ity. many houses have been DESTROYED.
1T is reported here that the Ger
mans have been compelled to retreat
4 for a short distance.
"A number of Ursuline nuns have
arrived at Breda. Holland, from Lon
derzeel, near Malines, where their
convent was destroyed by the German
flre although they were nursing there,
II is said., hundreds of wounded. The
wounded were courageously rescued
by Belgian soldiers who dashed
through the flames to get them out"
Belgians Hold Their Gruund.
Antwerp, Oct. 9.-The Germans on
Saturday spent 16 hours in a terrific
artillery duel in an effort to ford the
Nethe. The Belgians held their ground
magnificently and with great sacri-
fices prevented the Germans from
crossing.
The Germans were evidently un-
willing to lose men in an assault and
decided to widen the breach in the
Notifications by bonn harding the forts
between the Rivers Senne and Scheld,
( which were unable to hold out against
the steady downpour of sh-i
Thus the first line Of Antwerp's de-
fenses was destroyed. For the finAl
attack the Germans are hurryina