Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-02
CHINESE TROOPS
DESTROY BRIDGE
FIRST MOVE IN OPPOSITION To
OPERATIONS OF JAPs IN
sHANTUNG PROVINCE.
GERMANS SHELL ANTWERP
Town of Lierre, Directly in Front ..
City, Under Fire-Antwerp De.
lenses Said to Be Strongest
in the World.

Wei-Hsien, Shantung, China SOM
SO.-Chinese troops on MONDAY H.
up and destroyed the railroad bridn.
at Tayo-Ho, six miles west Of ~
The sound of the explosion could ~
heard in this city.
The above dispatch is the first ina.
cation that Chinese troops have toll
any active part in opposing the MN;
tary operations of the Jananaso =
Shantung province in the latter,s con,
paign against the Germans in the leas.
ed territory of Kiao-Chou.
chinese officials would not saw Tuas-
day night whether the BLOWING nm -
the railroad bridge at Tayo-Ho 81
miles west of Wei-Hsien, by Cbipoao
troops, had been ordered bv the o.,
eminent or not.
1t has been learned, however tba+
the japanese minister here inforn,od
the foreign office on Monday that tba
Japanese intended to occupy the rail,
road into Tsi-Nan, the capital Of Sban-
tung province. To this the FOREIGN -
~ ASAu0C0 " agree.
Chinese Troops Mobilize.
The information was obtained :.
nigh quarters on Tuesday that it is
the wish of President Yuan sbi Kai -
avoid trouble with the japanese Tho
military men of China, however. are
under German influence, and a LARGO
number of Chinese troops recently
have been modified in Shantung nro.
vince
Begin Attack on Antwerp.
Amsterdam, via London, Sept. 20 -
The Germans have commenced tbair
attack on the first line of defense of
Antwerp, according to dispatches re.
ceived by the Amsterdam papers.
MOL, which is an important railway
junction near the Dutch border was
occupied by the Germans on Sunday
and on Tuesday the Germans. who
again occupy Malines, began a bom.
bardment of Lierre, directly in front of
Antwerp.
They also continued their bombard
ment Of Forts Waehel and St Gather.
me It is believed heavy Austrian ar.
tillery is being used.
The Notifications of Antwerp GRO
reckoned among the strongest in the
world The city has been fortified
since the middle of the sixteenth cen.
Jury In 1860, twenty years after
the taking of the city by English and
FRENCH troops, Brialmont, the noted
belgian fort builder. supervised the re.
Iortification of the city, and since 1877
Il mas had line of forts well out from
the inner defenses.
In 1907 the government decided To
90 away with the inner line of walls
and replace them with an inner line
OF forts on the right bank of the
Scheldt. The plan involved the barri,
cadlng of the intervals between the
eight forts with iron barricades and
permanent redoubts.
Warns Italians.
Rome. Sept. 80. via Paris.-The of.
hclal Gazette has published a warning
issued by the government to Italians
VINO have taken or intend to take ser.
vice in the army of any country now
at war. This action is against neut-
rality and punishable under article 10
OF the penal code. with from five to ten
years in prison, or sixteen years in
case Italy becomes involved. Article
Is also deprives any Italian who en-
gagged in military service abroad Of
ms Italian citizenship without exempt
ing him from military service at home
Sink British Ships.
London, Sept 30.-The official news
bureau announced today that the Ger
man cruiser Emden has sunk four
British steamships and collier. The
Emden has been operating in the gulf
OF Bengal. She was reported recently
at Madras, where she conducted a
brief bombardment of that port and
later at Pondicherry.
Japs Win Skirnish.
Pekin, China, Sept. 3O.-The Ger
| mans In Kiau-Chau have evacuated
the Waldersee line of defense before
an overwhelming force of the enemy.
Tsing-tao is now completely invested.
The German losses were small
This information is contained in a
dispatch received here from a German
source at Tsinau, Shantung, which
evidently is a wireless communication
from Tsing-tao. 1t adds that the ia
panese armored cruiser squadron BON
oarded Tsing-tao Monday without an!
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