New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-01
BERLIN REPORTS
FRENCH ADVANCES
War Office Admits Sue
cessful Operations at
Verdun and TouI.
ANTWERP'S FORTS
AGAIN UNDER FIRE
Officials Say British Disregard
of Hollands Neutrality Has
Aroused the Dutch.

AlbuoNh kilS O@tNhs
Berlin, Sept. 80 Via London) "A
report given out at army headquarters
to-day says:
There has been general lighting on
our right wing In France, but notnlng
decisive. The centre Is quiet. me
French advances in the vicinity OF Nei
dun and Toul have been renewed"
A Reuter- dispatch from Berlin, com
ing by way Of Amsterdam, says thai
the headquarters Of the German Gen
eral STAFF made the following Official
statement last night:
ION our right wing IN France inde'
cisiYe battles have occurred. Between
the Disc and the Meuse IL is generally
quiet. Tine army operating against the
forts on the Meuse was repulsed.
"The French have made new as
sault along the line from Verdun to
Toul.
"Our siege artillery has opened fro
on the forts of Antwerp. The assault
of the Belgian forces against the at
lacking line has been repulsed.
AIN the eastern theatre Of the war
the Russian assaults in the government
Of Suwalki failed. Heavy artillery
Yesterday began bombardment
against the forg Of ossonrence."
No official news from the western
battle ground has been received here
since last night. The newspapers have
not been informed by their correspond
ents regarding the great general en-,
gagement which is progressing, and
the details are not known here.
Archduke Frederick of Austria, COM
mander in chief of the Austrian forces
in army orders to-day declared that
new and great victory was imminent i
the western camp Of the Germans, &C
cording to dispatches received here
from Vienna.
Berlin, Sept. 30 (bv wireless to Say
Vile, Long Island).-Reports made pub
lie here from Constantinople declare
that owing to the bellicose attitude OF
British warships cruising near the Oar
danelles Turkey has closed this water
way ., q,
The people of Holland are described
in berlin as excited by the repeated
capture OF Netherlands ships by the
British. The "Rotterdamsche Courant'
declares that Great Britain is showing
utter disregard of the rights CT neutral
states. It says the Netherlands steam
er Sophie, from Rotterdam for New
York, was captured by British warships
in the channel and taken into Loves
loft.
The British Minister at The Hague,
It is related here, has admitted that a
British aviator flying over the Dutch,
and therefore neutral, town OF Mas
tricht dropped bomb. =.
A story has been given out in Berlin
to the effect that Colonel Gordon and
Lieutenant Colonel Neish, British Of
fcers attached TO the Gordon High
landers, and now prisoners OF war IN
the hands of the Germans, confessed
in the course of an official examination
that the British government had sup
piled them dum-dum bullets for use IN
automatic revolvers.
Albert BALM, director general Of the
Hamburg-Ameriean steamship line, has
published an article in the Hamburger
Nachrichten," in which he declares
hat the British money market will be
} Giscredited by the moratorium for, a
! long time to come. Continuing, he
SAYS that the cutting of the German
cable by the British and the stipend
Gus lies of the English and French
news agencies have produced mora
tcrium of truth for the world over
seas"
Berlin WA London, Sept. 30.--Two
cigarette factories in Germany-the
Jasmatzi concern, at Dresden, and the
| Balschari factory, at Baden-Baden,
| owned by the Anglo-American tobacco
combine, have been placed under gov
eminent control for the reason that 3
majority of the capital is held in Eng
/ land
According to the "Lokalanzeiger,"
/ Prince Franz, son of the King Of Ba-
varia, who has the rank Of major gem
| eral and is in command of the I'd
/ Bavarian Regiment, has been slightly
wounded in the thigh. He is now on
his way to Munich.
Prince William of Hohenzollern,
whose daughter is the wife of Manuel,
( former King of Portugal, has been
decorated with the Order Of the Iron
| Cross, first and second class.
London, Sept. 30.-An official state.
ment issued in Berlin to-day and re-
ceived here by wireless follows:
"The Russians in trying to cross the
/ Carpathians in small columns and break
/ through into Hungary have been re-
D pulsed everywhere. AS these troops
are operating q great distance from the
main theatre Of war, their maneuvres
are unimportant, but if the intention
was to create disquiet among the Hun
garian population it has been entirely
frustrated.
"As the result of new operations
commenced by the united German
Austro- Hungarian forces the enemy on
both sides Of Weiehsel lin Silesia on
the Vistula) has retreated. Strong
bodies of Russian cavalry have been
dispersed near Biecz (Galicia), while
to the north of Weichsel several di-
visions of the enemy's cavalry have
/ heen driven In front of tho German