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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-28
RUNAWAY NURSE HIDES
Said to Be in Kansas City With
Child Taken From
Home.

ST. LOUIS, October 2S.-Miss Julia
Krususky and her four-year-o ward,
Virginia Lee Gerhard. with whom the
nurse fled from the child's home in st.
Louis two days ago, is in hiding in
Kansas City or One of it's suburbs. ac-
cording to information received by
Harry H. Gerhard, the child's father,
today.
Mrs. Virginia Curtis, grandmother of
the little girl. over the telephone from
Bonham. Tex. last night denied she
had sent for the nurse or child.
A railroad telegraph operator has re-
ported seeing the couple at Please mt
Hill. near Kansas City. while the negro
porter of the train on which the nurse
and child rode said they got off at
Kansas City.
Mr.. Gerhard is the president of paint
company and considered wealthy. Miss
vile, Tex She was employed by the
Gerhards when Virginia was born and
recently had taken the child out for a
walk before breakfast each day. Two
days ago the nurse and child failed to
appear for breakfast
Mrs. Gerhard died soon after Virginia
was born, and for several years the child
has been in the care of her grandmother
at Bonham. Three months ago Mr.. Ger
hard remarked, and the child was
brought to st. Louis by a nurse A few
weeks later the nurse was told that her
services no longer were needed and Mrs
Gerhard suggested that she return to
Texas. She replied that she would rather
die than be separated from the child.
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REV. DR.. EDWARD JUDSON
DIES IN NEW YORK CITY
Was Son of the Founder of Chris
tan Missions in
India,

Baptists of Washington have just re-
ceived the news of the death of Rev.
DR.. Edward Judson, pastor of the judi
son Memorial Baptist Church of WASH
ington Square, New York. and son of
the late Rev. Adoniram Judson, founder
of Christian missions in India, the CEN
tennial of which was observed last year
in Burma. as well as in all parts of the
world. DR.. Judson died Friday.
When the Judson centennial was be-
ing observed in April DR.. Judson came
to Washington and preached at three
services on the last Sunday of the
month.
The news of DR.. Judson's death came
to the city yesterday, when Rev. Dr.
J. J. Muir, pastor of Temple Baptist
Church. received letter signed by Dr.
.Iudson's secretary stating that the
pastor had dictated the letter of con-
his twenty-fifth anniversary at Temple
Church Friday. and that a short time
later he was taken i'll and died before
the letter could be signed by him.
Burma, in December, 1874. and was
in his SEVENTEEN year. He came to
this country in 1850, after his fathers
death. and prepared at Colgate Univer-
sity. He graduated in 1865 from Brown
University and was principal of the
Townshend (VtD Academy for two
years until 1867, when he became pro-
fessor of Latin at Colgate University,
remaining there for seven years.
After foreign travel of one year,
1S74-75. DR.. Judson assumed the pasto-
rate of the Baptist church at Orange.
N. j., remaining there for six years.
giving up this effort to accept a cali
to the Berean Baptist Church of New
York.
While in New York several years
later site was secured on Washington
square for a memorial church for his
father, and DR.. Judson was asked to
become it's pastor. He accepted and
had since remained in this pastorate.
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IS INJURED INC. & o. WRECK.
Two Pullmans Turn Over and Roll
Down Bank,

HUNTINGTON. W. Va. October 2s.-
Eighteen persons were injured. five of
them seriously. when three Pullmans
and a day coach of Chesapeake and
Ohio, Washington Chicago fast train
No. / was derailed this morning at
o'clock, ten miles east of Hunting
ton. Two Pullmans turned completely
over. rolling down a high embank
ment.
A broken wheel on the day coach
is believed to have caused the accident
All the accidents were in the over
turned Pullmans. The day coach did
not turn. over. The injured were
brought to Huntington, where they
are now in hospitals. Two of tho
victims are j. c. Carter. Huntington.
fatally hurt, and Mrs. j. NJ Shady
Huntington, seriously injured.
Others of the injured brought here are
Mrs. Emma Clark. Chicago; J. Il Black
wood, Huntington A. A Kress and B. r.
Turner. U. S. N, en- route from the
naval hospital at Portsmouth to Colorado !;
E: F. Morris. Roanoke. Va; 3. r. Ways.
Washington. D. c.; c! w. Schwiekert.
conductor, Clifton Forge. Va. Mrs. ]. H
Rush and infant, LIE Grande, Ore.
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NEW REVOLT IN SOUTH AFRICA
CAUSE OF ALARM TO ENGLAND
Uprising Under Gems. De Wet and Beyers
Regarded as Serious-Premier Botha
Leaves for the Front.

LONDON, October e. - England is
genuinely alarmed over the new rebel
lion in South Africa, where the Roer
leaders. Christian De Wet and Gen.
BeSers. the latter former commandant
of the military forces of the Union of
South Africa. have taken the field
against the union government on the
heels of the checking of the rebellious
movement under Col. Maritz.
An official Pretoria dispatch an
nounces that Gen. Louis Botha, premier
Of the Union of South Africa, has left
for the front.
The uprising is treated by the British
press as far more serious than the Ma
ritz outbreak
Former Leader of Boer Forces.
Gen. De Wet was the famous antago-
mist Of Lord Kitchener during the Boer
war, during which he was commander
in-chief of the Orange Free State
forces. He was commandant at Lady
smith, and was sent to relieve Cen
Cronje as second in command; after
Gen. Cronje's surrender he received full
command. He was one of the sigma
tories of the Vereniging peace confer
ence. and was appointed minister of
agriculture in 1907.
Gen de Wet was opposed to the gov
ernment's action in regard to the pres
ent war. and early in October attempt
ed to speak at a meeting held in pro-
test or this action, but was prevented
from doing so by Demonstration Of
sympathisers of Gen. Louis Botha, the
premier OF the Union of South Africa.
Brig. Gen. Beyers was also a noted
figure In the South African war, and
was chairman of the Verenigin2 pc ce
conference. Last September he resign
ed as commandant general of the union
defense force because of his disap-
prevail of the action of Great Britain
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GERMAN CRUISER EMDEN
SINKS JAPANESE LINER

BERLIN, October %, by wireless to
Sayville, L. 1.-The German cruiser
Emden, according to an official announce
ment issued today, has sunk a big jap
anese liner bound for Singapore.
According to the Italian newspaper.
Stampa, the German cruisers Emden and
Karlsruhe up to the present time have
sunk thirty-three vessels, aggregating q
tonnage Of 10000.
LONDON, October 2S.-The German
cruiser Emden sank the small Japa-
nese steamer Kamegasaki-Maru while
the latter was proceeding to Singapore.
according to a Central News dispatch
from Berlin, by way of Amsterdam.
In the marine records the steamer
Kamegasa XII -Maru is given as being of
only 1873 tons burden. She is owned
in Nagasaki.
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TO Be RUSHED
TO SUFFERING BELG|ANS
American Commission Works With
Expedition and Thoroughness
to Facilitate Relief.
Henry Van Dyke Says Food Prob
lem During Winter Is Going to
Be Very Severe.

LONDON. October 2S.-The expedition
and thoroughness with which the Ameri-
can commission for Belgian relief is ar
ranging to distribute food among the
sorely stricken people Of Belgium is
shown in the following telegram which
Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the COM
mission, has received from Capt. T. F.
Lucey. who is in Rotterdam arranging
for the shipment of supplies into Bel
GUM.
81 have made arrangements to ship by
river steamer the first consignment of
supplies. We can unload the steamer
from England three hours after arrival
here. All details have been arranged
with the Dutch government for allowing
food supplies to cross the Dutch frontier
and all facilities will be given us for their
importation.
Germany Cooperating.
"The American and German consuls
here are actively cooperating with me.
have received $50 cards stamped by
the German government in Berlin in
structng all their authorities to allow
food to be forwarded without any inter-
ference to the American minister at
Brussels for the destitute Belgians."
terdam, sent the following telegram sum-
mariZing his investigation into the sit
uation and showing the. urgency for re-
lief:
Il have visited The Hague today and
saw Henry Van Dyke, the American
minister who last Saturday and sun
day personally visited Antwerp and
other places in Belgium. Mr.. Van
Dyke said:
ant in a1c RI rrty ho win q
going to be very severe. 1t is possible
that the problem of food even here in
Holland may be difficult
Conditions in Antwerp.
81 sather that Antwerp is not much
injured. but even there the problems
of water supply, food and employ
ment are acute. Waelhem, Malines,
Duffel and Lierre are reduced to ruins
and cannot receive back more than one
third of their original population. The
resumption of industries in small towns
is impossible, and great portion of
the land under cultivation has been
laid in waste.
Henry Albert Johnson. American
consul ct Client, is visiting here today.
He says the need for food is very great.
tribution. One of the members of the
Brussels committee arrived here from
Brussels this morning. He urges i'm
mediate relief for the suffering popu-
lation, particularly those in Brussels.
Charleroi and their neighborhoods.
Great Distress Continues.
Minister Van Dykes tour Of inves-
tigation reveals the fact that while the
Dutch people have arisen magnificent
ly to the task of caring for Belgian
refugees now in Holland. great distress
continues.
AT Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom
there are two camps with $4,000 Bel
gian refugees, mostly women. Many
of them have tiny babes or larger
children. Their condition is pitiful.
They are terrified; they have no money
There are various kinds of illnesses
among these refugees. but no cpl
DENIES"
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that the prolongation of the battle gave
no reason for losing patience.
Discussing the possibility of an at
tack on Verdun. Gen. Pierre Cherfils
today declared that it's defence was
unlimited, since it was solidly attach
ed to the allies army of Argonne. The
enemy, he said, after testing the
strength of Verdun. would gradually
give up the hope of attempting to
bring about it's fall.
France, according to the general, stu
has more than a million men In re-
serve to give battle to the Germans, to
say nothing of the large number of
Gus. in fact, that many are being re-
fused.
Termed Massacre.
GENEVA. via Paris October IS
kilograms received in Basic, SWitzer-
land, Tuesday night from Cologne and
Coblenz declare that the war on the
German right flank from Lille to the
North sea has become a massacre. Dur
ing the last six days, it is declared,
many thousands of Germans have been
killed or wounded.
Long trains containing wounded con-
tinue to pour into Cologne. Dussel-
dorf and Coblenz and the Red Cross
doctors in those places are over
whelmed, it is stated.
In reply to reported attacks in the
American press because Switzerland
has not officially protested against the
violation of Belgian territory the Swiss
papers make answer that America
declare. is i'll an anxious and critical
position.
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CAPT. JOHN JACOB ASTOR
IS AMONG THE WOUNDED

LONDON, October %. - Capt. John
Jacob Aston. first life guards. son of
William Waldorf Aston. has been
wounded in a battle in France.
His name appears in the list of cas-
ualties made public last night.
The casualty list. dated October %.
reports sixteen officers killed. thirty
Ave wounded and twenty-three miss
ing. Among the wounded are Brig.
Gen. c. T. Mem. Kavanagh and Lieut..
Co. E. B. Cook, first life guards: Lieut..
Col. a. F. II. Ferguson. second life
guards, and Lieut.. Col. b. E. Ward, Mid
dleSex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-28
EUROPE'S WAR
0LAST MANY MONTHS
Jerome K. Jerome Believes Subse.
quent Period of Peace Will
Last for Centuries.

The war of the nations will contin-
ue for at least eighteen months. and
probably for three years. in the opin-
author and playwright. who is in
Washington for a couple of DAYS on
business.
He is OF the opinion that long
period of peace will ensue, lasting
from three to six centuries, as the en-
tire world will have had enough of
war. and it will take them at least
three centuries to recover from its
blight.
Sees English Victory.
That Great Britain will be victorious
and march it's army into Berlin is his
prediction. He says that such entry
of the German capital will end the
conflict.
Ihis is a war of resources he as
serts' resources of men and money,
with men the most Important, for
somehow Saaa nations seem able to raise
we shall not get to Berlin in less
IMAM eighteen months, nor later than
three years from the beginning of the
war. said Mr.. Jerome. Berlin, of
cou,se is our objective, and the British
ed. 1t is not impossible that We shall
meet the Russians in Berlin in 1915. as
we did our allies in Paris in 1915. But
we shall meet them: there is not the
slightest doubt about that.
French Do Great Work.
would not say that the burden of
this great struggle will fall on Great
Britain" continued Mr.. Jerome. The
French have done wonderful work. and
are in first-class fighting shape. The
French army and the French people
are much better situated than they
We're twenty-five years ago, when i
nrst Travelled in that country. 1t has
taken longer time to mobilize their
FORCES, however. than was expected. AS
Tor the Belgians, they certainly have
done their share of the work Their
amazing defense doubtless shortened
the war five years. The Germans fully
expected to go through Belgium with.
out interruption. and had planned ia
reach Paris in six weeks. Did not the
German premier say to LORD Grey thai
a few days meant life or death to the
Germans when negotiations We're on re-
garding the preservation of Belgium 4
neutrality?''
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Two Killed. Is Hurt in Mishap.

PITTSBURGH, October 28.-Thirteen
men were taken to hospitals here early
today as result of two automobile
accidents. in which w. O. Stevenson of
-eechburs. Pa. and David Nicolas of
SITES. Pa, were killed. The machine
= which Stevenson and Nicolas were
2 ding collided with a street car, and a
solice patrol summoned to their as
Z stance ran into a rapidly moving au-
T,mobi1e when near the scene of the
accident. Among the injured were Po-
lice Capt. Robert Emmett and three DO
licemen. all of whom We're seriously
hurt
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MRS. CARMAN GOES TO FARM.
Her Attorney Has Not Decided as to
Demanding a Second Trial

FREEPORT. N. Y, October 2s-Mrs.
Florence Carman, who was released
Monday on $4,000 bail. following the
disagreement Of the jury at her trial
for the murder of Mrs Louise Bailey,
today left her home here for her hus-
bands farm at Raven Rock, N. J. DR..
Carman and her daughter Elizabeth
accompanied her.
Since Mrs Carman returned home
from Jail she has been showered with
gifts of flowers Every room in the
house was banked with flowers today.
Her attorney said today that 1t had not
been decided as yet whether q second
trial would be demanded for his client.
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LONDON CHANGES FRONT
AS TO NEUTRAL SHIPS

LONDON. October est is declared
here the British government has re-
pented of it's recent instructions for
bidding the capture of reservists of
he enemy on neutral vessels. and has
yithdrawn this order.
The public welcomes this change of
'ront, as it Is opposed to giving facil-
ties to the food of German and Aus
rian reservists to join their colors anc
thus neutralize the fresh troops the
Lilies are able to send into the field.
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pert that their general staff has issued
a further call for troops from Belgium
and Germany for concentration in the
vicinity of Dixm,tde, where some of the
NEST severe figh ting in the battle of
Flanders has occurred.
The gain of the allies in the region to
the south of Dixn,ude. as officially an
nounced. showed that they are able. de-
, spite the heavy and continuous can
nonadipg and the attacks of the Ger
man infantry, to take the offensive
against the German cortingents which
User.
This news was received with much
satisfaction by the public here. as was
also the announcement regarding the
offensive movement by the French
around Nancy.
AS to the action in this vicinity the
French recalled recent remark by
Gen. Cast elnau when in putting the
public on it's guard against possible
bad news. he said:
the stomach. but We are sure to return
it,
Progress Farther West.
More to the west in IVoevre. the prog
ress of the allies toward the route
from St Mihiel to NJ etz is. it is pre-
position the German forces which have
tried, in crossing the Mouse, to work
a junction with their forces fighting
in ArSonne-
Furthermore, the advance of the
French and English between. Ypres and
AS to when the contest in the north
would be finished there is no good
guess.
French military men said. however,
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DAMAGE IN RHEIMS ESTIMATED
AT $500, 900, 900, LONDON LEARNS

Forty thousand of the city's popula-
ton of quarter of million still re-
main. mostly living in cellars. AL
though the bombardment continues in
termittently masons and other work
men are already repairing some of the
buildings.
During the crisis owing to the scar
curious emergency currency like the
alter tickets.
1.-THE cathedral Is a ruin. It is still
crumbling and big Jumps of stone con-
tinually fall from the arches. The
whole roof is off and cannot be re-
placed until the walls are made secure
Under the circumstances a severe win
ter will be fatal to the remains of the
building"
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they obtained across the User, near
Pervyse, though the Germans suffered
terrible losses in keeping the strip of
ground thus won in the bend of the
river. Again and again they have been
practically swept away by Belgian
shrapnel, but they have continued to
pour men into the death trap. which
served them as bridge head.
AT DiNmude and Newport the strus
gle has been equally severe. At Dix
nude the French marines were obliged
to withstand a forty-hour continuous
attack before they were able to expel
the Germans at the point of the bayo-
net.
Last Saturday the Germans made an
other crossing further south. near St.
Georges Capelle, and a frightful strug-
gle ensued between the river channels.
The Germans occupied the village of
Stuyvehenskerke, and were driven out.
but not for long. The Germans concen-
trated their mitraillenses on the canal
bank and raked the BelS1ans. compel
ling them to retire again. The fighting
continued till SUNDAY morning. when
the arrival of the French forces re-
suited in driving the Germans back
over the river except the little forces
holding the bridge head at Tervaete-
Night Attack Repulsed.
The German attack on Dixrude was
repulsed last night with heavy loss.
lie MAIN point at WHICH ttic oSi
mans crossed the river. and where the
situation has been most critical. is
north of the village of Pervyse, on the
railway line from Newport to Dix
nude They crossed last Thursday, but
were prevented from advancing over
th.: main waterway at that time. Sat
Ii LAY they succeeded in getting across
the second channel and nearly reached
the railway line.
They were tinally driven back after
fierce fighting, and it is the railway
erlbankment which now forms the
main line of the Belgian defense from
Newport to DiXmude.
During yesterday morning German
force entered DiNmude and for time
paraiyZed the defenders, vino appear
later to have recovered themselves and
turned on the invaders. Heavy street
fighting resulted in the capture of the
greater part of the German battalion.
The correspondent pays high tribute
to the Belgians for their valor and
tenacity. He says:
"On top of two months hard fighting.
followed by a long and discouraginS
retreat, and while tired and disorgan-
lied, they were called upon to hold the
line of User when they we'll deserved
rest. Yet they fulfilled the task
longer than was expected under trying
conditions. The infantry has been in
the trenches almost without repose for
ten days. drinking only the water from
the canals which they are guarding.
with little opportunity to prepare hot
meal and constantly under a rain of
German shells"
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LONDON, October 2s.-The corre-
spondent of the Morning Post who has
just returned from Rheims telegraphs
from Paris that the insurance COM
panies estimate the damage to Rheims
at sz00.o0o.0oo. At the mayors Office it
Is stated. the correspondent says, this
estimate will be exceeded when sundry
damage to private property is added.
over 1.20O civilians were killed in
the streets and houses during the
months bombardment," the correspond
ent says. About one-fourth of all the
buildings were destroyed. The most Sc
We're damage was in the best portions
OF the CITY. where the finest and most
historic buildings are located
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HOW GERMANS ARE INTRENCHED
TO EVADE ENEMY'S AIR SCOUTS

mass formation. Above all. absolute
stiffness must be maintained in ex-
posed places. At the approach of an
aeroplane all movements should cease,
and 1T is also necessary to avoid all
movement of batteries when aero
moving will betray a battery. There
should also be no firing, for the flash
of gun betrays its position to the
air squadron.
The success of the French artillery
which has caused such marked losses,
is due, first, to their quickness in de-
termining the positions of our bat
teries. To equal them it is necessary
that our observations should be pushed
like theirs. far in advance OF the lines.
by men of good courage who are not
afraid of sharpshooters."
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Closing Arguments in Steel Suit.

concluding arguments in the govern
ment suit to dissolve the United States
Steel Corporation were begun today in
the United States court. John G. john
SON of Philadelphia summing up for
the defendant and Jacob M. Dickinson
speaking in rebuttal for the govern
ment. It was the seventh day of the
arguments.
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LONDON, October 2S.-The cores
pondent of, the Daily Mail in Paris. in
a dispatch to his paper, gives copy
of the German order on avoiding aero
planes 1t says:
According to the report of aero
plane observers, our troops are very
easy to discover, in spite of their gray
uniforms, because of the density Of
their formation. while the French know
how to protect themselves perfectly
from aerial reconnaissance.
During fight our troops must
make use of the narrow files among
the trees. at the edges of villages and
near the shelter of houses, avoiding
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German War Loan Overpaid.

BERLIN, October IS, by Wireless-A
total of $500, 100000 marks $780,
0O0, OOO) has been paid in on the Ger
man war loan, although the loan itself
was for only 2.6o0.ooo.o0o marks (s65o.-
600. 0OO) The latest returns Of tho
Imperial Bank show specie to the
amount of 1925. 900 marks ($457.-
900, OO0), an increase OF 100000
marks Csc, 750,000l. Notes in circula-
ton show q decrease of 100000 marks
ts23, 500, OOo) up to October 26.