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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-11
FEARS FOR MRS. MCCLELLAN.
War Detained Former Mayors
Mother I'm Hamburg.
Special Gable Despatch to THr suS.

Special Cdbie Despdfrh TO THE SuN
PARIS. Sept. 1O-Mme Dupre. who was
Miss May Mcclellan. daughter OF Gen.
George b. Mcclellan and sister OF the
ex-Mayor OF New York. has arrived here
with her husband. who has retired from
the French diplomatic service.
Mime. Dupre is anxious about her
mother, who is shut up In Hamburg
where she has been In the habit of going
every year for the last twenty years
She told The SUN correspondent that
Viscomte Money, the French Consul at
Charleroi, telegraphed the Minister at
Brussels the day before the Germans
arrived asking whether there was any
danger and If he should remove the
French colony, The Minister wired that
there was absolutely no danger. The
Consul received the telegram the very
day the Germans arrived.
The German Consul at Charleroi. who
has been there for forty years II appears
In reality was the chief organizer OF the
German spy system In the district, When
the Germans arrived at Charleroi he was
seen to receive the Germans with the
greatest enthusiasm and acted as their
guide, NJ. Money says that the town was
practically destroyed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-11
HOUSE ADOPTS TRADE BILL.
Measure Now Goes TO the President
foe His signature

WAsHlSGros, Sept 1o.-The first OF
the Administration trust bills probably
will go to President Wilson for signature
tomorrow. The conference report on the
Federal trade commission hiA was adopted
by unanimous vote in the House to-day.
II was put through the Senate on Tues
day. All that now remains to make the
bill law IL the signature of the Pres-
dent. That he will sign II without delay
liz assured.
After the approval OF the measure the
President is expected TO announce soon
the personnel OF the commission. The fve
commissionerships. each paying $4,000 a
year. are attracting the faithful and many
candidates are in the field II Is the
understanding that the President will
exercise great care In making selections
In addition to the five commissonSrshlps
the bill creates the Office OF secretary
which position will pay $1,000 a year.
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ny FERDINAND TUOHY.
Special correspondent Of Tur srs and m.
London "Ddiiv Mail"

'po"" Correspondent OF THE SuN and the
London "Dai'p Mail"
Special Cable Despafch to Tux sus
RouEN, Sept. 1o-To- day was a record
one which must breathe new life into
us all. There is nothing but good news
from the front, although the cream of
the British army has suffered.
Munsterman straggler gave me the
diary OF German officer Lieut.. Klein
OF the Fourth Infantry Regiment. who
surrendered TO a party OF six stragglers
who, like himself. were without arms.
He had revolver. but 1t was empty.
In addition to the diary the straggiers
found f1o0 15oo) in English gold In his
belt, some meat tablets and a booklet
Of advice from the Kaiser.
The diary opened on July 20. saying:
AT last here is the day we have wished
to see. We are ready. let him come who
may. The world race is destined to be
German"
The notes OF the next few days are
given over entirely to mobilization
jottings OF no general interest. Tho
diary then continues:
August Everything is working
smoothly.
August I've are at Mile. Bel
gique's door. VIII she open or must we
burst our way in?
Only Polish Killed at Liese.
August 5.-Our losses to-day before
Liege have been frightful. Never mind:
It liz all allowed for. Besides the fallen
are only Polish beginners, the splitting Of
whose blood will spread the war lust at
home-a necessary factor. Wait till we
put our experts on these deluded people.
August ll.--And now for the Eng
fish. who are used to fighting farmers.
Norwaerts. INNER vorwaerts. Tonight
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accuses Germany of False Deal
inc in Negotiations Before
the War.
SEES END OF NEUTRALITY
Predicts All Nations Must Even
tually Join to Crush
Germany.

BORDEAUX, September 10.
Gabriel Hanutaux publishes in the
J,urnal de- Ia Girondc tonight an APP
neal 10 the American people against the
manifesto IL Or. Won Bethmann- Holl-
Veg. the German Imperial Chancellor.
In Analysing the letters printed in the
blue books between the Kaiser and King
George NJ Hanotaux says:
In tine German publications the sup
preston OF the telegram explaining the
Misunderstanding about the pacific pro-
oosal OF Sir Edward Grey. the British
Foreign Secretary, constitutes an
,yoyal on the part of Germany which
4 tAntamount to a classification of facts
10 mlslead Germany and the rest OF the
world
The accusation about England ally
INK herself with Russia is pitiful
sophistry. considering that in 1870 the
Old Emperor swore eternal gratitude to
The dynasty Of the Romanoffs."
Continuing the indictment NJ. Hano-
faux details a long list OF authenticated
crueltles. He says:
Lying is always stupid. but there are
grades, and German lying surpasses
Imagination. The great American re-
public understands the real meaning
u such words az truth. liberty and
humanity and will see that an indlct-
ment is read into the communication by
the official who is himself ashamed OF
his task America. lover Of truth, will
Judge mpartialiy"
NJ Hanotaux publishes also an i'm
portant article on the political result
d the London convention.
without reckoning on Belgium, Ser
Via and Japan" NJ. Hanotaux says, "a
block N five hundred million men has
decided TO crush the German regency.
II this number is insufficient we shall
see others join the compact. for the
universe cannot be so blind as to allow
a nation Ike Germany to threaten It's
Independence.
Austria, already conquered, humil-
tated and reduced 10 implore German
aid would at the conclusion of peace
fe the first victim of German rapacity.
other people would one after another
he cngulfed If afraid TO speak out in
time
i said at the outset that neutralities
would he difficult. now affirm that
tomorrow they Will be impossible.
The German rustic. pedant and emf
grant have made industry consciously
or unconsciously an invasion Of the
world. They have prepared silently
th.s pan-GermaniC movement which has
income the nightmare OF the universe.
The world now understands this as
GEAR as day. II such Powers still hest
'a'e in the face Of naked realities let
mem awaken. \ quick movement
means salvation while there yet is time.
For US We await events with serene
confidence. The food already has
touched the Paris forts and has passed
oy II already is dashIng itself against
me rock formed by our armies in tho
east one more effort and the tide
"nl'h was To Submerge us will be driven
oark France and Paris will render
mis- service to the world and civiliza-
ton"
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GERMAN PRISONERS
FIND FRENCH HUMAN
nay Their Officers Told Them
Enemies Were Simply
Barbarians.
'r''ni '1bi' Dsspdfch 10 TuE Srx.

'oNptAtN, september 10.
rr'Sh conveys of wounded and
prisoners have Just arrived from
'ou'h' mostly youths OF from 90 10
% The Prisoners give Interesting re-
WAS II the attitude of the German
rasantry toward the war.
'n' particularly intelligent young
''"o" said through an interpreter:
Despite the rabld militarism in which
we nav" been brought up, in the VII
rE's throughout my district we be-
Ne'ed that peace would be maintained.
We were prosperous and productive.
we little dreamed two months ago that
We would bee dragged into this terrible
outchcry
what surprises iIs Is that the French
were represented to US as barbarians
.apdDl" II the worst atrocities. We have
WEN awaiting transportation to n for
''NN 10 D" shot, as we had been told we
."' expect This accounts for many
.'' 'Nes on our side. We were ordered
our slperiors to eXterminate the
'en'h' Tor If they should take us
"'uhu'd they surely would finish u.s.
once the transfer of the Govern
n.'nt To bordeaux there has been a
s'ea' influx Of visitors TO Arcachon, the
'v"o"hed health resort popular with
H"er'ans and English. All the villas
me neighboring country have been
"Neh Tor the season. Many wounded
Sue being housed there in improvised
among the latest arrivals in the Mont
snaitah district Of Lourdes are a hun
Ipnatlcs from various Partisan
Gp',"'S accompanied by warders and
,,.,S from the station they were
uaASferrcd in cabs and automohiIes 70
"lUporary shelters.
'"nNpys Of wounded continue to pour
''p Marseilles, Toulon and Lorient, In
n1u'hf |ouaves, Turcos and Senegalees,
many Of whom brandish Prussian he'll
"'e'S despite their sufferings.
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SEIZE EMPOYES OF KRUPP'S.
Three. Arrested In Flanders, May he
shot ms Spies.
ny STEPHEN BLACK,

Special correspondent Of THE Sus and the
London ''Ddiiy Mail"
Special Gable Despatch 10 THE SuS.
ROTTERDAM. Sept. 10.-Three Germans
who We're captured when the aircraft in
which they were was brought down by
shot at Streipen. Flanders. Monday
seem to be important employees OF
Krupps.
Two OF them. named Jacob and
Schenck, visited Antwerp shortly before
the war began to deliver a number OF
cannon to the Belgian authorities. They
assisted in placing the guns in position.
Won Wetzen. the third prisoner, is one
OF Krupp's most capable men, especially
in the use of siege guns. He IL now Il
prisoner with the others.
Their fate has not yet been decided.
opinion Is that all should be shot at
once as spies.
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GERMANS DEFENDED.

WASHINGTON. Sept l0.-Despatches
denying the charges OF destruction and
cruelties by German soldiers in the thea
Embassy this afternoon One despatch
says:
Herr Helfferich. director of the
Deutsche Bank, after touring In Belgium
states that the reports of the destruction
of Belgian towns re exaggerated. that Yer
viers. Tirlemont. and the industrial centre
OF Charleroi are intact. that Louvain and
Dinant were only partly destroyed.
AFTER tho surrender OF Client a Ger
another wounded.
Russian cavalry burned from sheer
lust of destruction the castle of the
Prussian Parliamentary Count Mirbach,
though there was no fighting going on in
the district where the castle Is situated
1.-THE English Liberal review. the Nation,
attacks the British Government, declaring
In a long article that England brought
about the war under n futile pretext and
that Germany was never unfair to Eng
land.
"ForUderts publishes "A declaration by
the board OF the German Socialist party
strongly condemning the manifesto OF
the executive committee of the Interna-
tional Socialist Bureau. Part of the board
Indignantly protests against the conceal
ment OF this step by the executive COM
mittee from the German Socialist party,
which thus had no opportunity to coun-
teract IL. II also protests against the
suspicion expressed in the manifesto
against tho humanity OF German soldiers
and states that the manifesto is melting
neutral countries against Germany while
concealing the atrocities OF the Belgian
franc tireurs and Russian Cossacks"
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MAKING BELGIUM
GERMAN PROVINCE
Reservists Of Kaiser's Army Are
Rushed In to Hold Occu-
pied Districts.
INHABITANTS COERCED
Won der GOltZ Threatens Severe
Punishment for Any
Resistance.
BRUSSELS, September 10.

BRCSsELs, september 10.
Belgium Is being rapidly turned into
German province Blue clad members o
he Iandsturm OF the third reserve ar
brought from Germany In large number
Tor the occupation. The following procla
nation has been posted on the walls u
Brussels
HIS Majesty the Emperor OF Ger
many, after tn. occupation OF the
greater part of Belgian territory. has
dcigned to name me Governor OF Bel
glum. ] have established the seat OF
government In Brussels BY his Ma
Jesty's orders civil administration has
been established In conjunction with
the general Government. His Excel
lency VI. Won Sandt has been called to
act as chief Of this administration.
The German armies are advancing
VIGOROUSLY in France.
MY task will be to conserve quiet
and public order IN the Belgian dis
trict All hostile acts against the
German military and all efforts to
disturb communications with Ger
many or to hinder or cut railways,
telegraphs and telephones will be Sc
verely punished. All resistance and
revolt against the German admins
tration will be ropresscd without par
don.
Belgian citizens desiring to con-
tinue their occupations have nothing
to fear from the German troops or
authorities. Commerce as far as pos
siblo should be resumed. factories
opened and crops harvested. expect
from you all reasonable attitude
and absolute submission to the gem
eral Governments orders.
GEN. BARON Won DER GoLrz,
"I'ield Marshal
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BELGIAN CLERGYMAN
LYNCHED BY GERMANS
Berlin Newspaper Says Shock
ing Outrages Are on the
Increase.
by HERBERT DUCK WORTH.

Special correspondent Of The SuS and the
London "Ddiy Nstrs''
Special cable Despatch TO THE Sun
CoPENHAoEN, Sept. l0-r-vidence OF
atrocities on innocent civilians comes
from Berlin. ForlcdertS, the organ Of
the Socialist party. relates the shocking
case at SAKE Meiningen on Belgian
clergyman who was taken prisoner. A
mob broke through the Gordon of SOL
diers protecting the clergyman. accused
him OF melting the supposed Belgian
outrages. dragged him off and lynched
him Another prisoner was badly
mauled.
VorDderts complains that such actions
by mobs are on the increase
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DIsTRUsTs INTERNATIONAL LAW
More depends on soldiers Moral
sense, Says German.

Special Gable Despatch 10 TIFF stN.
BERLIN. via Copenhagen. Sept. TO-
Prof. Williamowitz Moellendorf. in a
speech delivered to-day at Charlotten-
burg. declared that the enforcement OF
International law depended In the last
resort upon the moral sense OF the indi-
vidual soldier.
If the French have not reached the
point at which their soldiers avoid as
sassfnation no International law could
make them avoid it. If the German
soldier spares women and children. he
said, 1t is not because international law
demands it, but because his heart die
tates It, He continued:
III Germany and Austria are vcto-
rious the day will come when they will
have the power to enforce. II necessary,
peace upon the world.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-11
DENIES KAISER'S RIGHT IN CHINA
Authority TO FOrtify Kiao-chow
Never Admitted, Pekin Says.

PEKIN, Sept lo,-Replying to the Ger
man protest against the landing OF jana
nese military forces In Shantung PROV
!nce. the Chinese Government says that
1t did not admit the right OF the Germans
to fortify Kiao-chow.
1t has tried hard. II asserts to prevent
the belllgerents from warning on Chinese
territory. and even after the japanese
landed 1t attempted to stop them from
marching through Shantung, but was UNI
successful Then following a precedent
created In the Russo-Japanese war, the
Chinese Government took steps to con-
fine the operations within a certain area
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Story of hvasion Told
In German Officers Diary
No'es laken From Lieut. Klein of Fourth Infantry Regi-
ment, Who Was Captured by Six British
Stragglers Near Rouen
PRISONER HAD BOOK OF ADVICE FROM KAISER

William the Greater has given us beau
dful advice: You think each day OF
your Emperor; do not forget God His
Majesty should remember that-thinking
OF him we think OF God. for is he not
the Almighty's representative in this
glorious fight for the right?
August i2-This is clearly to be an
artillery war. As We foresaw. the in
fantry counts for nothing.
August live are on the frontier:
why do We wait? Has Russia really
dared to invade us? Two Hussars were
shot to-day for killing a child This
may be war. but 1t is the imperial wish
that we carry It on in manner hefitting
the most highly cultivated people.
August l7-Every night now a chap
ter OF the war OF 1870 is read to us.
What a great notion! But is It nee
essary?
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5000 GERMANS NEAR CLIENT.
Kaise-'s Troops Moving Into Fra nee
From Brussels.

Special Cabie Despatch 10 THE ST.
BORDEAUX, Sept l0.-Despatches re-
ceived here confirm the report that
5000 Germans have arrived south of
Client. NJ. Braun. the Burgomaster,
concluded an agreement with the Gen
eral STAFF by which the city agreed to
furnish an adequate supply of pro-
visions on Thursday morning. 1t is be-
lieved that the provisions are destined
for troops who are moving toward the
French frontier from Brussels via
Alost
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". Meloy. Sir Edmund y Osler. Leopold
Worsuser and Major A. Woods.
Tho steamship Flarsire arrived last
Right from lIavre, finishing n voyage
.nade to accommodate Americans WHO
were in France and unable to get other
transportation home.
Among the passengers was Mrs. Corey.
an opera singer. who was In Paris wien
German airships dropped bombs on her
way to Havre In an automobile several
shots were fired at the car. one hit
the body OF the machine and the other
punctuI~d tire.
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BELGIUM IN THE zOLLvEREIN.
Occupied Territory Incorporated In
German Empire.

LONDON. Sept. io,-Berin already has
accepted the Incorporation OF Belgium into
the German Empire as an accomplished
fact according to dispatches from the
German capital According to German
officials. Belgium will be included in the
Zollverein. or customs union and It 10
suggested that the Zollvereln also will be
extended to include Austria.
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August 2o-The concerted English
have ranged themselves against " at
absurd odds"
The entries for the following days are
so scrubbed that they are quite lncom-
prehensible. Only the following can be
deciphered.
August 25-One of their shells burst
on Red Cross wagon to-day full Of
English. Ha! ha! 1t serves the swine
right. Still they fight well. one Of
their officers kept on swearing at Ger
many and the Emperor In his agony and
then calmly asked for a bath. We have
hardly time to bury our own dead. 50
the bodies of Engishmen are being
weighted and thrown into the river"
The diary closes abruptly with the
following entry on September 4 I'VE
have been ordered to keep no more
notes"
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BELGIANs RETAKE AERSCH0T.

Find 20 Priests bound Hand and
Foot by Germans.
BY The suns and the London Daily messy
War Seruico.
ROTTERDAM, Sept. 10.-There was
heavy fighting at Aerschot yesterday.
Belgian sharpshooters dislodged the
Germans. took possession OF the town
and hoisted the Belgian flag.
In the tower Of a church they found
priests and many civilians
bound hand and foot
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engaged have occurred northeast Of
Antwerp Many houses near Putten were
demolished by the Belgians to provide
an unobstructed field for the artillery.
The inefficiency Of the forts at Ant
werp through the failure OF the Krupps
to carry out their contract has been made
good and Antwerp Ia now considered
nearly impregnable.
1T Is understood that only 90, 900 Ger
man troops are between Antwerp and
Brussels, mainly from the I.andstrum."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-11
JAPAN SENDING NO TROOPS.
Denies She Is Considering Action in
Europe.

TOXIC, Sept. l0,-The Foreign Office de-
MED to-day that there was any truth In a
report circulated here that negotiations
were in progress between Japan and
Great Britain for the sending OF a jap
anese army to Europe.
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FIGHT NEAR ANTWERP.
skirmishes Northeast Of the CITY
Are Reported.

LONDON, Sept 10,-The Central News
correspondent at Amsterdam sends the
following despatch:
Reports from Putten. In the Neither
lands. near the Belgian border. Indicate
that skirmishes- In which artillery was
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w. cochin was reported yesterday to
, ""n' accepted n post in the Cabinet
., ',n'u' portfolio. as representative
=, ,ne roHalist and conservative sections
VI me French Parliament.
The Keota news., 1914-09-04
TAXES SHOW PROSPERITY.

Internal Revenue Receipts Pass Mil
lion Mark; Personal Incomes Pay
$111,077 to Uncle Sam.
Washington.-A large increase in
internal revenue receipts in both Col
orado and Wyoming. is shown by the
annual report Of the commissioner OF
internal revenue. These two states
comprise the internal revenue district
Of Colorado.
Colorado receipts for the fiscal year
ending June 30 last, were $1.079. .8S4.12,
as against $943, 1927 during the pre-
vious fiscal year. Wyoming's receipts
were $109. .197.06, as against 500 9.4S3.35
during the previous fiscal year.
Colorado contributed to the receipts
Of the government during the last fis-
cal year. $117.967.7s in corporation ex
else tax, $c20,785. in corporation in
come tax, and $111.S77.30 in individual
income tax Wyoming contributed $13.-
022.7 in corporation excise tax, 348.-
12407 in corporation income tax. and
37.633.49 in individual income tax.
Treasury officials are gratified that
Colorado's total receipts have passed
the million dollar mark.
The Keota news., 1914-09-04
II. q. Wells on America.

came to America balancing be-
tween hope and spekticism. The Eu'
ropean world Is full Of the criticism
Of America; and. for the matter of
that. America, too. is full OF it: hos
tility and depreciation prevail-over-
much; for. in spite of rawness and We.
hemence and a scum of blatant. oh!
quite asinine folly, the United States Of
America remains the greatest country
in the world and the living hope Of
mankind. 1t Is the supreme break with
the old tradition: 1t Is the freshest
and most valiant beginning that has
ever been made in human life.-From
"The Passionate Friends
The Keota news., 1914-09-04
Fifty Miners killed.

Denver.-Exactly the same number
Of miners were killed In the coal
mines Of the state up to Aug. l. 1914.
as during the same period In 1919.
The total is fifty for each period.
During the first seven months Of 1913
the number Of miners employed aver
aged 1925, while the average for the
same period in 1914 was 1926. With
much less tonnage produced and fewer
men employed. the same number
we're killed In 1914 as in 1918.