The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-09-14


Bulletins
LONDONs sepC ia Reuter-
Telegram company's dispatch
from Amsterdam says that an
Agreement has been reached
whereby France and Germany
will exchange an equal number
of prisonerS, officers and men,
who may rejoin their respective
armies.
LONDON. Sept. IA. = A dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph
company from Rome says 1t is
reported from Basel that 10000
men were engaged yesterday in a
fierce battle between Thaun and
Senheim. The Germans occupied
the GebweiIer Valley, at the foot
of the French Vosges. The out
come is not known.
LONDON, Sept. 14-The Rome
correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph company says: "A dis
says that between Blotzheim aud
Sierenz, Alsace, French cavalry,
supported by artillery, has ami
hilated two squadrons of German
cavalry. All the horses of the
invaders were killed. The num-
Der of German troopers killed
was very large"
patch to the Central News Agency
from Bordeaux says that at the
request of NJ. Ribot, the minister
of finance, the brokers have as
ISOLATED and decided to reopen
the Bourse at Bordeaux.
LONDON. Sept. IA Central
News dispatch from Petrograd
says that the German forces in
East Prussia have been driven
back with great losses near MUS
hents, but are still bringing up
reinforcements. The Germans
are making their chief efforts In
the region of the Maersee Lakes.
LONDON, Sept. 14.-Members
of the Austrian landsturm born
in 1894 are to be called to the
colors, according to unofficial
news from Vienna which Is quot
ed in a dispatch from Amsterdam
to the Reuters Telegram COM
pany. Later, the dispatch says,
the landsturm classes of 1892
mad 1893, IL fit for active service,
are to be sent to the front.
PARIS, Sept. 1.-THE evacua-
tion of Amiens by the Germans.
previously reported In news dis
patches, was officially announced
today.
BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE fed
eral council has forbidden the
Strengthening of calves under 165
pounds live weight and of cows
under Z years old for the next six
months. The purpose of the or
der is to assure a meat supply for
the coming year.
NEW YORK. Sept. 14.-Fur-
ther confirmation of recent re
ports that Russian troops had
passed through England to the
continent was given today by Of
ficers of the Red Star liner Fin
land, who has been in Southamp-
ton. During the transfer of
troops the port was closed to
commerce.
ROME, Sept. 14.-News re-
ceived here from Petrograd is to
the effect that the Austrian pris-
oners now in the hands of the
Russians aggregate about AGO.
GOO.
LONDON, Sept. IA sharp
engagement took place today
near Alost, according to a Reuter-
dispatch from Ostend, between a
s detachment of Germans and
column of Gelgian volunteers,
supported by civic guards with
machine guns mounted on motor
cars. The German losses were
serious, and seven wagons, with
a field kitchen, we're captured.
The Germans are entrenching at
Orroir, near Renaix. In the
fighting today at Dixmude four
Belsians were captured and twen-
ty-four wounded.
LONDON, Sept. IA Reuter-
dispatch from Troyes. France,
says: After a chase of several
miles a French aviator succeeded
yesterday in bringing down
German aeroplane which had
been dropping bombs on the
town. The German pilot and two
military observers. a captain and
q lieutenant, were killed.
PARIS, Sept. 14.-Troops of
the Italian army are being dis
embarked in Albania, especially
at valona, according to dispatch
from Trieste to the Echo de
Paris.