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ALLIES LOSE MORE MEN IN BATTLE
 OF AISNE THAN IN OTHER FIGHTING

The German position is officially described today to be strong on their right, weak in the center with their left almost untenable.
 The allies seem to realize that this third stage of the French campaign Is critical. The tenacity with which the Germans are holding their position and the persistence with which they return to the attack desperate de- spite their terrific losses and the eX- haustion of their troops indicates that this is to be a battle of extermination.
 German Gun-fire Deadly.
 The German positions along the whole front from the Disc to the Mouse are organized for defense, and are fortified by heavy artillery. Five thousand guns have been engaged in the giant artillery fuel of the past few days.
 The German artillery has continued to particularly deadly. The batteries are masked in the hills, where most of their positions have been taken and the guns are being served with the utmost precision.
 It was because of the accuracy of the big German fire that the losses 0f the French have been so heavy. The war Office confines itself to the statement the advance of the allies can only be slow" Several night att tacks have occurred in which the Ger man sallies have been repulsed. The moral of the French troops remains excellent.
 Realization of the critical stage the battle has reached was forced upon Paris today when Minister of War Milerand who hurried from Bordeaux to Paris for a conference with the war
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FREIGHT HITS
 MEMPHIS STREET
 CAR; fl DEAD Twenty Others Are Injured When Locomotive Crashes Into "Trailer." VICTIMS BODIES
 BADLY MINGLED Only Three Gf Those Who Lost Lives in Memphis Suburb Crossing
 Had Been Identified
 Last Night.

Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 11.-Eleven people were killed and probable twen- ty injured when an Illinois freight train ploughed into the trailer of a Raleigh Springs street car which left Memphis at 630 o'clock tonight. The accident occurred at the Sumner ave- nue crossing a quarter of mile east of Ringhampton The freight was northbound On the belt line. The trailer was, hurled 100 yards up the track and over an embankment by tk~ impact.
 The police report that the conduct or in charge of the car said there were seventy-five passengers in the trailer and that tabout forty got off at Binghampton.
 The list of the dead and wounded includes prominent people living in the northeast suburbs of Memphis.
 The identified dead:
 EMERSON c. DOUGLASS, 43.
 HENRY HODGES, IS.
 DR. l.. H. PITTMAN, Dentist.
 Botlr car and trailer were filled with people returning from Memphis. where they had been at work or shopping.
 Or the railroad there is a double track at the point of the wreck.
 The street car had been halted foS south-bound belt line train. Then it started across and when. before the trailer was over, a north bound train tore into the trailer head-on.
 The locomotive, which was making twenty miles an hour, picked up the trailer on it's pilot and showed it up the track for more than 10t yards before the massive freight could he brought to stop, already off the track.
 The trailer was torn from the lead car, in which none of the passengers were injured.
 Tine train finally stopped. A rush was made for the car and at once the work of pulling out the dead and in- jured began.
 A crowd of people ran to the wreck from Binghampton and assisted i'll the rescue.
 ,Ambulances went out from Mem phis
 The bodies were so badly n1angleo that identification was difficult.
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Farmers Bringing Cotton Into Town Eaiiy and Their NeeuS should Be Met-TW0 Committees
 Meet Today

Those who have already announced willingness to retire distress cotton are urged by the "Buy-a-Bale' club executive committee to send in checks at once or authorize their banks to charge their account with the price of bale and so notify the club. This action is necessary to meet the calls of farmers who are bringing in their cotton now.
 If all who have periodically volun- teered to retire cotton will arrange to take it at once the committee will be enabled to handle calls upon it until Tuesday, when some thousands of bales are expected to be placed.
 That Tuesday, September 22, shall be Buy Day in Pine Bluff and that the loyalty and patriotic women should be appealed to in the effort to make the campaign a sue cess were the two most important features of yesterdays meeting of the Buy -a-Bale" clubs executive com mittee.
 Immediate Relief Necessary.
 The fact that if the 'buy-a abale'' movement is to serve locally the pur- pose for which it was designed ac- ton must be prompt, impelled the committee to decide on a whlrlWind campaign. and to appeal to the ladies because the men folks did not feel equal to making the plan as success full as it should be without the CO., operation and assistance of the ladies
 Farmers are bringing their cotton into town at the rate of seven and eight bales day, and it is expected the quantity offered for sale will in- crease with each day. These are mer who must sell. If they are not given 10 cents through the patriotic plan they are compelled to accept what
 lCont tinuael on raoo E |
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$l00,0O0 TROUSSEAU
 "MADE IN. AMERICA
Wedding Outfit of Robert Taft's Fiancee to Be Strict
 ly Home Made.

Washington, Sept. 1.-The $100,O00 rousseau of Miss Martha Bowers, who is to wed Robert Taft on Octo- Der IT, will be made in America" :" The wedding and other gowns. de- signed by Miss Bowers herself, are to be American in design and fabric, and will give employment to American women.
 The pretty bride-to-be inherited millions from her father, the late Boyd l.. Bowers.
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TWELVE ENTOMBED.
Utah Miners Crushed Under Tons Ol
 Rock

Salt Lake City, Sept. 17.-A rush of roc kand earth coming without the slightest warning entombed twelve miners in the S00-foot level of the mine at Eureka, Utah, late this af- ternoon. It is believed that the min CTS are all dead, either crushed or suffocated If any are alive they face death by starvation or suffocation, as it will take days for the rescuers to dig through the earth to reach them.
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Teddy Starts West.

New York, Sept. 17.-Colonel Roose- welt, smiling and ready for fight" he said, left for Wichita, Kansas, to- night and will open there a two-weeks speech-making tour.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18

Double Roasters 39c Monday only, at Reap & Crawford 9-17-3t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18

paris sept 17.-The official at Il o'clock to ported that situation lunch anged,'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18

London Sept 17An Exchange telegram from Bordeaux say cattle continuing ina very satisfactory manner
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18
COTTON BELT MEN AGREE 10
 MEDIATION Federal Boards Offer Is Accepted by Railroad Organizations. WILL ABIDE BY
 BOARDS RULING Controversy Over the Dismissal of J. R. TiIlman May Be Disposed of Without Threatened
 Strike.

St. Louis, Sept. 1.-The threaten ed strike of trainmen on the St Louis Southwestern railway (Cotton Belt over a controversy arising from the dismissal of J. R. Tillman, a conduct or accused by the railroad of intoXl- cation while on duty, has been avert ed for the present. at least by the acceptance on the part of the union officials of the offer of the federal mediation board whose good offices were requested by the management of the railroad
 The acceptance of federal mediation was announced in a statement by w. c. Turner, vice president of the Order of Railway Trainmen, and E. A. Ball, vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Englnemen.
 Men Will Abide Result.
 "The proposal to place the issue be- fore the federated mediation board was granted by the men at the request of the railroad" said Charles J. Can't, member of the federal board, in statement communicated from St. Louis last night Both sides have agreed to abide by the decision of the board. The men will be sat isfed with the result of the mediation and feel confident that it will favor them.
 "We have shown every inclination to be fair in our demands against the company and have used every precau- tion possible to prevent a strike. When asked to place the matter before the mediation board and abide by it's rul- ing we readily agreed and wired our l men over the system to obey the laws of their orders," says MT. Can't. Had it been found necessary tC strike and call the men out of en- ployment, the assistance and support of the Missouri-Pacific systems, St Louis terminals and Wabash organiza- ; tions have been offered to the Cotton Belt men and notices were served on their arrangements that an embargo would be placed on all Cotton Bell movements, freight or passenger. l "I also wish to contradict a rumol that has been spread broadcast tha1 the engineers dropped from the feder ation voluntarily. This is not so bu because of the action of several O their members they were expelled from the board. Leaving out the en gineers, 95 per cent of the members of the remaining three orders voted for strike. Notwithstanding re ports to the contrary, these three or ganizations are standing firm.
 "The five conductors who obtained
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18

London IA dispatch to the Star from says m  land missing n 3200 daily il is ahhoo"
  o
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE THREE,
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Continued on Page 2.)
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Tuesday, September F. BuyaBae Day n Pine Bu Quick Action E ede
FIVE THOUSAND CANNON IN
 DUEL BETWEEN BIG ARMIES

GERMANS LOSING 3,2O0 DAILY DURING PAST FORTNIGHT AND DURING TWO DAYS ALLIES HAVE SUFFERED MOST
 SEVERE LOSSES.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18
The Weather

Fair Friday and Saturday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18

Switzerland that violent French ground Greata anxiety is German population
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18
REPORTS INDICATE THAT GERMAN
 TROOPS HAVE IMPROVED POSITION

Fighting Continues With Great Violence Neither Side Showing Sign of Weakening French Winning in Alsace-Bellige Exchange
 Lists of Prisoners.
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tContinued on page 5.)
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sui Canada learned. Only one American
IL held in prison, judicial proceedings hav-
ing resulted In the verdict that he was
concerned to some extent in fostering the
revolution. His name was not given by
Consul Canada.
Americans Free to Go.
Gen. MASS, who recently left Vera
Cruz, and is the Federal commander in
that district. telegraphed to Consu. Can
ada to-day as follows:
"EsTEEMED Mr. CONSUL / hereby an
swer your esteemed letter of the 25th in
slant advising that. in accord with in
structions which j have received from my
Government, the military authorities UNI
der my command have been ordered "a
permit foreigners Of any nationality what
sucver to leave the republic AT Will Kela-
tive to Mexican citizens who desire 10
leave the city Of Vera Cruz you may
permit or prohibit same. according to the
orders you may have in the premises"
All Americans fom Guaymas and En-
palme-about ninety in all--are tempo
rarly on board the steamer Mazatlan by
permission Of the captain of the Ger
man cruiser Nuremburg. who has char
tered that ship for German refugees. The
consular agent and his wife are on boart
the cruiser New Orleans, The consular
effects were placed in charge of the French
Vice-Consul.
Only twenty Americans are left In The
Aguascalientes district. Consul Schmut;
cabled the State Department to-day from
Mexico city. He went To Aguascaliente,
with ITO American refugees
Ninety refugees arrived at Fl Pas
to-day. The news was conveyed in n tele
gram received at the state Department to
night from Consul Edwards at Juarez
The text Of the telegram follows:
Special train arrived this morning from
Torreon bringing sixty-hve Americans ant
thirty-hve other foreigners. About thir,
of the Americans will probably ask 70
transportation to their homes in the Unite
States. This brings out nearly all tn
| foreigners from Durango and Torreor
| Fully 200 refugees have crossed the Dor
der from this district during the pas
week. All of them report courteous treat
| ment by the natives during their journe,
! Those expressing their determination {
| wholly abandon Mexico or remain ava
! until peace is fully restored are large,
In the majority.
There IS very little military activit
and no alarming symptoms In the loca
/ situation"
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PERSHiNC. IS PREPARED.
Ready "a Take Field on Five Min.
utcs Notice. Wc says.

Ell pAso. Tex. April 2S.--"We are ready
to take the field within five minutes notice
with thirty DAYS field rations, amnuni-
tion and supplies for conducting any
campaign that the War Department MAJ
order" said Gen. John J. pershing after
he had made Il survey of the border patrol
in the city and suburbs this morning
The new commander of the border d.
vHon arrived early this morning from
san Francisco and started on a tour OF
inspection as soon as he had breakfast
After this inspection ne established his
headquarters at Fort Bliss.
Gen. Pershing says there are now 5000
troops In the city OF I;l Peso Col. G. A.
Il. Hatfield will now 20 to Douglas. Ariz,
to assume command of the Second Brig
ade OF Cavalry. which extends as far a.
Yuma, Ariz., from FL Paso.
Cotton valued at $4,000 and railw. y
equipment representing IN additional
$4,000 was destroyed late last night
when fifteen cars OF the Torreon cotton
which villa confiscated. were burned in
Juarez. Carlos Requillan. hose father
was killed in tho Orozco revolution and
who IL alleged TO be a Federal sympa-
thizer. was arrested in connection with
the fire and is being held awaiting an
investigation.
Following the attack on the powder
house at Ysleta Tex, last night, United
States cavalrymen remained on duty at
the powder house all night.
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dent through the Navy Department de-
taching the Marine Corps contingent at
Vera Cruz for service with the army. the
effect OF which orders will be to place the
Marine Corps contingent SO detached
under your command"
The question of supply OF provisions
for citizens Of Vera Cruz and the crew :
of the various vessels here was temporar-
lily solved to-day by tho discovery OF 500
tons Of staple provisions after a search OF
all freight ears In the city.
In regard to the wounded men on the
ships at Vera Cruz the following despatch
was received to-day nj the Navy Depart
ment from Admiral Badger:
1.-The wounded from the Florida, South
Carolina and New Hampshire are reported
doing well. The Solace reports Henry
Pulliam. fireman first class, lung compli-
cations but prognosls good; George =
kinsman. ordinary seaman. condition crit
ical but improved Henry ~ N!ckerson
boatswain's mate. second class. critical
but improvement marked. Clarence II
Harshberger. seaman. condition improved
William Pinkowsk!. ordinary seaman
paralysis has disappeared; J. u. Peoples
private. Marine Corps William G. keas
chief turret captain Edward A. Osborne
, electrician. third class. all practically on,
of danger"
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Americans held rs prisoners AT TUX.
trpec, state of Vera cruz. They were
gathered in from the surrounding plan.
tatiuiis aud towns. Consular Agent
White, he says. is in Jail nj II lIule,
hear TuNtepcr,
Prof Mcchling left Tuxtepcc last
Wednesday. lie cyaded II mob by Civ.
ing an assumed name and claiming
British protection. He was dragged
from the train AT ri Bnrro, but got
back again after being robbed, Al
TERRA Blanca fourteen wines aud
thirty-two negroes were put on board
the train 10 be- taken AS prisoners Ia
Cordoba. They were met n the sta
tlon by II mob. but We're not injured.
L.. u. Wecms. n plantation owner
who was held for n time AT Cordoba,
arrived here yesterday and sailed for
the United States today. lie says he
escaped down the river In a launch to
Alyarado and reached Vera cruz on
horseback.
There is no idea now that the Mex
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FEW AMERICANS NOW LEFT
IN INTERIOR OF MEXICO
Constant Stream of Refugees Pours Over Border
While Warships and Other Vessels Take
Hundreds at Various Ports

WAsHINGToN. April 2s-Refugees. TO
whom every aid In the power OF the OIL
GERS and state Department officials IN
Mexico has been given, continued to leave
Mexico In large bodies to-day.
Rear Admiral Howard. commander in
chief of the fleet M the west coast Of Mex
leo. autographed To- the Navy Department
to-day tina; all snips as soon as they re-
ported To him were turned over to the
nearest Consul ard rut To work helping
refugees. The Mexican steamer Benito
JuareZ continues 10 maxi. trips 30 san
Diego bearing dostitut. Americans. having
been Assured OF no rnulcstatlon from naval
forces.
only thirty-two Americans remain a,
Mazatlan, Consul Alger advised the state
Department. Five of them are women
and Fifteen children. MI refuse 10 leave.
H. addition there are more thdu 700 other
foreigners In the district The consular
age.t and all other Americans ar" on
board ships NJ Cuaymas. The cruiser Ra
leigh, sailing for MarZanillo, has called
at san BIAS and Mramar to take refugees
on board. Three hundred left Manzanillo
to-day and seveuty-cight left Mazatlau.
Must Surrender Arms.
into Texas and Arizona. \ special train
from Torres to-day brought li5 Aner!-
cans from Torres to Nugales. Arz No
attempt has beer made 10 keep them from
crossing the line. according to consula,
advlces. but with som. exceptions all are
being deprived Of their arms before being
permitted To enter the United States.
Consul Host-tter returned from the
Sonora district to-day with forty Amer-
cans and reports n trainload of ninety
on the way from Sinaloa. The following
telegram. dated yesterday, was received
from Consul Garrett At Laredo
M g. Lyon and wife and Harry Gibbs.
employees of the American ,i,tal Com
pauy Of New York. are Stili In Niladama.
Mexico. and have no means Of COM
municatiun. Al Americans out Of my
consular district"
owing to the cessation OF anti Amcri-
can demonstrations In Mexico city. refu-
gees are coming into Vera Cruz more
slowly. Consul Canada cabled the State
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MOVIE MAN AMONG MISSING.
sherman Martin Last Seen Filming
battle nj SaltilIO.

At the request of the relatives OF Sher-
man Martin. formerly photographer for
THE EVENING SUN, who left for Mexico
for the Mutual Film Corporation several
months ago and has not been heard from
since, the Mutual Film Corporation has
sent a telegram to c. V, Erskine. tho
British Consul at Benavldes. requesting
that a search be Instituted for the miss
ing photographer,
Mr. Martin Is known to have filmed tn.
battle at Torreon and the fighting In and
around SaltillO. When last seen he was
filming at close range the operations Of
the Federal right wing at Saltlllo.
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WASHINGTON FEARS CARRANZA
MAY BLOCK MEDIATION PLANS

as to the progress which they have
made.
Secretary Bryan declined TO comment
upon the mediation proceedings except
to say that they were encouraging.
Mediation Move Much Discussed.
There is one phase Of the present
mediation proceedings which Is daily at
tracing more attention in Washington.
1t is the Significance to all of Latin
America Of the action Of the three lead
ing republics In the south In having
asserted themselves In this way In a
| crisis affecting Pan-American relations.
Never before have any Of the Latin
American republics played such an I'M
portant part In situation affecting
the Western Hemisphere. Heretofore
they have followed the lead of the
United States or left suggestions to
European Governments. While the
three South American republics that
| initiated the present movement un-
| doubtedly have been actuated chiefly
by the desire to restore peace. the be-
! lief is growing here that their proposals
originated partly from fear Of pos
sible territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT from
the United States growing out Of a war
with Mexico.
That the United States is under sus-
picion In many parts Of South and Gem
trail America was indicated by unfavor-
able demonstrations such as the one
which occurred In Montevideo. Since
President Wilson's utterances have been
circulated In South America the feeling
has been less strained. but there IL no
doubt that further military operations
by the United States. In Mexico would
lead to very considerable anti-American
demonstrations in other Latin American
countries.
IT IL recalled in this connection tina,
q few weeks ago Chile moved that the
fifth n-American congress, TO be helt
! in Santiago, be postponed so as to allow
! Mexico more time to put her house IL
order. The postponement was for two
months and as this allowance was pal.
pabiy insufficient II was inferred thai
| the congress would suffer a series 81
such postponements and might even b.
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nat acceptance OF the principle of mo-
diaton. The note was only about four
or hve lines long. and beyond the an.
nouncement Of acceptance merely con.
veyed the thanks OF the Mexican Cow
eminent to the Governments of Chile.
Argentina and Brazil for their kindly
interest as mediators. The note also
contained a passing reference to the
spirit of solidarity among Mexicans and
the Latin American countries rcpre-
scented by the mediators
Although on the surface Huerta's ac-
ceptarce Is unconditional. Il was learned
to-day that he il prepared to impose
very definite restrictions when tho time
comes for submitting his proposals..
Through diplomats In Washington who
are constantly in touch with develop-
merits In Mexico city 1t was learned
that Huerta had informed the represent
tatives of European Governments there
that he would be prepared to impose
certain conditions when the proper time
arrived.
These conditions were not disclosed
In the advices received from Mexico
city, but there is no doubt here that
one of them will be the withdrawal OF
all United States army and navy forces
from Vera Cruz. Diplomats in Wash.
ington believe that IIuerta will put this
condition first on his list of proposals
They expect that in the second place
he will raise the contention that the
proposed mediation negotiations viii
constitute n recognition by the United
States of the Huerta Government.
Wilson's Attitude Unknown.
No one would undertake to predict
here tonight definitely what the at.
titude of the United States would Inc
toward proposal by Huerta as one
OF the conditions of mediation that the
United States should eyacuate Vera
Cruz. There is no doubt that the Wilson
Administration Will go to extreme
lengths to avoid war and TO bring about
settlement of the present situation
through the peaceful methods now
under way. Whether or not the Ad.
ministration will consider withdrawing
from Vera Cruz will probably depend
upon the progress that had been mad,
toward settlement of the interna
strife in Mexico and the good faith
shown by Huerta in the matter of tn,
mediation proceedings.
ON the other hand, President viii
son. when II comes to the submission q
conditions and proposals. will insis
upon the elimination of Iuerta and tn
restoration Of constitutional govern
ment and possibly adequate PREPARATION
for the insults to the American fiae
II the two former proposals can "
achieved by the mediators without an,
insistence by the United States it vii
be all the better. The mediators from
the South American republics were IL
conference practically all OF the day
and they had their heads together agail
tonight. Two OF the mediators, Min
tster Naon OF Argentina and Ministe
Suarez OF Chile. called at the State DE
partment this afternoon and had a lon
conference with Secretary Bryan. Their
We're limitations in the course Of tn
day that the mediators might be read
10 make statement in the near futur