Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-02
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Millions VIII Battle
On Prussian Border

On Prussian Border
ROME, italy, Oct. 2.-Six million
fighting men will soon be facing each
other, in the two great armies along
the Russian-Polish border. hAdvices
issued officially at Vienna last night
states that the forces gathering for
the Acknowledgment army, concen-
trated on craceW, aggregate two and
half million men. The Russian to-
tai force is believed to be as great,
II not greater. i a. 49,. 49,.
All the Bohemian and Moravfan
railroads are ccngested with the num-
bers of German troops being. trans
ported to the Russian border In a
supreme effort to cheek the Russian
advance. be civilian transport over
these railroads is forbidden.
LONDON, eng, Oct. 2.-ourins the
month of September, according to a
report from the admiralty last night,
German cruisers overlook and sank
eighteen British steamers, Of an az
gregate tonnage of 2e,581 tons.
During the same period nine steam.
ers, some belonging to neutrals, were
destroyed by mines in the North Sea.
German Force -.
to the Daily Telegraph from Paris
states that force of four thousand
Germans ar completely Surrounded
on the French left and must surren-
der or be annihilated.
German Newspapers :.
Pessimistic
ROTTERDAM, Holland Oct 2. -
German residents here are astonish-
ed at the tone of the German papers
received yesterday, there being for
the first time in the German press
some foreWarnings of the situation
along the Aisne. Up to yesterday the
German newspapers have contained
reassuring reports from the front and
editorial expressions of full conf
dence In the final outcome Of the in
vasion of France. Yesterday the tone
changed radically and II is supposed
that the press has received instruc-
tions to prepare the German public
for the receipt of news Of defeat.
In many of the leading journals re-
ceived from Mainz, cobienz, koln and
Bremen are leading articles, similar
In tenor, asking the public for a sus-
pension Of Judgment should news ar
rive that the German troops in France
have been obliged to abandon their
positions. ..-. .....
The papers say that the British
are advancing through sheer weight
of numbers and it is impossible for
the Germans facing them to hold the
Islanders back, despite superior braV-
cry and better individual fighting
skill. The writers also admit that
the Frenc have profited we'll by the
lesson taught them in 1870.
China in Ugly Mood
Over Japanese Invasion
TOXIC, Japan, Oct. 1.-Untess the
Japanese troops abandon zee Ken, a
small railroad town fifty miles north
west of Tsingtau, which they captur-
ed yesterday, China will take hand
in the European war, as the direct
enemy Of Japan and the ally of Ger
many and Austria. 5
Formal notice has been served up
on Japan to remove her troops from
zee Ken, on the ground that by be.
ina stationed there chlna's neutrality
treaty Is violated. Japan has as for
maIIy refused to withdraw her
troops, and taken the position that
she is within athe sphere Of war" and
is entitled to have her troops station
ed at Wee Ken.
They do not attempt 70 dls1uiee the
seriousness Of the situation. China j
insistent and II an ugly mood the
despatch say. and Japan, for 1er
part, is determined to keep Wee Ken.
Wee Ken Is on the railroad leading
to Picking. BY occupying e shs ,,Ps'