Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-10-02
CHINESE TROOPS
DESTROY BR|DGF
FIRST MOVE IN OPPOSITION
OPERATIONS OF JAps - ~
sHANTuNG PRovINcE
GERMANS SHELL AN7wFp,
Town of Lierre, Directly in Fro,.
City, Under Fire-Antwero n.
lenses Said to Be strono...
in the World.

Wei-Hsien, Shantung, China q
3O.-Chinese troops on MONDAY t N.Y.
up and destroyed the railroad br sies
at Tayo-Ho, six miles west of hos
The sound of the explosion could avg
heard in this city.
The above dispatch is the fret :.
cation that Chinese troops have ta ,las
any active part in opposing the ms
tary operations of the Japapnsa !
Shantung province in the latter's o.n
paign against the Germans in tba 1oa
ed territory of Kiao- Chou.
Chinese officials would not say Tno,
day night whether the blowing m :,
the railroad bridge at Tayo.Ho i.
miles west of Wei-Hsien, by CbiDa,s
troops, had been ordered by the gor
eminent or not. %
1t has been learned, however h.,
the Japanese minister here inform.s
the foreign office on Monday that ns
Japanese intended to occupy the roll
road into Tsi-Nan, the capital of Sbor
tung province. To this the foreion ~
flee refused to agree.
Chinese Troops Mobilize.
The information was ontainod :.
high quarters on Tuesday that # i
the wish of President Yuan Sbi Ksi IL
avoid trouble with the japanese Tina
military men of China, however ara
under German influence, and a larpa
number of Chinese troops recently
have been modified in Shantung nro.
vince.
Begin Attack on Antwerp.
Amsterdam, via London, Sept 30
The Germans have commenced Their
attack on the first line of defense Of
Antwerp, according to dispatches re-
celved by the Amsterdam papers.
Mol, which is an important railway
junction near the Dutch border WAS
occupied by the Germans on SUNDAY
and on Tuesday the Germans, who
again occupy Malines, began a bonn.
bardment of Lierre, directly in frontot
Antwerp.
They also continued their lombard
ment of Forts Waehel and St. Gather
inc. 1t is believed heavy Austrian ar
| t1llery is being used.
The Notifications of Antwerp are
reckoned among the strongest in the
world. The city has been fortified
since the middle of the sixteenth cen.
| tury. In 1860, twenty-eight years after
the taking of the city by English and
French troops, Brialmont the noted
Belgian fort builder, supervised the re-
notification of the city, and since 1877
1t has had line of forts we'll out from
the inner defenses.
In 1907 the government decided to
do away with the inner line of walls
and replace them with an inner line
OF forts on the right bank of the
Scheldt. The plan involved the BARR
cadlng of the intervals between the
eight forts with iron barricades and
| permanent redoubts.
Warns Italians.
Rome, Sept 80. via Paris.-The Of.
fetal Gazette has published warning
issued by the government to Italians
VINO have taken or intend to take ser.
vice in the army of any country now
at war. This action is against neut
rallty and punishable under article Il
OF the penal code, with from five to ten
years in prison, or sixteen years in
| case Italy becomes involved Article
Is also deprives any Italian who en-
gagged in military service abroad Of
MS Italian citizenship without exempt
ing him from military service at home
Sink British Ships.
London, Sept. 30.-The official news
bureau announced today that the Ger
man cruiser Emden has sunk foul
British steamships and a collier. the
Emden has been operating in the gull
OF Bengal. She was reported recently
at Madras, where she conducted a
brief bombardment of that port ana
later at Pondicherry.
Japs Win Skirmish.
Pekin, China, Sept. 3O.-The Ger,
mans in Kiau-Chau have evacuated
the Waldersee line of defense before
an overwhelming force of the enemy
Tsing-tao is now comnIeteIy invested.
The German losses were small.
This information is contained in
dispatch received here from German
source at Tsinau, Shantung, WHICH
evidently is a wireless communicate
from Tsing-tao. 1t adds that the "a
panese armored cruiser squadron DOLE.
barded Tsing-tao Monday without any
damage.