The Holly chieftain., 1914-09-04

LONDON, Sept. 1.-The correspond
entof the Express at The Hague wires
his paper that Emperor William has
gone to the Russian front. The re-
slstless advance of the Russian armies
has caused the kaiser to take personal
charge of his troops against the Mus
covites.
London.-An Antwerp dispatch to
the Reuter- Telegram Company says:
1T is reported here that General Pau
has won brilliant victory over 50,-
600 Germans near Peronnes, in the
department of Somme."
Paris.-Thousands of people saw a
German biplane swoop down toward
the city. A bomb was dropped, but 1t
fell outside the city walls. Then from
somewhere in the Notifications an
aeroplane gun opened up. The aviator,
evidently frightened, veered eastward
and disappeared.
Pekin.-The japanese, according to
reports received here, have occupied
two other islands within the German
sphere at kiao-Chow. They are
Taliekao and Tekung-Tao.
Berlin.-The twelfth list of German
losses has been made public. 1t con-
tains 1.006 names. The total German
casualties made public total LOO
dead, 1926 wounded and 1,761 missing.
London, Aug. 31.-After a week of
terrific fighting. the Austrian army of
100000 men has suffered hopeless
defeat at Zamose, fifty miles south
east of Lublin, in Russian Poland. For
days the battle was in doubt. Austria
brought regiment after regiment to
hurl against the Russian advance; she
sacrificed large part of her cavalry
In the attempt to turn the cars pro-
gress away from Lemberg and Tarnow
in Galicia. But the steady, relentless
march of the Russian soldiers finally
exhausted the Austrian troops and
they are now in full flight.
For days the soldiers of the czar in
the district about Lublin had neither
food nor sleep. They battled all day
and during the night, advanced on the
exhausted Austrians and fought with
knives, bayonets and sometimes with
their bare hands in the darkness
Paris.-From every part of France
troops are being rushed to Paris to
man the defenses of the city against
the threatened German attack. The
rails are crowded with military trains
for miles around the suburbs carrying
reserves for the defensive forces.
The city is prepared for siege of
indefinite length Military experts
say the capital cannot be captured in
side of six months. All noncombat-
ants have been asked to leave the city
to insure the food supply for the de-
Tenders.
Within the city walls the excitement
caused by the bombs dropped by Ger
man aeropanes is subsiding. A Sc
cret sign has been communicated to
the French airmen at the front by
which they may be distinguished from
the enemy at great distance.
This is to prevent their being fired
on by excited city guards as they ap-
proach Paris.
The population which intends to re-
main in Paris has resigned itself to
its fate. The Investment of the city
by the Prussians is regarded as almost
certainty.
NJ. Millerand minister of war, ac-
companied by General Gallieni, mill
tary governor of Paris, inspected the
northeast front of the entrenched
camp at Paris and congratulated Gen
eral Gallieni on the rapid progress of
the work on the supplementary de-
fenses.
In reply TO question whether the
United States embassy would leave
Paris in event of the investment of
the city by the Germans, Myron T.
Herrick, the American ambassador
said:
THE American embassy will re-
main here. My government offered
me the choice of returning to the
United States or remaining here. |
chose to remain because many Ameri-
cans will be here who will need not
only my support but my protection"
The French foreign office has dis.
used the idea Of moving the capital
with foreign diplomats. so that they
could make proper arrangements.