The chronicle=news., 1914-10-03
GERMANS HOLD
FIRM POSITION
(Contisu-d from ssge ~

who. with arms extended cried.
Boy! Boy! Here you are!"
A dispatch to the Reuter- Telegram
company from Potchefstrom. the
ITransvall. South Africa. says that an
lattempt of Gen. Christian Dewitt to.
address a meeting of protest against
the action in regard to the war re-
suited in the breaking uD of the
meeting after a demonstration which
appeared to be the proportions of
riot. r.
| Admission to the hall had been re-
stricted to ticket holders. but
crowd of sympathizers with General
Louis Botha. who has taken command
of the British operations against the
IGermans. in southwest Africa, gather
ed outside and battering down the
'harricGded doors, bombarded the
forces with eggs
and bricks. A freeior-all fight fol
lowed, during which the lights in the
place were eXtinguished.
Then the crowd from the hall NOV
ed into the open. where General de-
witt again attempted to speak.
|
singing. shouting and cheers for Cen
eral Botha. Later the supporters of
Botha paraded the streets and ended
1.-THE demonstration by adoDting a vote
Iof confidence in the south African
premier.
The military expert of the Times
today says:
However much We may bend
back the German right wing and re-
lievc Antwerp. whatever confidence
we have that the shock of the Rus
sian masses in the east will prove
decisive we must not entertain the
slightest illusion regarding the hard
and tHing conditions which awaits
all the allies in the future in ope!at
ing against Germany reduced to the
defensive.
Germany is still united Her re-
sources grow atop. All her might in
arms. all her arsenals are working
at full press,Ee, Her. fleet will
strike when the hour comes, probab-
ly in cooperation with the army.
| 'The line Of the Asne, when
forced. may prove to be only one of
many similar lines prepared in the
rear of it. II may take Il very long
time for the allies to compel Ger
many to feel a weakness. It there
fore devolves On the allies to loos
| forward to long war"
Berlin, Oct. 2 (via London) a
| correspondent of the Local Anzeiger,
who has witnessed the military op-
| erations in the Argonne forest and
north of Verdun telegraphs his pa
per that the boom mbardment of Yer
dun still continues Much activity
at the Verdun railroad station has
been noted and there are three cap
tive balloons over the city.
The English artillery is doing et-
ficient work in the Argonnc forest
and causing much trouble, but the
German position is "as of iron" Up
to the present time all the efforts of
the enemy have been futile. While
the developments are slow, the cor
respondent AYERS it is thought that
the final decision is not far off.
The population of the district is
starving.
New York, Oct. '.-Dow Jones &
Co., a Wall street news agency, sent
out the following dispatch today:
'BordeauS, Oct. a.-Minister Of
War Millerand declared today tha.
oily the steady arrival of heavy re-
inforcements had averted disaster for
the army of General Won kluck and
tnC end of the right wing of the Ger
Mali army. He said that early IN
the week the forces of General Ven |
kluCk We're in desperate straits nnI
thar part of them had been forced t.,
withdraw from advanced positions to |
4 i.oint northeast of st. Quentin BY |
a raid of I'',nch cavalry.
'Gercral \on kluck. Minist r NIL
lerald said. lad called for rainfnrtc-
nc"ts. but the arrival was IL 'aved
and the. arr ivcd only in time tr ,,-