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Evening journal., 1914-08-19
NEMsROY ARRESTED.

Tho first charge of failure to Sc
cure permit TO sell newspapers
from Child Labor Inspector Gibbons
will be held in Juvenile Court this
afternoon. The defendant. a Jewish
boy aged II years, was warned four
times about not having a permit and
he failed to apply for one. Another
case TO come before the court today
will be that of a colored youth charg-
ed with stabbing Louis Finesmith,
grocer of the East Side.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
WITNESS DIDN,T APPEAR.

Rogers wright, the prosecuting
witness against Joseph and Henry
Cohen failed to appear in City Court
today ana a capias was issued for him.
Wright had the young men arrested
on a charge Of larceny of 81. The
case will come up tomorrow morning.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
COZ. POSTLES IN STORM.

Col. G. p. Postles and l.. A. Brad
ley are on their way to Utica today
in their Chandler Special Auto. Last
night they were caught in storm
but Mr.. Postles wired this morning
to THE EVENING JOURNAL say
ing that his Chandler Special plowed
the roads like Lusitania.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
DISMISS THIS CASE.

Michael Camise in City Court today,
charged that Alexander Frazer ON last
Thursday. on Maryland avenue, cursed
him a number of times and invited MN
10 fight. Camise denied he threw a
bucket of water ON the defendant s
mother. or that he used profane eX-
preston toward the prosecuting witness
The case WAS dismissed.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19

This is the FIRST snapshot printed
in America showing the German Kai-
ser and his six sons walking abreast
in Berlin. all in full uniform. Il is
of especial interest because the en-
peror and some Of his sons are now
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
FLASHES FROM THE WAR
~ cEEcn soLnIERs lTrTryTEp.

By The United Press.
ROME aug is-e Trieste correspondent Of The corrisfe
D1aa telesraphs that tho Austans have been compelled
abandon an attack upon vladimir the government vohyna
The correspondent reports large number Of
Czech soldiers mutncd and refused to agh confirmed
OF them we're immediately
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
believe naval BATTLE
IN THE NORTH Sea soon

BY The United Press.
LONDON, Aug. IS While the Of
fetal war bureau announces there
has been desultory fighting Setween
the British and German warships in
the North Sea, it insists that mo
losses are reported or claimed" K
is stated that the fighting was con-
fined TO an exchange Of shots at
Continued on Page Eight.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
nrssIANs coNTNUE nYAsIoN.

BY The United Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. aug. is-TAe War once announces
that The invasion provinces Of Bukovna and
Gaca is well progress stated that several divisions total
ing more than 10000 chiefly infantry and artillery are
Austria several routes the location Of which are
withheld The general that The capture Of
csernovitz the capital nukowna, be looked for
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
KAISER WILHELM AND HIS SIX SONS

in the field actively engaged in the
war Left to right are the Kaiser,
the crown prince. Prince VIM. Fitel
Frederick, Prince Adalbert Prince
August William. Prince Oscar and
Prince Joachim.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
CAN,T SETTLE pIFFERENCEs.

Thompson Merritt who was charged
with non-support Of his wife. in City
Court today, said he had been unable
to reconcile a difference with his wife.
The case went over for a week.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
cHINEsE pIsARlI eERNlN.

BY The United Press
ROME. Aug ia caoiesram received here today from
Nankn CHINA says that The chinese authorities have asarnea
the German gunboat vaterand.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
French Advance Into
AIsace Continues

and that hundreds OF prisoners are being
taken.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19

United again, after AZ long years
OF separation, Stillia r. Hutchinson.
aged 6S years. and Richard R. Hutch
inson, aged Il years. brothers. are
now exchanging "reminiscences OF the
days long past, and declare that in
The future they will frequently see
each other.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19
WEATHER

For Delaware: Generally
fair tonight and Thursday,
continued warm.
Evening journal., 1914-08-19

AT EVENING JOURNAL OFFICE
Evening star., 1914-10-25

creasing in density from moment to
moment as fresh reserves crept into
the trenches. choked here and there
with fallen, and crowded in to add
their rifles defiance to that of their
comrades. From the reserve trenches
thin deployed lines of men crawled 10
the firing line each with dozen ban
about his shoulders for the men ahead
Windrows of dead marked the prog
ress of the advance. Dark forms lay
still. or writhed, and the plain became
mottled with the stricken. The adj
vancing line faltered; great gaps ap-
peared here and there. not only in the
first line. but in succeeding lines of
support and reserve. and the first line
dropped to earth and dug. dNg with the
terror of desperation for shelter. any
where. anything, to get away from tho
terrific blasts of devastation. And still
the guns Of attack and defense main
tanned their hellish roar. ,-~
Without sound, the defending in
fantry swept out from their trenches
into counter attack. advancing at a
run upon the shattered line before
them. With a concerted movement, the
artillery above them changed its objec-
tive and sought the hostile guns, which
vainly strove to cover the checked at
tack of their infantry; and the modern
artillery duel was over, but the battle
had just begun.
Copyright. 1914. by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.l
Evening star., 1914-10-25
1.-THE LAST CARTRIDGES

THIS is the title of famous paint
ing by the French war artist.
Alphonse de Neuville. It repre-
sents the desperate defense of an old
house at Bazeilles by handful of
French marines against tremendous
odds. Doubt having been cast upon
the authenticity of this episode. the
French government was at the pains
to publish an official report made by
Commandant Lambert. who commanded
the detachment at BaZeilles.
This report is a plain and straight
forward recital, dwelling not upon
thrilling details. Lambert had been
wounded by ball in the leg. and was
unable to walk more than few steps.
With q few officers and detachment
body of the French army. he took
refuge in an isolated house at the
highest point in BaZeilles and defended
it against the Germans. Firing from
the windows and any other openings
that they could find. the soldiers in
swarmed through the streets Of the
town, They believed that they would
soon be rescued by their own troops.
They still heard the sound of their
mitrailleuses and the detonation OF the
French chassepots. which they could
distinguish perfectly from the guns of
the Bayarians about them. They did
not know that these sounds came from
a French force as hope1essly walled in
as they themselves were. and that the
main body OF their countrymen hao
deserted them.
At one time, seeing chance for their
escape, Lambert tried to send his COM
rades away while he and a few SOL
diers were to remain ana fall into
fused to go. Meantime projecttles OF
all sorts were raining into the old
house. Bullets perforated the doors
Evening star., 1914-10-25

and windows until but little remained
of them. The building was entirely
surrounded by the 18th Bavarian Reg
iment
A bombshell crashed through the roof.
bearing down with it several men
Others were cut down by Bayarian
bullets. But the fight went on for. a
long time, and the Frenchmen were
able to keep their assailants at bay:
At last, however. the ammunition
gave out As the last cartridges were
being fired, the men, having heard the
Bavarians demand that no quarter
should be given those Frenchmen be-
cause of the heavy losses they had In
building with charged bayonets and
sell their lives dearly in hand-to-
hand conflict.
But their commander. the wounded
Lambert, waited until the last cart
ridge was fired. when he limped
swarming Bavarians alone. He de-
clared that If they killed him 1T would
be time for his soldiers to die. and IL
was possible that he, their commander.
could make some terms for them. 80
AS soon az he limped out and stood
with folded arms a dozen bayonetB
were at his breast. He would have
been killed in another instant II the
Bavarian captain had not. at the risk
of his own life, prectpftated himself
upon the French officer and beaten back
his own men. Infuriated by the fright.
full loss which the defenders had in
fiicted upon their own regiment. they
would have put the whole detachment
to death. ---
The Bavarian captain prevailed, and
the Frenchmen were made prisoners
of war. The Bavarian officer congrat-
ulated the French commander warmly
upon the desperate and heroic stand
they had made.
Evening star., 1914-10-25

Of supplies, but most Of them had pitched
the small shelter tents. and. wearily OBJ
1tvious to discomfort, were sleeping the
sleep of exhaustion Lucky ones had
clammy bundles of straw under them, or
branches Of trees. but the majority were
content to lie even in the mud.
For four days and nights there had
been a succession of taking up position,
advancing torrent of gray-clad infantry
with rain Of shrapnel, mad gallop to
rearward at the last moment, leaving
dead and wounded where they lay. and
the assumption Of another position prev-
ously picked out by the staff. And. at
last, the shosen position for the final,
desperate stand had been reached
The enemy's pursuit had been shaken
of momentarily, and the insistent de-
lnands of nature for sleep. sleep, sleep,
had been honored on sight. for, of all
the living things belonging to the bat
terry, only the heavy-eyed picket guard.
who waded a dreary round through the
mud. and the two peevish horses which
kicked and squealed. were awake.
Over the unseen hills, a few hundred
yards to the northward, there came a
splash of rife firing. It was distant
and dull and came on SO gradually that
the slumber of the bivouac. in the mud
was not broken until a drenched mes
senger. with orders, reined in and slip
ped from his horse before the dimmed
light of the guard shelter.
The battery commander, tired-eyed
and unshorn. was. nevertheless, alert
on the instant and, at his prompt or
ders, the reused non-commissioned Of
fcers made the round Of the sections,
shaking and waking the men. They
stumbled out drunkenly. shrank before
the cold. steady rain which greeted
them, yet, like automatons. commenced
and completed the packing of their
field equipment, then filed, cup in hand,
by the. wheeled field kitchen with its
simmering boiler to receive warm. well
come coffee.
In the swaying light of the section
lanterns the horses were harnessed and
Evening star., 1914-10-25

hooked to the piece and manned, and
under the combined exertions of horse
and man the crest was gained. In the
same way gun after caisson was
the hill at last, intact, while the clash
OF dephyed advance guard with outpost
line of resistance roared before them.
Up the southern slopes of the ridge.
vance of battery after battery to the
crest, from their positions in rear, and
where the lanterns halted, the batteries
deployed below the top of the hill. The
sharp flash of electric hand-lamps il
Illuminated the sights as they were set.
while the range-hnding parties sour
ried to the ridge-top the galloping reel
carts paying out the telephone lines
from observation points to guns.
The fighting ahead was but pre1im-
mary and in the brief time before the
generous action would precipitated
cannoneers became laborers. while
cut into the wet ground, to make en-
placements for gun and caisson. The
horses carried the limbers to the rear,
down the hill to the shelter of the
were placed in position near the guns,
and other caissons stood, with horses
hitched and harnessed, ready to dash
forward at the te1ephoned word with
additional ammunition.
\
There was no shouting. The officers
gave their brief commands In quiet
tones and there was no hitch in carry
ing them out. Hand after hand was
raised, as at each piece the gunner
flashed his tiny light, indicating readi-
ness.
At intervals in rear of the ridge, to
one flank or the other Of the batteries.
1an hr1r
These were the sighting points for the
gunners, upon which lay their aim.
The target is seldom visible to the
gunners, who set their sights at a GER
Evening star., 1914-10-25

Today the lowlands between Termond
and Antwerp have all the characteristics
Of that old area. It ia land reclaimed
from the ocean. held back by dikes,
Notifications against the sea. You know
the story Of the little Dutch boy who
saw water trickle from a tiny hole in
such a dixie and stopped 1t with his
finger. He held it stopped for hours to
prevent the hole enlarging and the
waters gushing inward always greater,
and saved his country.
And the same astonishing phenome-
non was observed again in 1914 as
when the dikes were broken in 1851
rabbits, hares, domestic and wild fowl,
Evening star., 1914-10-25

and all kinds of animals, great and
small, seemed to feel the inundation
coming; while men. in spite of their
intelligence and watchfulness. went on
TRANQUILITY and stupidly digging their
trenches. planting their batteries. eat
ing ,sta sieepi ,thnr anu thair comtin ~ ras was
planes outside, nor their spies within
the city. nor field telephones nor wire
less service gave the Germans the
slightest hint that certain modest Ant
werp engineers, at various secret
points, were unlocking iron doors in
masonry, penetrating to electric-lit
vaults, and, with their own hands. un-
aided, were functioning the great hy-
draulic lifts which opened simulta-
neously the sluice-gates of the Scheldt,
the Rippel and the Nothe.
Evening star., 1914-10-25

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, October Is, 1914.
EVERYBODY who has read Monte
II Cristo' or seen 1t acted will re-
member the Chateau DIFF, the fear
some prison from which Dumas sailor
hero, Edmond Dantes. escaped in a sack
after having taken the place therein of
his fellow-prisoner and counselor. the
Able Faria.
Such Dumas lovers, accordingly, may
be interested to hear that the Chateau
diff. which stands, of course. on an
island in Marseflle harbor. and was a
fortress before it became a prison. is,
owing to the war. once more in use as
place OF detention after having been
for many years a showplace
Il have just steamed around it,
writes correspondent at Marseille.
'and espied several melancholy black
figures in French uniforms on the bat
Elements. They are guarding German
prisoners. Outside the door of the CEN
trail fort were three monks, and along
the winding path to the landing stage
was thick dark coil of prisoners. In
the offing was a red French ship taking
up a fresh batch of prisoners from a
small boat for conveyance to Algiers.
1t was a silent. gloomy picture. but no
one could tell me whether the famous
old dungeons are still being used"
1t was from a dungeon Of the Chateau
DIFF. of course. that Edmond Dantes
made his escape, after having languished
within its walls for fourteen years. How
Dantes and the mad" Able Faria man
aged to communicate with each other
by means of a tunnel dug between their
cells. how the abbe told his young
protege Of the treasure of Monte Cristo
and how the latter. incased in his sack.
finally was thrown into the sea from the
ramparts OF the cheateau with 4 thirty
Evening star., 1914-10-25
Well to Remember.

<SW1lLL there be a revolution in Ger
many If the war is lost? Will
the Hohenzollerns lose their crown and
Germany become a republic?"
The speaker was the Denver sociolo-
gist, Prof. H. L. Allen. He added:
"As to that I can't say, but there's
a German proverb which. in this con-
nectton, the kaiser would do we'll to
remember The proverb runs:
when a man is down his enemies
stop kicking him-and his friends be-
GIN"
Evening star., 1914-10-25

between gun and caisson wheels, where
the battery horses were tied for the night
Rain. which. though not heavy, seemed
ceaseless. dropped chillingly from black
night, and the canvas paulins over the
guns gathered the raindrops into streams
which poured along crinkled. folds to. the
ground. It was soggy, miserable biv-
ouac, and there was nothing, dry in
camp.
Some of the men were snuggled under
the paulins. A few found places In the
motor-lorries, made vacant by the using
Evening star., 1914-10-25
WHEN THE DlKEs OF BELGIUM WE'RE OPENED
pecial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER,
BASEL. Switzerland. October 10, 1914.
"7ATER, only next to fire. makes
w hecatombs in the great European
war.
The thrilling account of how Antwerp
broke her dikes to drown the besieging
Germans and render vast area on one
side Of the city inaccessible tells the
same story that astonished the world in
the year 1881, when the low countries
let In the ocean on the entire French
army of Due dAlencon,. destroying it
completely.
At that time the heroic Hollanders
deliberately submerged a third of their
Evening star., 1914-10-25

firing line, blazed, as tongues of fame
from the rifles licked out, and over the
position there hung a haze Of smoke.
broken by quick CLEANS where the
enemy's shrapnel burst low and scat
tered the deadly cone of bullets upon
the trenches.
Down the slope below the artillery
there suddenly shone out silvery
beams. straight to the front. and
sweeping slowly from side to side. the
searchlights of the defense. mounted
upon automobile trucks, loomed over
the position of the hostile advance. At
the same moment the waiting artillery
struck.
The very earth seemed to split and
rock. In fierce, staccato succession,
each artillery unit broke into salvos.
boom-boom-boom and the
next battery took up the thunder. By
the time the last gun of the second
battery had launched its death, the
first gun Of the first battery spoke
again. and the din continued in Gre
scendo roar until the blast of each
discharge seemed to rack the ribs of
the men in the trenches below by the
mere compression of the air, and
voices were unheard in the appalling
uproar.
men tne searchl1ghts had picked
up the advancing lines, mere lines of
dots and dashes. before the enemy's
artillery had quickly found and
quenched the lights, there arose a
mounting cloud of dust where the
shrapnel balls tore up the ground with
their deadly hail. hundred guns in
this particular section of the defense
were each launching shrapnel every
six seconds, and a thousand shrapnel
minute sprayed the line a scant mile
long with their soaring fire.
With the opening of the defending
guns the enemy's artillery took I'M the
Evening star., 1914-10-25

challenge and upon the artillery po-
sftion, in turn, came the shrapnel. The
gunners crouched behind their steel
shields, the shielded caissons so close
alongside the guns that the long shells
in their cartridge cases could be passed
to the waiting cannoneers with little
exposure, while the shrapnel balls beat
a DEVILS tattoo upon the steel A few
more searchlights, kept dark for con-
cealment, sprang into life and played
upon the advance, disclosing masses
and more masses OF infantry rushing
forward to assault, and the defending
guns. ignoring the artillery pounding
upon them. shortened the range at the
buzzing telephones command and con-
centrated upon the lines.
Summoned by telephone from the
rear, additional caisSonS charged up to
the guns with more ammunition. Re
gardless of concealment or shelter, sec
tion after section of the artillery push
ed from the shelter of the rear slope
to the crest, until the gun muZzles
peered over, and fired directly upon the
hurrying attack, now dimly seen in the
first light of the breaking of a gray
morning.
The turf was torn into great gashes
in prolongation Of the scorching muz-
zles from the blast of the discharge,
and wet as the ground was from the
sodden rain. the grass dried, shriveled
and scorched under the heat. Men
commenced to fall in rear of the
shields, for the searching of the hostile
guns was incessant; firing and sighting
ports, intervals between piece and
caisson. became ports of entry for the
whistling balls that found their billets
in human flesh. Yet the guns roared
on.
From the trenches at the foot Of the
hill the rifle fire cracked and spat. in
Evening star., 1914-10-25

tain angle of elevation. computed by
the battery commanders from the
range ascertained by the range-finding
parties. The direction was taken by
stakes set in line before the sights
or by compass
The batteries taking up position did
not form a continuous line of guns
Such formation is relic of bygone
days when ranges were not as great as
today. Artillery battalions and regi-
ments were grouped together, but with
intervals along the battle front some
where. were a hundred batteries. 200
batteries, and the units of defense
section were able at the voice of the
directing officer over the telephone to
concentrate at will upon any desired
point with powerful fire.
artillery masses columns Of infantry
swept along. In war of the past the
infantry of each contender was content
to await the outcome of f1erce battle
between the hostile guns, until one OF
the other gained an ascendency, before
launching. the delayed attack.
*A
But times have changed, and today
the artillery duel as a separate thing
seldom exists. The sweep of the at
tack is coincident with the avalanche
of shell and shrapnell, and under it's
cover of fire and iron the attacking
lines push forward
The defending infantry pouring
through the gaps moved into position
at the foot of the long slope to receive
the expected attack. All night the
line had been held in force and the
trenches were already prepared for
the supports and reserves coming up,
comparatively fresh troops to take up
the burden of repulsing the assault.
There was not so much as a point Of
light to mark the position of the hos
tile batteries. A long line of intermit-
tent flashes, marking the defending
Evening star., 1914-10-25
A Messenger With
Orders Up the Hill
Toward the Firing
Line-A Broken Line
of Batteries - The
Thunder of Death.
How the Modern Duel
Is Staged and the Final
Outcome 49,
SHRILL, neigh, al.

SHRILL, neigh. al.
most a squ cal,
c a m e fro m t he
picket lines, fol-
lowed by the thump
of protesting heels
against equine ribs
and the dull plop
of a return to
6 r ou n d in. t h e
sticky pastern-deep
mud.
The lines stretched