The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-10-02
GENERAL NEWS OF THE WAR

Canadian Troops on the Way.
The major part Of Canada's latest
contingent of $4,000 men for service
in Europe is already on it's way to the
front in 20 transports heavily armed
and guarded by British men-of-war in
sufficient force to prevent any attack
by German cruisers.
German Captive List Cut.
The Central News Agency at Lon
don has received the following dis
patch from Rome: "A message from
Berlin says the general staff, having
agreed to the complete official lists of
prisoners, has found it necessary to
admit that the total already an
nounced was erroneous. The aggre-
gate number of prisoners in German
hands is now reduced from 250,0O0l
to $4,000, of whom $4,000 are Rus
SLAMS"
BeIgians Capture Germans.
The Rotterdam Courant says that
Belgian troops are showing at many
places from which they have long
been absent. Two thousand Germans
were captured, it says, on September
20 between Malines and Aershot. Two
hundred officers among them will be
kept at Antwerp. The remainder of
the prisoners will go to England.
Italy already has nearly five hum
dred thousand men under arms. The
majority are camped in Lombardy.
U. S. Envoy Escapes Bombs.
The latest exploit of the German air
forces nearly created vacancies in the
United States diplomatic service.
A Taube aeroplane, profiting by the
autumnal haze, flew unperceived over
Paris Sunday morning until it was
nearly above Eiffel tower. AS it
reached this point it dropped bomb
which fell in the Avenue du Troca-
dero, making hole in the macadam
roadway. In exploding it killed an
aged solicitor and severely wounded
his granddaughter walking home with
him from church.
The spot where the bomb exploded
was 200 yards from the chancellery of
the American embassy. Ambassador
Herrick and Arthur H. Frazier, the
second secretary of the embassy,
walked over the spot where the bomb
exploded at 10:30 on their way to the
chancellery, and, returning in an open
motor car, passed over the same point
at 11:10, thereby missing the bomb by
five minutes.
Russians Occupy. PrzemysI.
The Russians are in Przemysl, &C
cording to dispatch received at Lon
don from Petrograd. The Austrian
garrison has been obliged to concen-
trate exclusively in the eastern forts,
and, with the triumphant entrance of
the Russians into the city itself great
numbers of inhabitants followed the
Austrian soldiers and took refuge in
the forts. For the garrison to hold for
many days is considered almost
military impossibility.
The Russians have captured the
city of Rzezsow.
The line from Przemysl to Cracow
is now believed to be almost, if not
quite unattended, and the Russian
problem for the present is merely
problem of rapid marching and main
tanning constant following of supply
trains from the northeast.
Tells of German Casualties.
An oucial report, issued at Berlin,
gives the total German casualties
killed. wounded and missing-to date
as 04,5S9. A list just issued an
nounces 10,527 casualties in addition
to those previously reported.
The tabulation of the figures covers
nearly four columns In the Berliner
Tageblatt The total casualties in
clude: Killed, 1854; wounded, e5.-
90S; missing, 23,007.