Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-20
GERMANS
CONF |DENT
OF RESULT
BERLIN DISPATCHES SAY
ARMY SLOWLY GAIN
ING ON ALLIES.
FRENCH SHOOT Their BOLT
Declare Army Unable to Fill
Depleted Ranks Like
Opponents.

Berlin, Sept. 19-Via Rotterdam
and ondon.-Members of the gener-
al staff here, in private conversation,
have manifested absolute confidence
in the outcome of the battle in France
as their cwn army is steadily grow
ing stronger and the lines of commun'
ication have been adjusted to permit
of more efficient supply of provi-
sions and ammunition, it having rath.
er outrun it's supply arrangements in
the rapid advance on Paris.
Shot Their Bolt.
The French army, according to the
night bulletin, is showing signs OF
having shot it's bolt and has fought
itself to standstill, being unable TO
fill it's depleted ranks like the Ger
mans. The Germans, according to
last nights bulletin, are slowly but
surely gaining ground in the center.
The headquarters announcements
still give no definite information re-
garding the position of the battle line,
contenting themselves with speaking
of it generally as located between the
Nise and Meuss rivers but not men
tioning what part of this large region
the Germans occupy.
Aviator Killed.
Lieutenant Wercer Won Baeulieu,
one Of the best known German avia-
tors, has been killed. He was NOR
tally wounded while accommodating
hostile position on Sept. 4, but clung
to the steering gear until he and his
observer had safely landed within the
German lines. He then collapsed. AS
result of the trip the observer was
able to deliver a valuable report
The well-known sculptor, Friedrich
Pfannschmidt, captain Of The Fourth
Foot Guards, was killed in the battle
near Chalons. Herman Wende, the
Socialist member of the Riechstag
who caused a sensation during the
! budget debate by closing his speech
with he words: Long Live France"
has volunteered in the Frankfurter
landsturm battalion and has seen SER
vice in Belgium. He writes to the
Socialist organ that he could not sit
quietly before the fire while the whole
naticn was fighting for it's existence.
He said he wished during his service
to work by word and deed for the
cause of humanity which was sadly
neglected in war times.
A shower Of steel arrows, released
by French aviators over mile high
in the air, is the most modern terror
of war, accoI uing 10 accounts Of Ger
man, wounded, printed in the Munich
Medical Weekly. The arrows wnich
are of pressed steel, from to s inch
es long and j quarter Of AZ inch in dl-
ameter have heavy po:n.ed mead
aid sMeltonized shaft The arrows
seem to have canse1 more surprise
than actual damage. Only one man
was killed by head wound in the at
tack described, the others causing
mostly flesh wounds.
NThe regiment to which the wound
ed belong, resting in close battalion
formation, paid little attention TO two
aviators circling mile overhead un-
til the novel projectiles suddenly
rained down, scattering far and wide.
Men were wounded in three companies
The battery in the rear, at first non
plussed, later realized the source OF
the missiles and as many as possible
craWled under the wagons and es-
capped another shower Of them.
Crown Prince George and Prince
Frederick Christian of Saxony have
been awarded the Iron Cross.