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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24

the foreign trade only th,r,x -
oeen sunk By the enemy, ., ~ ~ IN
per cent In all. Besides. sss. s IN
sells are overdue in Atlantic , yer ~
The rate Of insurance s''eh
which at the outbreak o. ,t@'zse
was fixed at five guineas ns, .ae "
now been reduced TO Two vn,s sshs h
cent. s"nsss ~
Between 5000 and anna
voyages have been undertakes ,o'''n
from United Kingdom MORT 70 ri
five per thousand Of which bs IA
interfered with, and Of the.a 80 bee
large number have been ean.ssss
merchant vessels taking svsss. a y
for granted and proeeedins ssly.,u,i1s
precautions, as IL there were "untg
"On the other hand, German ~
sea trade has practically ss,.. yssl.
exist. Nearly all their r.. y
which could have been used min
iary cruisers, we're promptly nss 81.
into neutral harbors, or bav. p. ,s
refuge in their own. Among II, 'ssf,
paratively few German shin s'n.
have put to sea 1873 have been s,,, sa',
or nearly four times the numk...'sa
those lost by the very laree p.i..t
mercantile marine. "'lx
"In these circumstances thers /,
occasion for anxiety and no sy... y
complaint. On the contrary, The 30. =.
fully the facts Concerning an non
sea trade and its protection \, ", <
royal navy can be disclosed az =,
more attentiyely IL is studisdT .@
greater will be the confidence sn5 y
isfaction with which the situation :.
be viewed" a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
BELCIANS TO HAVE
new YORK OFFICE
Relief Workers Beg for
Gifts of Foodstuffs
from America.

London. Oct. 23.-The American COM
mission for Belgian Relief today re-
ceived from the Belgian Minister IN III
London. Count de Lalaing,. SoOO,OVo
taken from the Belgian relief 1uhus
intrusted to the minister. The commis-
sion is now purchasing food and sup
plies with this money.
Seven thousand frozen sheep con,
tributed by the Australian colonies ana
now en- route TO London, will be trans
ferred to the American Commission 70
whom Walter Hines Page has turned
over $4,000 received from Robert de
Forest. ia, A.
The Belgian Minister has notified the
commission that the shipment OF sup
niles from the Brooklyn women's war
relief committee, and also the funds
raised in the United States, Will be IN
trusted to the commission.
The commission prefers that dona-
tions for the Belgians, made IN the
United States, take the form OF tood-
stuffs shipped in neutral bottoms to
Rotterdam. It is purpOsed by the com
mission to start an information once
in New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
AUSTRIANS NOW
EAT HORSEFLESH
Beef Becomes Scarce, as War
Takes $4,000 Oxen, Instead
of Normal $4,000.

Venice, Oct. % (via Paris).--Advices
received here from Budapest say that
owing to the war and the necessity to
supply the army with beef the con-
sumption of cattle has increased enor-
mously. Since the beginning Of the
war $4,000 oxen have been slaughtered
in Budapest as against $4,000 for the
corresponding period of 1918.
The advices add that owing to an
inadequate staff in the castle market
livestock is frequently left unfed and
unwatered from three to five days. As
a result many head of cattle die and
the remainder furnish an inferior quail
ity of meat.
The shortage in the supply of cattle
is very apparent. The consumption of
horsefesh is rapidly increasing. Five
hundred horses brought into the vi
emma market on Monday sold for from
$40 to $50 each.
Since the beginning Of the month
the prices of eggs and butter in vi
emma have risen tremendously, placing
them far beyond the reach Of the poor
er classes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
BELGIANS EAGER TO
REBUILD COUNTRY
Captain Pretit So Tells American
Luncheon Club - irwin 5.
Cobb Also Speaks.

London, Oct. 2S.-The guests Of honor
os the American Luncheon Clubs meet
ing this week we're Captain Fernand
Pretit, Of the Belgian army, ard Irwin S.
Cobb. Captain Pretit, in a short, emo
tional speech, said that the Belgian
army was still factor to be reekoned
with, and the Belgian people were still
united in the desire to expel the Ger
mans fiom Belgian soil and in calm
determination to undertake the task Of
rebuilding Belgium.
Mr.. Cobb spoke for the greater part
Of his speech in q characteristic vein,
changing, however. TO another note long
enough TO pay the highest tribute in
my power" to all Americans, diplomatic
and consular representatives, whose
posts have been within the western the
atre Of war lie said:
no one has yet heard Of an Ameri-
can official who has sidestcppcd his
duty, however great may have been his
trials or dangerous his place of duty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
SUES FOR SOCIAL SERVICE
Son of Drygoods Man Asked to
Pay His Sisters Companion.

Miss Louise Conklin, who says that
she was for four years a social amanu-
ensis for Mrs. Mary Montgomery, a
daughter of the late John Daniel, a
drygoods merchant, brought suit yes
terday in the Supreme Court against
John Daniel, jr., for $4,000 for her ser
vices
~ was her intimate friend and social
equal" said Miss Conklin in her COM
plant, land as she was practically
alone she asked me to live with her as
her companion and confdant. Four
years after ! went to live with her we
moved to Yonkers, and there assisted
Mrs. Montgomery at social functions
and in her household duties. She treat
ed me as her sister. and when her
husband died | shared her grief. She
promised TO remember me in her will,
and, as that was not done, think
So, 900 a reasonable amount to ask for"
Mr.. Daniel filed his answer yesterday.
in which he said that the claim of Miss
Conklin was settled before the death
Of Mr'. Montgomery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
THIRTEEN PERISH
IN TEXAS FLO0D
Five-Inch Rainfall in Less than
Three Hours Cause of Dis.
aster at San Antonio.

San Antonio, Tex, Oct. G.-fsh
teen persons were drowned here 10
day in a food Of the San An.sri,
River and the San Pedro and Alan,
Creeks. Half a dozen Others are y.
lieved also to have lost their lives
A five-inch rainfall in less thr
three hours caused a fifteen.fOot s.sl
IN the river, and put the creeks ~
Ct their banks from 100 70 1000 fse.
All the deaths occurred in the NJ
creeks, which run through tn Ell
A number Of small dwellings wers u,
dermined and swept away. The DO,
erty loss, it is thought, will no, *
coed $4,000. A number Of nin-
Identified Mexicans are amOug he
drowned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24

walLi following lighting reported Dy
,hem Yesterday in the direction OF Us
sowetS. south Of Augustowo, SHOWS
that the Germans are trying w ~
vance from East Prussia mo liz
government Of Grodno, east OF ouw ,i;ng
doubtless with the object OF eoInpens
the Russians to reinforce tneir army
in chat region. l.. 90 nThe
Morning Post" says: -,
wounded men, IN their aecounvvs -
tho lighting around the village OF kozi-
enica state that while the artillery
duel was proceeding for several Gays
and nights tho troops were unable 10
move. Finally the artillery hre became
equal on both sides, and orders came
TO make a bayonet attack. Iii.
"The soldiers, stiff and miseraple
from their long confinement IN tho
flooded trenches, were only TOO oe-
lighted at the order, and dashed upon
the German line with irresistible viz
or. The Germans, for the second Ilrne
during the war on this side, met mem
with the bayonet, and terrible hght
ensued. Neither side could gain tne
advantage, and the slaughter was rear
full. ,L cana
'Finally a Russian hurrah came
down on the wind from the flank, toi-
lowed by brisk firing. The GeI a,
mistook this for successful outhank-
inc movement and they broke and ned,
abandoning everything in their run LOT I
safety. The Russians pursued .ISsi, 'S saa
for twenty miles, and the pam was
strewn with the German dead"
A Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam
gives the following Austrian oihclal
report, issued at Vienna at noon yes
terday: e .to
"In the battle on both banks OF tne
River Strwiaz, south of Przemysl, we
succeeded in pushing forward our i az,
tack south of the river. On the ne'gnes
southeast of Syant and sambor, TWO
fortified positions of the Russians
which run in parallel directions have
been occupied by us. NoTthwesT, ;r 81
Syant and Sambor our iigntng inc
came nearer the road to Staras0i.
"Our troops have entered Czerno-
WITT, Bukowina."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
CAVALRY CHECKS
INVADERS IN FRANCE
Bars Turning Movement
of German Right-Troop-
erS Die in Duel.

Paris. Oct. 23.-The Havas News
Agency has given out a dispatch, dated
Before La Bassee, in October" which
says:
"The invaders, having first failed
before Albert and Roye, and, secondly,
before Arras. in their attempts to en-
velop the French left wing, are be
'ieved TO have been more fortunate IN
the region of Bethune, Merville, Bail
leul and Armentieres.
"For this reason, after pushing for
ward toward Hazebrouck (thirty-two
miles northwest Of Lille and Alre-on-
the-Lys. they. undertook, October IA
an offensive following the River Lys.
German cavalry crossed the river
toward Erquinghen, and supported the
right wing of the bulk of the German
army, which proceeded south and
southwestward, with the evident inten-
ton of turning Bethune and Selling
the railroads which the Germans be-
lieve have been used for supplying the
left wing of the Allies.
awe defeated this maneuvre, and
then occurred serious cavalry fghting,
which. owing to the nature Of the land,
left the issue confused. The district
is interspersed with rivers, canals and
deep depressions. The farms are di-
vided by hedges and rows Of trees,
making communication from one held
ia another difficult, but excellent for
ambuscades. Nevertheless, the allied
cavalry fought successfully at Estaires,
Fleurbaix, Laventie, Vieille Chapelle,
Jacouture and Richebourg.
"The battlehelds bear numerous
traces of the severity of this fighting.
al Vieille Chapelle a German cavalry
man and a French mounted rifeman,
after losing their horses, continued
their encounter to neighboring cot
tage. where, with drawn swords, they
fought a duel in the kitchen. Both
we're MORALLY wounded, and their
graves are now side by side in the
cemetery of the village church. Here
the tombstones have been knocked
down. while the church itself shows
shattered stained glass windows and
ia without steeple and roof"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
Allies Search the Seas to
Engage Destroyers OF
Commerce.
LOOK FOR EMDEN,
ALSO KARLSRUHE
These Two Have a Record OF 80
Captured or Sunk-British
Loss 80 Om of 1000.

London, Oct. 23.-The Admiralty to-
night issued a statement outlining tne
steps that are being taken to round up
the eight or nine German cruisers at
large in the Atlantic, Pacific and indian
oceans. These cruisers include the
Emden, which has sunk or captured
twenty British vessels 10 date in the
Indian Ocean, and the Karlsruhe,
which has taken thirteen British ships
in the Atlantic. The statement says: =,
Searching for these vessels and
working in concert under various COM
manders in chief are upward of sew
enty British, Australian, japanese,
French and Russian cruisers, not in
GLIDING auxiliary cruisers. Among
these are a number of the fastest Brit
ish cruisers.
"The vast expanses Of seas and
oceans and the many thousands OF ISL
ands offer almost infinite choice OF
movement to the enemy's ships. In
spite Of every effort to cut off their
coal supply, it has hitherto been main
tanned by one means or another. In
the face of increasing difficulty the
discovery and destruction Of these few
enemy cruisers, therefore, is largely a
matter of time, patience and good luck.
Seeks Public Confidence.
"The public should have confidence
that the commanders in chief and the
experienced captains serving under
them are doing all that is possible and
taking the best steps to bring the en-
envy to action.
"Our commanders so far have been
occupied in very serious and important
convoy duty, but this work has some
what lessened, and the number Of
searching cruisers is being continually
augmented
meanwhile merchant ships must 3D.
serve the Admiralty instructions,
which it is obviously impossible TO
specify, and use all the precautions
which have been suggested. On routes
where these instructions have been fol-
lowed they have so far proved very ef-
fective. On the other hand, where
they have been disregarded, captures
have been made. The same vastness Of
the sea which has so far enabled he
German cruisers to avoid capture will
protect trade.
"The only alternative to the methods
now adopted would be the marshalling
of merchantmen in regular conveys at
stated intervals. So far { has not
been thought necessary to hamper
trade by enforcing such a system.
Losses Less Than One Per Cent
1.-THE percentage of loss * much less
than was reckoned on before the war.
Out of 1000 British ships engaged in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24

fighting IN the thickly populated indus
trial country between Lille and La
Bassee.
There is evidence that Germans IN
Beieium are in some anxiety ALREADY
about what is happening in France.
For DAYS past a movement eastward
from the north Of belgium has oeen
manifested, Their reinforcements may
hold matters up, but they cannot throw
matters backward. Not once since
Marine has the German infantry car
RED an important position OF the Al
lies. and what they could not do then
certainly they are not likely to do now.
The BeIgians, French and British
wish nothing so much as personal con-
tact with the enemy with the bayonet
as a weapon.
Germans Barricade Streets.
At Lens and up 20 Lille lighting is
Of the most obstinate character. On
the mar this looks like open country,
but st Lens, as about Lille, the Ger
mans are barricading what are really
miles Of streets and establishing ma
chine guns on house tops.
Lens is a great coal mining district
II is obvious that in such a place the
lelendercs toptClailg III Oh NAStHJ y
country, are in superior position.
They have the advantage Of the Sc.
leeting commanding points. and
they know the attackers will remember
the civilians and their valuable ma
tionai property. II must be expected
that the country about Lens, East
Bethune and the environs OF Lille will
be held most stubbornly in conse-
auence. All the same the progress
made there, especially before Bethune
and around Lille, has been wonderful
during the past week, but the destroc,-
ton 70 that wealthy French industrial
country has been very great.
Some coal mines are on hro, ana
towns in part have been destroyed or
arc In flames. Nevertheless, the
French are an abrupt and practical
folk. The Germans 10 sooner arc
cleared out, as at Bethune, than the
railway officials order their staff bsck
20 duty, though the smoke Is still
there.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
GERMANS SWEPT
BY FIRE FROM SHIPS

Rotterdam, Oct. 23.--Fierce fighting
continues on the northwest frontier, in
Bruges, where thousands of German
wounded are suffering, mostly from the
shells Of the British feet. The Ger
mans say the naval gun fire is devilish.
The shells pour like hailstones amid
masses of troops. English prisoners
brought to Client remark to their capt
ors: you've got us; but, God help you,
we have you where we want youl"
Advices from Sluis are to the effect
that the Germans are not prospecting
in the ineessant fighting which is GO
ing on over the whole of the West
Flanders front, from Roulers to Thou
rout and between Ostend and Nieuport.
The struggle is still undecided, but
there is little doubt the Germans are
now clearing out of OstencI and
Bruges.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
DUKE OF ROXBURGHE
WOUNDED IN FRANCE
lBy cable 70 The Tribune !

London, Oct. %. The Duke of Rox-
burghe, captain in the Scots Guard. was
wounded while on service in France.
Reports at Floors Castle state that the
duke Is not IN dangerous condition.
The Duke OF Roxburghe is we'll
known IN the United States. especially
in New York, where in 1903 he mar.
ried Miss May Goelet. The couple have
was born IN September 8, 1913
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
KAISER'S COMMAND
PLEASES THE POPE
lnv cable to The Tribune

Rome. Oct. 23.-Pope Benedict XIV
has written TO the Archbishop of CO.
logne expressing his satisfaction that
through the Archbishop's efforts, the
German Emperor has ordered French
priests taken as prisoners Of war TO
be treated as officers. The Pope adds
that. at a time when the horrible spec
tacle of this war fills his mind with
lncffable sorrow, this act IS no small
consolation.
His Holiness feels persuaded that
the Archbishop will extend his char
;tv 70 all prisoners of whatever race
or reed. especially those weak or
sounded. and the Pontiif bids all Ro-
nan Catholics, especially bishops and
clergy. to do likewise in other coun-
tries also.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
HUNGARY CANCELS
CUNARD CONTRACT

London, Oct. "a Reuter- dismal.
from Amsterdam says the Hune,r,,
government has decided to withs,..
the concession granted the cp,...
Steamship Company for trannor,;,.
emigrants, and has announced TIA, -
existing contract with this conusuv /,
at an end.
It is declared that the war .l,,,,.
has forced the Cunard Line TO yisl,,.
clauses Of this contract, hence The =
cision Of the Hungarian authoritis. !.
cancel the agreement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
CAPTIVES DO WORK
NEEDED BY WORKERS

London. oct. PA Reuter- dispatch
from Berlin, by way of Amsterdam,
says;
"The Vorwacrts' bitterly complains
that the government is encouraging
landowners to employ prisoners of war
Ter agricultural work in preference 10
the hundreds and thousands OF unem-
ployed who would be glad to earn the
direct wage. The landowners employ
the prisoners because they are cheap
or"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
TELLS HOW ALLIES
HAVE GAINED GROUND
Eyewitness Says Recent Fighting Has Improved Posi-
tons Along Aisne and Belgian Frontier-Bayonet
Charges Frequent-Mists Delay Troops Progress.

fensive and partly because the enemy
has had more time for preparations
and is in greater strength. The nu-
merous dikes in this low-lying part OF
the country are so broad and deep as
20 necessitate the transport of planks
and ladders by which to cross them. 1t
is in this quarter that the most obstl-
nate combats for the possession of vii
lagos have so far taken place and that
the inclosed country has rendered the
cooperation of artillery most difficult,
except where the villages attacked con-
tain a church or some other landmark
standing above the trees by means Of
which guns can get their range.
although the employment Of our
field artillery in battering down de-
Tended villages is thus hampered, an
other and very efficacious method OF
arriving at the same result has been
evolved and is proving most effective.
Parts of the region where this fight
ing has been in progress now present a
melancholy aspect Many of the once
prosperous homesteads and hamlets are
literally torn to pieces. Walls are still
standing, pitted by shrapnel balls, and
in some villages churches are smoul-
dering ruins. Dead horses. cows and
pigs, caught in the hail of shrapnel,
litter the village streets, and among
the carcasses and the debris wander
wretched inhabitants, who have re-
turned to see what they can save from
the wreckage Here, blocking up mar
row side street, is a dead horse still
harnessed to a trap, and beside it is
stretched the corpse of JAEGER "a Ger
man sharpshooter). Close by in an in
closure, where a shell had found them,
lie some thirty cavalry horses.
Peasants Bury Dead.
"a little further on is laid out a
row of German dead, for whom graves
are being dug by peasants. The work
of burial falls to a great extent on the
local inhabitants, who, with our sol
diers, take no little care in marking
the last resting places of their country
men and their Allies, either by little
crosses or else by flowers.
amid the graves scattered all over
the countryside are rifle pits, trenches
and gun emplacements which those
now resting below the sod helped TO de-
fend or to attack. From these the
progress Of the lighting can be traced,
and even its nature, for they vary from
carefully constructed and cunningly
placed works to the hastily shaped lair
of a German sniper or a roadside ditch,
with its sides scooped out by the i'm
plements of our own infantry"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
NINE BLOWS UP
SWEDISH STEAMER

London, Oct. 28.---The Swedish steam
or Alice, homeward bound from Lon
don, has been blown up by mine in
the North Sea. She sank in three min
utes.
All the members Of her crew were
saved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
Escaping Convict Killed.

Little Valley, N. Y, Oct. 2S.-John
Bartholomew, a prisoner in the county
Jail, was shot dead tonight while try
ing to escape. lie attacked Under
Sheriff Clancy with a heavy paddock.
Clancy was stunned by the blow and
bartholomew ran into the street, pur-
sued BY Turnkey Charles Watkin, who
shot him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
Porfrio Diaz Not Dead

Biarritz, France, Oct. 23.-There ia
no truth IN the report of the death OF
Porhrio Disz, former President of Mex
leo. He has been suffering from a
slight gastric trouble. but he has driven
out daily for several days, and this
morning he took walk on the beach.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24

"On October 10 a brilliant little ex-
plot was performed by one Of our cav
airy patrols coming suddenly upon a
German machine gun detachment. The
subaltern in command at once gave the
order to charge, with the result that
some Of the Germans were killed, the
rest scattered and the gun captured and
carried of.
"On the right. to the south Of the
Lys, progress has been slower, partly
because the terrain affords greater IA
eilities to the force acting on the de-
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