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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
BELGTANS BLOCK
GERMAN PLAN TO
INVADE ENGLAND
Stubborn Resistance Along
Channel Coast Guards
Base at Dunkirk and
Scheme Fails, Declare Ex-
perts.
By ED. i. KEEN

LONDON. oct. 22.-If the Germans
ever seriously planned an invasion OF
England, and the chief military experts
here insist they did, they have lost their
chance. The generally credited reports
here were that Germany. in moving to
take Dunkirk. intended to start an in
vading force from there and Ostend.
First II is believed an aerial raid was
intended to terrorize London. Then the
German fleet was to so out and give
battle to the British war fleet while an
invading force was rushed across the
channel Almost all Of the military ex-
perts here are convinced that this was
the plan; and all agree today that the
Germans have missed their opportunity
and cannot again obtain 1t.
once again II has been the Belsians
who interfered with the plans of the Ger
man General staff They refused to per-
mans and developed such an effective
offensive from Nieuport to Dixmude that
the dash of the Germans toward Dunkirk
failed. Supported by the great guns of
the British fleet the Belgians have rolled
the German offensive back, and all re-
ports received here insist that the Ger
mans are at last on the defensive
For the last IS hours the Allies have
been on the offensive. Their enveloping
movement is gaining more and more
strength and it is insisted at the War
Office that within very short time the
enemy must withdraw to a new line.
The British Flying Corps has reported
that the German engineers have been
\, ,anI IL.
behind that at present occupied. The
exact location Is withheld. but it is be-
lieved that the German General staff is
at last convinced that 1t cannot gain
ground from the north and plans to
withdraw its main right wing into Bel
gium and devote its energies to an of.
fensive which is being developed on the
French centre and left in the neighbor-
hood of Verdun and the line of the
Meuse forts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
STORIES OF ADVENTURE
FROM FIELDS OF BATTLE

I tive Scotsmen that our glorious victories
! arc being credited TO England and that
England does not include Scotland. IN
! fairness they demand Britain and
| British" The difficulty is that most
! Of the poetry and the uplifting historical
associations belong to the word Eng
lard" and not 10 the word Britain
Inamgine Henley's ENGLAND, my Eng
land" transformed to Britain my
| Britain!
A good Scotsman like the late william
Black pointed out in The New Prince
Fortunatus' that some Of the finest poems
about England had been written by Scots
men The most conspicuous example Is
"Ye Mariners Of England by the scot
tigh poet Thomas Campbell II did not
occur to him TO write "Ye Mariners OF
Britain" This. surely. is the most stir
ring patriotic song in our language. un-
less 1t is to take second place to Rule
Britannia" and that was written by
Scotsman, too
At soissons, az in many other places in
France only the aged mon and the
women and children arc left. These
spcnd their days and nights in cellars,
coming out during lulls In the lighting
They eat and sleep under ground. but
in periods OF comparative calm children
arc secn playing in tho streets, ap-
rrec;nting little OF what IL Is all about
They wonder for n brief minute Why the
houses have reelcd into tho Streets lh'n
their wonderment Is lost in the JOY OF
climbing over the ruins, while mothers
shout out warning to be careful lest they
go too near the tottering walls.
A correspondent who has visited a num-
Der of towns IN the French war zone
writes:
"I usually managed TO make friends
with the people. though their nerves were
cridentlv tense, whereupon they would
ask me for news from the front
'Did you bring a Paris paper with
ycu?' they would demand with ptiful
eagerness How is the war going?
ut struck me the oldest thing
had encountered-these people between
the actual fighting armies clamoring for
news from the front. l later discovered
that army officers, men of high rank, too.
were as ignorant as were these people OF
the real news of the fighting. and just
as eager for Paris papers publishing the
official communques."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
WAR OPERATIONS OF DAY
SHOW ONRUSH OF ALLIES
Assaults in Belgium Apparently Surprise to Germans
Excellence of Railroads Near French Frontier
Probably Not Realized by Germans.

they are back on Belgian soil, a general
reaction will set in and the troops be-
come even more demoralized than they
appear to he at present.
There Is no doubt the Allies now have
got the whip hand and should succeed
In driving the Germans out of France
and western Belgium within few weeks.
ostend certainly will be reoccupied
within a few days. But for the de-
layed retirement of the Belgian army
from Antwerp there was no reason why
1t should ever have been abandoned
IF 1t is the enemy's eventual intention
to hold the line Of the Meuse and the
Samhre. the conquest of Antwerp Is of
but the smallest value to them. Between
Antwerp and the Meuse is stretch of
open country with no defensive posi-
tons. Antwerp must. therefore, either be
abandoned or its garrison isolated
Once the Allies re-enter Brussels un-
less the unexpected happens and the Ger
mans are able to bring great reinforce
ments from the Russian frontier, they
must fall back I'm France and Belgium.
owing to the tremendous pressure against
their right wing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
MOSLEM MILLIONS
PRIMED FOR BATTLE
AS KAISER'S ALLIES
Turkey Virtually a German
Colony, Says CONSTANT
nople Dispatch, and Grand
Vizier Follows Berlin S
Bidding.
MILAN. Oct. %.


ITO all intents and purposes Turkey
has become a German colony" a dispatch
to the Secolo reports. The Grand VIzler
blindly follows the orders from Berlin and
has not the slightest notion what the NOR
row may bring forth for Turkey.
up to the present Turkey has nomi-
nally remained neutral, but she is actively
preparing. under German direction, to
break neutrality whenever the word may
come from Berlin.
six hundred German officers have ar
rived in Turkey since the war began.
They brought siege guns, field guns and
ammunition with them.
"A German colonel, Weber Pasha, has
@ken command of the Dardanelles forts
ana big German guns are being mounted
IN them. All the Notifications of the
bosporus have been overhauled, a large
number of mines laid down along The
coasts Of Asia Minor. especially in and
around smyrna, which is fortified, and
10 the north of Smyrna intrenchments
nave been dug to repel any possible at
tack by land.
~ is computed that Turkey has from
oUWo TO 100000 men ready to take the
neld' The German officers put the num-
Der at 100000"
Inc foreign Ambassadors in Constanti-
hopie nave been notified by the Porte. a
message TO the Frankfurter Zettunr re-
ports, that warships are forbidden IN
enter enter the Gulf of Smyrna. The VossIche
1eltung states that the Porte's action in
ms s1ls respect is aimed at the Anglo French
Mediterranean fleet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
By E. AsHMEAD BARTLETT

DINhlRk, oct. -.
The progress of the Allies in Belgium
has been most marked during the last
few days. Every one is talking victory.
and ! cannot find a soul coming from the
lighting line who any longer fears the
German offensive, either against the
northern ports of France or further south,
The consensus Is that Won Kluk's army
will be beaten and that he Is now in
full retreat, That is to say, he is not
hurrying, but is concentrating all his
armies to the line of the sambre and
the Meuse The line of the sambre has
been strongly fortified.
general who is not given to boasting
told a friend OF mine that he considered
the position of the allied armies better
moralization of the Germans is grow
ing greater day by day. He added;
I'VE most certainly will be In Brussels
under a month, l, myself, expect it
to be fortnight"
There has been general advance all
aApib hAAe aAAlNh 4liANT ne army az dAlGeu
from Rouers and drove back the Ger
mans a considerable distance. Every
where along this line the Germans are
retiring, Offering little resistance except
with artillery
They are covering the retirement of
their masses OF half-demOralized, half
starved infantry by well-sustained ar
tlllery fire, and have used heavy guns
to great advantage. In fact. the only
formidable branch Of the German army
at present seems TO be the heavy and
field artillery
a great many prisoners have been taken
by the Allies during the last few days.
Those captured in Belgium declare, with
out exception, they thought they were
hghting In France and were only 20 kilo-
metres from Paris. This Is the story
they we're told every day by officers to
induce them 10 make greater efforts 10
retrieve the rapidly declining fortunes
OF the grand army
The French believe that, directly Il be-
comes generally known ~ the army that
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
JoFFRE LIKES BoNBoNS
AND AFTER-LUNCH NAP
American Girl Adds He Has Beauti-
full Hands and Knows It.

BAltlS, Oct. 22
General Joffre, of the French army, is
nephew of Mrs. Reid, the mother of
Miss Gladys Reid of Baltimore, accord
ing to a letter received here from Mrs.
Nina Barrey Duryea, who is in Dinard.
Mrs Duryea adds:
I'VE have learned many homely details
of great man. He is something of a
dandy and dotes on bonbons He is gall
liant with women and adores his wife He
always takes a nap after lunch and sleeps
with a handkerchief over his face. He
would rather beard the whole German
army singiehandod than sec child cry.
ETe has beautiful hands and knows 1t. He
usually is silent until after dinner Then
he is eloquent and delights to tell stories.
General Joffre believes that America
has the greatest future as an empire that
the world has ever known"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22

The curious are noting that In the last
four centuries various great comets have
been visible in the Russian dominions only
II times, and that each time such an ap-
pearancc has coincided with great wars
in which Russia has been engaged. The
only exceptions to the rule that bright
comet has been plainly visible every time
Russia has been at war for four cen
turies were the Turkish campaign Of 1877
and the war with Japan, though in the
latter case a faint comet became visible
In January 19Oi
Delavants comet, recently discovered,
keeps the tradition and corresponds in
sume respects very nearly to the comet
OF 1912, the year of Russla's great ma
tional war against the Twelve Tribes OF
Europe" under Napoleon The present
comet will remain visible for about the
same period Of the year as the comet of
1912.
when the 9Th Middlegex regiment was
surprised by Germans while at dinner
with their arms stacked" n correspon-
dent with the English army relates. ''thc
British soldiers. unable to reach their
weapons, rushed upon the foe and at
tackled them with their bare fists. The
Gordons arrived in time to aid them and
beat off tho Germans"
Near the forest of Argonnc, where the
German Crown Prince is said to have had
his headquarters. is the town OF Meme
hould, where poor Louis XVI and his
FAMILY were recognized at the posting
station while disguised in an attcmpt to
~ from France. They vcro Gent back io
l. 4.
AIRY, l'6S. and his Queen in the following
october
a troop of IS Prussian soldiers. ignor-
ant of the progress of the German ad-
vance line, asked a peasant near Paris IL
the Germans had taken tho city. Yes"
said the peasant, II will show you the
road" The peasant led the troopers into
the French lines.
An English newspaper prints the fol-
lowing:
Already there are complaints from sensi-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
HAGUE TRIBUNAL TO JUDGE
ITALY'S MINE GRIEVANCE
Inquiry Commission Defers Fixing
Austria's Responsibility for Disasters

Inquiry Commission Defers Fixing
Austria's Responsibility for Disasters
TURIN, Oct %.
What are understood to be the main
features Of the negotiations thus far be-
tween Vienna and Rome as the result OF
the Joint inquiry held in Venice regard
ing floating mines in the Adriatic are
outlined in a message from Rome to the
Stampa The inquiry commission was
appointed as the result of the italian
Governments vigorous protest some
weeks ago after two fishing vessels had
been destroyed.
The Austrian Government declares, the
Rome dispatch asserts, that 1t has taken,
and will take In future, all necessary
measures to prevent a recurrence of such
unfortunate incidents. and with this OBJ
ject in view is strengthening moorings
of fixed mines and replacing old mines
which have become defective.
Italy agrees that the question OF re-
sponslblity for the incidents shall be re-
forred TO The Hague tribunal which will
give its decision at the close of the war.
This tribunal will decide whether there
has been q violation of the convention
requiring that floating mines shall be-
come imperative two hours after re-
lease
No indemnity is TO be paid by the Aus
trian Government to those who suffered.
Austria offered indemnity, but It was re-
fused by Italy on the ground that to ac-
cept 1t would not comport with italian
dignity
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
KAISER'S STRATEGY
IGNORED BY STAFF,
DANISH PRESS SAYS
Emperor's Alleged Battle
Plans Would Leave Cen
erals Without Any Armies.
Mame Retreat Near Dis
aster.
PARIS, Oct. %.

PARIS, Oct %.
The Danish press is quoted as authority
for report that there was a disagree
ment between the Kaiser and the Ger
man headquarters staff after the battle
of the Marne. The Kaisers continual in
functions that the offensive be taken in
the battles in France raised discomfort,
uneasncss and objections among the
staff, and the Kaiser's strategy nearly
changed the Marnc retreat into n catas-
trophe.
The Kaiser insisted that the left wing,
although strongly threatened on the
flank, should continue to advance. A
calamity was avoided by the non-execu-
tion of the imperial command
II was said In Berlin that the Kaiser
on learning of the retreat of the Prus-
sian guard at Nitry-le- Francois said 10
his suite:
living? A samurai would have acted
otherwise"
B This Phrase sunk in the hearts of the
German generals.
Stories are revived of the imperial
strategy as shown in the grand maneu-
vers In 1897 Count Won Haesler said to
a member of the Reichstag after the ma
neuver.
"The grand battles arranged by the
Emperor are magnificent only In their
defects. They terminate like the legen-
Diary combat of the two lions, only their
tails remaining on the battlefield.
IF the Triple Alliance entered a cam
paign under command of the Kaiser,
with the Germans and Austrians fight
ing side by side and the Italians forming
the rear guard, fear that the Italians
would most likely play the role of grave
diggers If they escaped decimation by
the plague. In my humble opinion the
dead never enter into his Majesty's cal
culations."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
BY j. w. T. MASON
NEW YORK. Oct. 2:

|
| The Allies are continuing to press the
German line slowly backward in Belgium
| but there Is no evidence of further gains
i'll Northern France.
Lille, which is the centre of the Ger
| man advanced entertainments, is being
desperately held, to serve apparently AS
pilot North of Lille the Germans are
giving ground. At one point on the Bel
gium border, Warncton, the Allies are
only five miles to the west of the Lille
perpendicular. while three miles farther
north, at Menin, they have swung mile
or two past the Lille line
South of Lille, however, no gains have
been reported. The brief progress east
ward In the French pivotal movement
from Arras has been forced to a stand
still by desperate German resistance at
La Bassee. The immense Importance to
the Germans OF saving their communicd-
tions from a French eastward swing 1T
Arras apparently has led to a larger con-
centration of General Won Boehn's army
south of Lille than to the north. If the
Germans can do so, they will hold Lille
as pivot for themselves, just as the
French are using Arras, 25 miles to the
southwest, FOR that purpose.
If the pressure of the Allies in Belgium
becomes too strong for resistance along
the present line, the Germans probably
will bend their northern line backward:
that is, to the cast from Lille. South of
Lille they will cndeavor to hold their
front in its present perpendicular.
This strategy. II continued. will eventu-
ally lead to the Germans being pushed
back along Northern Belgium to Antwerp
This battle front, by following a zigzag
course will afford the best protection to
their communications that the circum-
stances allow. Their line can bend north
east from Lille to Antwerp without en-
dangering their main railway supply
system.
But, once the Allies begin to make per-
sistent progress TO the east south of
Lille, and particularly from Arras, great
danger will force the entire German hold
on French territory. Liege, where the
chief German communications enter home
territory, is almost due east of Lille. The
zone of safety for the Germans, there
fore, is south of the Lille-Liege parallel
For this reason the Germans must pre-
vent at all costs an Allied advance in
force below Lille. To the present they
have been, on the whole, successful In
this effort, They must continue this
strategy, even at the expense of losing
all Belgium from the boundary north of
Lille 10 Antwerp or beyond. Extensive
advances by the Allies north of Lille
would not, under present circumstances,
be decisive; south of Lille is the area
that must be watched for developments
OF major strategy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
2l BRITISH VESSELS
VICTIMS OF EMDEN

The list OF British merchant vessels
sunk or captured by the German
cruiser Emden, as announced, Is now
as follows:
Steamship Indus 2i10 tons.
steamship LOyst. 1876 tons.
Steamship Diplomat. 1873 tons.
Steamship Frabboch. 2539 tons.
Steamship kabinga, 2925 tons.
steamship Craftsman. 4O30 tons 01n-
officiaD
steamship Clan Matheson, aO5s tons
(unohicaD.
Two other steamships CD OinoticIan
steamship Tumeric 90
steamship King Lud 23l4 tons.
steamship Ribera, 2244 tons.
steamship Foyle. 959O tons.
Collier Bursk new. 32i4 tons.
Steamship Chilkana. 1924 tons.
Steamship Trollus. 4SO6 tons
steamship BenmohF, 3lIO tons.
Steamship Clan Grant, 3stS tons.
steamship ESford. 2S04 tons.
Dredger Ponrabble
British commerce In the Indian
Ocean Is paralyzed as a result OF tbe
raids made by the German cruiser
Emden. Omclals Of all ports were
warned today that ships should re-
main in port. The losses 10 British
shipping caused by the Emden Is est
mated al Slo.0oo,o0O IN vessels alone,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
EX-WAR CHIEF NEAR DEATH
Colonel seely's Auto Struck by Shots
at Battle Front,

LONDON Oct. 22.-Letters received
from the front tell of a narrow escapo
from death OF Colonel John Edwin Ber-
nard Seely. former War Minister, who
Is now at the front with the British Cen
eral STAFF. An automobile in which he
was proceeding to a point on the battle
front was shelled by the Germans. who
had got the range by an aviator. one
OF the wheels was smashed by shrapnel.
but Colonel Seely was uniniured
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
GERMAN LINES CALLED
A SERIES OF ZlGZAGS
Feeble, Wavering Stand, Is Descrip-
ton by French.


PARIS. Oct. PA correspondent who
is behind the Allies lines in northern
France sends this dispatch:
THE situation is hourly getting better
The German line is no longer line, but
feeble series of zigzags.
Their channel army zigzags from some
vague spot near the Dutch frontier to-
ward Bruges, then westward a little to-
ward Roulers. It bends back again be-
hind Courtrai, wavers indefinitely be-
tween Roubaix and Tournai and straEGlcs
wildly over the country near Orchies. At
pouai and west of Lille its contour is
indc Unable.
only four days ago the German line.
speaking only of the new German right
wing, was drawn straight south from
Ostend to Lille. But the line has been
bent out OF shape and into a series of
weak curves and zigzaGs.
There is rumor that Ostcnd has
been taken, but the report lacks con
hrmation. 1 hear that the Germans arc
preparing to evacuate BruGes"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
ANAT0LE FRANCE ENLISTs
author, II Years Old, Joins Army
of France,

sn,as' spAaEis' Oct. 22.-AnatoIe France,
s1 amor. who is in his fist year. says In
d. interview in the Petit Parisien to-
es1,. mar the Ministry of War has ae-
unIseu ms enlistment. He will don the
days. '''"'s So'ulsF IN rev
10 ne author who has been trying hard
on,t INTO the fighting line since the
co. S'gfsak OF the war, says he would have
bHo OF chagrin il his enlistment had
no no r reused. He has promised to write
he more Tor the present, but TO devote
S attention to fghting.
PAT, "as announced in dispatches from
bsd tuesday that NJ. Anatole France
,eeepted the appointment from the
'suh dss Armees.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
GERMAN REPORTS SINKING
ELEVEN OF FOES SHIPS
Norwegian Captain Hears About
Cruisers Deadly Raids.

LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands. Oct. %.
When the Norwegian ship Begheingc
arrived i'm port today the master reported
that his vessel had been stopped BY a
German cruiser, the captain of which
told him he had sunk II British and
French merchantmen and one Italian
ship which was carrying food 10 Eng
land.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
FEARS FOR BRITISH SHIP
strathroy Believed Victim of Ger.
man Cruiser,

NORFOLK, Va. Oct. 22.-It is believed
at Rio Janeiro that the British steamship
Strathroy has been sunk by a German
cruiser, according to Captain T. w. Da-
Wis, of the steamship Strathearron which
arrived today from the Brazilian port.
The Strathroy sailed from Norfolk for
Rio Janciro on August l. and nothing
has been heard since that time. She
was built in 1909 and was vessel of
22S7 tons
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
ozARINA ADMINISTERS
TO NEEDS OF WOUNDED

FEIRoGRAD. oct. 22.-The Czarina
Si' So her daughters are working as
sasls OF Mercy among the Russian
bsUtnaed. The Car ana Czarewitch
n,p,. made number Of visits 10 the
~ tb.-'.ary hospitals and chatted with
wounded soldiers.
Drte response to an appeal from Grand
49, nicholas, two tobacco days"
pe,,s oeen observed here. About $4,000
~ - OF tobacco were contributed for
-s men al the front.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
10000 GERMAN MARINES
MARCH FROM ANTWERP
harrison Greatly Reduced, Is News
Brought by Travellers.

LIlNDONI Oct. a.
travellers from Antwerp. says the Rot
seLusm correspondent OF z news agency.
report that on Tuesday night 1000 Ger
AZ, marines with machine guns left
AI."erp In southerly direction.
later tater file of carts bearing wounded
v,asI esd the town. The garrison of Ant
a ~ ~. mas been greatly reduced and only
'" policemen are on duty there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
BELGIAN FUND INCREASING

Funds for the relief of the Belgian nom
comhatants continued to be brought 10
the offices of Charles T, Harrison. Jr., q
60, tIeasurers who are accepting money
to be sent to the starving Belgians A.
coTding to an announcement made YES
terday the fund now exceeds SIG. 600
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
1880 MORE GERMANS LOST

BERLIN, Oct, ga German casualty
list Issued today adds the names OF n. SO
killed, wounded and missing to the al
ready big total.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
GERMAN WAR FUND GROWS

BERLIN, Oct 22-Announcement was
made today that contributions to the war
loan now exceed s75O, 900, ,0OO