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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-06
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100000 MEN IN
SERB CAMPAIGN
REGIMENTS HAVE BEEN REIN
FoRcEptAsl HIGH AS -FOUR
IN THE FIERCE FIGHTING ON THE
pRiNA MANY ARE REPORTED
WIPED OUT.
I'sERviA, ALTHOUGH A SMALL
COUNTRY, HAS DONE GREAT
FIGHTING.

N1sH, Jan. Terrible losses OF the
Austro. Hungarian army now operating
against the servians are shown in the
authentic figures obtained here.
Taking into account the number Of
arm ycorps employed against servia,
together with the repeated Austria.
Hungary reintorcements received, 1t is
evident Austria Hungary is leaving no
reserves. but is draining all her re-
sources.
She has employed against servia at
least 100000 men and is straining her
troops to the last limit OF human en-.
durance. -v,sAs.
It has leaked out from Budapest
that up to the middle of October, &C.
cording to official reports, Austria.
Hungary had lost in the Servian the.
atre of war alone $4,000 men.
The number was even greater during
the last operations, in which Austria.
Hungary undoubtedly lost more than
half her men.
The Austrian losses since November
certainly will reach 10000 in sick,
wounded, killed or prisoners, which
makes the total losses $4,000, Of
which $4,000 are prisoners.
Besides. Servia has captured four
flags, 1872 guns, 81 limbers, whose guns
were buried or destroyed; 4s1 carloads
of ammunition. Sc machine guns, 90, 900
rifles, 5000 horses and much other
material.
Thus the Serbs have captured men
and materials for two complete army
corps. The Austrian unit cut up the
worst was the seventy.ninth Bau Vel.
atchitch Regiment. At first this had
1000 men: 1t received reinfrocements
amounting to $500 men, and fought
everywhere.
Two battalions. 1890 strong, cross
ed the Drina at Limanska. attacking
the Seryian Toplieza Regiment and
lost 1850 men and thirty officers in an
engagement which lasted only three
hours.
! Four-Reaiments Wiped Out.
] hayesestablished the complete an.
Inhalation Of the One Hundred and Sec
ond, Sixteenth, Eleventh and Twenty.
eighth Regiments. Major Solomon
gave me the authentic story of his
battalion. which first fought at Sara.
ieyo.
At Bablaki, when two companies
were surrounded and surrendered,
there remained only 700 men of the
1900 in the battalion, whereupon It
was Incorporated with the Second Bri.
gade and crossed the Drina, fighting
every day.
After the fall Of Bozhanr It number.
ed only $50 men. Between Rozhan and
Takovo 1t lost 100 more. On December
8, when Major Solomon was made a
prisoner. his battalion had fifty.eight
men. One company had only nine men
and one officer.
The Thirty.seventh Landwehr Regt.
ment, which received reinforcements
four times, numbered 5000 men, and
after having been taken to ouzhitze
at the end Of November, 1t had only 500
men.
The Pulaskian., 1915-03-12

curiously as he spoke to them. Each had wondered not little at being picked for this expedition. None had become acquainted with him in the brief period of mobilization, of equip ment at the depot, and of transporta- rion in the crowded military train from Epinal to the front.
 Three or four, including Tillier and Duval, had learned his name, and found him studious, silent, curt .fel- low, not exactly rude or unsympa- thetic, but uncommunicative and ap- parently absorbed in his own thoughts.
 Duprez, with a sudden motion, raised his rife high in the air and flung it fercely into tho dust of the road at his feet
 His hands went swiftly to the car tridge-box at his belt, tore it open, and scattered the cartridges far and wide
The Pulaskian., 1915-03-12

fighting on the hill. But the section around the flag had been torn away from the main battle line and whirled backward down the hill, partially de tached from the main bodies of French and Germans.
 There were perhaps hundred Ger mans beating down thirty Frenchmen around the flag.
 Into the vortex of this almost in human struggle, where life went out every second, and groans were mixed with curses, and walls of agony blended with shouts of triumph-into this reeking and bleeding mess, straight toward the wavering flag went the twenty-one with the cold steel.
 An! The cold steel! No time for firing into that whirling mass! Each chose his man-his next man--and his next.
 Taken by surprise, caught between the bright bayonets of the rescuers and the red bayonets of the defenders of the flag, the Germans were surprised
The Pulaskian., 1915-03-12

lieutenant who had recommended Du- prez for the command That officer nodded his head.
 AS you wish," consented Colonel Mangin. "It's perhaps as well you should have men you know. Your work is this: Four miles down the road you will find bridge. Hold it or destroy it. You understand"
 Perfectly"
 Then choose your men,
 How many, sir?''
 Twenty"
 Duprez saluted once more, turned. and stepped slowly back to the wait ing lines of red and blue.
 They watched curiously as Duprez went to the right end of his own bat talion and, walking very slowly along it's front, began to choose his men,
 "Tillier, step out!"
 He was one of the smallest men in the battalion, with look of under nourishment about him, but with mo- ticeably keen features and an expres- sion of restlessness in his eyes.
 "Duval!"
The Pulaskian., 1915-03-12

Private Duprez!"
 "Here!"
 "Step forward!"
 A young soldier of barely average height. with nothing that was striking ly military in his bearing, but with a eountenance pronouncedly intellectual and dark eyes that had deep and constant glow in their depths, stepped out of the ranks, approached the group of officers and stood at attention.
 "Duprez!" said Colonel Mangin twirling one end of his gray mustache with the fingers of a neatly gloved hand while he regarded the private critically. Your lieutenant says you are intelligent"
 "Thank you," replied Duprez with out emotion.
 Ut remains to be proved that you are brave"
 The soldier strengthened himself and slight flush spread over his face that was naturally of an unusual pal Tor The colonel smiled
 q mean braver than brave" he explained, not without sign of satis- faction as well as of amusement. We are all brave here, trust; but some must be braver than others"
 "Yes, sir" the soldier answered.
 There was moments pause, while the colonel still toyed with his mus tache-it was a very fine one-and continued to study the man standing rigid at attention. Duprez as a soldier looked very new, as if just turned out.
 Behind him stood at ease two bat talions of soldiers, looking precisely as new and just turned out as Private Duprez. They were, indeed, fresh battalions just brought up from their divisional depot to the rear of the fir ing line.
 They would, in all likelihood. go into action that day in support of the -th regiment, which had suffered heavily in the first French advance beyond the Vosges. They were halted now at the foot of long. low hill in the green, rolling country of Lorraine.
 1Ou are dWdF6 IudL we dTO SlOIt OI oficers?" said the colonel at last.
 "Yes, sir"
 q want man to lead detachment to perform an important and perilous duty.''
 ''Very we'll, sir"
 "You are willing?"
 The soldiers eyes frightened and a smile came to his thin lips.
 q am not afraid"
 "Good!'
 But I have one request to make" "The deuce you have!" cried the colonel, sharply "What is it?"
 That you permit me to choose the men whom I am to lead"
 "Um-m!" murmured the colonel Then he looked questioningly at the
The Pulaskian., 1915-03-12

 Thrilled with his triumph, glorying in the sacrifice he was about to make he thrust his book back into his pocket, and faced the men to make the last appeal, something from his own heart, clothed in his own elo- quence, a speech he had long ago framed for some such moment of | greatness. But even as he opened his mouth, before he could utter the first word of his peroration, there came an interruption that held him and all the others spellbound.
 There was first furious outburst of battlesounds, cannon and musketry and shouting; this time very near nearer than they had imagined the fight to be at that moment.
 And then, over the brow of the hill, and not three hundred yards away, appeared a part of the battle-line it. self under their very eyes.
 There was tattered flag that wavered and dipped and rose again and dipped and rose in the thick of a terrific hand-to-hand encounter-men in fury of battle fighting around the flag. And the flag was the tri- color-merely three strips of bunt. ing sewn together" as Duprez had. said.
 And it was retreating. The French line on the hill had been broken and this fragment, with the flag in it's center, was being forced back and l German hands were at the very l throat of the flag-bearer.
 Back they came, back down the hill, the Frenchmen rallying again and again around the flag, again and again thrown away from it, again and again fiinging themselves to save it. Goo of battles, what a sight!
 And then the watching knot of mer caught sight of the co1or-bearer him self-a mere boy, capless, his coat torn almost from his body, the flag l staff clutched to his breast with one hand while with the other he thrust at enemies right and left with some weapon they could not see. In an instant he was swallowed ur l again.
 There were sights that were new and fearful to the men in the road in their new uniforms, with their yet unused guns lying in the dust before them
 They heard death-cries, saw death Itself. They thrilled at the sight of a youth who, flung out of the struggling mass, maddened with pain and shriek ing shrilly, ran and threw himself on the ground and began tearing up the sod with his fingers.
 They are dyingi" murmured Du prez. Our brothers-there-ar dy | ing!"
 Suddenly, as suddenly as he hat thrown it at his feet, Duprez whirleG and ran and picked up his rife ant | bayonet in the road and was back again to face his command.
 They're dying!" he cried fiercely Pick up your rifles, men We mus save them!"
 He saw wondering look on the faces before him.
 We will save them!" he shouted And then: "Tillierl Duvall Mar tineau! All Your guns!"
 They were already picking them III from the dust.
 "Forwardl"
 They leaped as one man from the road to the green grass of the hillside
 Fix bayonets!"
 The voice of Duprez rang across the fields, above the sounds of battle.
 "Charge!"
 They were only twenty-one-a mere handful compared with the hundreds
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
WAR COTTON CAUSES SUIT.
Brokers want Trust Company 60
Pay Them aiI0,I23.

\ suit Of the Cotton Exchange firm
or A. Nofden & Co. against the Guar
nnty Trust Company to recover S116,-
l23, which was before supreme Court
Justice Ford yesterday. disclosed allie
cations that the first cargo OF American
cotton to reach "A German port after
war was declared was shipped by Nor
den 4 Co. who then lost IL because
the cotton was attached at Bremen and
then sold by the trust COMPANY. which
had accepted Il as collateral for loans.
The cotton brokers say they borrowed
sfO3.'l7 from the trust company to
pay for the cotton. which had been sold
10 John Simon, a German agent then In
this country. for s3s.+43 While the
cotton was st.ll on the high seas. but
after II had passed through the war
perils safely. the brokers entered on
negotiations to sell the cotton TO Simon
at a greatly advanced price because II
would he delivered safely.
tn" brokers allege that after the cot
ton was landed at Bremen by the steam
ship Pathfinder they got word that Il
had been attached for some cause they
were unable 10 learn. Before they could
'ct the matter Strengthened out the
trust company sol the cotton at sll6,-
l23 less than the brokers would have
received for II. ana for this reason they
sued the trust company for that sum.
The brokers got an order TO examine
Charles III. Sabin, president OF the trust
company Max May. the vice-president
and another official OF the bank to
learn the circumstances under which
tho cotton was disposed of. but the trust
company asked Justice Ford to vacate
the order, The court denied the motion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
MONEY AND

The New York Federal Reserve n, nix
rates were / per cent. for thirty TO
ninety days and . per cent. for longer
bills.
Open market discounts, prime accent
anccs. maturing up to ninety DAYS. 81,
02i per cent.
Commercial paper rates were 81, a
~ per cent. for sixty and ninety dnys
bills and for -four to SIX months hest
names A.. per cent. for Others.
Time money was dul, and featureless.
Rates were -. per cent. for sixty DAYS,
IN Q2a per cent. for ninety days. %. a
. per cent. for four months, 3m3l, per
o for five and SIX months.
Call money on the door OF the Stock
Exchange last week ranged between Is,
md 2 per cen
Sterling exchange was lower. Final
quotations were Demand. +76 cables
<78 1l~l6.
DomaAtic exchange on New York 81,
Louis. par San Francisco, 45c. pre-
MUM: Minneapolis. 30c. premium Chi
A.. 30. discount; Cincinnati. par
Montreal. S5.62h premium.
Cali money on London was 4a4ta
per cent. short bills. 5is per cent.
three months bills. 5d5h per cent.
Bar silver In London. 22 7-16d. New
York. ENC.
New York Clearing House statement
EHchAngns, S376.b+7.10S balances. SEA-
71S.s77; 6ub'rreasury credit balance,
D1.2TS.17S.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
H STEEL MARKET.
More orders ms Mills Fall behind
In D~eIINerIea.

The steel market outlook continued
highly favorable during the past week
and further progress was made In all
directions toward bringing conditions up
to normal. Prices for many products
showed a stiffening tendency and there
were predictions that bars, plates and
shapes would soon be advanced 81 per
ton. Mil operations have been increas-
ing steadily. and the country's production
OF steel is going on at the rate OF 30 per
cent. of capacity. Consumers are COM
mtncing to take notice OF the falling be-
hind In deliveries. and as a result actual
bookings OF mill orders are increasing. A
large buying movement in pig iron this
month is looked for and expectations are
that prices will be between 81 and 81
per ton higher in the near future.
The demand for high grade steel for
tn. manufacture of shells continues an
important factor In the steel trade. Very
heavy sales Of rounds have been made
and large tonnages are under negotia-
ton. Prices for this class Of steel are
rising steadily. II was reported that as
hig as " per ton was paid for rounds
for September shipment. New inquiries
for large quantities OF ammunition are
steadily making their appearance In the
market here. and new business Is being
booked from time to time. A contln-
uance OF the demand for shells from
abroad practically assures a large de-
mand for steel rounds for some time to
come. Most manufacturers OF steel
rounds are booked far ahead. and sew
eral have withdrawn from the market
altogether. Steel billets are active and
strong. Prices are high, as much as
s35 per ton having been paid. Billets
are scarce and the demand at all points
is large.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
GOSSIP OF A r


There never was a great upward move
ment In stock prices without specuia-
ton, and in time excessive speculation.
There never was a great speculation
without manipulation in the sense q
groups Of spectators actively helping
the advance along. On the other hand.
manipulation never sustained a great
price movement. 1t is only incidental
and its influence is insignificant. The
main impulse for n great rise In prices
Is the public attitude toward the stock
market. The idea of manipulation be-
ing responsible except In an Incl
dental way for the present movement In
prices Is too absurd to speak OF. The
public made possible the opening OF the
Stock Exchange last year and the public
is making the present stock market.
Persons h take the attitude that the
public is being led astray into buying
stocks at ridiculous prices assume that
the present prices are not Justified, APP
parently simply because they have risen
a great distance In n short time. But
what man can even guess at the state
Of business and finance a year hence?
The widest gucsses made six months
ago of the business to be done by this
country were ridiculous underestimatcs.
And yet these predictions have become
fact. Last May when Bethlehem Steel
a ivanced above par there was n chorus
of criticism from Wal Street itself.
Charges of rank manipulation were
made and the exchange was called upon
to act. But on that occasion the judy
ment OF the market-that II. the COM
posite judgment OF the country-proved
superior to the judgment Of the indi-
vidual.
The one leg upon which critics Of
the present market have to stand is the
- g.. 49,. ----A
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
All the World Gam bling.

A. 4. Housman 4 Co. says: To-day
the impulse Is TO advise caution. Many
things seem to he going up too fast. In
many directions expansion Ia taking
place at n pace which cannot conserva-
lively he maintained. We feel like
saying to our clients Let UP a bit. This
is gambling. you know. and must not
be confused with speculation. When
an industrial stock that has never paid
"A dividend can sell higher than Union
Pacific stock ever sold that IL rash
gambling. Go slow But after all, why
should anybody be cautious? The world
is In a reckless mood. Money Is being
printed and injected into circulation at
a rate never dreamed OF before, In
hation Is taking place, Property Is be-
ing destroyed at an unparalleled rate
and property is being produced In other
ways at a correspondingly greater rate,
The velocity OF change Ia almost in
credible. And that creates opportunities
for the Spectator. the mar who will not
heed caution, the man who VIII take
big risks for big profits lie Is finding
himself now, All that we can do Is 10
let him alone"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
The Technical Position.

So far as the technical position is
concerned. the end Of the week saw vast
Improvement. The heavy selling of the
past few days undoubtedly lightened
the speculative load and tended to cor
rect the temporarily overbought condi-
ton hat was shown by the fare up in
Crucible. The majority OF commission
firms sold on balance during the latter
part of the week and some during the
week as a whole The ordinary COM
mission man lays great stress on the
testimony OF his stock list. II the list
shows an average Of min buying orders
to one selling order durirG the day
he looks out not only for "A reaction. but
Il smash. ON the other hand. II tho
list shows sales on balance he is apt
to argue that other commission houses
are experiencing the same sort of a
cleaning out process and that the specu-
'ative position IL not dangerously top
heavy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
BUSINESS TROUBLES.

BARNET PUsRIN-A petition in bank.
rup,cy has been flied by creditors against
barnet Pusrin. manufacturing je"ei.ef'
nhrSp"eI rIv .t Liabilities, SO, 900.
assets, 5000,
ROYAL BELT COMPANY. INC. manu-,
facturer OF leather goods, sos SanaI
street. assiFnmeni, me eompnnSS Va
boyitl Is president.
Bankruptcy Schedules.
,oSDoS A AND DRESS COMPANY.
INC, i53 West Twenty-third stree;
schedules chow liabilities OF $3.50 and
assets OF yS6.22s.
Receiver Denied.
AMERICAN 5 AND 10 CENT STORES;
ISC-Judge A. y. Hand OF the United
states District Court has denied =
motion Tor the appointment of a re-
receiver for the American ) and 10 cent
stores. Inc, 3l5 Fifth avenue, which mas
Stores In various cities, In an equity suit
recently brought against It by Ave credi-
tors. on the ground that the moving
parties arc not judg ment creditors. The
company asserted that It was not in
i noi%s.. s saih , that here ~si. no juds;:
MEN YORK TRANSATLANTIC STEAM
SHIP CoMPANY-Judge julius NJ. Mayer
has denied a motion TO appoint a re-
ceiver for the New York Transatlantic
steamship Company. II Rattery place,
which owns the steamship Maracas,
seized by the British Government, with
out prejudice 20 any OF the parties In
terest~d or any creditor or stakeholder
or any other person Interested In he
assets. to apply for q receiver II any new
situation develops. He also ordered David
Nogel. treasurer OF the company. 20
communicate with Munton. Morris. King
4 G,yan Dury, solicitors In London, for
them TO cable Nogel Immediately when
AN rward Ia made by the courts or Brit
ish Government OF the claim for damages
lodged with the Government In the case
of the steamship Maracas, and that Mr..
Nogel give notice to the creditors Of the
company and the attorneys on receipt of
the cable, Then an application for a
receiver may he heard, The officers and
directors Of the company are restrained
from making any ayments here or
abroad.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
An Overflow.

Whether the expansion Of odd lot
business Is going to continue on a scale
which would make advisable such a rad
ical change as "A reduction Of the unit
Of trading or not there Is no doubt
that last weeks business was more hi
the exchange could handle properly. As
"A result. the exchange actually lost con
siderable business. the overflow going to
the Consolidated Exchange. one house
alone lost a score OF small accounts last
week To Consolidated houses,
These customers said a member
Of the firm, We're simply disguised by
the executions they received and the ne
cessity OF waiting some times as long
as two hours for reports, BY transfer
ring To the Consolidated they claimed
10 be able TO get better executions n
immediate reports of what they had
done. Considering the conditions that
prevailed last week l can't say that l
can blame them
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
THE CURB MARKET.

The feature OF yesterdays curb mar
ket was the display OF strength In oil
shares. which had been idle recently while
war stocks made their spectacular ad-
$,nce. The market as a whole was irreg-
ular. Industrial specialties for the most
part were reactonary. Standard Motors
and Cramp Shipbuildirg were lower,
while Car Light and Power was
Marconi held steady. Electric Boat was
slightly firmer.
The rise IN oil stocks was accomplished
on comparatively little business. Prairie
Oil and Gas moved up IA points. after
Fridays gain OF 26 points. Standard on
OF Indiana gained II points; standard
Oil of New York, 6 points. and Ohio Oil.
4 points.
TRANSACTIONS in detail on the market
Yesterday were as follows
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01

one feature OF the present market
Is the active part taken in II by out OF
town spectators. The market for
Crucible attracted buyers literally from
every part OF the country. Orders we're
given by mail, by telephone and by
telegraph. Naturally long range specu-
lation OF this sort presents certain diffi
culties. one house tells OF an expert
ence with a customer In Ohio. This man
sent In a market order in Crucible or
its big day, which was executed for
him at 69ia. The same day he had
a profit of $3.50. and his brokers on
sldered II proper to tell him of II. The
customer had two addresses. to both Of
which kilograms were duly sent without
eliciting any replay. At the close OF the
market his account showed a loss OF
5000
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01

- SATURDAY, July ~,
RAosipts OF beeves were AL head. all
u which were consigned to s~laughterers,
9here was no trading In i've cattle. The
feeling was rated steady. Dressed beef
NaS Quist At l2h a 10 re. per 10, for ordi-
6ary TO extra native sides.
Recstpts OF calves we're 20l head, In
cludtng los for the market. Feeling was
Oteady for NIL sorts and weights. The
onetngs were Tennessee grassers and fed
csivee which sold at ST.. so a Ss.75 per 100
tbs. Dressed calves were In moderate de
mand AZ lbalsi1c, for city dressed veals
n l2Vl6c.- for country dressed.
Receipts o. sheep and lambs were sea
bead. Including IL cars for tho market.
Demand fair and prices steady, and ali
o6ernEs were wanted. Common to
prime. sheep tewes) sold at HGSs per
aSsses lambs. 81 Nais5o. Dressed nut
IN Arm 81 Salsc. per III; dressed lambs
HssssrtS q a' ho %'; .s, tiiso head. Al,
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