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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
Russian Forces Reach
First Line of Defence
LILY Cable to The Tribune.

Pctrograd, Aug II dispatch to
"The London Morning Post").-The
Russians may be said practically to
have reached their first line of defence,
on which it was expected the campaign
would be started year ago-the Bug
Niemen line.
The German southern and northern
groups Of armies have now coalesced
into single enormous force facing
eastward. This shortening OF their
front has freed many men, and these,
together with reinforcements from the
interior of Germany and elsewhere, are
being brought up 10 the Niemen-Dwina
front.
These last operations are rapidly
threatening 10 become of primary i'm
portance. It is now evident that Petro-
grad is serving as an attractive bait
for German ambitions. Military au-
thorities estimate that under all favor
ing circumstances a military eXpedl-
ton from East Prussia must take not
less than a twelvemonth 10 reach Pet
rograd. =.
Natural obstacles, apart from mill
tary opposition, are many and great,
but this period might be shortened
considerably if the enemy held abso-
Lutte command of the Baltic. Without
such control any attempt on Petrogrsd
as a military objective is futile. There
are again signs of German activity IN
the Baltic, put hitherto they have
proved unsuccessful
The Germans are combining their
movements toward Petrograd as their
real objective, and the operations on
the Warsaw and the Vistula lines are
subordinate. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
PRISONERS SAVED
BY u. S. MEDIATION
Germans Praise Relief Measures
Soldiers Suffer at Hands Of
Unskilled Surgeons.

Berlin, Aug. II (by wireless to Say
vile, Long Island) The Overseas News
Agency gave out the following to-day:
Negotiations between Germany and
France, conducted through American
mediation, for the relief of civil pris-
oners are being continued, and a result
satisfactory to all concerned is thought
possible.
private kilograms from Haparanda,
Sweden, describe the arrival Of the first
transports bearing invaded German
soldiers from Russia. The contingent
numbered $50 men. most of whom were
badly crippled. It is declared that the
Russian surgeons who attended them
were in many cases BARRIERS who had
had only six weeks medical training.
The failure of such atten dance properly
TO treat apparently slight wounds is de-
clared to have necessitated amputations
of arms and legs in many cases, the
amputations being performed in an eX-
tremely crude manner.
"The returning soldiers report the
women nurses in the Russian hOspi-
tails to have been kind, attentive and
considerable for the most part, but that
hospital conditions in general, which
had been only passable, are growing
worse in the far interior of Russia III
treatment of German and Hungarian
soldiers is complained of. Wounded
Russian soldiers, the returning in
valids say, also suffered from the in
capability of the Russian surgeons"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18

could not have been, for no friends, no
true friends, would have done it.
Oh, God! How we desire that this
pen which is recording our confused
thoughts should prove false in it's pur-
pose, should prove that our thoughts
are all fanciful-that Frank Leo Frank
still lives.
But this pen is not false. Our
thoughts are true. All, dear God, on a
tree swings his body. Leo Frank is
dead
The Warheit.
When these lines are written the re-
suit of the latest, possibly the last, at
tack on Leo NJ. Frank is not yet known.
But what hope for the best can we
entertain?
The expedition which kidnapped
Frank from prison did not come to him
TO do him any good This expedition is
characteristic of the law-loving citizens
Of certain parts of the South, who are
confident that they, and they alone, are
the law.
Again, we are perplexed why a prison
which contains such lawful convicts" as
Leo VI. Frank should have been so poor
" guarded that twenty-five men could
have accomplished the deed.
We shall see light--a little later.
Meanwhile, however, whatever may
have happened to Leo Frank, the blame
will fall not on the shoulders of the
give and twenty citizens" who kid
Mapped him from prison, but on the
official and self-crowned guardians Of
the law and judges who have prosecuted
and shamed and torn him limb from
limb for almost three years.
Whatever may have happened to
Frank, he will pass into history as a
martyr, not alone for his agonized race
but among all righteous men through
out the world.
The Jewish Morning Journal.
The death of Leo NJ. Frank was a
natural event in so far as Georgia is
concerned: the wild mob conquered in
a region where it always has its own
way. The only difference in this in
stance is that the victim was Jew and
the Jews of all states OF this country
and other countries took great interest
in his case.
We trust that the officials of the
state will do their duty in punlshlng
the murderers, but they will have a
difficult bit of work. One can do very
little with a crazed mob.
The family of the victim may be sure
of the sympathy Of the entire Jewry OF
the world and millions Of Gentiles VIII
also not withhold their words OF cour-
age. We are sorry for the position IN
which the Jews of Georgia may ma
themselves now. inasmuch as an or
binary criminal process has peeh
turned into a Jewish case.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
Press Laments
Lvnching of "Martyr'

The Jewish newspapers IN New YORK
are unanimous in editorial expressions
Of horror at Franks death.
The VOrwarts.
Poor Leo Frank! A bitter fight did
he make for his life. He sought only
iustice-that right which was his. lie
asked for another trial only to prove
his innocence, but deaf to his pleas:
were courts and judges. Because OF
technical details they refused 10 near
his supplications. VI
But finally fate smiled on him. Yet
no sooner had Governor Slaton com
nuted his sentence than we knew that
Leo was not yet done with ms strussle'
We saw that his life was not safe. Sew
eral weeks ago negro atteihp'eu "
slaughter him. Jl,
And now-now- Leo FRANK Is oeao'
The Leader.
w. sbould like to believe that friend
ard not foe bore Leo Frank from his
p Al how we should like to console
ourselves with the thought that the
Jewish sacrifice was freed. not slaught-
Bnt Frank was taken from prison to
meet-Death!
The lvnchers of Georgia who were
not able 10 commit their vengeance
tbrough law have satisfied it with
murder. o5,, ~
Georgia law. And with this closes the
tragedy of the poor, the unfortunate,
the understanding Leo Frank, wnom
fate had destined to pay with MS lie
for being born Jew; -, I.,;,
All, How we should like to believe
that they were friends; but no! They
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
GERMANS AGAIN
FAIL CAPTURE
DIXMUDE BRIDGE
Belgian Guns Hurl Back
Fresh Assault on
User Bank.
FRENCH GAIN NEW
VOSGES FOOTHOLD
Artillery Clears Way for In
fantry Charge on Ridge
Near GOndernach.

Furnes, Belgium, Aug. 17.-The
famous bridgehead at Dixmude, thrice
lost and thrice retaken by the Bel
gians, remained in their hands this
morning after desperate assault by
the Germans had been lepulsed.
The bridgehead is fragment of the
right bank of the User beyond the Dix
nude bridge. The Germans hold all
the adjoining ground, but the Bel
gians have chung to the position av-
preached by the bridge since October,
warding off incessant German attacks
and enduring daily Smelling. The
Germans, attracted by the exposed Bel
gian position, frequently have attacked
in mass formation, and it is estimated
they lost 5000 men there from October
to August 1.
After three attempts the Germans
had abandoned direct efforts to occupy
the trenches, but kept up fire from
three sides. Every evening at the kour
of relief German field guns and Cat
lings played on the position and the
communicating trenches. Every even
ing a few Belgians fell. The position
was useless in the absence Of gen
eral attack, but it had cost so much
the Belgians held on. Machine guns
were posted on the left bank, with
several batteries of three-inches be-
hind them.
No relief was sent last evening, bu:
the occupying detachment evacuated
the trenches under the protection OF
artillery and machine guns. Then the
gunners waited for the attack, which
came in the early morning. The Gel-
mans were permitted to advance four
deep without molestation until they
came within range of the machine guns,
which opened fire supported by the
three-inches. Most of the attacking
force fell before they reached the
trench of the bridgehead, and the Bel
eian guns had the range so well that
those who got into the trenches were
obliged to abandon them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
BOYCOTT is URGED
AGAINST GEORGIA
Proper Rebuke for Lynching of
Frank, Says "The Boston
Traveller"
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.I

Boston. Aug. 17.-"The Boston Trav-
eler." which conducted a widespread
campaign to save Leo VI. Frank from
the gallows. urges a boycott on Gcor-
gian products in an editorial to-day,
which says:
an this browning demonstration Of
her inherent savsgery. Georgia stands
revealed before the world in her naked,
barbarian brutality. She is a shame
and a disgrace to the other states OF
the Union. who are powerless in the
matter of humane justice to put upon
her the corrective punishment her
crimes deserve.
"But the consciences of the Aneri-
can people are not so callous as those
of the Georgians, who sanction by
silence or take part in such crimes
against fellow beings. black and white.
And to the degree that humane pub
lie can rebuke the State of Georgia
Ly refusing TO have any part OF her
unholy peoples products they Will do
so. Anything made or grown in Geor-
gia will bear a sinister brand and be
suggestive of lynchings and burnings:
and especially of this brutal murder OF
Frank. and it ought to be and doubt
less will be left untouched.
"The only way in which Georgia can
be made 20 feel the shudder of horror
which is sweeping the country and
the utter contempt in which she is
held by the rest Of the nation is by a
deliberate boycott of Georgia grown
and Georgia made goods-peaches. cot
ton or whatever else bears the stamp
of the so-called Empire State Of the
South >"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
American Justice
Outraged, Says Straus

In a telegram to The Tribune last
night from his summer residence, at
Big Island, Maine, Oscar S. Straus made
the following statement on the lynch
ing Of Leo NJ. Frank;
american justice, humanity and re-
spect for government and authority has
been outraged in an unparalleled de-
gree not only by the mob but by the
appearance Of gross negligence on the
part of the administrative authorities
Of Georgia. The questio. naturally
arises if this could have happened
under the efficient administration OF
Governor Slaton, who exemDlifies moral
force and executive power and gloritiee,S5
his state, which is Illuminated a3I VIII
he reclaimed only ii those who COM
m.tted this crime arc brought to JUS
tlce"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
FRENCH OFFICIAL.

The War Office at Paris tonight
r1ade public the following official COM
Artillery fighting, in which there
were no notable Incidents, has oc-
Cured on the larger part OF the
front. In the Nosges we violently
shelled the German positions IN the
region from Linge to Reichackcr-
kopf and OH the ridge between Con
dernach and Landersbach.
ON the latter point our infantry
made an attack and secured foot
ing on the ridge, where they in
trenched themselves. A German
counter attack failed.
The statement issued this afternoon
SAID:
Last night saw fairly spirited can
nonading at various points on the
front, notably at Bcesinghe and at
Ouennevieres, and in Lorraine, in the
vicinity of Arracourt and Leintrey.
There was fighting with hand gren-
AIDES in the Argonne, at Fontalne-
aux Charmes and at Haute Cheyau-
chez. At this latter place the Ger
mans came out from their trenches
Yesterday evening TO deliver an at
tack. but our fire drove them back
to their lines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
SAY BRITAIN TRIED
FOR WAR in 1911
Germans Declare Reports Also
Prove England's Intended e
lnfidelity to Belgium.

Berlin, Aug. II (by Wireless 10 Tuck
erton, N. JD.-Publication is made by
the "Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zetung"
Of further secret reports prepared by
Belgian ministers at European capitals
prior to the outbreak of the war and
found by the German authorities in
Brussels. The documents have 70 do
with the Moroccan crisis. Reviewing
them, the Overseas News Agency says:
"The Belgian Minister at Berlin gave
one more illustration Of the spirit
which animated the British foreign pol
icy, as shown in his report made on
December 8, 1911, concerning the plan
for African compensation which Sir Ed
ward Grey. the British Foreign Minis
ter, indirectly offered to Germany.
Are these, perhaps, our possessions
which he wants to huckster, according
to the principles of the new interna-
tional law practised in London and, un-
fortunately, in other places-Morocco,
Tripol and Persia" the minister
wrote. He recalls the strange oyertures
made by Colonel Barnardiston, then
British military attache at Brussels, to
the Belgian General Demearme, to
which the minister apparently attached
much more Importance than do the
British and Belgian governments in
their recent publications.
THE publication Of these Belgian re-
ports is causing a growing sensation
because they furnish documentary
proof that England. under King Ed
wards leadership, followed a deter
mined and ambitious foreign policy in
1911, as told already, TO provoke war,
while the German government made
peace possible by yielding in the face
Of clear violations OF treaty rights by
France.
Furthermore, these documents EN-
phasze the fact that in 1911 England
had decided TO participate in a war be-
tween France and Germany, without
mentioning in any way the pretext con-
corning Belgian neutrality. At the
same time, the Belgian reports prove
that the Belgian government consid-
cred British oyertures concerning the
landing Of forces on the Continent and
marching them through Belgium as eX-
tremely strange and serious"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
ITALIAN GUNS OPEN
ON DOBERDO PLAIN
Vienna Tells of New Attack
Claims Repulse of All
Assaults.

London, Aug. 17.-Activity is increas-
ing along the Austro-ltalian front, sc-
cordng to the latest official reports.
Vienna tells of new artillery attack
by Italians on the Doberdo plateau
Rome claims progress in the SeXten re-
gion, in the Bscherbach and Boden-
bach valleys, and in the Monte Nero
zone. Vienna declares Italian attacks
at various points along the line failed.
AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL.
The statement issued by the Vienna
War Office tonight says:
The ire of the Italian heavy ar
tillery against our Tyrolean defence
works continues feeble. Hostile IN,
fantry attachments advancing on val
Sugana to Garzano, northeast OF
Borgo, have been beaten back across
the Maso Brook.
In the coastal region the Italians
continued their attacks with strong
forces against our positions between
Krn and Tolmein. but they were
bloodily repulsed everywhere; Yes
terday afternoon the Doberdo pia-
teau again was under rather Hio-
lent gunnre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
Frank Was Lynched
in Court" Says Wise

Ir.eE~7Cl 70 Inc lIlDA-'I
Lake Placid. y. Y, Aug. 17.-Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free
Synagogue. New York. commenting on
the lvrchinc Of Leo NJ. Frank, tonight
said:
It is day Of shame for Georgia
and Of humiliation for the whole ma
ton. Some Of Georgia's sons have done
deed destined TO be memorable in
the annals Of infamy. Leo Frank is
dead. but Georgia is undone. A world
at war will pause from its awful work
long enough 20 shudder at this deed Of
darkness.
practical questions are of little mo-
ment now, and yet L will rightly be
asked whether the men sworn by
Georgia 10 guard her prisons bore
themselves like men or basely sur
rendered 10 the mob 10 save them
selves.
"Answerable in part for the deed arc
the so-called good people Of Georgia,
who did not dare speak out, though
they knew or believed Leo Frank 10 be
innocent, lcSL luey ne uulI III bItli
business. lest their standing with their
neighbors be injured Did these muir
derers dream of saving the honor Of
Georgia. They have made the name of
Georgia a byword and a kissing
throughout the world
Franks earthly fate is become a
matter Of history, but the moral fate
Of Georgia lies yet in the balance. VII
Georgia redeem herself now? Will the
best Of her sons and the finest Of her
daughters resolve that those response
bic FOR the deed shall henceforth have
no part In her leadership or councils?
Leo Frank was lyncheG in court un-
der the forms o. law. He was lynched
again by lawless mob. But the spirit
Of lynch!rg prevailed at his Atlanta
trial truly a. at his hanging in Mari
eta The deed is in large part the
outcome Of d nations unprotestlng ST.
lence whenever the majesty OF the law
has been violated during the last
deca do "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
Warns That Resistance
of Russians Will Grow

Amsterdam, via London. Aug. IT,
Warning is telegraphed 70 Berlin by
the war correspondent of the "Lokal-
anzeiger" from the Eastern war the
atre that the resistance Of the Rus
SLAMS may increase as the Austro-Ger-
man front approaches the Russian line.
The correspondent declares that the
Russians can dispose sufficiently strong
forces to make serious temporary re-
sistance. and asdds that battles of in
creasing tendency, with perhaps a re-
tardation in the German ad-
vance, are TO be looked for soon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
IT'S GODS WILL,
WALLS EAST SIDE
Thousands Mourn Frank-Old
Woman, Whose Son He Aid
ed. Is Grief Stricken.
DAWN h'emesh 4"

"Boruch dayin h'emesh! "
These are the Hebrew words which
breaking heart must repeat for the kin
srs,ched away by the hand Of death.
.Nlsv the Lord of Justice be blessed! u"
These we're the words which half
million persons repeated in synagogue
,,6 home on the East Side yesterday
Leo N. Frank, by dint of being a
low relative Of all Jews. was dead
the victim Of Georgia mob law.
Always emotional. the East Side re-
,eiyes the news as though a great hand
,.ere squeezing IT'S heart dry. Yom Kip
,rr the day Of atonement and fasting
,r.s enacted before its time. Leo NJ.
Prank had been just as palpable
,e;gbbor 20 the East Side as race and
r.gb.eousness could make him.
A. first there was no resentment felt
against any one in particular.
aHe was killed by the officials Of the
s.,.e," shouted some one in group
before a Jewish newspaper bulletin.
The idea struck home, and the
thought circulated among thousands.
They will have some kind OF an
Investigation" shouted a prominent
editor to a group near his office 1T
viii take q few days. and will be con- con-
t,c+o5 into the actions Of hand1ul
who had least to do with Leo Franks
murder. They will get OF. scot freee'
When twilight stole over the city the
East side began 10 take a phlit02SoPhicaI
view of Leo Franks murder. Their be,
rof that the State of Georgia would
sverce his death was tremendous and
3cross the way from Seward Park a
bent old woman, like the sculptured
fggre Of sorrow, rocked two and fro,
Vsr son had been assisted financially
through Cornell University by the man
whom mob had strangled htteen
hours before.
dead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY
IN THE WORLD WAR

The Belgian government and
royal family removed from Brus-
sells to Antwerp.
Louvain occupied.
Berlin admitted that German
forces had fallen back in Alsace-
Lorraine.
Battle at Tirlemont.
President Wilson issued proc "a
nation urging Americans to OBJ
serve neutrality in word as well
as in deed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
GERMAN OFFICIAL.

The text Of the statement issued at
Berlin follows:
At Ostend our coast artillery bat
teries drove off two enemy destroy
ers.
In the Eastern Argonne a French
trench near La File Morte was evac-
uated. At Bapaume British aero
plane fell into our hands. The occu-
pants, two officers, were taken pris-
Oners.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
French Win FOothOld
on Ridge in VOsges

London, Aug. 17.-Violent artillery
actions continue in the Nosges. Paris
reports the shelling OF German posi-
tions on the ridge between Gondernacn
and Landersbach, followed oy an IN
fantry attack. The French FORCES
gained a footing which a counter at
tack failed to dislodge.
In the Argonne severe fighting has
nroduced little change. The Germans
attempted an assault at Haute-Cne-
vauchee. but was driven back oy
French FIRE, Paris reports. Berlin
claims the capture of French trench
near La File MOrte.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
Ukraine League Prefers
German to Russian Rule

Berlin, Aug. 1.-THE League for the
Liberation of the Ukraine, region en-
bracing part of the old Kingdom OF
Poland, has sent a telegram to Emperor
William congratulating him on the cap
ture of Cholm, and expressing firm con-
fidence in the ultimate victory of Ger
man arms over the hereditary foe and
deliverance of the Ukraine lands from
the Russian yoke
The Emperor gave instructions that
a telegram of thanks be sent to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18
State Called On to Wipe
Out Insult by Hunting
ASsaSSinS.
GRIEF FOR MARTYR
IN YIDDISH PRESS
We Saw His Life Was Not Safe,
Declares "VorwartS"-Guards
Censured by "Warheit.'
The Times.


The State of Georgia should
either apprehend the murderers OF Leo
NJ. Frank and punish them according
TO its laws. or its people should honor
them by election to the chief judicial
and administrative Offices in their gift.
ANY halfway course will be cowardly
evasion. Either the lynchers of Frank
faithfully represent public opinion IN
Georgia or they do not represent 1t.
If Georgia approves lynching, then
honors bestowed upon the lynchers
would attest at once the shameless
courage of the Georgia public and its
willingness to defy public opinion in
an the other states of the Union. :.
The responsibility must be placed,
primarily, not upon the participants in
the crime, but upon the conspicuous
and well known men who from the be-
ginning have shown blackhearted te-
rocity in their demand for the execu-
tion of Frank.
The Herald.
What is Georgia going to do
about it?
Is there manhood enough in the law
respecting citizenry of that great state,
is there strength enough in its govern
ment to see that prompt and condign
punishment is melted out to the muir
derers of Leo NJ. Frank?
The Sun.
Ex-Governor Slaton, who
committed the death sentence of Leo
NJ. Frank to Imprisonment, said that
the English language was not strong
or broad enough 10 characterize this
outrage appropriately" That Will be
the feeling of the American people,
shocked and hImiliated by the abomi-
nable offence against their civilization.
Il is to the deeper shame of Georgia
that the lynching of Frank has not
come as a surprise, and therefore could
and should have been prevented. &.
The World.
The law abiding men OF
Georgia may be expected to disavow, to
denounce. to condemn this CRIME
against their state. But the only DIS
avowal that will carry weight with the
nation will be the punishment OF the
men who murdered Leo Frank. q.
The American.
Until every man who took part in
this crime is found and punished the
people Of Georgia will have duty TO
Governments are not set up to be
overridden by assassins. Governors
are not elected and put in Office to have
their decisions for by murderous
mobs.
There can be no condoning any
lvnching. A lynching of this daring
and atrocious character is an insult
not only to the people of Georgia but
to the people Of the whole United
States.
There must be no refuge for these
butchers. To give them aid or comfort
to offer them opportunity for conceal
ment. is a criminal act, and should be
rvrie bod &c such
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-18

The Jewish newspapers in New York
are unanimous in editorial expressions
of horror at Franks death.