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VON MACKENSENS ARMY TAKES PLNSK:
GERMANS FIGHT HARD TO CUT OFF RIGA
Teutons Improve Position
Fight for ROvnO-W wilma
Railway Line.
CARS FORCES GAIN
GROUND IN GALICIA
Special Cable Despatch 10 TpE srs.

LONDON, Sept. 16.-Pinsk. 100 miles
east Of Brcst-Litovsk, to-day fell into the
hands Of Gen. Won Mackensen's troops,
according to official announcement by
the German General Stan.
The capture Of his city in itself is OF
less significance than are the favorable
consequences which arise from II for the
Teutouic invaders. BY reaching Pinsk
Won Mackensen's army has gained a
much less difficult lighting ground, a
territory upon which 1t Is easier to ad-
vance than It had in the marshy region
which it leaves behind and in which Il
has %s;uhbornly struggled onward against
thu tenacious resistance OF the Russians
ever since the fall OF Brest-ILtovsk.
riHsk is only thirty miles from the
Royno-Wilna railway line and is con-
nec;cd by rail with Luninez. Won Mac.
kensen now is expected to lash to thi.
point. To gain II would put him in a
position either to proceed northward IN
the direction of Villa or southwark to
sarny, the important junction Of the
Rovno-Wilna and the Lublin-k ie rail-
roads.
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Special table Despa,ch to Tar SIS.
LONDON. Sept. l6.-"This is the end
OF the line" said the staff officer, the
kindes. and most patient of chap
erons.
II buttressed itself on a fortress
among the hills. Beyond that the ST.
lence was more awful than the mixed
noise Of the business to the westward,
In mileage on the map the line~must
be between 400 and 500 miles. In ac-
tual trench work it is many times that
distance. 1t is too much to SEE at
full length. The mind does not readily
break away from the obsession of its
entirety nor grip its detail. One WIS.,
ualizes the thing afterward as a white
between intolcrable sounds and lights
under cease;ess blasts of whirled dirt.
Nor is it any relief to lose oneself
among wildernesses of pillng, stoning.
timbering. concretlng, wire work or
in~Calculable quantities of soil thrown
up raw to the light and Cloaked by the
changing seasons as the unburied
dead are cloaked.
Yet there are no words to give the
essential simplicity OF il. 1t Is a
rampant put up By man against the
beast. precisely as in the stone age.
II II goes. all that keeps us from the
beast goes with 1t. one sees this at
the front as clearly as n sees the
French villages behind the German
lines. Sometimes the people steal
away from them and bring word of
what they endure. Where rifle and
bayonet serve. men use those tools
a.ong the front; where the knife gives
better results they go in behind the
hand grenades with the nakedstwelve
inch knife.
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DUMA Is PROROGUED
TILL ID-NOVEMBER
Announcement. Displeasing to
People, Follows Confer
cncc at Front.
Special Cdbie bcspatch 10 TnE srx.

special 'dDts UCspdfch 10 TIN Sun.
~PETRoGRAp, Sept. l6.-The Duma ad-
j~ourned late this afternoon until the
middle of November.
Special authorization by the Car for
the Dumas propagation had been OBJ
tanned by Premier Goremykin at his
re 'cnt visit TO the Gar at the front.
The Premier announced the Emperor's
decision to-day.
The reason given Is that The Russian
Parliament has done all IL had been ex-
pecteS to do. and that 1t is unnecessary
to continue the present sitting,
The propagation was holly contested
by the new acknowledgements ma
jority on the ground that the present
national war cannot be conducted with
cut the approval and the assistance of
the national representation.
TIL announcement caused a sensation
n deeply stirred public feeling. II
was promptly maic known THAI dis
trict councils and municipal leagues will
meet in Moscow next week to discuss
the situation.
The propagation Of the Duma at this
time is conceded to be most unpopular,
To illustrate this dispatches quote the
radical paper Den. the Dumas arch
critic. as saying:
This country was dissatisfied with
the Duma. but 1t was her Duma, her
organ. i~ncarnating her hopes and her
strivinss,"
The p~rorogation of the Duma comes
upon the heels of the new formation OF
the majority, nov consisting Of liberal
and Progr, ssive elements. This new
majority at once launched "A movement
for the enactment Of sweeping legisla-
tive reforms. simultaneously the new
fclmpticn OF the Cabinet and n change
VI tn, Prem -'ship was promulgated.
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EVENTS IN THE WAR
ONE YEAR AGO TO-DAY


Russians pierce the outer ring of
forts at Przemys 81 and invest the
Galician fortress. Another Russian
army OF 900, 900 men sweeps west
ward through Poland.
The German forces in France make
"A stubborn stand on the Alsne, where
a great battle IL in progress,
In reply to the Kaiser's request
for an armlstice in Flanders the King
of the Bclgians declares: Belgium
will no sheathe the sword while one
soldier II able to fight"
The Austrians continue their drive
through Serbian territory adjacent to
the Bosnian frontier,
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In spite OF their love of drama there
is not much window dressing in the
French character. The boche, who Is
the priest Of the higher counter jun
pery. would have had half the neutral
press out I'm cars to advertise these
vast spectacles of men and material,
But the same instinct as makes their
rich farmers keep to their smocks
makes the French keep quiet.
This is our affair" they argue,
Everybody concerned in 1t is taking
part in II like the review You saw the
other day. There are no spectators.
But 1t might be OF advantage II the
world knew"
Mine was a foolish remark.
There is only one world to-day, the
world of the Allies. Each of them
knows what the others are doing and
the rest doesn't matter. This is a
curious but delightful fact to realize
first hand and think what II will he
later when we shall all circulate
among each other. open our hearts
and talk II over in a brotherhood more
intimate than ties OF blood"
lay that night at a little French
town and was kept awake by a mar
somewhere in the hot, still darkness
bowling aloud from the pain OF his
wounds. | was glad he vas alone, for
when one mar gives way others some
times follow, Yet a single note of
misery Is worse than the baying and
| gulp!ng Of a whole ward. wished q
delegation of strikers could have
heard II.
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cause OF domestic troubles In Russia.
as he was the lei Of the rcactionary
element and responsible for the attitude
Of the Government in failing to keep
its promise of better treatment OF tn
Jews and the Poles"
The agency pays a tribute to the mill
tary qualities of the Grand Duke. 1t
quotes the following from the IossiSchc
Zeitnnp:
doubtless now Russia will start
afresh. the day OF the Old absoiutism
being over. INC Moscow Instead Of Off
cial ST. Petersburg VIII take the lead in
national affairs. The question arises
whether Russia in Moscow will have To
pass through the communism stage AZ
PANS did In 1874. Revolutionary ten
denotes are clearly visible everywhere
In Russia"
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ALLIES ROUTED.
TURKS Report Success Of >ttncks
at AnafRrtR.

Special Gable Despatch n TnE SrS.
LoSDoS, Sept. lG.-The following
official statement WAS received
here to-day by way Of Amsterdam:
At Anafarta u troops succeeded
Tuesday night In routing the enemy
by bold attacks.
Near Sedd-el-Bahr we destroyed a
hostile mine by a counte mine, ON
our right wing by bombing We pre-
vented the enemy from digging z!eztG
trenches and inflicted losses. our
artillery silenced two hostile batteries.
our batteries al the Narrows shellod
on sunday enemy troops IN the cap"
hcllcs region as well as the landing
AT Tekke Burnu and enemy batteries.
At Sedd-cl-Bahr we gained n fair sue
cess over hostile troops, Hostile bat
teries AZ Hissarlik were silcuccd.
ON Tuesday We destroyed a hostile
artillery position and landing at Sedd-
ell Bahr.
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was pure devotion and rejoicing to be

was pure devotion and rejoicing to be
of use.
Similarly with stables, barricades
and barbed wire work, the clearing
M piling away II wrecked house
rubbish, the serving OF meals till the
service rocks on its poor tired feet but
keeps It's temper, and all the unlovely.
monotonous details that go with war.
The women. as | have tried to show.
work stride for stride with the men,
with hearts as resolute and a spirit
that has little mercy for shortcomings.
\ woman takes her place wherever
she can relieve a man-in the shop. at
the posts, on tramways. In hotels and
a thousand other businesses. She is
Injured to field work and half the har-
vest Of France this year lies in her
lap. one feels at every turn how her
men trust her. She knows, for she
shares everything with her world.
what has befallen her sisters who are
now in German hands, and her soul
is the undying flame behind the mems
steel.
Neither men nor women have any
Illusion as to miracles presently to be
performed which shall sweep out" or
drive back the boChe. Since the
army Is the nation they know much,
though they are officially told little.
They all recognize that the old fash
toned victory of the past is almost as
obsolete as a rifle in a front line
trench. They all accept the new war,
which means grinding down and wear
! ing out the enemy by every means,
plan and device that can be COM
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EXPECT GERMAN ARMY.
3nver Pasha Tells Duke of Meek
IenburR Of Turkish Hope.

AMSTERDAM. via London, Sept. Ia
The Duke OF MeckleuhurS has left Tur-
key to return to Berlin. While at Con-
stantinople the Duk witnessed an army
parade, after which Euver Pasha made
this speech:
The presence here to-day Of YOU
Highucss We take as a definite promise
of the early arrival Of the great German
armies, which We expect with hopeful
10y
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REVOLT PREDICTED.
German Paper Compares Russia 10
rance In 1871.

lHLrfI", via London. Sept. lG-The
o'rr-sAs News Agency issued "A state
mont 'o-day commenting on the taking
oVcr 10y the Gar OF the supreme com
maud ~ the Russian armies.
The removal OF Crank Duke Nicho-
"a is 'pmmented upon as OF the greatest
Importance politically rs he was tn"
,h,trnaticn Of the anti-German national
~, and imperiaiistic policy OF Russia
shd personally responsible for forcing
war upon The Emperor and obtaining
we signature OF the mobilization order
oI july, 1914, which precipitated the
wa The Grand Dukes removal Is re-
safded as having been imperative be-
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The outer works Of the village con.
sist OF a ConCentrlc series OF trenches
with barbed wire protection. The near
est is In the village itself and the fur
thest is in the fields 500 yards dis:ai :
the church. which forms. as =
were. the axis os the defence. The
trenches are intcrconnectcd and COM
muu!cate in a variety Of ways with the
subterranean works. EmplacemeniS for
machin, guns have been prepared with
such care that although the country Is
slightly rolling , cy command 1t In every
direction TO- more than "A mile. 1t Is
estimated that l.o00 men are an ado-
quate defence for the position.
other villages are being similarly or
ganized by the French.
The commuuiqut Issued tonight fol-
lows
In Belgium. IN the sector OF ..ieu-
port. there Was effective firing b. our
heavy artillery. IN the region OF Neu-
Vile. RcClincuuTt and about Arras as
well as between the Avre and the Oise
there was very energetic action by our
batteries IN reply TO a violent enemy
bombardment.
Canuunadiug continues about Sapig-
ucul. on the canal between the Alsne
and the Marine. as we'll as to the north
of the Camp dc thalons.
There was "a hombardment ~ both
sides with Guns OF various cal!hres he
tween the Aisne and the Argonue.
There was lighting with large bombs
at saint Hubert. with the Intervention
OF our artillery several times repeated.
In the Bots lie Pretrc activity in
mine throwing on the part Of the Ger
mans provoked a violent reply ny our
trench mortars and fell artillery.
In Lorraine. on the Ncille and the
I.outre. the fire Of our batteries was
effective in destroying the enemy's
works.
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CAR CALLS FOR TROOPS.
Reserves of Territorial Army to
Join III COlOrs.

'~ErRoGRAD. Sept. 16.-The Car to-day
c. ~ to The colors + serves of the
territorial army. The imperial ukase
calling them out i%nstructs the Senate
10 determine the ages ard numbers or
n rescrvcs and the districts from
49," thry shall he called,
TIL" reserves called ont by the Ears
ED-' ukase consist Of the so-called
? nud category, the greatest part or
winch $ made up OF mea who have
l''U previously rejected by the War
Ministry because OF physical disabll.'
TIC
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Bulgaria Keeps Up WAR Strength.

ROME. Sept. 16-Military observers
here agree that the action taken by
the Bulgarian War Ministry in discharg-
ing the artillerymen and engineers sum
moned to the colors In 1872 does not
imply a weakening of the army's
strength. since these men have been
replaced by recruits formerly exempted
from service.
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TIE SrN presents bciotc the sirth
and last Of articles from the pen Of
Rndyord kipiing under the general
title OF France at Wa on the From
tier Of Civilization" describing the i'm
p,essions OF a uisit to the nghtinD line
IN France.
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Special Cdhie DsSpItch 10 THr SuN
LoNDoS. Sept. l6.-The official prcs1
bureau announces that In the wees
ended September II three British mer-
Chantnen. total tonnage 1881. and ON"
fishing craft of ~ tons were sunk or
captured. In the same period the ar
rivals and departures at ports OF tho
United Kingdom were Las.
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Each race is supposed TO fight in its
own way, but this wal has passed be-
yond all known ways. They SAY that
the Belgians in the north settle ac-
counts with a certain dry passion
which has varied very little since their
agony began. Some sections OF the
English line have produced a soft
voiced. rather reserved type which
does its work with its mouth shut.
The French carry an edge To their
ighting, "A precision and eadfu
knowledge coupled with an inscnsi-
bility TO shock unlike anything one
has imagined of mankind.
TO be sure there has never been a
like ~provoration, for never since the
Aesir went about to bind the Fenrls
wolf has all the world united to bind
the beast.
The last | saw of the front was
Alan Breck speeding back to his gun
positions among the mountains, and l
wondered what delight Of what house
hold the lad must have been In the
old DAYS. Then we had to work our
way. department by department
against the tides Of men behind the
line. Supports and their supports, re-
serves and reserves Of reserves as well
as masses in training-they flooded
towns and villages, When We tried
short cuts We found them in every
byranc.
Have you seer mounted men read
ing their home letters with reins
thrown on their horses necks, moving
in absorbed silence through a street
which almost said Hush" to Its dogs,
or met in a forest a procession of per-
fectly new big guns, apparently talk
ing themselves from the foundry to
the front?
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That n civilian should be in the war
conc at all is IA fair guarantee Of his
good faith. 1t Is when he IL outside
the zone, unchaperoned, that questions
begin and permits are looked into. II
these are irregular-but one doesn't
are to contemplate it; II regular,
there are stiil a few counter checks.
As a sergeant at a railroad station
said when he helped us out Of an
impasse:
"Y0u will realize that It Is the most
undesirable persons whose papers are
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MY son is an aviator. monsieur. 7
could have claimed Italian nationality
for him at the beginning, but he would
not have It. Both my brothers. mon
sieur. are at the war. One Is dead al
ready. And my fiance. I have not
heard from him since March. He IL
cook in a battalion"
Here Is the wine list. monsieur.
Yes. both my son and a nephew, and
| have no news from them-not a
word Of news. My God, we all suffer
these days
And so. too. among the shops. The
mere statement OF the loss, OF the grief
at the heart. but never a word of
doubt. never a whimper of despair.
Now why" asked n ~shopkeepcr.
does not our Government or your
Government or both our Governments
send some of the British army to
faris' ! assure you We should make
them welcome"
"Perhaps."I began. you might make
them too welcome"
He laughed.
W should make them as welcome
as our own army. They would enjoy
themselves"
had a vision NJ British officers,
zach with ninety days pay to his credit
and a damsel or two at home, shopping
consumedly.
And also" said the ]shopkecper. the
moral effect on Paris TO see more of
your troops would he very good. But
! saw a quite English provost marshal
losing himself in chase Of ~defaulters
of the new army who knew their Paris.
still, there is something to be said for
this idea, to the extent of a ~virtuous
brigade or so. At present the English
officer in Paris is a scarce bird"
And he explains at once WHY he ia
n what he is doing there.
They must have good I
suggested. Teeth to attend to"
NO good" he grumbled. They've
thought OF that too. Behind our lines
is simply crawling with dentists now"
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Hostcss~s In Hospitals.

II one asked after the people tina,
gave dinners and dances last ye,r
where every one talked SO brilliantly
OF such vital things one got in eturn
the addresses OF hospitals. Those
pleasant hostesses and maidens seemed
to he in charge of departments or on
duty in wards or kitchen sculleries.
Some OF the hospitals were in Paris.
Their stats might have one hour a
day in which to see visitors. Others
were up the line and liable to he
shelled or bombed. ! recalled one
French woman in particular because
she had once explained to me the
necessities Of civilized life. These In
cluded the masseuse, the manicurist
and a maid to look after lap dogs. She
is employed now and has been for
months past ~ the d%isinfection and
repair of soldiers clothes.
There was no need to ask after the
men one had known. still there was
no sense ~ desolatlon. They had gone
on. The others were getting ready.
All France works outward to the front
precisely as an endless chain Of fire
buckets works toward the Confiagra-
ton. Leave the fire behind you and
go back till YOU reach the source
of supplies. You will find no break,
no pause, no apparent haste. but
never any s%lackening, Everybody has
his or her bucket, little or big, and
nobody disputes how II should be used.
II is a people possessed OF the prec-
edent and tradition Of war for ex-
- " L--I ts-s ,
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-04-30

THE Presidents proposition to not be candi-
L date in 1916 is taken to mean that he is
afflicted with cold feet.
WHEN LUKE LEA assemblies his Legislature,
w next Monday, he is expected to announce
that his reelection is assured.
MANY a man who howled for change in
A'A 1912 will be in position TO appreciate
the change that is scheduled for next year.
FACT that Secretary BRYAN slipped and turned
his ankle is not great advertisement tor
the particular brand of grape juice he uses.
THE more one hears about that deficit" Gov
L ernor HOOPER is said to have left, the less
one is inclined to believe that the people will
give any credence to the report.
THE Philadelp phia Public Ledger recalls the
L immortal opinion of CHARLES DUDLEY
WARNER that what the amateur gardener most
needs is a hinge in the middle of his back.
WHILE Hon. GRANT S1MoNDs expects to do
w everything in his power to prevent the
Democrats from making fools of themselves in
the coming session, he has no great hopes of
succeeding.
h QOM OcIudH papers VIC lCdIH thdl oIhOlo
than Americans have reached the conclu-
sion that the greatest weakness in the present
Democratic Administration is in the region of
the backbone.
THE irony of fate is once more made apparent.
L Mayor ROBERTS had planned to spend four
years in the gubernatorial mansion at Indian
apolis Instead he will spend six years in
Federal prison.
THE statement that Louisianians will remain
good Democrats so long as the European
war prevents the sugar industry from being de-
stroyed is an intimation that it is only a ques-
ton of time until they will be Republicans.
IF AN investigation were started showing why
the taxes of Polk County had to be raised
from ST. 80 to $2.35 and also why it was neces-
sary to borrow $2O,OOO last September, to meet
the pike road pay roll, it might be interesting.
THE Republican party, heretofore, has been
troubled with an element that was too easi-
ly led by promises of something better. Had
they retained what the Republican had been CIV
ing them for years, they would now be better off,
COMPARED with Terre Haute election steals,
- Eastern papers say Tammanys actions in
this respect look like the work of amateurs
If they want to see the real thing, they should
visit Memphis during an election in which there
is graft at stake
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-04-30

THE attempt to discredit Hon. A. L. ToDD by
blackmailing and bribery is bound to have
a reaction.
WILL the present Legislature be able to pass
w all the laws necessary to insure the re-
election of LUKE LEA?
GO LITTLE is being heard and seen of that
~ "New Freedom" that we are inclined to be-
leve it is psychological.
NTOW that the National Simpli6ed Spelling
1N Board has finished powwowing, does it feel
more simpli6ed or simple?
If WE could have an honest election in Ten
nessee-especially in the western portion
the State would be better governed.
A FTER cleaning our exchanges, we are in
"a doubt as to whether this country needs
Secretary of peace or piece of Secretary
TT 1T is Cermanys idea that we ought to tight
for the privilege of selling her provisions
she had better adopt a new line of reasoning
TENNESSEE GAINES mighty little prestige by
having one of its most illustrious citizens
arrested in Washington as common scrapPer'
BOUT the worst thing woman lobbyist
n would have to contend with in the Tennes-
see Legislature would be the thought of having
to kiss Democrat.
A NEW YORK Judge has decided that woman
"A has no right to call man an old fool
until she is welded to him. May be he doesn't
have to be told then.
THE waltz Uncle JOE CANNON INDUCED in at
San Francisco must have reminded him OF
the way he used to have the Democrats waltzing
around in the House.
DEMOCRATIC papers that are advising that
- no harm can come of the tariff as long as
the war lasts are keeping mighty quiet about
what may happen afterward.
THE country has no cause for congratulating
L the President for selecting FRANK WALSH
as member of the Industrial Commission
nor for much of anything else.
DEST answer to the European charge OF Yam
ID kee greed" is to call attention to what we
did for stricken India, famshed China, earth
quake-shaken Italy and Belgium.
THE President may not be behind the Riggs
L National Bank persecution, but ne will try
to remain close enough to prevent, it possible,
the singeing of his son-in-law's tail feathers; 1t
is evident that it is fight 10 the finish and no
quarter asked or given.