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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26

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Services ss 90 g. a. EEL. sss sss1 3 a.
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street SgetsF sesset al 3 on.
Services az t1s a. a. a. sss sssE q 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26
The sun.

Il has been stated that no one has
ever seen the sun 4 series of con
centric shells envelopes q nucleus Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26

Gospel meetings viil be held a. the
Sears town hall sunday a p. n.
William -. Oldham % Clinton. Iowa.
viii b. Ia charge % The services
Meetings viii De held the last SUI
day % every month conducted BY Mr..
oldham
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26

The local class % the International
Bible Students meets AZ odd Fellows
hall. Fourth avenue near Eighteenth
street. sunday az $50 a m. for a
herean siu6y. Subject. Bible Chro-
aoioEy.~ AZ 1880 a free bible lecture
all DC siTsa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26
Underwear BargainS---Get
Your Share.

Blankets for Summer Campers.
Several broken lines Of Cotton Blan-
kets on Sale Monday at but little over hall val
ues-
Pretty Plaid wool faced blankets
81 X "A inches in Grays, Tans, Blues and Pinks
about SIS in this lot-Your choice S1.00 pair.
Another Lot of about 45 Blankets,
4 different styles in Grays and Tans, Choice OF
this lot Csc pair.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26

F-.sraiaE so 'Ai' city. He vas Fiaias
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26

Church % the Brcthrcn-Rev. u. A
Rov land. pastor. Services az Indus.
trial hall. Fourteenth street ana Ftfth
avenue. Moline. Sunday school AZ 10
q m Preaching az 1880 a N. Even
taE services A. ESQ p. m
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26
NO MORE GUESS WORK

Quit guessing; get right at the certainti
need 10 keep guessing. Go where there IS certaint
you KNOW styles are right. qualities reliable and
little less.
This store stands for in fashion, in gu
prices always little less here than other
Women's White Coats and Wash Skirts need not
pensivc.
White Coats are IN very special demand Just now
over thin frocs light silk dresses evening gowns.
Some of the Popular Light Weight Coats
The Golfne Coat in Green. White, Rose and Belgian
% SIS So.
colors. Ss75 and Up.
For Eve1llng and Garden Parties--
Dresses OF dainty Point de Esprit Net tucked
trimmed VoIes. White. Blue Crepe-Coin Spot
the minute models $3.50 $3.50
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26

Zina Taheruacie-Seeond avenue and
EiEhteenth street. second soor: Rev
Van Bursu Shumaker In charge. ZION
junior bible school every Lords day
~ .. m nsaeoness Clark. monitor
T. charge Principal service At $ D
n Divine Sealing Tuesday AZ :.n
p n Praise and prayer uee;in
Wednesday a. D N
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-06-26

The ReorEanized Church Of Jesus
Christ % Latter nay saints. A. Arm
or ball. siSieeuth street and Third
avenue. Sabbath school AZ s.45 n m.
g. charge % superintendent NJ
Barns Sunday school At i:ss and
preaching a. $50 O'Clock. In charge o,
william Wiiietts. presiding elder.
Seats are free ana no collection IS
tEkea
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
Chronology Of Important Events in Titanic Conflict

January 25--Russians again active
In East Prussia.
january 27-Turks appeared at
Suez.
January 3O-German submarines
torpedo first merchant ships.
February 2IGreat Britain ordered
many.
submarine war zone from February
February lO-Thc United States
protested.
February 19-British and French
opened tho Dardanellcs campaign.
March England announced pur-
pose TO prevent commodities of any
kind from reaching or leaving Ger
many"
March 9-British captured Neuve
Chapelle.
March 22-Russians took Prem
March 23-British and French SOL
diers landed on Gallipoli Peninsula
at the DardanelleS.
mandcd reparation by Germany for
sinking of schooner Frye.
May THE Lusitania sunk by
German submarine. with a loss Of
1850 lives.
May ls-The United States de.
manded that the German submarine
policy be changed.
May 22-ltaly declares war on
Austria.
May 25-Italians invaded Austria.
May, 26-British coalition Cabinet
formed.
May 31-Germany replied to the
American note. "
June 2-Russians lost Przemsyl
June S-The United States re-
neweo Its demand for a change Of
the German submarine policy.
June 22-Russians lost Lemberg.
July Sherman advance on War
saw checked.
July e-Germany replied to the
second American demand.
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French capital and sped them east to
repel the Russian invader. But when
they divided their forces to fight two
foes at once the German plan OF cam
paign for the conquest OF Europe had
failed:
The drive on Paris stopped on Sep
tembcr 6. after going 200 miles in three
weeks In his march to the Marine, Won
kluck had beaten by nearly two weeks
Won Moltkes record forty-fivu years be-
fore. And when he halted on the banks
of that river at the little town of Lag
ny. he was only seventeen miles from
his goal
But he had lost the superiority Of
numbers. His great hanking move
ment was itself in danger of being
fankcd when he turned away from
Paris, whore 100000 defenders stood
within its ring OF Notifications. to hurl
himself at the center OF the army In
the field under Joffre.
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The Deadlock in IN. X...

was no longer drive. but a siee.
siege OF q whole nation along a
'roht or more than 500 miles And 80
.ne Germans have 3uccessfullv
80 'eu 'hat Siege with force ONLY
""lt as large IS their allied foes
or time the British STRUGGLED -
turn the German right ana 49,, 20
WIN 'he beleaguered Belgians wjtbin
,"s walls OF Antwerp. To save then
Hv'N'S the Germans brought IN tbni-
sStSt guns against the city After
h Gays OF pounding, Antwerp fell and
many hnGcr was on the trieoar
,,a, a' ioaded pistol. pointed. as Ma.
Tb sn'd' AT the head Of England
hence she crowded forward &C. ~
GuheS Of Flanders. past Osten5 ava ne
M"rtc the little river User runs NJ
",'.n across the sandy wastes no
nm" mat moat the heroic r.mr,,,
'ciSihn army, shoulder TO shouldor
~" INC british, defends the last no.
Of Belgium '"e h'hsdom
rom time to time the Gcrmars
risen out Of the ground ~ mans nave
rounds and make a drive ~ thelI
80 '-"'his, Paris having ccasoI
'"clF objective. Tncy have hrouot We
,'S'cf guns that fire twenty III
-. more ihey have rolled y,iIs ~
V"V"s gases upon their foes M
c- - '' nave opened their sluices
v. IN" canals and flooded their go.
y"nntrN-side; the British buIIdors ha,.n
ne'd th"ir trenches and British 80
n IMP nave shelled the advancing COL
me allies OF the entente 200 70
I n,y nave strained to break tho
sar,aa hnt the capture OF a de-
80 -" Han!ct or few acres of dre,r
yellow earth has cost them from 70 600
-',oop' And the French are con.
'"hi 10 pursue tho housing s,y,,cr,
"'"o"hS. as Joffrc terms Il
ne English n home were cheercd
su, " gloomy winter with the as
hcE'n in The spring. when Lord Ki,cb'
"'' would have his recruits trained
!"f service. Now. they are beginninr
l" near the whispered warning maj
/ my may nave to wait another vear
So" ,he beginning OF the advance
Ia tho Rhine
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
The DcndInck In The En

whenever the Kaiser has thought 70
"0Wh MS western foe the car has
pHIed him off. out OF that wilderness
81 humanity called Russia, swarms
nay" I'm" and again poured into GER
many and Austria They have thrice
n"at"n tpc Austrians to their knees
'"' IN IN" end the invading Slavs have
""tn put 10 ismominious flight
AS IN all their wars. however ,hc
Russians have shown themselves stub
n''h enough on their own soil and
."'F ho!d line no less than 500 milcs
IN .'n%th In her recent pursuit of
.ht Hecing Russians from Przcmysl
an" .cmhcrs, Austria seems to have
went '"' '"'' S"e
Germany has made only ono drive on
"'t' ""cn she was turned back at
"a" Mhrhe' but on Warsaw she has
,'."l' iour terrible drives that have
,Sprht themselves on the plains Of
to!anG Tn" Kaiser himself mas novel
mr. he'm"i"d chessmen to within seven
,n'I"s OF tn" Polish capital. bu; onlv
\ TO be stalcmaied '''S
or many months Warsaw has heard
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01

September Russians before
LcmberG.
September 3-Frcnch government
retired from Paris to Bord eaux.
September 6-Germans seventeen
miles from Paris.
Ms Sep.em bern, I,l2 - Of the
scissors.
September l3--Germans dug them
selves in behind the Aisne. and the
ten months deadlock began.
September l7-Russians driven
from East Prussia.
September s2-German submarines
sank three British cruisers in the
North Sea.
September 2e-Germnns opened at
United States.
October 9-Germans took Antwerp.
RUSSIANS again Invaded East Prus-
October 2o-Germnn drive on war
October 2s-Turkey entered the
November German naval vic
tory off Chilean coast
November I-Japanese took Using
November German cruiser EN-
November 2o-A second German
drive on Warsaw failed.
December 2-Austrians took Bel
grade
December 6-Germans captured
Lodz.
December S-British naval victory
off Falkland
December 14-Austrians driven
from Serbia.
December Coleman Polish cam
paign halted and six months dead
lock began.
1918.
January Russian advance on
Hungary.
January 9-Gcrmans again turned
back from Warsaw
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01

want OF cavalry. His wars had ex.
haustcd the breed Of horses.
When. 1914. he stood with his back
10 the wall of Paris. he still had money
enough. but boys had given out. The
human breed was exhausted. To that
deadlock. this war. IL continued. must
more quickly come.
10" many men arc under arms now
ana now many have fallen in tho year
"o are not told. The estimates Of tho
"sEreEate with tho colors of the war.
ring powers range glibly from 10000
Uoo even to 2o.0oo.oUO. And the dead
, w.. ,, ana captured also are counted
.,, nc niiiiions. Imagination bnlks az
co ~. is easy to foresce that when tho
10 rs gone. the engravers can sunniy
80, place.. When even the horses XII
,i "e i,nctorles still can foal their case
PUT unless reason returns 10 cal,
nhit the day surely will con,o e",'
IT.. ,mere VIII be no more food for no,,,as
Ihen the war must stop amen a..
graves. Nature will have dcadIoclas
copyright. 1915. by James MORGAN
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llI.f.


June ,2s-Assassination Of Crown
and his wife at Sarajevo.
June >? to July 22-Blank.
July 23-Austria issued her ulti-
matum TO Serbia.
July 25-Serbia replied.
against Serbia.
July 29-Russia partly mobilized
her forces.
July 3l--Germany demanded that
the mobilization cease. The stock
exchanges Of tho world closed their
doors.
August Germany declared war
against Russia. France ordered the
mobilization of her forces. Monte
negro declared war against Austria.
August Germany invaded LUX
emburE.
August 3-lnvaded Belgium.
August 4-England declared war
against Germany.
l.iesc. President Wilson rendered
the good offices of the United States.
August 6--Aus,ria declared war
against Russia.
August S-lIirst British expedition
landed in France. French Invaded
AlSacc
August Torrance declared war
against Austria.
August 12-England declared war
against Austria.
August l?-Germans occupied
Dl"Ee and entered Louvain.
August 20-Entered Brussels. Rus
STA crossed German and Austrian
frontiers.
August 23-Germans took Namur.
Japan declared war against Ger
many.
August 24-Austrians driven out
of Serbia.
August 2s-Germans at Mons.
France formed a ministry of ma
tional defense.
August 27-Germans took Longwy.
August 2S-Took La Fere Eng
land defeated Germany in naval en-
gaEement off Helgoland
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
The Fntc OF the Year Decided.

For five days that battle Of the
Marine lasted. a momentous conflict be-
tween tho greatest forces that ever had
been engaged. The fate OF the war in
It's first year, II not the destiny Of the
world for n age, was determined on
that vast field. And Geramny lost the
battle. II not the war.
IN the course OF that titanic combat
the German tide was rolled back to thu
mis- OF Champagne. In the end. the
Germans found themselves sixty miles
from Paris at the least having been
forced behind the A!sne and hayinr
lost all I'll" ground between that river
and the Ma. lie.
There they halted in their retreat on
september IL and dug themselves in
mere they have stayed through an
autumn, winter and a spring and
until the midsummer anniversarv of tha
oPchihg OF their campaign. And
.nf'"sh those ten months and more
lhc immediate question has not been
"he'her Germany would conquer I'm
rope put whether she could be driven
~ 81 what she had won in the first
SIN weeks OF tho war
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
A Deadlocked War

Ahoat and ashore, modern weapons
nave stalled IL they have not really
slain the Goliath OF war. Little hid
oen mines. when protected against mine
swccpers by the guns OF harbor forts,
are AS fatal TO the superdreadnought
as the trap Is to the lobster A SIS
ooo,ooo Sattleship is helpless in the un-
seen presence Of a $4,000 submarine
Ana German submarines have stolen
down the British and French coasts.
past the guns Of Gibraltar. and ira
versed the Mediterranean. II might
almost be said that England's control
Is limited to the top of the sea-
wellington said that the chief bust
ness OF military commander is guess
ing what Is on the other side OF a hill.
But ~ Is no longer so. 1T Is the bust
ness Of commander now to hold a
telephone to his ear and let an aviator
tell him what Is beyond the hill War
is Sucsswork no more and victory
waits not upon daring wizard like
Napoleon.
The aeroplanes have torn away tho
curtains and taken the roof off, They
have stripped warfare Of it's surprises
Won Kluck turned away from Paris
only because two young aviators told
him what he was UP against.
The i2-centimeter gun made dust OF
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01

don Stock Exchange were swept away
to the extent of $4,000. 600, 900 in the
eight days before the war actually
began. billion of Belgian wealth
was trodden beneath the heels OF the
invaders In two wceks Yves C;yot cal
culates that the trade Of Europe lost
$500. 100000 in the first six months
just so much bread and butter snatch
cd from the mouths of the people.
The Uitimntc Deadlock
no one knows how such losses can he
borne. how nations can survive such
burdens and SO quickly recover from
them. Whcre war gets It's money al
ways has mystifed the statist.
Without gold and without credit the
Confederacy fought the Union four
years. and Lee did not surrender his
$1,000 ragged followers at Appomattox
because the printing press OF the
southern treasury had broken down
Franco fought for twenty-five year.
and never lacked for gold
While Napoleon still was winning vic.
tories In SaSony in 1913. he could not
follow them up and complete them for
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
international Law Dcndlockcd.

rms war in deadlOckinH itself has
deadlocked international law and the
law OF humanity. Since ono army can
not shoot Its way over the trenches
OF the other. II charges the air with
poison that throws tho foe into tho
agony of slow suffocation. IL one TIA
ton cannot triumph over the armed
force OF the other. ii can attempt to
starve the nnncombatant population,
the inhabitants Unfortunately, age
and infancy alike
Unable to establish a lawful block
ade of the minc-sown German coast.
England suspends the comfy of ma
tons and the rights of neutrals. I'm
able to venture upon the sea. Ger
many steals beneath II, where 1t Is
impossible to obey the iinmemorial
rule OF search and seizure. and she
assassinates mnarmcd sailors and neu-
trail travellers in defiance Of the very
Instincts of humanity.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
The Deadlock on the Sen.


On the sea as on the land the year
has been a deadlock. 1t is true that
by her mere presence In overwhelm-
ing naval strength Britannia has con-
tinued to rule the wave and that not
German naval or merchant flag may
be shown outside the Baltic. England
has effectually turned the sea into
desert impossible to German trade.
But this represents no victory won,
no net gain. For England controlled
the seas 200 years before this war be-
gan.
England entered the war with two
objects: First, to prevent a great mill
itary power from dominating Europe
and controlling the natural landing
places o! the British on the Continent
They have always regarded ii just as
vital to their interests that MASTER
ful rival should not hold those ports
as 1t Is TO Staten Island and Nantucket
that those islands should not be ban
ned from the neighboring mainland
second. TO smash the German navy
and set back for generation the Kali
ser's ambition to be the admiral OF
the Atlantic.
In pursuance OF object number one,
british troops are holding the sandy
stretches 10 Calais, but they have yet
10 drire the Germans out of the Bel
gan ports. And England is no nearer
INC realization Of object number two
'han she was year ago. for the Ger
man heet still is in being" and Ger
man shipyards have seen to IL that
inc haiser's navy is stronger than
"hcn England first sicked her gray
wolves upon It,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
DUTY to Continue
to End -Asquith

LONDON, July 31.-rhe Prime
Minister of Great britain. the Rt.
Hon. Herbert II. AsIuith, has given
the Associated Press the following
authorized statements
81 have been asked to send n mes
sage to the United States of Amer
len mt the end OF the first ycnr Of
the war.
"The rcnsons why we nre lighting
arc known I'm America. The world
hnH Judged, and will Judge, not our
words, hut our actions. The nues-
ton to-day is not of our hopes or
our calculations, but our duties.
sour duty, which VIC shnlI fuInll,
To continue to the end In the
course which VIC have chosen. md
10 do all which mny achieve and
cherish n Just md InntInE pencc.'"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
The YELLOW SInNc.

The prophets looked for financial
deadlock also But money ever has
been the slave of war, and 1t remains
obcdient to its master now under the
heaviest eXactions ever laid upon it,
Special police were required to keep
the pounds. shillings and pence from
crowding and trampling when Eng
land lately opened her window 10 re-
ccire subscriptions for a $4,000. 600. 900
loan.
The British are said to be burning
up nearly $40, 000,0 a day and Ger
many hardly less than that amount
of the products of labor. The British
and German debt has Increased 80 per
cent In year. 1t is estimated that
all the armies and navies together
have devoured more than sl5,0O0.ooo,-
600 in a year OF warfare And that
exceeds the cost of all the wars since
the beginning OF the French Revolu-
ton.
But armies and navies are not the
most expensive elements in war The
destruction and waste and economic
chaos of war are the really costly fac
tors.
Property values listed on the Lon
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ONE YEAR OF WAR
CAUSES DEADLOCK
ON LAND AND SEA
CONTINUED from First Page.)


weaponed men hasteued to battle. their
scouts saddlinG the clouds. their van
guard swiftly borne on by ninety
horse power machines. and when the
mighty feet OF England was stripped
FOR action the first time since steam
and steel had replaced sail and oak
rhe war would DC terrible, all know
out surely it would be something to
see the brilliant fcats OF modern arms
eclipse the thousand wars Of old.
That morbid curiosity has been dis
appointed and perhaps for the best
Tor there is no gallery" in this grim
game. The interests which for forty
years had censored the politics that
bred this war are consorinc The war
itself. They tell tho people 70 fight.
but not why or where. They even be-
srudEe the widowed and orphaned the
lists Of their dead. which are the only
reports that have been made from some
Of the campaigns.
Moreover. modern war presents no
40 dramas. The theatrical heroism OF
warfare in the pas; is gone. and the
Dew warfare Is as impersonal and UNI
Interesting ms the advance OF n glacier,
! ghastly. notseless, smokeless, incon-
elusive struggle OF unrelieved brutal
itT. Not an army has been surprised.
cut off and captured. There are no
battle fields and no victories The
twentieth century warhorse proves to
be only frightful nightmare. whose
whole ninefold hoof it over the ches,
Of humanity.
Gcrmnny's Plnn OF Campaign
With foes on either side Of her.
Germany necessarily had TO strike first
and take the offensive For she had 10
whip them on" al time and before all
could gather their full fighting
strength. In this role she was fay-
pred by her own instant readiness and
the unreadincss of two Of her enemies
Russia and England. And France. be-
Ing reader than either Of those allies.
had 10 be dealt with first
On the seas Germany could moi hold |
a place against the British. who were
twice as powerful. to say nothing of
the entire allied fleet which out
matched hers more than three 10 one
Therefore. she hid her navy in the Kiel |
Canal. she saved her ports hv strcwinE
her harbors with mines. and She sent !
out her submarines 10 creep beneath |
the waters. from the face Of which her
great feet OF 1000 merchant ships
vanished like fishermen scurrving TO |
refuge before squall
Having abandoned tho sea. or pru
IDENTIFY postponed the struggle for it's |
mastery. Germany dismissed huge |
slow moving Russia as a negligible !
factor for perhaps three months TAX |
Ing two Austrian corps from the very
frontier Of the Gear shc made n lunca
al France. But not across the French
frontier. for that was chain Of forts.
which, after a year. remains unbroken
without minute 10 lose she over
ruled. as Chancellor Bethnann Won |
HollweE frankly announced TO the /,
Hc;chstag on August /. the legitimate
protests OF the Luxembourg and Bel |
s!an governments" but with the pror-
sse TO repair the wrong We are doing
as soon as our military aims have been
achieved"