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a --, __ er ---- ~ Oi . 297 | ily 8B KINGSTON ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER tish 1, 1914 Qi + ian dd Whig © LASC SOITION VICTORIES WON BY BRI STILL BOMBARD || ANTWERP FORTS The Belgian War Office Does Not Believe Tha it is Possible For the Germans to Make a Single Breach." Tee veg «Shells Had Little Effect Other Than to Slightly Chip the (w+ Conerete---Big Siege Guns Are Being Brooght " % From Liege---Belgians Are Retiring From the Termonde District. Antwerp, Via The-Hague, Oct, 1 'The Germans continue their bombardment of the outer line of Antwerp | forts. Aviators who returned to-day from recounoiter- | ing over the German lines report that companies of Ger- | man engineers are apparently construeting concrete | bases ata number of points. Those it is believed, will he | used to mount the big siege guns which are now being | 'ushed westward from Liege, drawn by traction engines. | he he war office this morning issued the following { THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIG statement reviewing the situation: "The German bombardment of the first line continued throughout Wednesday. The u : the range but their shells had little effect 'other than t licens and themselves is I slightly ehip the concrete at a number of points. | 1s work a pleasure; he : "It is not believed that it w ill be possible for Germans to make a single breach in the Antwerp fortifi cations. It is also stated that the Belgians are slow ly - --ing. fre the * monde dis! rict. Cys bh of fortsyal se¢hool in the backgroun The ( and heel dra es his Uhlans were. almost vertical {hi [A remarkable thing is that | Russian soldier wears no bi { musance, have to. be eloamn. retir- " Pm Cossacks passing throug] Germans had [unique, his wavs are his ow: IS pr dl, Wir viand attract the CHE N: COSSACKS IN GALICTA Nation orether and his confidence in his of ect; his love for horses make bably what the kaiser t 1a Galie : ' lan village, The Cossaek - is alt Wisi ack's seat is high with kn Spurs are not he has no sword euard. ittons. He wear away the cloth, ar 's-attentispi. le. n back: worn. The Says "'thev are a i { i GERMAN LINES Women Giving Up Their Jewels. Rome, Via Paris, Oct. 1.----The women: of Germany, aceording to reports received here, ave busily at work pre- paring woollen garments for the soldiers in the batt] ine. . The clothing is made up, - according to meastive:. shapes and colors established by the government. The reports also state that a committee of women has been formed for the purpose of inducing all the wonien of Germany 'to give up their gold ornaments with the, transforming them into money with which to buy arms Several million marks have thus been gathered up to this fdme. Each woman receives in exchange for her gold orn flents an iron ring inseribed with the words, "I save gold for this." : nn to idea © Terrific Pounding by front, Oat. i Yesterday lay of continues Assault Nomeny To Free Prince. along the 1506-mile to the Moselle, and definite indication nearin Somme London, Oct 1.--The correspondent of the Times at | Foal Naney, France, telegraphing under "date of September | that the historic 26th, gives an unconfirmed report thatffile French have * However. evidin retaken St. Mihiel, a fortified encampment on the Mense, that a are receding twenty miles south-east of Verdun, and also that Seis roi the itd sustained. pr -have-captured the Prince of Bavaria at Nomeny, H™ niiles or ert Rid suet 3 ings north of Nanev. The correspondent adds that aceording sr oe center. intrenched thai to the report the Germans are assaulting Nomeny with the at a er vith 1 ' ws Object of setting the prince free. : The Prince of Bavaria is p®bably the Crown Prine ~ Bupprecht of Bavaria, wi is iti command of the Bavily ian army in that region. battlé ind eastern win portant move the Ge 3 § possible to stem the | allies, though they sternest and most desperate anee, sacrificing must .s who wm be nm ns e found | advance of t opposed usands of Modern Officer Alert and Efficient. London, Oct. I--King George in visiting London hos- pitals asked again and again: "*Why is there such terrible : appear a ack on the le logp hele ard movement by wav of center, for Beth 23 WEAKEN - AFTER 17 DAYS COMBAT Right and Left Wings Folding Back on Center Under Allies--- Allies Attack for the revictua i German ar | Franc appear | Somewhat ng « les in Northwestegr to precarious be placed in Situation wit} numbers not permits whose positions i yurbli front » looping tl. various now presents inten inward and ow points in a 1 1 verywhere 1 adapted 1 nse 1 nomanders are men's possible from eouniy wonder{u ; théir lives io h extent frontal attacks on po where the Germans ar ous situations, lan of compaign ftae Frene go forward Iitmost confidence 1test by but tacks the slaughter among British-officor 1%" The replies show that ) officers are too keen upon leadership. and look-out to both- ® DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE POWER OF GERMANY er about their own safety, The Pall Mall Gazette says: "During the Boer war we heard a good deal about the lisping, haw-hawing subaltern. © Some colonial troops who went to South Africa were par- This is the Advice of Lord Roherts ticularly humorous at his cxpense. He has now beecqme on His Eighty-Second more or less a picturesque reminiscence. Even upon the ; stage, where the defunct types linger longest, his sida: Birthday. - sor of the present day is a prompt, alert, and thoroughly | Londen, tet. 1s I Satan hi efficient gentleman who is also first and last a soldier. His} an articie, 2¥. usgen his men trust him and he trusts them. The relationship i% one Ptr of Tei niurestimate pe of mutual respect which is deepened in thousands of eases hoi, people under the stress of the present conflict into warm regard pag" met Jot very easily distinguishable from sineere affection." ~ | nation will begin © when we, withuut " | Frencu, Rudsian and Delgian allies, : | have driven the German allies into the heart of ther own territory "When we read charges against the German troops, let us remember that gross charges, absolutely untrue, were brought against our ow n brave spl diers when they worn fighting n South Africa. But whether sui h charges are 1s London, published to help thinking,' he said rteat task of subduing that x On Eve of Vits] Developments. ® ---- : London, Oct. 1.--The general-feeling here is that we are on the eve of vitally important developments. Yes- terday the French ambassaiior conferred with Premier j Asquith and the representatives of Turkey and Italy. hon: Job og gt Their final decisions are new expected at anv hour in | the Germans wm such a way as to land . earn their liking ag well as their pe A spect." i Lord Roberts, whl |NETHODIST PASTORATE © MAY BE SIX YEARS | Committee Recommends General pe Conference to Extend it Two Years. | ftawa, Ot i ¥ general eo nigrence adopts whet th speciai commitied Appointed | Port on the questivn of the time lint for the pastorate recommends-the pres ent systenr o! a pastor changing jis | charge every four years will be main tained, with the provision that is spe cial eases the Jour-year term may be extended (eo Lhe commitien is reads its report to conference session. When 1 disoussion is jromised, | H the Methodic to re RIX vears to Present at can early for there are many. delegates in favor of the aboii- tion of the time limit the same system as is obsecved by the other churches. The Roumanisn sailing ship Maria struck an Austrian mine and sank off Istria, in the Adriatic, Monday. Only oneof the crew was saved. keeping | tin the neighborhood of > i comes up a lively | and adoption of | |Italy Will Go On War Footing 1,310,000 Men London, Oet. 1. Lhe éalbing to the of | the "1883. I886 and INNS | Clasyes ofltalian referves early in Oe- | téherhhave been cofivtned by spveral newspapers, according to 'ortespondent of the London "NMapil at Eleven first ogori® clases. will then be under the g and, will total up 1,390,000 men. Without counting the | mow in Tripoli, Altay army of 1,310,000 men ory, din he \ ence LL URL EL men will have an in her own ter ded into thirty army ¢ rps Aus up de , the fended correspondent adds that wre still, throwm along. the nta Felturvis lane the Landwehe, the first and serves and the these trian troops i Tense works I Pe fron being cond Landstrum Most o NE stationed between Larvig, SRocbifort and the le. ake emplacements artilledg. thdsdustrians hail cenduridigld - and have long trenches in thin %alley of the | Ponta del Predil pass for ther { leveled forests dug Isonzo esbofeodeduideadeodeodesdentoniode dado Bde fi prs +* * a \ TERRIBLE LIST. fo Berlin, Oc, {= cighth casualty 4 "to-day, contain thousand + major-genera two wounded 1.--The thirty including + Sd feed fo bbb defo The Russians Are Continuing Their Advance Oct. 1 attache nf the . to-day issued the hicial statement Gole Rus fol from. Pe- Washington, Colonel ski, military trograd | "On. Sept. 28th. after fighting, our troops have 1 the Tlermat positions us wistawo and Kaopete: On Sept. MRS we took the defiles between the lakes at no, Sereje and Lopuny. "The f ung mto stubborn captured been 'drivin betw 1 wd Marianpol. Our ad ontinues have the region fan Su Sein German bombardment of out success At Andrejew kirmishes The siege only are reported.' fedeslesdeedoofede de dodo desde pb + WILL MAKE REPARATION, * Rome, Maly, Oct ¥ Austrian government has re. 3 plied to the Italian protest + * Against the floating mines in * the Adriatic sea, deploring the + * sinking of the Italian vessels * and promising to take measures * 10 remove the mines and to ful- + ly indemnify the families of the + victims, * + [ FRESIPIEL PEEP LBS IS td SSD FOUND IMPOSSIBLE T0 CROSS VOSGES "Come and Try It Yourself," Mes sage Sent to Kaiser by General. 'ars, Oct. 1.--"Impossible to cross Vosges; eome and try vourself.' Fhis laconic ymessage to the kaiser is said to have been the last message { of the German commander operating Muhlhauusen, who had been ordered to eross the and failed. On sending it he | shot himself and died instantly. This | dramiitic story is contained 'in what { appears to be reports from authentic j Sottces. It is snid that the. Ger man general staff ordered him seve ral times lo invade France bv way of | the Vesges, and that in spite of he- i roie efforts on the part of himseli | and troops the. task was found im- possible, Vosges THE AUSTRIAN VIEW Of the Licking Its' Army Is Deveig. | DXISCOLL-aunpry At ing. : Vienna, via Rome, Oct. 1.-- Four gigantic battles and two fort bom- bardments, invelving fully six mil- lion men of the Russian, German and Austrian armes,are in progress in j the eastern theatre of war today { At no point has there been any de- j Cisive result and it will be several idays before the fightihg reaches a | erisis, | ® EAC Adbul | Marocco, i ist of Aziz, thé deposed' sultan of has added his name to the those protesting against the reported atyocities committed by the | Germans if the invasion of France { and Belgium. { Sever members of the Krupp firm, | now An the war zone, have decorated !elaimed as a sweeping EB v one killed and * | lieni's staff, but the - *lwen by Britain's fresh levies. 1.--The %| ANS. FRE « SWEEPING : VICTORY FOR THE ALLI This is the Claim in Paris in Connection With' the Great Eighteen Days' Battle of the Aisne. a -- The Fraich Wat, Offce "Simply States Thét the French" Make Progress---French Ambassador Confers * - in London With Premier Paris, Oet. 1. * confidence prevailed at mil- itary headquarters to-day/ The battle of Aisne is already Aench victory. There was no dis- among the members of Gen. Gal- is still no deviation in the official | communique, whigh brusquely declares, "There is Tio |change." The sgfhe announcement states: "The Freneh [left progresses/north of Somme and we also make prog- [ress in Woevre region." | In explanation of this, however. the French wai not be put in the ment of victories. "Not until we are ac ually holding .the entire Ger- man line will we officially claim a complete victory," de- clared one of the highest officials on duty here to the as- sembled newspaper reporters this afternoon. *'Person- ally we arg confident. We know that the Germans are re- tiring, very rapidly. at Sole, peints, and that the have been foreed to fight with-desperation fo Prevent theirs E- treme right being completely routed. But that docs nop yet justify an official elaim of a sweeping vietory, so long asthe Germans hold the lines, so long will there be dan- {ger that they may yet turn the tables. You will probably an entirely -new alignment by the first days of next { week." 1 This statement {for that is already the lexperts are now Supren | guising the jubilation it is pointed out that office has already announced that it will position of making premature announce- | see leads to the belief that the vietory, way in which even French military designating the situation, was actually Her Indian troops are nn- taken their places in the battle certain of her territorial forees are aiso it Was probably this latter foree on the extveme French left north of | | The losses on both Sides are declared to be so large that it is considered fhe |W i1sest poliey to withhold them for the present. [ officially reported to have (line. In addition: {reported 1m action, and that turned the tide Noveon. It bis been a most costly action. { Grave Concern For Belgium. London, Oet. 1. Despite the noticeable optimism on part of high officials of the war office, not a single word obtainable to-day explanatory of the general war sit- {uation. It was stated that no word had - been received [from Gen. French, and he 'probably was too busy just [at present to communicate, : Nevertheless unofficial reports all induced: the belicft. that the Gérmans are again in retreat in France. Then i$, however, grave concern for the fate of Belgium. Ang- Werp is being subjected to continuous bombardment. | score of Belgian cities are also being shelled. DAILY MEMORANDT Praver meeting Top" peace, Cit Hal Friday noon Bee togpt page 8, right hand corne for probabiliti . King' Daughters Oct. 16th and A7th Lécture on war, st P hes by H. J. Osborn fF 'rincess,/St. church sali 213 Princess St. Friday and Saturda 147 tor Open Friday afternoon at 3 o .| Take Notice Our stoves amd furniture ja than ever before. J. TURK, Facer 5 { the | was rymmage sale George's hall rummage MARRIED Woila on Sept. 28th, 1014 "hy MeNeil Mr. Charles E. Drig { Toronto, to Miss Helen R Y. of Wolfe Island and Fath DIED APGUSTUS In Kingston, Oct. 1st 1914; the family residence, 2 ¥ St. Fanny Grundy, relet o th Wte Captain Augustus and granddaughter of the late Wiltas Spencer, MRC. V.8., London, Eng PRAGH In Kingston, on Oct pst i191 Jule Mangarat. inf it child Mr. and Mrs. G. Prager Funeral (private) from the residesce « her grandfather, Mr. © Snvea tay 63 Raglan Road, on Friday after- noon { . (Berlin, Ont, papers please copy.) STRONG--At Torento™ an Oct, 1st | 1814, Hannah Allen, beloved wif: of Anthony Strong. Funeral notice later Great Britain and France intend to retain possession of the German colo. nies seized during the war. Gi