GERMANS ARE LOSING GROUND
FRENCH GAIN 37 MILES; DRIVE GERMANS OVER MARNE
CENTER KAISER’S ARMY HOLDS FAST; RIGHT IN DANGER
RUSSIAN ARMY TO ENTER GERMANY THROUGH SILESIA
CARRANZA CLOSES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Orders All Catholic Institutions In
Mexico Closed Forever—Revolt
Is Expected.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 11.—Provis
ional President Carranza has order
ed all the Catholic churches and
schools in Mexico closed and the
Catholic people of this country are
aroused to a high pitch of excite
ment. That a new revolt will be
started in a few days is almost cer
tain and that the Catholics will lead
the fight upon the provisional gov
ernment and will finance the war is
expected.
The Catholic party is the largest
in the republic and has held the bal
ance of power through many admin
istrations. The Catholics refused to
aid Huerta during his presidency and
expected to receive better treatment
from Carranza. ;
The provisional government has
made grave charges against many
of the priests of the church and
claim that the earnings of the peons
are secured for the church through
the fear and superstitiions of the
natives and that Mexico is church
ridden. j
HEAVY TAX FOR
WE MAKERS
Railroads Are Also To Contribute
Heavily To Support of the Gov
ernment Is Present Plan.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11—The
Ways and Means committee which Is
preparing the administration bill to
raise funds for the government has
about determined upon a fifty cent
tax on every barrel of beer manu
factured in the United States besides
the Internal revenue tax already Im
posed. Twenty-five cents will be
charged against each barrel of wine
and three per cent, upon all freight
payments. |
The railroad managers are up in
arms at the latter charge, which they
claim is unjust and will mean ruin
for the roads, as the Interstate Com
merce Commission refuses to grant
an increase in freight rates, while
the men are receiving better pay and
the government will take outright
three per cent, of the gross income
of the roads.
The railroads are expected to fight
the bill in the Senate and even if
it is passed will endeavor to prevent
its enforcement because they assert
i» it confiscates their property without
" due process of law and is unfair.
Brighton Leaves In the Morning.
The launch Brighton leaves in the
morning for Port Wells with mail
and passengers.
Weather Report.
Valdes, Sept. 10, 1914.
Barometric pressure .29,832
Temperature at 7 p. m.49
Maximum temperature .56
Minimum temperature .36
Mean temperature .45 1-2
Precipitation .02
Cloudy, calm, wind southwest, four
miles. Rain at night.
A. C. Baldwin, the deputy mineral
land surveyor, who has been survey
, ing the claims of the Galena Bay
Mining company, came up yesterday
from the mine.
Maubeuge Reported Surrendered Still Holds Out Against Germans and Is Hold
ing Back Lorraine Army From Aiding Hard Pressed Army In France—
Several Army Corps of German Right Wing Cut Off and May Be Cut To
Pieces Unless They Surrender—German Reinforcements Reach Austrian
Army In Time To Save It From Annihilation—British Insist Upon Crippling
German Military Power Before Peace Is Granted—Germans Defeat Rus
sians In East Prussia.
LONDON, Sept. 11.—The tide of
battle which has first favored the al
lies, then the Germans, and has
changed from one to the other, is now
swinging strongly against the kaiser’s
troops and they are falling back in
disorder.
Germans In Full Retreat.
The secretary of war has issued a
statement this afternoon in which he
states that the Germans are now in
full retreat east of Soissons and that
the kaiser’s troops are fleeing in dis
order.
Thousands of Prisoners Taken.
Thousands of prisoners have been
taken by the allies, who found large
bodies of German infantry hiding in
the woods when they were left be
hind by the rapid retreat of the army..
Surrender At Sight.
The Germans surrender as soon as
they are sighted and are being sent
to Paris, where a large military camp
for prisoners has been established.
Germans Demoralized.
The fact that the Germans are
drinking all the liquors they can find
in the villages through which they
pass on the way to the frontier, and
the fact that they are rifleing the
villages, indicates the demoralization
of the German forces.
Pursuit Vigorous.
The pursuit by the allies is vigor
ous and they are giving the Germans
no opportunity to reform.
Center Is Key To Battle.
The center of the allies army is the
key to the present battle being fought
east of Paris and the Germans are
making every effort to pierce the al
lies’ line and send a wedge through
their lines south of Verdun.
Crown Prince In Command.
The German Crown Prince is in
command of the center and has se
cured large reinforcements with the
object of pushing this attack and cut
ting the allies’ army in two.
Germans Defeat Russians..
BERLIN, Sept. 11—The German
army in East Prussia have inflicted
a severe defeat upon the Russians
and are driving them back to the
border of Russia. General Becken
idorff, In command of the German
troops, expects to clear East Prussia
in twenty-four hours.
Maubeuge Still Holds Out.
PARIS, Sept. 11.—The report of the
fall of the fortresses at Maubeuge is
denied by the war office, which today
issued a statement claiming that the
garrison at Maubeuge were sustain
ing a terrific attack by the German
Lorraine army, which is endeavoring
to reach the German army in Prance
in order to reinforce the battered
lines, but that the indications are
that the forts will hold out and will
prevent the German Lorraine army
from reaching the front in time to
threaten the allies right.
Several Fort# Fell.
It is admitted by the war office
that several of the forts about the
city have fallen but that all the larg
er and more important forts still re
main Intact and that although the
Germans have brought up the big
siege guns used at Namur the guns
in the forts are superior and have
held the Germans back, while the
smaller pieces have repulsed the at
tacks of the Infantry, although they
have been making attack after attack
in desperation, as the commander of
the German force has orders to take
the forts at once and is not sparing
men in his efforts to obey orders.
German 8hip Captured.
NEW YORK, Sept. H.—The Ham
burg-American liner Bethanla, which
vas used in the tourist trade by the
Jerman company prior to the war
ind since then has been aiding the
Jerman cruisers in the North Atlan
;ic, was captured yesterday by a
British cruiser and taken to Nassau,
n the Bahama Islands.
Germany Needs Money, Will Float
Loan.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 11.—The Ger
raan government is about to float a
var loan of $250,000,000. German
government bonds are to be sold in
small lots to German bankers in the
United States, Brazil and other coun
ties not involved in the war. The
bonds are to be secretly sold in the
United States among German citi
zens who are unable to rejoin their
regiments, but who have made for
tunes in America and can afford to
purchase the bonds.
American War Correspondents Safe.
ROTTERDAM, Sept. 11.—War cor
respondents Cobb, McCutcheon and
a number of others, arrived here to
day from Germany, where they were
held as prisoners charged with be
ing spies. The American ambassa
dor secured the release and safe con
duct to the Holland frontier of the
newspaper men.
Russian Aviator Killed.
PETROGRAD. Sept. 11.—Captain
Nesteroff, of the Russian army, and
one of the foremost army aviators in
the world, was killed yesterday when
he drove his machine into an Austri
an machine, the occupants of which
were about to drop bombs upon the
Russian trenches.
Two Machines Wrecked.
The two machines were wrecked
and when they struck the ground the
explosives carried by the Austrians
exploded and sent the fragments of
machines and men into the air in ev
ery direction.
Roumania Wants Piece of Austria.
BUCHAREST, Roumania, Sept. 11.
—Because of the continued Russian
victories and the almost certainty
that the allies will win the war King
Charles and the Roumanians gener
ally are very anxious to join with
Russia in the hope of securing a
slice of Austria as compensation.
Russia Objects.
It is reported here that Russia ob
jects to Roumania entering the con
flict at this time because of the cer
tainty that the Bulgars and Turks
will be drawn into the fight and thus
menace the rear of the Servians.
Russians Expect Austrians To Quit.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 11.—As half of
the remaining Austrian troops are
Slavs for whom the Russian people
are fighting, it is expected that with
in ten days Austria will be begging
for peace on any terms.
Germans Aid Austrians.
The Austrian force in Russian Po
land was almost surrounded yester
day and but for the timely arrival
of the German reinforcements the
entire division would have been cap
tured. The German forces aided the
Austrians out of the difficult position
into which they had fallen and both
armies retired before the Russian ad
vance.
Russians Expect To Prevent Junction
of Two Armies.
The Russian commanders had hop
ed by forced marches to prevent the
junction of the two forces and to
have annihilated the Austrian army
before the arrival of the Germans,
numbering fully 500,POO, but were
prevented from doing so by the stub
born resistance and prompt retreat of
the Austrians along with the forced
marches of the Germans from Bres
lau.
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Germans Active In Africa.
CAPETOWN, Sept. 11.—A German
force Is menacing British possessions
in South Africa and they are re
ported active among the Boers se
curing recruits to fight the English
and stir up the . people against Eng
land. A force of English is being
organized to intade Damara Land,
owned by the Germans, and which
MR COST HEAVY
ON LITTLE BELGIUM
Estimated That Today the War Hae
Cost Neutral Country Fully
$200,000,000.
ANTWERP, Sept. 11.—'The govern
ment has issued a statement today
claiming that the war damaged Bel
gium fully $200,000,000, although It
has been In progress for only six
W66k8.
The Germans have destroyed many
cities, wiped out Malines with its
beautiful buildings, built four hun
dred years ago, and which are al
most priceless, destroyed the big li
brary In the cathedral, which was
used by Catholics studying for the
priesthood, ruined the crops, destroy
ed bridges and railroads and left a
trail of woe and desolation behind
them.
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Captain George, the Port Wells
mining operator, came up yesterday
fromm Port Wells for supplies.
moors ARREST
UNION LEADER
Forced To Leave 8helter To Secure
Food and le Caught By
8oldlere.
BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 11.—Muckle
MacDonald, president of the Butte
Mine Workers Union, the organiza
tion which is fighting the Western
Federation of Miners, was arrested
(today hy the troops here when he
sneaked out of an apartment house,
in which he had hidden, in order to
secure food.
The proprietors of the apartment
house were also arrested for aiding
McDonald to evade arrest.
The strike leader had been report
ed killed and members of his or
ganization had charged the police
and the Western Federation officials
with Muckie’s murder, but the troops
continued the search, having receiv
ed a tip that he was hiding In the
city and directing the organization
from his hiding place.
lies next to the South African British
possessions.
Germans Want Walfisch Bay.
The Germans are preparing to take
Walfisch bay, a British coaling sta
tion on the Atlantic, which is on
the coast of German Damara Land,
but which the British forced the Ger
mans to give up twenty years ago.
Austrian Losses Admitted.
VIENNA, Sept. 11.—The newspa
pers of this city yesterday printed the
admission of the war office of re
verses in Galicia and in southern
Austria where the Servians are op
erating. The losses are admitted to
be 120,000, besides enormous stocks
of provisions, war munitions and al
so one-fourth of the entire artillery
of the country.
German Advance Through Silesia.
It is reported here that the Rus
sian advance is not towards Vienna,
but has been directed towards Ber
lin through Silesia and that the Rus
sian army of Poland has made a
junction with the army under Grand
Duke Nicholas, which operated in Ga
licia and wrhich now controls that
province.
Russians Threaten German Flanks.
The tremendous Russian force,
flushed from its recent victories in
Galicia, is now making rapid marches
towards Germany and the Germans
and Austrians are being flanked and
are falling back waiting for reinforce
ments.
Germans In Gulf of Bothnia.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 11.—A battle
squadron of thirty-one German war
ships is now in the Gulf of Bothnia,
the northern arm of the Baltic Sea.
The Russians have no fleet to meet j
the German ships and must depend
upon submarines, torpedo boats and
mines to protect the cities in Rus
sia and Finland.
French In Alsace.
LONDON, Sept. 11.—The British
people are not ready for peace and
all the newspapers are demanding
that the military power of Germany
be crippled before the war is ended.
It is said that unless the kaiser has
“his wings clipped” he will start an
other war as soon as he sees an op
portunity to regain lost prestige.
More Protests To America.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The
English and French ambassadors
have protested to the United States
against the Red Cross Association
using German naval reservists as the
crew of the Red Cross ship about to
be .sent to Europe to aid the sufferers
of'the war. '
Demand Americans Be Sent.
The ambassadors Insist that the
ship to be truly neutral should be
officered and manned by Americans
or if that falls then sailors and offi
cers of neutral countries should be
employed.
Red Cross Ship Held.
The Red Cross ship now at New
York fully equipped and ready to sail
will be held for a few days and until
a different crew and other officers
cgn be secured.
Belgium Government Pays American
Women.
NEW YORK. Sept. 11.—The Bel
g urn government has commenced the
payment of fifteen cents a day to the
wives of Belgium reservists who are
In Belgium fighting for the country
and for each child the woman re
ceives an extra five cents a day.
Relief Committees Are Active.
Relief committees are active
among the nationals here of the coun
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Wife of New York Physician Is
Charged With First Degree Mur
der By Jury.
MINEOLA, N. Y„ Sept. 11.—The
grand jury here today brought in an
indictment charging Mrs. Carman, of
New York City, with first degree mur
der. The former charge was man
slaughter.
Mrs. Carman is charged with hav
ing murdered a woman patient in
her husband’s consulting room, and
although she has maintained her in
nocence the district attorney is con
fident of a conviction.
The accused woman asserts that
Detective Burns is framing up evi
dence in order to work up a reputa
tion and that he is giving newspa
pers stories to secure cheap public
ity, but that at the trial he will soon
be exposed and the jury will acQuit
her.
Dr. Carman refuses to aid the po
lice in any way to locate the wo
man who broke the window in his
consulting room, thrust her arm in
and shot his patient. The police be
lieve he knows who committed the
crime.
BUNNELL POPULAR
III IE INTERIOR
Makes Hit At Chitina and Other In
terior Points—Says Will Be
People’s Agent.
CHITINA, Sept. 11—Charles E.
Bunnell, the regular Democratic can
didate for congress, who has been
campaigning the Copper River valley,
left here today on the Sheldon Ford
machine for Fairbanks.
The work of the Valdez candidate
here has resulted in securing for the
Democratic candidate a large vote in
this section. It is freely predicted
that the Guggenheims will be unable
to control the votes of the laboring
men, as they did two years ago, when
all Guggenheim towns voted solidly
for Wickersham.
Following the policy outlined by
Mr. Bunnell in bis spedfch in Valdez
he has promised the people here that
if elected he will be the people’s ag
ent at Washington and will not use
his office to work out his personal
spite against the men in Alaska who
are opposed to him, but on the con
trary will use his every endeavor to
secure for Alaska the greatest pos
sible aid from the Democratic ad
ministration now in pow«r, and which
has already done much for the de
velopment of the northland.
FORD AUTOS MAKE
VERY fas: TIME
Tne White and Day automobiles
reached Valdes last night at 10:45,
making the return trip from Tonsina
In twelve hours and forty-five min
utes. The trip to Tonsina was made
In thirteen hours and fifteen minutes.
Considering the recent heavy rains
the time la remarkably fast. Mrs.
Albert White and George Reinke
made the trip.
Washington 8aloons Reduced.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Reduc
tion of the number of capital saloons
from over 500 to 300 was begun to
day by the excise board. The dry
order goes Into effect November 1.