ine ar i -» YEAR 81 NO. 213 GERMANS UNABLE T0 MAKE A STAND i Of Any Importance Against the Vigorous Pur- suit of the French and British Columns That Menace Them. Attempt to Drive German Crown Prince's: Army North and Relieve Verdun---Seven French Forts Hold Out «--Another Decisive Battle of Several Days Duration is Likely. Paris, Sept. 15.---The war office announcement this afternoon telegraphed from Bordeaux, declares that at, no point have the Germans been able to make a serious stand against the pursuing French and British columns. Meanwhile the allies have taken many prisoners. Entire regiments are reported to have been ent off from the main retaining columns and captured. ters. pressed in an effort to drive it north and thu Verdun, is known here. the seven forts that lie beyond Verdun. er, have all held out with a single exception. The Germans have been endeavoring to Verdun forts so that they ean control the-raibeeay: peliove 3 mother is 1 iL officially stated, however, that the efforts of the Germans] have proven a failure and that the main colionns of the crown prinee's army are now being forced toward Sten- av and Luxemburg. To-day it is believed here that another decisive hat-| tle is possible for several days. "The Germans are shoypf of ammunition and they will have diffienlty their exhausted army. Their rear guard, however putting up a strong defense. : It is declared here that important developments may be expécted from Belgium in the near future. The Ger- mans are withdrawing all of their forces from the west and the evacuation of Brussels is early expected. Continued successes mre reported from Lovraine, where the French are reported to be advancing on Sarre burg. The headquarters of one of the Freneh armies was established to-day in Rheims. 1 y Crown Prince's Army Driven Back. London, Sept. 15.--The war bureau this afternoon confirmed the report that the army of the erown prinee Frederick Wilhelm has now been driven farther back, and is now oceupying a line heyond Varennies-En- Argonne on the Aire river, sixteen miles northwest of Verdun. Is Von Kluck Captured? London, Sept. 15.--Another report "savs that Gen Von Kluek and his staff were also surrounded and cap- tured in northern France. The war office says that it has no information thai would tend to confirm the report, although it is adnitted that many stragglers from Von Kluck's army have been captured. The German Rally Checked. Raris, Sept, 15.--The official bulletin issued from the war office at Bordeaux at three o'clock this afternoct shows that the German attempt to rally and attack has been checked, and that they are now putting up a strong rear guard resistance, midway between Lion and Rheim and at the centre to the north of Rheims and Chalons This is the first admission from the war office since th German turning movement began that the German fore es are returning to attack. J fo P Success of Allies Continues. London, Sept. 15.--The official war bureau announce- ment this afternoon couched in the tersest of language, declared that the success of the allies continued. All of the unofficial reports from the theatre of action agree that the Germans are still retreating, hotly pursued by the entire French and British forces, and that thousands of prisoners are being taken. : The government is, so far, without confirmation of the report of the capture of Gen. Von Kluck and part of his army, and it is believed possible that it may have heen confused with the capture by the British yesterday of three regiments of Germans, who were cut off while trying to reach St. Quentin. It is known, however, that large parties of retreating Germans are in danger at a point where the British are known to be in foree. Russians Have Enemy Penned In. Petrograd, Sept. 15.<The Russian forces now have he entire left wing of the Austrian army, including cer- t - § The total | number of prisoners has not been reported -at headquar- That the army of the erown prince is being hard | The Germans tried to envelope | These. howevs | the | aily rs NS STILL RETIRE { } b CANADIAN ENGINEERS MAKE RECORD. An artillery pontoon, three hundred and fitt Cartier river, which was b neers in four hours. Th BIA LIAN) J AA RR ill be unable destruetion, 1 ney ow mplete LO & te Austria mdon, Sept. 156.--A 1 pat +1) three hundred fi Thess' | Hfialicia at 'otroerad des . ™H Lil { 1 1 LDIISOHCER, "Oo near! 1 Oh {also lost, the despe than two-thi : Bgl ol G8 "cd thelr ava Kaiser's Nominee For Paris Governor. London, Sept. 15 tion, is added to the report { } in reforming | the following despatch from Faris: i x o-day that when the German gener- t 18 reported 1 tal, who was captured by the | : . teapital, vesterday, nomination Was seat [ pocket [sigaed hy H 4 may not bedi Lo vilged., KINGSTON ONTARIO, 's Tremendous Losses. ictisand in killed, wotinded and | Interest 1 Kip ror William, Britis TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 BEF over the Jacques | of the Canadian Engi- rd for this type of pontoon. MRA ; y feet long, uilt by three hundred men is is a reco RAIA i ar ooo SRR an ENA vl ---- wr sirendenine ol Broneh Airman Says Retreat Is Disorderly y wept. 15 retreating void either sonable estimate, savs the the Austrian losses in; 1 tiaces i The best view of | German armies has been obiained by a Freneh military { airman. Ascending from a point {near Vitry, he flew northwards | alross the Marne and then eastward {by way of Rheims, down to the rcs of Verdun, and back again in "ag course to a spot near Sok. He saw the German hosts merely in retreat but in flight, placer in disorderly flight It wonderful sight; said, to look down upen thore and hundreds of thousands of {moving military columns ----the long grey columns of the kaiser's picked troops, some matching in a norther- ly and others in a ortheasterly di- tion, apd ail moving with a tre- Pari the { of their forces. one thousand ilable artillery, They have guns, more t, and perhaps confirma- | of Von Kluek's capture hy | con: | not rand in some was a P lie rench and broughi into the! hed, there was found in h governorship of Paris. he name of this general} 1 i ten 18 it yy i i ire Gerniany Silent On Movement For Peace Sept. 15 been received | | i Washington, reply the German miry of United States concern- the attitude of the former to- I peace in Furope, administration silicials were hopeful that informal might soon deve has to-day from government to the in- the from efiort §¢ thing | tangible lop influential German-Am- rking to bring . exchange of peace terms, been admitted official quarters {resident Wilson and Secretary | nung in many are we Hne mn close touch with feeling prevails among acl- ministration officials that ac the eas malty lists and the of the struggle is brought home to the masses in each country, the movement ' for peace will correspond: ingly gain momentum 3ISHOPS TO DISCUSS ISSUING WAR LETTER 'ndicating Buty of French Canadians --Anti-British Campaign Annoys Them. Quebec, Sept. 15.-<It is rumored here that on Wednesday will be held a meeting of the Roman Catholic archbishops und bishops of the pro- vince of Queliec, for the purpose of discussing whether or not it is neces sary that a pastoral letter be ad- dresoed to the ful indicating the duty of Frepch-Canadians during the War. it is known that the Roman Cath oli authorities are very much an- noyed at the anti-British canipaign grow enormity al. "it Tae clerics! newspaper of Quebee, L'Aetiou Sociaie, Is publishing a ser- ies of strong irticles ia contradiction of those writien by the editor of the Montreal pap-r. The donclusion of Cardinal Begin's organ is that, as 8 matter of duty, French-Canadians should - support iin! as strongly as they can. There is a meeting of the Catholic Board of Education: here on Wednés- i Rumor says that this occa will be taken advantage of to . Whother or not it is gdvis- i Although no | the | Bryan | all | of ene French newspaper in Montre- | the cause of Brit-| ™ i mendous rapidity which was elo- quent of their desire to place them | selves beyond the reach of the allied arm who were harassing them very step of the way. THE PASSENGERS WERE CAUSHED AND DROWNED, side "TURKEY DECIDED An Appalfing Aceident an 2 South "on Raway Cars Boied. | T0 REMAIN NEUTRAL cr tous MoGresk. She Wil Not Support Germany | passenger train, bound from St. Lo Since England Warned Her to Stay Out. [to Texas points, was derailed near Le- | |bannon, Mo., early to-day, and indi jreet advices state that, at least, two ' : * ct ! lersons are missing and wes | , onstantihople, via Rome, Sept. killed in the wreck, hut thei |2---Turkey hag finally dedided fo bear unable any | Temain neutral, and will not support Germany, accordigg to reports cui {rent in official circles to-day. Thi faction was decided on, following a straight warning from England that it Turkey participated in the war would ba eliminated forever as 1 independent nation. The news {of the Franco-British victories ia | two coaches were submerged in the the recent fighting, was also a fac- | floodéd waters of Brush creek. Sev- | tor i bodies had been recovered ai { noon, Rescue trains are hurrying to the | Asks For Special Meeting. i scene of the wreck, 180 miles sonth A. Shaw, superintendent of ! west of "St. Louis and near Spring- e's Sunday school, has asked | field, Mo. {the president of the 8. 8. A. A. A. { STILL LATER-Twenty-six bodi!io call a meeting of the executive 8, have now been recovered, all ter. | fo reconsider the junior baseball i ribly mangled. Fifty more are sev- citation, as be claims that Cooke's ; erely hurt. { were not represented at the meeting Paul's were declared cham- es {score of probably | olligials hava to get confirmations. I'he oars, train, comprised of all sald to have roliéd down into a creek, g the passengers. Between twenty and! persons are believed to their lives and, at leas is eoihankment fand drownin LATER- ve lost crushing | she en tg iin ! a | when St. 1 "Buy ince lotions" at Gibson's i pions. | Appeal to the Citizens. | As mayer of the eity, 1 feel it in- ; as not charity it dispersed, that | feumbent upon me to ask every eiti- {payments from it were made to the - i lzem, who ean do so. to be presént at/wives-and families and dependents [the active service as a evening, in order to hear explained {matter of duty, and it-"was for the lie Canddian Fund, for their {in order to take such staps as way i ountry or pay the expenses and Ha- who did the fight- weeting in the City [all this of soldiers in Patriotic and {men of Canada to fight {be necessary to collect in Kingstod {bilities of those ng me say, i: open I trust that the meeting to-night will be a full and representative one, and that we may have the presence of 'a good many ladies in order to show their deep and abiding interest in the work which is now in hand. The heads and executives of all the { {its due contribution to thiz fund. i Lie meeting; let through } {to ail, and the couneil {chamber aceess can be had to the | plattorm by the iadies who atiend jand by the men when {the ladies to the hall, The occasion is peals to every man and woman. Ii is a sacred cause. In Montréal, ad: dressing a public meeting, H. B. Awes, MP, the secretary of 1 they escort one which ap: public welfare, should atteird. Yours sincerely, Amiens Evacuated. Reoccu- pied by the French. AT RIVER AISNE, ALL CROSSINGS. The Czar's Armies Gan Victory Over Amount of Into the Austrians--Immense War - Material Falls Hands of The Russians, Paris, Sept. 15.--~The French ofticial statement, issued last might, says that French troops have reoccupied Amiens, which was abandoned by the (Germans, hut that the Germans are making a stand 'on the River Aisne. The statement follows : "On our left wing we have every- where caught up with the reir guards and even the main body of the enemy. "Our troops have re-entered Amiéns, abandoned by the German torces. "The enemy appears to be making a stand on' a prepared front along the River Aisne. "On the centre, similarly, it would seem as if the enemy intends to re- sist on the heights to the north-west and to the north of Rheims. "In. the region between Argonne and the Meuse, he continues' to retire. "On our right wing, in the Woevre district, we have succeeded, in relieving the fort at 'Iroyom, which ' has been stubbornly attacked time and time again during. the last few days. (l'ro- Fon is twelve miles south-south-east of Verdun.) "In Lorraine our . pursuing deétach~ ments ate keeping, as everywhere else, in touch with the {yermans. 1hs morale and. sanitary conditions of our armies continue excellent," British Cross Aisne, london, 'Sept. 15.--~I'he official press bureau issued the following ment "All day yesterday the ememy stub- bornly disputed the passage of the Aisne by our troops, but in spite of the difficulty of forcing the river in he face of a strong opposition negr- ly all the crossings were secured by sunset. "On our right and left: the French troops were confronted with a similar task in which like ourselves they were successful. Many more prisoners were taken, i "It is reported from the French { headquarters that the German crown | prince's army has been driven back {and that he bas moved his Jheadquar ters from St. Jenehould to Mont Fau- foam | Broadly speaking, the German lines 'to the Dorih-éasi of Paris have been j driven back by the allies about hali | {way to the Belgian frontier va) y | Czar's Victory Over Austrians, London, Sept. 15.--All the news coving in seems to ocdhtirm the Kus- sian reports that the Hussians have inflicted 'another crushing defeat on the Austrians, who, on the right, were supported by some German divisions. By the captuke of Tomaszow the Rus. sians drove a wedge belween the Aus- triun army, which had invaded Poland as far as Opole, Krasnoetay and Za- mose, and the. army which they de- foated at Lemberg, and whith, al though it lost heguily in killed, wopnded, prisoners and guns, managed to re-form to some extent and under- take the offensive, ihe Germans, who re-emiorced the Austrians, according to latest advices, thared in the defeat. They are trying to reach the fortress at Przemysi, and the rear guard is endeavoring to keep off the Russian cavalry, whieh is pur- suing them. Austria had in Poland and Galicia an army estimated at 1,000,000 men, with 2,000 guns. At | Austria lost many thousands of men in Killed, wounded and prisoners, It is now stated, although not officially, that the total num of prisoners amounts to 180,000, and that a thousand field guns were taken, besides the guns in' the captured forts and an immen amount if war material. War Notes. Speaking in the British Honse of Commons, 'luesday afternoon, Pre mier ABquith said the British govern ment had taken steps to investigate the allegations of . the Belgians against the Germans of cruelly and various atrocities: At Mailaiv, on the Russo-Prussian | frontier, German Zeppelin crew hoisted a white flag and then threw bombs, which killed or wounded eigh- ty-three Russians. The crew was oap- tured. - Philip Gibbs, correspondent of London Daily UC i $i x focal organizations Interested {i the'; BRITISH PUSH ATTACK CAPTURING GERMANS MAKE STAND ON THE PITH OF THE NEWS, the Briefest Possible Form, yo A Spanish column -commauded by Gen. Silvestre inflicted a severe defeat with heavy losses upon & force of Moers at Abd-el-Soman. ~ Louise Appleby, wife of. Col. A Presented In e- J. Sandfield Macdonald, died at Tun- bridge Wels, Eng., on Friday... ° Marian Hunter, a maid empl "od in the Western Hospital, To 0, had her head crushed in the ~ tor ghaft and died instantly. Lieut.<Col. T.. G. Shannon, Prince Albert, was thrown from his hotke at Valcartier and sustained a broken arm. : The picture show, at Valcartier, was wilfully burned to the groupd on Monday night. The Grand Trunk ratlway station, at Lindsay, was destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon; the outer walls are intact. 3 Several horses were drowned at Valcartier camp, when the animals stampeded and made a dash for the river. Two hundred got into. the water. Vice-Admiral Koichi Fujii, of Te- kio, Japan, who was accused .of bribery in connection with the naval corruption case of last year, has been sentenced to imnrisonment for a term of four years and six DAILY MEMORANDUM, See top of page 9%, right hand corner for probabilities. i 5 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is On Sale at the Following City. - Stores: : Bucknell"s News Deépnt Clarke, J."W. & Co, .. College Book Store Coulter's Grocery ...... Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Prin Frontenac Hotel Gibson's Drug Store McAuley's Book Store McCall's Cigar Store, Cor. Prin. & King McLeod's Grocery ....51 Union St. W. - LL RE 8 state- {Medley's Drug Store 260 University Ave Paul's Cigar Store , Prouse"s Drug Store Valleau's Grocery Lowe's Grocery MARRIED. BUTLER---MA YNES--in Kingstog Sept. 12ih, 1814, by the Rev. J. W Mcintosh, Frank Butler to Effie Maynes, 'both of Kingston. JARRELL--STUNDAN ----- On Tuesday A g, September 15th, 1914, at 'clock in St. Mary's Catheds listher, se daughtar o rs, Frederick Stundan, to n Jarrell, youngest' atharine Jarrell, both of » the Rev, Father A.J. DIED. MARTIN=-In ~ Kingston, Sepl 1 1614, Isabella Conlan, beloved wife francis Martin, 673 Burchard Watertown, N.Y. (private). from the reside! her aunt, Mps. L. Hanson, Union St, Wednesday morning, 10° St. Mary's Cathedral, where a, emn requiem mass will be sung #.20 o'clock for the happy re her soul . # Friends and acquaintances are ki invited to attend the mass, (Watertown, N.Y., papers please PACK ER--Entered into rest at ston, on September 13th, Thomas Packer, in his eighty-f year, - x : i * Funeral from the residence = of Division St. y. morn daughuer, ing, at 10 o'clock, to ataragui cemetery. iE Friends and acqnaintances are r fully invited to attend. SAUNDRERS---In Kingston, 15th, 1914, John Saunders, Prop. gf Queen's Hotel hs Funeral will leave his ate fouidenty hursday morning at § of A St. Mary's Cathedral, where a sols" emn requie mmass will be sumg. for the happy repose of his soul. Friends and acquaintances are respects fully invited to attend. 2) (Troy. N.Y. papers plese copy.) . F. x od 4 af ¥ St Funeral on + by and a daughter of the late url OF i353 we