i Daily British MW -- YEAR 81 NO; "229 EVERYTHING OUTCOME OF THE WAR DEPENDS ON CRACOW Can the Russian Armies Overwhelm the Com- hined Armies Of Germany and Aus- : tria in This Great Battle ? Kaiser in Supreme Command in East---In Berlin the View is That if the Czar's Forces Can be Defeated, the Differences Between Germany and Russia Can be Patched Up. DEPEND = INGSTON ONTAR S ON 10, SATURDAY, OCTOBER BA CANADA'S TROOPS ON THE ATLANTIC, 3, 1914 Tr -- M.S.CRUISER NIOBE "4 The outcome "of the European war | London, Oct. 3. will depend to a great extent on the battle-now heginnin in the near east. This battle, already referred to as the battle of Cracow, will find the acid test applied to the Russian army. - It will demonstrate whether Russia i the active, potent fighting force that her admirers elaim she is, or whether she is to be more a hindrance 'than al help in the attempt to crush Germany. It is a new and untried Russian army that is in the | field. The forces far outnumber all others. But whether | the troops are to have the energetic direction of compet- | ent officers or are to be handled bv blunderers, as was the case in the Russo-Japan war, this battle, now *ommenc- | ing, must decide, Sg | + ATRANORORT/LAVRENTICH + Bin ll] | The government has itself announced that Canada's rst expeditionary force has left f shows some of the transport ing 6-inch gun. mounted for and the ciuiser Niobe, whieh. | Quebec. The ] s with the business-li ward vith a munber of other war-| ieture | | ke look- | : also Admiral Wemyss | ; oa . ships is convoving the contingent. { To England, therefore, the battle of Cracow will be [2M ' considered of far greater importance than the long drawn out conflict now in progress in France. If the Russians 'an overwhelm the combined Austro-German army, the of the battle, and there has heen considerable improve- ment in the situation in another important respect ce! Ro-j | eroded ddr dod de dod deo ee oh | | % is made, dapan says, | which " hs WARNING TO CHINA, Pekin, China, Oct, 3.--The + Japanese government has re. quested China to remove the # Chinese soldiers from the rail- + * way line that connects Tsing. & * tan with Tsi-Nan. The request because it is her purpose to occupy the railway up to Tsi-Nan, the we st- ern terminus, If any opposi- tion is encountered, the Japa- nese gevernment states that it will be considered 'as an un- + friendly act, * tdeddededododododofoodeop THE KAISER HUSTLES Travels Back and Forth in Special Train. Emperor William, ays a tel am from Berlin, is go- ing from one front ty another He travels in a special train of ten cars, formerly were painted white Rome, Oct | and blue, but which now have been repainted like the ordinary cars, in j order to Protect the train from the erating with Arras and ind destroyed. This operation will not prove successful, bombs of the French aviators. Germans Fail To Break Lines 0 Be oe ole oe of TE -------- TTLE OF CRAG BATTLE OF AISNE CANNOT END W The Germans Will Retire to Their Next line of Defence Just Inside of the South Belgian Frontier. A +(Long Continued Fighting on German Right is Due to the Presence of so Many Veterans There---Inability of the 'Germans to Assume Offensive Indicates That: They Are" LoSing. x Paris, Oct. Desperate night fighting was report- ed to-day from both the eastern and western lines of the great battle of the north. The German right wing was again repulsed in an effort to break through the line be- tween Roye and Lassigny, where heavy fighting has beers Lin 'progress for several davs. The Germans are also res ported to have essayed another attempt to cross the Meuse near St. Mihiel; and on being repulsed, have: re- sumed shelling the fortified line in that vicinity. [tis the presence of so many veterans on the German right that is responsible for the Jong continued fighting. They are making a supreme effort to break the French lines and divide the allied armies so that the armies op Amiens as bases, can be isolated 0 od iitfhe opinion of the military experts here, who deelaré that the ferocity of yesterday and last night's attacks ifi= 4 dicate strongly that the high tide of German offense has been reached. They say that men ware deliberately sae | | | cent offensive efforts of the enemy have heen made with- | {out eohesion, his assaults being delivered hy comparative rificed by thousands, and thatathe effort having failed, alk {ly small bodies acting without eo operation with those on that can now be expected is for the Germans to attempt way will be open for an'overwliclming advance on Berlin. yy Germany's Final Desperate Stand. | Germany is making a final desperate stand. She has | massed the flower of her southern armies here. Every | man from the active line in France that could be spared | has been sent to the east. The kaiser himself is in supreme command of the movements, aided by the chief of staff, Von Moltke, and the counsel of Field Marshal Von Der Goltz, who orig- inated the secret defenses along the Russian frontier, has been sought. Every bit of information received here shows that Germany has staked evervthing on this_bat- tle. She hopes decisively to defeat Russia and to: show that Russia is no more a factor in this war €han she was in Manchuria. A decisive defeat of the ezar's forces. if is believed in Berlin, might result in at least a partial patching up of the differences between Riistia and' Ger many, as the czar would certainly face a revolution at home if his army were to he overwhelmingly defeated af any stage of the present war. : Germany Forced To Retreat. : Petrograd, Oct. 3.--In a review of the recent opera tions in Russian Poland, issued by the war office to day, it is stated at every point the Germans have been foreed to retreat. The war office estimates that the total losses to the Germans in these operations, which have extended over.the last fortnight, will reach sixty thousand in kill ed, wounded and prisoners. In addition, it is stated that the Russians have captured a number of German guns | and rapid firers mounted on motors, | THE d ' GERMAN EFFORTS ARE WITHOUT COHESION J i -- $ British Commander In Chief Explains The Operations:-- Assaults Show Inferior Leadership---The Servian | Artillery Fire Is Poor | London, Oct. 3.--The official burean issued a state- ment last night, from the headquarters of the British ex- peditionary force under date of Sept. 29th, concerning the movements of the British force and French arties in immediate touch with it. The statement follows: 'The general situation as viewed on the map remains practically the same as that described in the last detter. and the task' of the army has not changed. It isto main- tain itself until there is a general resumption of thé of- fensive. > a 'No ground has been lost. Some has been gained and every counter attack has been repulsed, in certain instances, with very severe losses to the enemy. | + + "Nevertheless the question of position is only. Xo } i LT part { years "two or three times a week either side. inferior leadership, t by prisoners ag ti the end my. "Further, the volunie and deteriorated bo The first is probably due to 1 quarters, but the two latter of the activity of our aireral the enemy's air regonnaissm "The Germans recent extent on observations some distance in the rear of NSome-of them, | nis beat 1 y the ore; 1 1 hostile a whatever its cause, is a poor substitute overhead AS a consequence the wholly disproportionate to t expended by the enemy, Fy amounted to pitting certain Is rendering some Villages 1 it' : T0 SPEND TEN YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY A Sixty-Seven Year 0d Man Con victed of Killing Percy Sparlings. rines, Ont., Oct penitentiary h Justice Falconbridge * Sixty-seven yeu old Grimsby Beaeci who Sparlings, whom he found in his room on Auuns! 2nd. Ti! judge said he had, no doubt, ti Ward followed up shooting by cutting Sparlings th-iat but "the evidence was not sufficient The jury had brought in a mai slaughter verdict and he was, thor fore, spared the painful nee it of sentencing him to be hangad in senteirce ( this morning was Joss r { NEW EPILEPSY CUI Physician Discovers New Treatment. / Cincinnati, Oct. 3 The eure of case of epilepsy is reported by In C. A. L. Reed, who operat i on i woman of thitty-cight yr us ae 2 E Cincinnati | hospital here The patient had had no jHnes other than the epileptic 2 ures for eleven years. The seizures oceurres There was disorder of the digestive tract, and when this condition was worse the attacks of epilepsy wee more severe. Dr. Reed found that' ihe large in- | testine had sagged gut of. {ts nors mal position, making tw) sharp angles. Dr. Reed operatsl on the intestine and restored it io its nor- mal position. The woman re:yver- ed. Cheese sales: Woodstock, 14 1-8¢: Brockville, 14 7-8¢ af At St. John; N.B,, Judge Crock indeed, evinee clear ions of | 'mg out the statements made [0sses in officers suffered tillery fire has decreased in hin control and dircetion. | he transfer of the dirveet result | t and their interference witld acts mav be vation of his fir relving to some | ee and obser have be« n from captive balloons sent up-at {prin which method, | their first line for the direet | reconnaissance obtainable from aeroplanes, damage being done to us is} he amount nt the last few reas with lange er nhealthy, of ammunition | it has aters, and days | as the soldiers pitt CANADIAN TROOPS i 2 i | Greetings Are Said to Have Been Extended by Prominent ane + Britishers. i To Oct. 3 Although thers | has no official anndunceme; | | made of the landing of any Canadian! ; troops the old country, cables te day contain referénces to greeti: | made by the Lord Mayor of London, | [sir William Osler, Lord ind others to the Canadian troops, | nd is thought that some of (} contingents have already appeared in the old country. ront ronto heen Rosebery | | 1 | PITH OF THE NEWS, | Condensed Items By Telegraph Ani | { From Exchanges, | At Fanning Islands the cable | tion was destroyed the Germar | { warship Nurnberg | Bram fo twe! for | Word reached Ottawa that Col { {the Hon Sam Hughes, eminister | { militia is aboard one of the trans {port ships which have left Quetiec | | for England. i |, At Schuectady, N. Y.. Antonio] { Ponton, a Porto Rican, a student at the Albany law school, stabbed, and killed Miss Bessie 8. Kromer, a grade school teacher Sunday, Peace Day, set aside by President . Wilson's proclamation as a day of prayer for the merciful end of European warfare, will be 'ob- served Sarsughout, the United States. t sta | by {ett sentenced John H years in Dorchester penitentiary manslaughter, Lieut. G. V | the Royal! Hor | reported wounded | his injuriese Naylor-Leyland, guards, previously has succumbed ito metal to other | | "hanged, { Woevre d LIKELY ACROSS WATER +d | two birds on the wing and of the French , Get Tha official review hattle of the A o'cloek t af neg ssued-at ernoon the German last night when through the left Roye, and between It-states that heavily rein have been ur French lines, been 1 con the report they tried to break t the v and La inity of there igny were again aldo de part crown French forest of attacked at this Hmunique tempt on the the German through the \ity of the The French enemy back in 0 army of to slip line in the viei Grurie failed and drove the point Generally in the situation un speaking, the centre is described while constant progress made by the French in strict as being the idol dedebdeb bdo bb bbb bb bbb bd CONGRESS FOR PEACE, New York, Oct, 3.---An ap peal for a world congress for establishment of peace was js- > sued yesterday by Samuel Gom- pers, president of the American Federation of Labor, deed dodo deobededededede dodo dole Oldest Mason Is 108. London, Oct. 3.--Abram Kittlehun, » oldest Mason in the world, isto celebrating ~ his = 105th birthday at his home near London. Yesterday went 'out with his gun and shot ay he hem home for to-day's dinner. His father lived to be 104 and his mo ther 99. © They, were Hollanders. Mr. Kittlehun beenme a Mason in 1827. WHAT GREAT BRITAIN TOLD TO GERMANY In Regard to Her Policy Germany Wanted Pledge-of Absolute - ~ Neutrality. London, Oct. 4. Addressitiy a eruiting meeting, af Cardifi, last night, Premiée Asquith said © "In » communicatian the German goy- ernment in 1912, regarding her future policy, Great Britain Heodared that sho would neither. make nor join in any unprovoked attack wpon Germany. But 'that was not enough for German stafesmanship. Germany wanted us to po further and pledge ourselves to absolute ageutrality in the 'event of iermany heinr engaged in war. 'Io that demand there was but one an- swer, and that wad the answer which the government gave," ro- to. The Union Oil tanker Elsinore was sunk by the German cruiser Leipzig off the coast of Chili, September 15th, and the crew landed om the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of - Beuadér, ought | to hold their present line for a brief period and then to retire. : Incidentally, because of false hopes held out that the present battle, if it resulted in defeat to the Germans, might end the war, attention again was being called to the fact by the military experts in the Paris newspapers to- day that this battlé cannot be actually decisive. If the Germans. lose, 'and all of thie military experts here agree that to all intents and purposes they are now losing, in that they ar tinable to assume the offensive at any point, they will retire slowly and in good order to their next ling of defense, which is known to be just inside of the south- ern Belgian frontier. wis ----y DAILY MEMORANDUM, .. + Wait for rummage sale, Oct. 30th, | See top of page §, right hand I for probabilities. pe vt miss St. Paul's rummage sale, ss St, Oct, 16th and. 17 DIED In Kingston on Thomas Pollitt, THE FIGHT AT REPORTED INV CRACOW TO BE STILL AL STAGES. Dor Hap Ix Hats 3rd, Qot. rd; Be aged El eral from his late remidence, id Kllis street, on Monday afternoons, it 2.30 o'clovk Friends and acquaintances are respscts f invited to attend. RYDF In Kingston, on Oet. . 2nd, 1914, Jane Ryder, beloved = wife af Gunner Edward Ryder, aged i} Years. £ Wi reside no, wt Funeral from her late Lower Bagot street, to St. at 2.30 pam. POLIJATT 1914, Russian Equipment Superior to Ger. man -- Precautions to Flanking Movement in Galicia. Petrograd, Oct. 3.---7The batile of Cracow, as it. will probably be called, is still in its initial stages. Russian outposts have engaged the Austro- German line along the Donajec river, Just west of Tarnow, which forms a natural barricade flowihg almost direatly north and south thirty-four miles east of Cracow. The battle line extends to the foothills of the Carpathian mountains and flows over into Russian Poland, north of the Vistula rivie, where the and German lines are in The entire line is strongly being estimated that the German i forces - alone number at least 750, y+ 000 men, while additional troops ary } constantly arriving. Precautions are being taken to pre vent a flanking movement hy the Germans aguinst the Russians now in Galicia. The chief difficulty, far as the Russians are eonterned, ha been heavy rains. In this respeet, however, the Russian equipment - i« fur superior to the German. The aormously broad tires on all field equipment has made it possible to move Russian transport, © although slowly. The air scouts wepord, how- over, that wherever the Germans got off the main road their auto trans port has immediately been mired and in the fighting of the last week they have lost a great many guns. Prevent by Germans ' Cathedral, Monday, E "riends and acquaintances are resperty fully invited to attend. " Bi (Montreal, Halifax, Boston, St. John's, Nfld. papers please copy.) Jt STRONG--At Toronto, on Oct 1st, 1914, Hannah Allen, beloved wifs of Anthony Strong. : t Gigi Funeral Monday afternoon fi 1H © of Mr. Willlam Davy, Nolan 2.20" p.m, N og Aystrians hom, 'contact St, ar 2 held, it * ROBERT J. REID, the so 705. To Create Four Marshals. London, Oet. 3.--The French gov ernment will create four marshals cf France. The men selected are Gen erals Joseph Joffre, the commanger in-chief of the French army; J.' 8 Gallien, the military governor of Paris; Gerald Pau, and C. de Castel- nau, who are fighting on the line. It is 'a pure myth that Russian troops. have joined. 'the allies fn France, The denials are absolute. A rumor says the German cruiser Dresden had been sunk by the Brit- ish chuisers Glasgow and Good Hope. i" »