Milverton Sun, 17 Sep 1914, p. 3

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PANIC RULES A ‘despatch from pean says: The correspondent o} Daily Mail in Milan, ae has lately been in Vienna, draws a gloomy pic- ture of the Austro- Hungarian Em- He says: “Panic rules in Austria, The great, unwieldy and bankrupt Em- ire, dri reluctantly at the heels of Germany, is in a state of desperate muddle and fear. Her armies, half-hearted at first, and now openly mutinous, are beaten back ab every point by the Rus: “iBhe policy of mixing ii ifferent races the result that there is no esprit de corps in the army. Many of the men were driven into trains at the point of the bayonet, and scores were shot by their officers to ter- rorize their fellows into obedience. Vienna Is Faced By a Famine, Steadily Rising “While the Russian avalanche AUSTRIA and Prices Are IN drives on, Bosnia, is in open revolt bankrupt; trade is at a Saneitl, pud ‘thousands of business men are by a war which they hate. While the harvest saan wn- gathered, Vienna is menaced by a famine, and prices are steadily ris- ing. m resentment the popular anger has turned against the for- eigner, and Serbs have been torn pie he streets, a ae ne) correspon vere shot by the police, and are Sbarnal each | ists are in rison. “Tn utter fear the Government has begun to fortify Vienna,. and arrangements have been made to flood large tracts of low-lying land Y wail be added those of revolution and famine A despatch from London says: A Daily News correspondent in Paris the last wall. General Gallieni’s 38-word proclamation has created a profound impression. If it comes eyen to street fighting, the few sur- vivors in the city here are prepare the walls buming about them. "T wish I could let you know the real position of things in the pre mans are rejoicing in the progress of their great siege guns, towed here by 30,450 horses, we have a surprise quite as cheering for them here, once they get to close grips. sends the following censored mes-| wil sage: in, “Paris is going to be defended to| i ‘And, besides this, we are all _ “GREAT SECRET’ T0 BE USED PP ccprored Despatch Intimates That Terrific Surprise Awaits the Germans Ne asking ourselves how far their ex- traordinarily nice sense of humanity by the number killed, And then, Lord Kitchener is an unknown, fac- tor. We know a great deal about now. “General Gallieni is an army in jimead if; an eccoiniaicoar of estab- shed reputation and a fighter by yan aarti ‘of the danger- ous, .intellectual type... I b hit on his round of the ‘husingations: He is never away from the vital points, but at the same time his in- ternal administration of the town has got’ into working order with miraculous rapidity. He passed, ee a salute, in a cloud of dust, he car in front guarded by a black orderly,’ A despatch from London says ‘Dhe London Times’ military corres- pondent, discussing the attrition of the German forces, says: ‘We shall rea a pe men the first year, mil the second year, and care aii the third year. We shall have a very papas army five years hence, and it is really most tactless of the Germay Poor old Paul Kruger made just, pte same mistake as the Kaiser was told by all the wate 0 of Europe that our army was The Cool Tenacity of John Bull : only 70, Kap AESOP and when we al produgatl 000 he ae Hie was ates Seegenes at being 60 misled. In the same way we began this wor with a little army 170,000 strong, but we and America have a talent for turning out immense forces when we are put to it, and our present job is to work dey snd night for some or- to prevent all the States with a ponabent for hegemony from chal- us in the future. Mean while we are getting on very sail Trade is reviving after the first shock.’? RUSSIANS ARRIVING. © Further Confirmation That They Have Landed in France. A despatch from New York says: Dwo stenmships arriv from South. , the first ones abroad, and three Le New York for European ports. The Red Star liner tan brought 150 Ameri- from able to reach here otherwise than by, this circuitous route. Le ee HORSES ACCEPTED. Saskatchewan Notifled by the Im- perial Authorities, A despatch from Regina says : “a has posal w: the Baaeniaber . the acceptance by the Imperial au- n Government, mee was on receiv ly morning by Premier Scott. war began | g) “ANGLO-AMERICAN EAGER. Will Be Offered as a Unit to the British Government. tch from Londoii says: night ago, are enrolled with the probabilities of twice this number, @ men eventually will bo offered as a unit to the Britis) Neth ee ey | alco a far the largest. num- ese recruits are ae of the United States, there are repre- South American countries and several §| scores of non-British subjects from eer ‘Dhe echeme was rd Lyveden, who mad eae peo to Anglo-. Kusspicans or Britisher: ——-* ee His Crown in Noyember. despatch from bee leeiny ways: ee following prediction by an Th- dian are which was published in| natio - | the hpor Almanac last January, completes the eyelet fovesaetiay vthe downfall of Ger: “Tn the. TaeREMOE of ahilyh 1914, all terrible disasters will result. in November a great Emperor will lose his crown and hostilities will , cease.” Resume a Petersburg, fear consternation witils in that town. Despate] ail ia Sms direction of Berli ie deaatiediataly thidated ing} ia and \Breslau, the most important city in ith-eastorn Germany, an miles in from the fro: jenna also de-;to : clare that it is officially admitted 4 in oe Austrian ne that, 125,000 { risoner by the. victorious Russians. Bi it ‘he Archduke Fi Reanite patel oe m Toward Ber.in =: is learned, has been personally command of the ill-fated Austrian forces. ‘An interesting rumor, eredited in St. poe is that the German Crown ita ae me ‘im | of them are pensioners was positively | pean 00 vaul Dat in, to his children, a bathing, Dr. McDonnell’ of Dublin FROM ERIN'S GREE ISLE NEWS BY. MAIL FROM LAND’S SHORES. IRE- Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Tuterest to Irish- men, Ti Dublin-many: Jews have been mistaken for-Germans and attacked. Mr. eduiond has stated that the British Government. in- tends to intrust the defence of Ire- land to. the Irish Volunteers. The deat pecurred of & wi M: liam sid nce, Droid; shan Chobe Dublin gd inthis 70th The war has not so tox ganaee unemployment in Dublin, ome dockers have been reduced ts temporary work, but this is about EP fiss Timnions, for 21 years a member or the Mulligar Post Office | .| staff, has been promoted to the posi- tion of ostmistrese ve Cootehill. | A soldier, belonging to the 3rd pean. Ma Lied ‘Rome Trish Bitee, while ig duty on Killing bueerritd Re gash ni leg. The resignation of his position | Chief Con 3 of Dublin Me-| feria; Poli y Sir John Ross ot Bledensburg: see been finally accepted. s, aged 23) of ae iy njured when he fell off a@ pantry to the ground 20 feet be- low, while working on the Queen’s I sland. t a meeting of the Athy Board of Guardians a regolution was ed ed that the Daas rendered ya- cant by the war be kept open until pence is restored, An excise officer named G. A Young, of Salop, who had been sta- tioned in Armagh for some time, has lost his life as the result of a motor accident, Nearly twenty men have left Ros- common as volunteers for the front. They aro all ex-army men. § “under 45 years of a Two three-st <storey houses in Durl- ing Street, Enniskillen, were des- troye. the frien to check the a ey of the Sketlington ot the Post Office, 4 | Lidneta rd, was called ore by the military authorities to join #] at Limerick as telegraphisb, whence four sheep were killed by daghtning, Killuean er owing to the ees crisis has been ihe ottin tte: of thie Boyle kerio tural Show have decided to adjourn it to a future date, owing to-the wal The death has sseunee ab residence, Mi an, of Color-Ser- geant Schn cee who is be- lieved to have been the last of the Ceiniesy yeterans in that parb of map has been issued by Sir rles Cameron, Medical Health Dublin, warning the mie io regarding eating les and be apt before the are thoroughly oiled, Acting-Sergeant Brian Taylor, a well nee nown ae ested of the R.I.0. in Belfas' rae and killed Mate. doin rol duty on ng pat res Northern Railway line at kiss ling from the coast, a who. w intely arrested? by the: released was immediate! ae gi le was mn giving an explanation The Board aot the Royal City of mi as temporary probationers for a |-w: short in order to qualify them in preliminary hospital work. pacar eet ae ALL FRENCHMEN CALLED. Must Undergo 8 Further Medical xamina| Ad Presidént Poincare has signed a d cree calling all acumen previ- ously exempted fo: on the gro} will MUST Nor anon AT THEM, British Airships W: Will Cruise Over A despatch from London says: The Admiralty jounced in the + few days and at night. public are warned not to shoot at the airship. © | to about onearmy corps. bis! Genmans had suffered severely, and : ter 19 the railways stopped n rose by leaps and bounds until ‘The | became unobtaimab! HOTEL DE VILLE, LOUVAIN. most Gattic bulldings In Hurope and centuries old. ft the tt! was thought to have been destroyed in an destruction of Louvaln but later’ despatches say tho Germans preserved 1 ARMY CORPS IS CUT OFF. {abat a8 Ya than 8,000 of the little “¥ passed away for lack of Forty Thousand Troops May Fall Into Our Hands. A despatch a jou says Al Pasig despatch Daily Chron: : ‘In the beste of the Ger- many regiments of Genma) been cut off and remain dn the onesse and Di is believed that they amount in al ‘They bere been cut off from the main body b: the allies’ lines between Compeig: and precarious, “The remarkable resistance of the dorian of Maubeuge to the invad- ing Germans is one of the most in- Beostine features of the campaign. Because of its stubborn stand it ining their communication Near Nancy the Katie's’ “Yorces British torees Henig been Fiabe back a) crossed the da their men were supposed a very exhausted» condition. Wherever the Germans have yielded pote the tage fen itaeety ite on eng ae followed up er eatleaaly: overy advantage. ‘The British cavalry 1 has been es) y activ driving back the retreating enemy? PARIS IN 1870 SIEGE. People Fed on Monkeys and Ele- yes phants as Last Resource. Business may #' fe With the Prussians fast advanc- ing on bei ont and before Bis- finally bottled up the city and ee to permit food to be n within the gates, there from the surrounding cour long as the railroads remained open cattle, hay, grain, mreseryed meats, salt, and evane ible fhitnried to th ital and stored in public buildings and parks, ut there was the utmost confu- and cruel waste. On Septem- run- all good citizens to meet he ¢om- ing trial with their ‘usual forti- Mee vat tober 31, phen, Bismarck tebe sae the gates” of Paris, there -was no seeren lack of bread and no increase a prices to be complained of, Wine was plenty but meat began et Plies and horses were requisitioned for fi famine set in: Batts ‘was $5 a pound, Eggs were sold ‘at 2 cents apiece, and milk soon le at any price. The babies ‘died like flies. It was "began to appear me 1 Meux, and their situation is suffer and prices] i | “brave little cigars,’ reckoned at the end of the siege meiment about the same number 8 the soldiers killed in the a aks ae oy Prussian bulle: attention of the barge was aaa drawn to the Jardine de | Plantes and its cages of strange Papel) aka meats arkeb. could afford it Re iste. bit. Mule meat was found delicious, much better the best beef- st phant’s trunk was a de- 86 with yi fear meat, at prices in proportion More often than the strange which the Parisian taste did ‘uot approve, ‘The saddest thing was that, every- one’s appetite increased as the vis: ‘eee supply ot rel eed ing constantly of eating ake folles hungry. and when ‘Christm i tcxne of famine. he less w moni before was bemoaned vith hitter rs. “To add to the misery ate winter of 1871 was one of bitter cold, oo NINE SONS WOUNDED. Terrible yee of the 75-Millimetre rench Gun. A ro from Paris says: One woman in Paris, Mme, Bonnard, received news that all of her nine sons have been wounded. She nch, eous-oflicer 75-millimetre French said ; “The Germans fight vithout enthu- siasm, but they fight well would say they were entcinnone ‘hey never stop to rescue a com- rade, nor do they pay any atbantion to their dead wounded, b march on over rs a of slain com- rades, victims of quick-firers. ment a regime) anges its position it is certain 66 receive @ visit from a Gerinan aero- German fire changes its mid shells begin to fall thick on the pat eas Se se ey EAGER TO ENLIST. 300,000 Britons Have Joined the British A A’ despatch from Washington Bays: The British Embassy received from the London Foreign Office the following despatch: ‘There is in- :}ereasing enthusiasm for recruiting in Great Britain, Three hundred |}, thousand men have joined the regu- Jar Ente since the war Thi eagerness to enlist has grown ackodly, since Britigh troops have actually been engaged with the enemy. ard said to have refused to take up| arms when ordered to the def: see 0 Gistrct the ra “appeal , ostrich, kangaroo and | main after Bill Introduced Providing 4 Fine or the Lmpriso: DISCORD AMO The Socialist Democrats Terrible Loss A despatch from QOopenhagen says: The first sign of discord among the German people is reveal- ed in Berlin nurtonoere which reached ‘here on Tuesday All of the citizen parties Perens the Socialists have sotified with the programme of 1915-16, but the Socialist itn oagta have loyally supported vern- ment heretofore, eomnntn bitterly that they were not consulted. with and they ally refusing to sup port the caval programme for hina which | cased in armored NG GERMANS Begin to Deplore the in the War to replace those which haye been lost, there is an apparent tooling ta ’ itch has occurred, an re Seve milityry losses may wis continued mili mie newspapers received here say that the Zeppelin yeh a are the airships to fly at a the i great altitude in order to Marine, that they will continue to] enemy’s guns. For thi we support the Government financially | curate bomb-throwing is very difli- been shot, although the ship was not damage: A despatch from Paris says: On erte-Sous-Jouarre, Charly and Ohatene Thierry, pur- During the British forees took a nw prisoners and captured mitrail- leuses. “During the four baths battle the allied armies in that section of the theatre of etry gained more sixty kilometres (aboub™ 87 Between Ohateau heb and Vitry desi noois the, Prugsian guard has thrown. sae” The action oneness with great eve) jn the region between ‘ Camp Pitailly. and. Viney loctradooie the centre and on the right wing bed h is no eee. a the he mins bon. the Argonne forces are ntaining their positions, In the region of Nancy the enemy ‘has made slight progress on the Chateau “REMEMBER LOUVAL How Recruiting Is, Being Done In|" e ee at an th from. ton isays: An fective recruiting bill is, being ese in iblack et red, with the meni lines under crossed Union "We've ve got to beat Germany, er arrogant brutality “Because she murders non-com- batants, “Because she destroys beautiful cities, ‘Because she sows mines in the open sea, ‘Because she fires on the sacred Red Bead ‘ “Becaut crush Great Bi ritein. ‘Men of England, remember Lou- vain, “The fight is Democracy versus: Tyranny. ‘Do you wish to share the fate of Belgium? “If not, enlist now."” PAYMENTS TO\ENEMY. owed object is to nament. despatch from pense ere One| alter General Bir introduced a bill in ae nn of or peed gah ne Roast months vi 4 summary and seven suing the enemy, who is in retreat. | mai: [has captured 352. prisoners ty The 0 eB now-being raised by Lord t Pushed Back Over 37 Miles Saling road. On the other pase we kave gained ground in the st of Champenoux. The losses tee Sheen German Biber acs of the fall of Manbeu “The British Statement. A despatch from London says: The official press bureau has given out the following statement :— battle continued yesterday. enemy has been driven back all along the line. Sir John French re- ports that our first corps has buried 200: Ge: 12 Some prisoners also Our second army corps Maxim guns, Were taken, Germans heavily. Their men are nese very exhaust B sae have crossed the Marne ina pel erly n. Bitany, GOVERNOR: Sh PARIS, Laaeea Gallionne of tony ‘whe han Tuton expo ernor of Parlé, pe Lease ace WILL JOIN NEW ARMY, Place Has Beon Found for the Gan- adian Expeditionary Porce, A despatch from Ottawa says: ‘The Bark of Derby has offered his imon | Private grounds for i Ween RA io tached ie one oO) new Kitchener. ——$-. KSGIVING DAY, THA Monday, October ue Will Bo Pro- claim wa, Sept: 9.—Monday, to ber et will be prouammed as Thaukuaiving. Day in ou mar issue ears’ ponal pba sige a | conviction The Canadian Gaz ivy indictment. [ Abandonment Of A despateh from London says; A hte message from Berlin passed | ® the German censor says ;— Mute German papers evidently iad to mat ai: great advance of the Germans into France has not. ended the see bai the fact must Of ‘Campaign not be lene ‘that the allies are stil m of armies fully "tt cannot be ans, in their eager- ness, have brought heavy losses fit for ‘battle, have been too optimistic as to the| upon themselves that, Gught! to have ituation in western battlefields! been avoided where overwhelming victories have is message is taken to “mean been claimed, The enthusiasm of| that the world is being pi the newspapers is not found at the| for the Feed aa of the retreat German headquarters, Undoubted-| of the ee from cane Bvi- ly the German army hardest | dently ne ermans do feel quite safe ie account of the rapid and probably too extended advance to the west. “ A despateh from London says: The official press bureau announces CUbs Germans Defeated in Africa Karonga (on the dvimoweny shore yassa, ab the terminus ry the tis, Stevenron Road whi fended by one officer, fifty Africs m es, the police and eight iviliants me Feed hours’ resistance, a: the British enemy. vard The Britigh wero » ‘to continue the purr ehurgeés, drove the 6 Songwe River, = ssi pepe: Mivw -_ =, Gag eo

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