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RENFREW’S RECORD.1 ALVA. OKLAHOMA
HDE OF BATTLE
UNCHANGED IN
UPPER FRANCE
Germans and Allies Fight With-
out Rest Along North Sea
Coast—French Right
Holds Teutons.
VICTORY FOR SLAVS
Rutium Force A jstro-German Army
to Retreat from Wjrta*, Poland.
According to Lateet
Reports.
{Summary of Events.}
Th<* Germans have undertaken
a general offensive movement
along the line extending from the
mouth of the Kiver Yser on the
North Sea. to the River Meuse,
and while they have eom|>elled
the Alli»-* to give ground in some
places, they themselves have lost
positions in others.
Generally, however, there la little or
no change in the situation, the tines
•winging and swaying as they have
done for weeks Although it is now
Just two months since the Allies con-
centrated on the Kranco-Belgian fron-
tier to oppose the German advance,
by freah troops, is attempting an ad-
vance against the Belgians who are
holding the Allies extreme left. This
left rests on the coast and is support-
ed by English and French warship*
and by Anglo-French troop*, which
form a front extending from a point
somewhere in the vicinity of Dtxmnde.
southward to La Basse Canal. Both
tides claim successes, but the French
alone admit that in places they have
been compelled to fall back.
According to trustworthy accounts
fresh troops brought up by the Ger-
mans have enabled them to deliver
attacks with increased vigor on the
French right wing in Eastern France,
where the tattle has been of a ding
lioLg character, with alternate gains
and losses.
Russians Victorious
In the present battle on the River
Vistula, from Warsaw south to the
River Pilica, the Russians have scored
an important victory in driving the
Germans back and have captured
many prisoners, besides guns and am
munition Bat the defeated army,
when it gets back to its selected posi-
tion. can entrench and start another
siege battle such as that which oc-
curred on the River ALsne. in France.
Southward of the Pilica the Germans
still hold the River Vistula except in
root of the fortress at Ivangorod.
where they were driven back by al-
ack* from that stronghold.
Austrians Active.
The Austrian army, which was so
often described as routed and de
; stroyed in the battles of Galicia, has
sprung into life again and is attacking
the Russian left wing. The Austrians,
however, apparently have found an
impenetrable barrier at the River San.
north of Jarosiau
German Losses Heavy.
The defeat of the Germans in West-
lery corps is engaged in the attack
upon Tting-Taa. and that a part of the
Japanese fleet is keeping watch ou
the enemy s warships hover ng about
Hawaii.
Belgians a Homeless People.
The population of Belgium steadily
is becoming what a French writer
terms "a nation of exile "
The burden of this tragedy is tailing
upon Great Britain. Holland and
France. Between three hundred thou-
CORRESPONDENT EWES 1 MIC
DESCRIPTION OF FILL OF AHTWERP
International Hama Service.
Loudon.—A correspondent writing
from Bergen-op-Zoom. Holland, gives
a vivid description of the entry of tho
sand and four hundred thousand Bel- tato
glans have crossed into Holland and
equal numbers have flocked southward
into France, while more than one hun-
dred thousand have arrived cm English
shores and thousands are continuing
Tbs bulk of th« kaiser's fort* did
sot enter the city until Saturday after-
noon. when 4C.00C men passed In re-
view before General von Schultz, mili-
tary governor of Antwerp, and Admi-
to pour across the English Channel Toa Scffiroeder, who. surrounded by
daily.
glittering staff, sat their horses In
* - a gill
WhOe their eventual reparation or rorai ** Place
absorption Into the populations of j Msu
other countries looms on the horizon
as one of the greatest problems in
Tor flvs hours the mighty beet
peered through the streets of the de-
modern European h.story. the ques- wh„4 ^ hoBMi lhook
tiem of today is the care of the exiles
and the feeding of the millions of per-
sons remaining in Belgium, whose in-
dustries are paralyzed.
In thn thunder of their tread.” he
writes “Company after company, reg-
iment after regiment, brigade after
brigade, swept past until the eye
London's streets and parks are full weary 0f watching the ranks of
of Belgian oncers and soldiers, some (ra7 under llutiD< Iine# ot ite*j
of whom have been wounded. Others
* As they marched they sang, the
.bec*1?® j eaayon formed by the high buildings
their commands and Joined the exodus tioog ^ PUlc<, Meir w
‘<* fusees. The Belgian legation has ^ Toic<ft OQt >DU, WmM
issued instructions to all the able ^ Rhela- aad A Fortresg lf
, bodied men to rejoin the army. j QUr <3^ •
The principal Brussels newspaper. ' Uks Eleetioo para«ie.
•he Independence Beige, has begun -Each regiment was headed hr it*
publication in London Its editor says i fleid muglc ^ ^ when dark.
that the Belgians fleeing from their 0ess fell and street lamps were light-
country will never return if it remains *j ^ shrill mugle of the
of drums and the tramp of marching
under German rule.
Women and Babies Starve.
The food situation in Belgium is be-
i coming absolutely critical. Already
feet reminded me of a torchlight elec-
tion parade
Hard on the heels of the Infantry
more than half a million persons are , rumbled artillery, battery after bat-
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being assisted by means of bread
lines, according to the American com-
mittee's report, there being more than
three hundred thousand of these per-
vrns in Brussels alone. The supply of
: food for these bread stations, it is es-
timated. will not last more than a
I week longer. It is expected that the
number of persons requiring relief
will increase to a million within a
-month.
The committee has been advised by
j Brand Whitlock. American minister to
; Belgium, that there are seven million
I people facing starvation in Belgium,
and the country imports 60 per cent of
| its food. Imports have ceased entire-
ly. and the country has been denuded
of its accumulated crops.
Food for Belgian*
The American commission for Bel-
gian relief has received from the Bel-
gian minister in London one-half mil-
lion dollars taken from the Belgian re-
lief funds entrusted to the minister.
The commission is now purchasing
food and suplies with this money.
Seven thousand frozen sheep con-
“Behind the field batteries rumbled
the quick firers—the same pompoms
whose acquaintance I had made at
Weerde sed elsewhere. And then,
heralded by a blare of trumpets and
t crash o? kettledrums, came the cav-
alry, cuirassiers In helmets and
breastplates of burnished steel, bus-
kers In befrogged jackets and fur bus-
bies. and finally the uhlans, riding
uwd fprests of lances under a cloud
>f fluttering pennons.
“But this was not all, nor nearly all,
for after the uhlans came the blue
Jackets of the naval division, broad-
shouldered, bewhiskered fellows, with
caps worn rakishly and a roll of the
sea in their gain
“Then the Bavarian infantry in dark
blue, the Saxon Infantry In light blue,
and Austrians In uniforms of beautiful
silver gray, and last of all a squadron
of gendarmes in silver and bottle
green.
'As that fighting machine swung
past I could not but marvel at bow
the gallant, chivalrous and coura-
geous but Ill-prepared little army of
tributed by the Australian colonies. Belgium had held it back as long as
now on the way to London, will be ig had.
transferred to the American commis- \ gew see Entry.
sion. and W alter Hines Page has “The most remarkable feature
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I turned over to it »50.0*>0 received from wonderful spectacle was that
: Robert De Forest The Belgian min- there were comparatively few persons
ister has notified the commission that u> see it. So far as onlookers were
the shipment of suplies from the concerned the Germans might as well
Brooklyn women s war relief commit- have marched through the streets of
tee and also the funds raised in the Pompeii. Another American and I,
I'nlted States will be entrusted to the standing on the balcony of the Ameri-
1 commission when it arrives. can consulate, were the only specta-
Italiant Land in Albania. tors, so far as I know, in the whole
A company of Italian marines have I®11*!*3 ot the Place de Meir, which is
landed at Tvlona, Albania. The Ital- t*1® State 8treet ot Antwerp. It re-
ian Forty-seventh infantry, stationed winded me of a circus that had come
Count Zeppelin, who is at Wllbelmshaven directing the assembling of
k great fleet of the airships that be Invented, it here seen in consultation
with Count Haessler. who it the figure at the left. Below is one of the giant
Zeppelin dirigibles with which, it Is believed, the kaiser Intends to nisks
• raid on England.
and the invaders have been almost to
Paris and back in the interval, no de-
cisive battle has been fought. Neither
side has destroyed or even partly de-
stroyed an army. Even the Belgian
army escaped almost inuct after that
country was overrun by the Germans.
With Fury and Tenacity.
The battles on land are being con-
tested with a fury and tenacity which
ern Poland attains the dimensions of
a rout, official reports from Petrograd
say. The German losses have been so
gigantic that now two great armies
that have been operating as the prin-
cipal attacking force against Warsaw
are merged in disorder and numerical-
ly are far less than half the strength
they mistered a fortnight ago.
The coup which brought about the
would Indicate that strategic Import- faster was accomplished by Russian
ance is being attached to the posl- cavalry. which, more than one hun-
tlons held by the opposing armies dred thousand strong, by forced
When a town la reached, street fight- marches through the barren wastes
lug generally develops. One side toward Thorn, managed to get past
gains an advantage only to lose It the German line, which was composed
when the other side brings up re- 1 Saxon and Hanovarian troops. For
enforcements. ! three days the Germans tried to stem
Heavy Raina Along Coast ,hp move' but *ert‘ unable to do ef-
Torrential rains have been falling S,! "°rk *'‘h. lhe,r b,« ,*UM
recently near the scene of the coast 22? n i t ”
ploded, nearly every one falling and
imbedding itself deeply In the soft,
marshy soil without firing.
Wrecking Cattaro Forts.
at L*coe. is said to be ready to em-
bark for Avlona It is stated that
telephonic communication with other
parts of Albania has been severed in
order to prevent the spread of the
news of the landing.
Italy and Greece Near War.
Anarchy exists at Avlona, Albania,
according to the newspaper Giornale
d Italia. owing to the struggle between
the Christians and the Mussulman*
A famine also adds to the difficulties
of the situation. The Giornale d'ltalla
saya that so-called "Epirote battal-
ions," which It says are Greek troops
j disguised as irregulars, are gradually
nibbling at the territory around At-
Iona, totally ignoring the decisions of
the conference of London concerning
| the Albanian frontier. Italy, it is said,
considers the inviolability of Avlona
as the leading point in its national pot-
to town a day before it was expected."
A feature of the procession was a
victoria drawn by a fat white horse
«nd with two soldiers on the box,
which accompanied a regiment of Ba-
varians. Both horse and carriage
were decorated with flower* It was
•rldently a species of triumphal char-
iot, for it was filled with hampers of
champagne.
Pay for What They Take.
The correspondent says the German
soldiers treat the townspeople with
Consideration, paying In German sil-
ver for what they take from tbs shop*
Describing the fear of the Antwerp
citizens when the kalseris soldiers en-
tered. the correspondent says:
“When the main body of troops be-
gan entering the city on Saturday
morning the townspeople—those who
had not escaped from the city—rushed
out with beer, cheese, bread and flow-
icy and will protect Avlona against; ers, evidently with the idea of placat-
both Austria and Greece.
Seize Turk War Supplie*
Reports from Bucharest, Rumania,
say that a German train composed of
lng them by means of their pitiful
tittle offerings. It was not a pleas-
ant sight, but these people have been
ao tetrifled by tales of German bar-
fighting, making the flat country a
150 trucks laden with munitions and on« cim hardly blame
eea of mud, and this, wi.h the net-1
work of canals, makes the movement
of German guns extremely difficult.
The Germans, however, are still
bringing up reenforcements, a mes-
A dispatch from riettlnje says that
the nine forts about the Bay of Cat-
Bage from Amsteidam saying that | tart>. in Italmatla. are being hit con-
troops are steadiiy moving westward etantly by shells from the new French
between Weterend and Termonde to- Kun» which have been placed on Mount
ward the French frontier. It was j I-oveen. and are gradually being de-
ad ded that the men were of all ages stroyed. Only one fort attempted to
and were accompanied by heavy guns, reply. The Anglo-French fleet con-
supposedly for Ostend.
German Attack Severe.
The German attack has been par-
ticularly severe in the West, where
tinues a successful bombardment of
the outer fortifications
Heavy Guns at Tsing-Tau.
The Japanese naval general staff an-
their right w ing, strongly re-enforced j nounces that the marine heavy artil-
other war material for Turkey, has
been stopped by the Rumanian author-
] lties on the railroad between Bucha-
rest and Giurgevo on the Danuhe. The
German government protested, but the
train was not allowed to proceed.
Turkey Still la Defiant.
Turkey has declined to discharge
the German crew of the cruisers Goe-
ben and Breslau, which have been in
Turkish waters since early in the hos-
tilities and which are said to have
been sold by Germany to the Turkish
government. This reply was given in
answer to the British representations
regarding the presence of Germans on
board these two vessels.
70 WARSHIPS OF ALLIES
SEARCH SEAS FOR ENEMY
I-ondon.—More than seventy war-
ships are hunting the eight or nine
German cruisers at large in the At-
lantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, seek-
ing to destroy them, according to a
statement Issued by the admiralty,
outlining the steps that are being
taken to protect commerce. The hunt-
•d cruisers '.qclude the Emden, which,
so far. has sunk or captured tw-enty
British vessels In the Indian ocean,
and the Karlsruhe, which has taken
thirteen British ships in the Atlantic.
The statement says:
Searching for these vessels and
working in concert under various
commanders-in-chief are approximate-
ly seventy British. Australian, Japan-
ese. French and Russian cruisers, not
including auxiliary cruisers. Among
these ure a number of the fastest Brit-
ish cruisers.
The vast expanses of seas and
oceans and the many thousands of ia-
lands offer almost infinite choice of
movement to the enemy's ships. In
spite of every effort to cut off their
coal supply, it has hitherto been main-
tained by one means or another. In
the face of increasing difficulty the
discovery and destruction of these few
enemy cruisers therefore is largely a
matter of time, patience and good
luck. The public should have confi-
dence that the commanders in-chief
and the experienced captains serving
under them are doing all that is pos
sible and taking the best steps to
bring the sueu.y to actio* '•
ovfir Burn u ltimb, j»v»j ».n« •».
farmer does, it is difficult to under-
the sacrifice of my own luterest and
hopea.
2.if
,T II. Butler, ensb advanced .
.1 S. Jackson, for services as
Sec. <'o. Elec. Board .......... 52.50
damaged. A shell struck the house
occupied by an American named Hunt
and the Dutch consul and blew tbs
entire second floor into smithereens.
“A Zeppelin hovered over the city
during Thursday morning’s bombard-
ment, dropping occasional bombs.
“Though the German shrapnel cre-
ated enough havoc, It was child's play
compared to the damage done by the
elege guns. When a 42-centimeter
•bell struck a bouse It not merely
blew a hole in It, It simply demol-
ished it, the whole house collapsing
into ruin as if shaken to pieces by an
earthquake.”
Almost as much damage was caused
by fire* resulting from the bombard-
ment as from the shells themeelves.
The entire west side of the Marcheux
Souliers from the head of tbs Place
de Meir to the Place Verte. Including
the Hotel de Eorope, the Cafe Rovale
and a line of fashionable shops oppo-
site the Hotel St. Antoine, was de-
stroyed. A quarter of a mile of build-
ings in the Rue van Bree, including
the handsomest apartments in the
city, are nothing but charred walls.
The handsome block in the Rue de la
Justice is completely burned. In ad-
dition several hundred dwellings scat
tered through the city have been
burned to the ground.
Dynamit* Saves Cathedral.
As the city is without water, ex-
cept such as can be pumped from the
river, the firemen were powerless to
check the flames. That every building
on the Place Verte and very probrbly
the cathedral Itself, was not burned la
due to an American residenL Charles
Whithoff, who, realizing the extreme
gravity of the eituation, suggested to
the German military authorities that
they dynamite the surrounding build-
ings.
At ten o’clock at night word "was
sent to Brussels and at four o’clock in
the morning six automobiles with dy-
namite arrived and the walls were
blown up, the German soldiers stand-
ing on the roofs of neighboring build-
ings and throwing dynamite bombs.
“It was a lively night for every one
concerned,” save the writer.
“I was just sitting down to my first
meal in 30 hours when the police burst
in with the news the city was burn-
ing,” he goes on. “I found an entire
block opposite the hotel in flames,
and as there was no water the firemen
were powerless to check them. When
I discovered the block immediately
behind the hotel was aleo ablaze, it
struck me It was time to change my
quarters.
“After wandering through pitch-
black streets for three hours, slipping
on broken glass and stumbling over
fallen masonry, and occasionally chal-
lenged by German sentries, I saw a
light In a building in the Boulevard
Leopold. I rang the bell and was
taken In by a poor little consumptive
bookkeeper.
Takes Over Consulate.
•"Upon calling at the consulate In
the morning I found that Consul Gen-
eral Diederich and Vice-Consul Sher-
man had left two days before for parts
unknown. As there was a large num-
ber of frightened people clamoring
for reassurance and protection, and as
there was no one else to look after
them, I opened the consulate and ae-
sumed charge.
“The proceeding was wholly Irregu-
lar and unauthorized, of course, and
will probably scandalize department
of state officials In Washington, but It
was no time for red tap*
“I Immediately wrote a letter to the
German commander, Informing him
that in the absence of the consul gen-
eral I had assumed charge of the
American and British Interests In
Antwerp and expected the fullest pro-
tection. I received a courteous reply
immediately, saying that every pro-
tection would be afforded foreigners.”
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; should be ashamed to say some of tho
things you think.
i I>r. Pierce’s I’leaiwnt Pellets regulate
■ anil invigorate stomach, liver and bowel*
! Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take
i a. candy. Adv.
A widower never invests In a guitar
for the purpose of serenading a spin-
ster He begins right where he left
off at the end of bis first courtship.
Important to Mother*
Examiue carefully every bottle of
CA8TORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of |
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
First Aid to Matrimony.
“The English military uniform,"
said General Holland in Canton, “is
the best looking and it is also tha
best to fight in. Take the photo-
graphs of the wounded and dead Eng-
) lish officers—Viscount Hawarden, tha
Hon. W. A. Cecil, Lieut, the Hon. R.
Keppel. Did you ever see such a hand-
i some lot of uniforms?
“No wonder ail the English soldiers
marry well,” General Holland conclud-
I ed. “Handsome is that handsome does
—and the English uniform certainly
does havoc amongst the English helr-
An Emotionalist.
"So you’re hanging around broke
again?" said the policeman.
“Yes,” answered Bill the Burglar.
“I haven't a cent. I broke into a
house night before laEt and the poor
mark of a taxpayer told me such &
hard luck story that he had me shed-
din’ tears an’ tendin' him my last
cent.”
Befitting Punishment.
Edith—The wretch! So he actually
proposed to both of us! Oh, I wish we
could think of some way to punish
him!
Madge—We can; you marry him.
dear.
The girl who is a good cook usually
deserves a better husband than sh*
gets.
Success always gets applause, but It
doesn't always respond to an encore.
Virtue Is its own reward, but even
an angel blows his own horn.
Tou don’t have to play poker with a
man to win his friendship.
Silence is the wisest argument of an
Ignorant man.
USE WALKING WOOD IN
ATTACK UPON GERMANS
them.’
The correspondent estimates that
less than one hundred civilians were
killed during the bombardmenL
Havoc Wrought by Shell*
Telling of the rain of shells which
•wept the city, he saye:
“A 42-centimeter shell tore com-
pletely through a handsome stone
house next door to United States Con-
sul General Diederlch’s residence,
crossed the street and exploded in the
upper story of a school. There is not
a block in the Boulevard Leopold that
does not contain several shattered
houees. No buildings were damaged
In Place de Meir, though three shells
struck the pavement, tearing holes
as large as a grand piano.
"A shell entered the roof of the Ho-
tel SL Antoine, passed through two
bathrooms and exploded in the room
occupied 48 hours before by the Rus-
sian minister, destroying everything
in it.
Cathedral Struck.
“The cathedral was Btruck only by
one shell, which entered through the
wall over the western entrance and ex-
ploded over the side chapel. The
American Express company's offices
•* the Qual van Dyck wer* slightly
London.—A correspondent describes
a walking wood at Crecy. The French
and British cut down trees and armed
themselves with the branches. Line
after line of Infantry, each man bear-
ing a branch, then moved forward un-
observed toward the enemy.
Behind them, smid the lopped tree
trunks, the artillerymen fixed them-
selves and placed 13-pounders to cover
the moving wood.
The attack, which followed, won
the success it merited. It almost went
wrong, however, for the French cav-
alry, which was following, made a de-
tour to pass the wood and dashed into
view near the ammunition reserves of
the allie*
German shells began falling there-
abouts, but British soldiers went up
the hills and pulled the boxes of am-
munition out of the way of the Qer
man sheila. Ammunition and men came
through unscathed. By evening the
enemy had been cleared from the
Marne district.
The “Meat”
of Com
— the sweet centers of choice
Indian corn; cooked, seasoned
just right, rolled thin as paper
and toasted until they become
golden brown flakes — crisp
and delicious I
Thais why
Post
Toasties
are better than ordinary "coin
flake*’*
Cathedral Lost to Art.
Paris.—The artistic beauty of the
cathedral at Reims, which suffered in
the German bombardment of that
town, never can be restored. In the
opinion of Whitney Warren, the New
York architect, who has Just returned
from Reims, where he made a thor-
ough inspection of the famous struc-
ture. Mr. Warren, who is a corre-
sponding member of the Institute d«
France, was given the privilege el
visiting the cathedral
Toasties are packed in an
inner container inside the
tight-sealed, familiar, yellow
carton — keeps the food fresh
and crisp for your appetite —
Superior
Corn Flakes
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