t f. VOLUME IV. NEWPORT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1914.^_
Allies’ Offensive
^ Opens On Right
w French Advance In Center, In the Ar
x gorineAnd Along The Meuse River
Reported — Germans Hold
t Lille But Have Been
Forced Back Between
Verdun And Metz.
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FRENCH REINFORCE LEFT WING
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Reinforcements Sent to General Damande and Next Great Con
v flict May Be Staged On Belgian Soil—Germans Have
Occupied Ghent.
United Press Dispatch
Paris, Oct. 13.—An offensive movement of the Allies a
gainst the Germans on the right wing, begun at Hazeebrouch
and Bethune, has been announced officially. The Franch have
advanced at the center in the region of Berry au Bac, in the
Argonne and along the Meuse
The Germans still hold Lille. The Germans have been forc
ed back in the territory between Verdun and Metz. Thei situ
ation is unchanged on the extreme right.
^ General Damande, commanding the French extreme left,
has been sent reinforcements in tha belief that the next big
conflict will be staged on Belgian soil. The Allies’ left is
y said to be well situated
Cavalry encounters continue and the French aeronautical
division is renewing its activity in patrol work.
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ALLIES’ LINES DRAWN FOR NEXT BATTLE.
United Press Dispatch.
-i London, Oct. 13.—The Allies’ line is being drawn for battle
with the Germans, who are attempting an encircling move
4 naent toward Ostend and the seacoast.
^ There is little doubt here but that the Germans have occu
pied Ghent though no official confirmation has been had. It is
believed that the center of the war will now shift to Belgium.
, BELGIAN CAPITAL AT HAVRE, FRANCE.
Y United Press Dispatch.
Paris, Oct. 13.—An announcement from Bordeaux says that
the quarters for the Belgian government have been provided
, at Havre, France, and that the Belgian capital will be estab
> lished there.
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GERMAN LOSS GIVEN AT 211,000.
United Press Dispatch
er Berlin, Oct. 13.—The forty-fourth list of German casualties
shows total losses to date of 211,000, not including those of the
Bavarian and Saxon commands.
RUSSIANS REPORT
COMPLETE DEFEAT
Of Austro-German Forces In
Galicia And Capture Of
Many Guns— German
/ Advance Checked.
United Press Dispatch.
Petrograd, Oct. 13—The gen
eral staff has announced the com
plete defeat of the Austro Ger
ynan forces in Galicia near the
Ban River, when the cavalry at
tacked the enemy’s flanks with
the infantry and artillery in the
center, capturing many guns.
( It is unofficially announced
ft'hat the German advance in
East Prussia has been checked
by Russian victories northeast of
Suwalki, where the Russians
took many prisoners and guns.
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GERMANS HOLD WEST PO
. LAND.
r United Press Dispatch.
Berlin, via Amsterdam and
London, October 13.—An official
J. war office statement declares
Jr that the entire Russian Poland,
h w# of the Vistula River is now
in German possession.
The Russians have been swept
back and the only point now held
by the Russians in this section is
/ Warsaw on the east bank of the
^ \ Vistula
BOERS REBEL
AGAINST BRITISH
In South Africa And Armed
With German Guns Attack
English Forces.
United Press Dispatch.
London, Oct. 13.—The official
Press Bureau has admitted that
open rebellion has been encoun
|tered in South Africa with a
I force of Anti-British Boers, arm
ied with German guns and aided
I by German troops are invading
| British territory.
Martial law has been proclaim
ed throughout South Africa fol
! lowing the discovery of a plot by
! Colmaritzs command looking
toward the establishment of a
republic of the Northwest Cape
Provinces.
The revolt resulted from the
resignation of Commandant
General Beyers and the appoint
ment of Maritz as his successor.
The South African government
determined to supersede Maritz
1 in command of the Northwest
Cape province, whereupon Mar
jitz threatened to invade the un
ion.
Mrs. M. M- O’Neal arrived this
afternoon to spend fair week
with Newport relatives.
Turcos Dashing Charge.
United Press Dispatch.
Paris, Oct- 9.—“It was like
hell let loose,” is the way an offi
cer of the French Zouaves de
scribes the charge of the Tur
cos, France’s black troops* at the
battle of Charleroi. Telling of
the terrific charges of the blacks,
the officer said they fought at
such quarters with the Germans
that many of them got hold of
the noses of the enemy with
their teeth.
“When the fighting was at its
height our colonel suddenly or
dered, ‘give the Turcos free
rein,’ said the officer. Then the
avalanche began. It was like
hell turned loose. They tore
along the German batteries for a
full mile, chanting the Marseil
laise’ but no man could hear the
man next to him in the ranks so
terrific was the sounding of the
guns. Infantry and artillery
poured shot into them and they
fell by the dozen but dashed on.
When they were within fifteen
yards of the batteries and the
Germans had ceased firing to
avoid shooting their own guards
Then followed a bloody bayonet
fight. While a Turco was bayo
neting a German and could not
release his bayonet at once he
would whip out his revolver and
shoot another. In the meantime
a companion at his side would
be attacking the bayonetted foe
with the butt of his rifle. The
Kaiser’s men were giants but
they fell like flies. Blood splash
ed everywhere. I must have
shot a hundred with my own re
volver. The German remnants
finally fled for their lives. Not
many escaped. Arrived back at
Charleroi we lost two score un
der fire from a German Howitzer
on a steple from which a Red
Cross flag was flying.
Plan Dry Campaign.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 13—The An
ti-License League of Little Rock
and Argenta has been re-organ
ized for an active campaign dur
ing the ensuing year- It is pro
posed to conduct an active cam
paign against this issuance of
license for saloons in the two
cities for the year 1915, petitions
for which are now being circu
lated in Argenta and are soon to
be started in Little Rock.
David A. Gates, Chairman of
the Arkansas Tax Commission,
and chairman of the corporation
publishing Arkansas Progress,
has been elected chairman of the
League, and L. P. Coleman, a
Little Rock real-estate man, vice
chairman. The other members
are C. E. Castleberry, secretary;
treasurer, Dr. J. H. Estes, J. H.
Brooks, Dr. D. S- Scott, Fred
jPattee, Rev. T- B. Anderson.
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Report Attacking Submarine
Disabled.
United Press Dispatch.
Petrograd, Oct. 13.—Persist
ent rumors continue to be heard
that one of the German subma
rines that aided in the sinking
of the Russian cruiser Pallada in
the Baltic sea was disabled.
The war office has no details
of the disaster, except that 570
ment went down with the ship.
It is believed that the Cruiser
Bayan, accompanying the Palla
da hit one of the submarines.
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Sheriff Asks For Militia.
United Press Dispatch.
Cairo, 111., Oct. 13.—Governor
Dunne has ordered Captain Lutes
of Company K of the National
Guard to prepare his troops for
duty in the event of an outbreak
as the result of threats of mobs
to lynch Faust Scoota, a negro
charged with the murder of Eli
Johnson in a saloon fight Satur
day
Sheriff Fraser has appealed
i for troops to be held ready to as
j sist him.
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BOSTON WON
TOUR STRAIGHTS
Braves Break A Record In
Winning Every Game Of A
World’s Series.
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1 (By Courtesy of Sisson’s Pool
Hall)
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Boston, by taking the fourth
game in the World’s Series with
the Athletics, has broken an
other record in winning four
straight victories and landing
the world’s championship with
out a defeat.
Rudolph was back in the box
for the Braves and while he al
lowed eight hits, kept them suf
ficiently scattered to net but
one run. It was the only game
in the series in which Philadel
phia out hit the National Lea
ghe team ann then they faisec
at opportune times.
Shaukey opened for Philadel
phia, but was succeeded bj
Pennock.
SCORE BY INNINGS.
Philadelphia—
00001000 0—1 7 (
Boston—
0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0—3 6 (
Batteries — Philadelphia
Shaukey, Pennock and Schang
Boston, Rudolph and Gowdy.
Fair Sex Helps Recruiting Ii
England
United Press Dispatch.
London, Oct. 13.—England’s
young women are proving o:
great aid to Lord Kitchener ii
his efforts to raise a great sec
ond army for Great Britain. I
group of enthusiastically loya
young women have banded to
gether for the purpose of fore
ing all single young men no
now in the army to join or b
branded as cowards.
“The young, unmarried men
who have no physical weakness
no serious domestic or other tie
and who will not serve their owi
country in time of need, pro
claim themselves to be abjec
cowards and deserve the con
tempt of every right-minde'
person,” said one of these younj
i women the other day. Younf
I single men should be made t(
‘feel that Khaki is the only fash
ionable color. We girls are go
ing to refuse to be seen with anj
young man who does not weai
the Khaki hall mark of man
hood-” ____
Members of Parliament At Th<
Front.
United Press Service.
I London, Oct. 13.—More thai
one hundred members of par
'liament are at the front, fight
ing for England. The Prime
Minister has a nephew on *
|battleship; Lord Crewe, a son
in-law; Lord George s seconc
I son is in the Territorials; Wins
ton Churchill’s brother recently
enlisted; Sir Edward Grey ha?
! a nephew in the service and ir
I fact all the prominent official?
have either sons, brothers oi
nephews on the firing line.
Trial Of Assassins Begun.
| United Press Dispatch
1 Sarajevo, Oct. 13.—The trial?
of twenty-two persons chargee
with high treason in the assas
sination of the Archduke 1 ran
cis Ferdinand and wife, were be
gun here today.
Gavrilio Princip, a Serviar
student, is the principal defend
ant.
Evidence Of Secret Agreement.
United Press Dispatch.
Berlin, Oct. 13—It is announc
ed that the Germans have dis
covered in papers at Antwerp
that a secret military agreement
existed between England and
Belgium.
It is claimed that this was in
violation of Belgium’s neutrali
ty, long before German violation
of same.
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Connelly Was With Little Rock.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 13.—Although
Joe Connelly, a former Little
Rock pitcher, is now a member
of the Boston miracle team, few
residents of Little Rock who
remember Connelly as a Travel
er, are sufficiently influenced by
that fact to root for the Nation
at League entry in the blue rib
bon baseball event of the year.
! The boys of the city though are
almost without exception, all
staunch rooters for the Braves,
and the men back the Athletics
| At a business men’s luncheon
Monday it was ascertained that
fifteen out of the twenty-one
men present had wagered with
their sons on the series, the
grown ups taking the Athletic
end because the boys favored
the Bostons.
Further Contributions To The
Monument Fund.
The monument fund is still
growing and every few days
money is given Mr. Bevens by
those interested in the cause, to
be applied to this fund. The fol
lowing are the last to contribute:
1 Mrs. Mollie Robinson_$10.00
Mrs. Kate Bennett_ 2.00
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Perritt And Wingo To “Feds.”
United Press Dispatch.
St. Louis, Oct. 13—Pitcher
i Polly Perritt and Catcher Ivy
Wingo of the Cardinals admitted
this morning that they had beer
i signed by the Federals.
’ Perritt will go to Pittsburg
i and Wingo to the Buffalo Feds
. receiving bonuses of $3,000 anc
L $3,500, respectively.
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Armistice To Bury Dead.
^ United Press Dispatch.
i Tokio, Oct. 13.—The Japanese
and Germans have declared ar
’ armistice to cease fighting while
’ both sides bury their dead a
* round Tsing Tau.
Arkansas Took 65 Per Cent.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 13.—Poultry
men of Arkansas are elated over
the showing made by them at
the Tri-State Fair at Memphis,’
the awards showing that Ark
ansas took 65 per cent of the
j premium money at the fair, and
a greater per cent of the prizes.
The Arkansas Poultry Asso
ciation is now preparing to give
its annual exhibition, which will
this year be held in Little Rock
in December.
Moving Pictures
The Opera House
THE TOLL
A special feature—James Morri
son, George Cooper, Dorothy
Kelly and Marie Weirman.
(Two reels—VITAGRAPH.)
BRONCHO BILLY AND THE
GAMBLER.
Featuring G. M- Anderson and
Marguerite Clayton.
(Western—S. and A.)
THE MAD ALINE
THE LITTLE HOBO
(Shows ho wa little girls saves a
train from robbery and rescues
the operator. Lelia Frost and
Harold Vosburgh.
(Drama—SELIG.)
THE GYPSY GAMBLER.
Princess Mona Darkfeather and
Art Ortega—a powerful story.
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THE DEADLY CHEROOT ,
(Comedy—BIQGRAPH)
> THEY WOULD BANDITS BE
i (Farce comedy—BIOGRAPH)
> Extra good shows at both places
Don’t miss them. •.
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