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" \ ANTWERPHASFALLEN; TEAMSINBATTLE : ARMIES ON TI1EAISNE GERMANS(ICCUPY FORSUMILIF HOLD LINES1UNBROKEN CITY, Plank for Athletics and Jam es I for Braves Pitchers in ! BUT BELIjIANS escapei Today's Contest. | 5 IN SPITE!IF ATTACKS "WE WILL WIN SERIES," Some Outlying Foris Still Resist and DECLARES STALLINGis 1 liili French Report "Real Advantages" "Our Club Comes Back Quickly Afl Their Reduction Defeat," Says Jack Barry of at Certain Points., but Make No Operations for World Champions. n c nj U011I1S U1 VCI Are Uiider Way. BATTING ORDER. irate Gains. Boston. Philadelphia. Mann, rf. Murphy, rf. Ever*, I'll. Oldrtng, If. Gathers, If. Gollinn, 2b. YVhltted, ef. Baker, .lb IN FUGHT, SUFFERING Schmidt, lb. Mclnnis, lb. KAISER'S ARMIES 1IN PEOPLE, Gowdy, c. Strnnk, cf. Maranville, *s. Barry, ss. Deal, 3b. Srhnng, c. FROM HUNGIER AND EXPOSURE James, p. Plank, p. NOW FREE TO AID VON KLUCK SHIBE PARK, Philadelphia, Octol 10..The Boston Braves, National Leag pennant winners, victorious in the op< ing engagement of the world series ca of Allies S on Chance That Damage From the Bombardment Not Yet Determined, paign of 1914, gave battle upon Sh Military Experts peculate Field again today with the Philadelpi Athletics. Twenty thousand perse Will But Cathedral of Niotre Dame Is Reported viewed the fray and cheered the Americ Western Wing of Enemy Be League champions in their efforts to ti the fortunes of battle in their favor, a To Have Survived. thereby place the two contenders for t Heavily Reiinforced. season's base ball honors on even teri Today's game was almost crucial for 1 Athletics. A defeat meant that Bost * October 10, I . has fallen into would open its two-day home stay PARIS, October 10, 3:11 pim..The following announce- LONDON, :27 p.m. Fenway Park with t Monday only was out thiis afternoon: the hands of the Germans, wil:h the exception of a few outlying more victories needed to clinch the ment given in Paris forts which cannot affect the facts; but its title in base ball, while the Athlet "The fighting continues uiader satisfactory conditions, outstanding capture, would be forced to struggle desperat as it has was robbed of much of its to take four full to win wo1 . Our entire battle front has been maintained in spite of violent important and stirring been, games the ^ intrinsic value, it is contended here, the of the series. Betting was even today on t attacks of the enemy at several points. by escape garrison, outcome of the series. * I . The it 1held on to enable them "We have looked the Athletics o\ er» ^ "On our left wing, in the defenders, appears, long enough taken their measure in the first game a -5nrt . to take full stock of the situation and evacuated the citadel when beaten up their big gun. Bender." s;aid Bassee, Armentieres and CasseL, the fighting between the Manager Stalllngs of the Boston club 1 it became evident that the dooin of the town was sealed, fore the game. "We will win the seribees. posing forces of cavalry has been confuted because of the na»uropi It's Tyler or James today. Either c a to make the Athletics throw their News Note: A motion ture has been taken of the Senat e in session for exhibition at the ture of Terrain. Toward the close of the dlefense only sufficient garrison # b;ftg pic away." San Francisco fair. "To the north of the Oise < troops have attained real work the remaining available gims was left to hold Antwerp. Lies in Plank. Hope zone ' advantages at several places in tlbeir of action, ENTERED A1 NOON FRIDAY, The Athletics looked to Eddie Plan we crossfire to crumple up the Boston's < "In the region of St. Mihiel have made material progiced At midday of Friday the advance force of the Germans slaught today. The veteran southp: ress. tered and the full sun of the occurred flinger was Manager Mack's early cho Antwerp, city evidently engenderfor- the firing line. "As to Belgium, it is annoui that Antwerp was taken "We'll be out there today fighting all ACK ON EN(1AND at two ATI o'clock in the afternoon. Beaten back from their ^GERMAN i half-past the way,!' said Shortstop Jack Barry yesterday. The conditions under which this (dace was occupied last defenses, the blew' up their batteries and the Athletics. "Our club comes ba Belgians heavy quickly after defeat, and we won't k by the enemy are, however, not yet known. drew to their had evacuated their like the same team when we * rejoin comrades, previously withwhohitting." get "In Russia very sfucitod figfating continues on the frontier positions. The day was built for base ball. T of East where Russian sun dried up the moist clouds duri! Prussia, troops have had partial ng EXPECTEDTO BE NEXT MOVE The forts around Contich , six miles southeast of Antwerp, the morning and shone brilliantly upon cesses. have the to of the soft of the in and They occupied Lyck (in East Prussia),suewn are to be still and the duel between them and the greens out ftetids. said intact, An August temperatture presaged a "The siege of Przemysl coalsnues under conditions man is as stil this good work-out for players in pract:iCB SO..1lie of the is in Paris the folger artillery reported proceeding (Saturday) Ger1 and a fast fielding game. LONDON, October correspondent Exprei telegraphs able for the Russians, who have by assault, one offavortakenthe ing. The outcome cannot be in doubt, it having been conclusivelymornl Crowd Early at the Park. lowing: forts of the main line of defenses." proved in the past two months that permanent forts in an exposed The crowd came early. The last liin- "The immediate objective c>f the German army is now no Ion Paris, but the channel ports. situation stand no chance agairist modern siege howitzers. gering spectator of the Athletics' c To sum up the German plan.thday they refugees telegraphed outfield working out at the bat ROME, was sharp fighting in the region of baLCk to the northeast of Lens with could shift his backfielders in case comnnence at the end of October, from Antwerp. | 1 he papers received here, will Roye, nearly 100 miles south of the eavy losses. left-handed pitcher was sent in by "Late news comes that they j Mann was to extremity of the fighting line, hnortherntonight Athletics. ready repU then will become the base of operations against Britain, the newspapers Lve the Lille Its to Germans. blown up all the bridges between Ghent to ta Belgium were completely evacuated Importance Moran in right and Gathers where opposing bodies of cavalry the Lille is a ring and Inglemunster and have destroyed Marla~ voi1 nav who is now at that great ring disiet, Connolly's place in left should add that Admiral Tirpitz, the minister of the y, general clashing almost within sight of the nc> all that is left of the The strategic importance of Antwei'P the railway station at Vivesteeloi. Plank to the box. say. They longer, ie In Glemunster and is a ger Mack send North sea. rii tig being two wavering lines, one to the Germans arose largely from tt Vivesteeloi crowd was good natured a nd with Williami, has announced that he will go the flagship of theheadaboardGer- railway line between Ghent and The quarters Emperor on the situation in Bel- to northeast and the other southwest, fact of its menace to their lines < cheered the visitors as well as the hoi 11e Commenting lie stands between unhurt." pointg Courtrai. and woi k- man fleet and direct the operate»ns of the navy. gium before it was known officially communication. With the Belgian armiy players «in the batting fielding that had b< outs. Hundreds swarmed around the ball Antwerp actually fallen, Arras Suffers withdrawn to a position half way Germans Occupy Courtrai. admittance, while t newspapers asked this morningEnglish Severely. the park unable to gain with what the tween Antwerp and Ostend pressui The correspondent of the Times at windows and roofs of the houses back optimism conquerors riie correspondent of the Daily Mali will be removed at lea: were were going to do with Antwerp when on these lines ^ Ostend reports that 5,000 Germans have the left and right field walls bla had in view of the in France telegraphs that he learns from But at the same tin A brass band near the B( OF GE1RMAN ARMY they it, particularly temporarily. on the River with people. I TRENCHES fact that it is conceded that no fort refugees that the German bombardment occupied Courtrai, Lys, be little obstac e tons' bench piped its liveliest airs. Be>th WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. there would appear to twenty-six miles southwest of Ghent, and with can stand against artillery such as it jia s worked terrible destruction at Arras, a >n infields worked smoothly pi used in modern warfare. to the Belgians effecting junctic and near the French border. in and imaginary doul a large part of which has been reduced to to the nortl1_ vision practice ROOMY AND HOMELIKE with the allies working The correspondent of the plays turned with lightning rapid g ARE Talk of Retaking Antwerp. ashes. The bombardment lasted two days ward in west . Telegraaf, at Rosendaal, Holland, brought cheers from the stands. Antwerp, the one stronghold and many are reported killed, was ed October 10..In contrast to t rendies are large and comparatively was people It is assumed in London that if Ge r- learns from a Belgian medical officer Catcher Hank Gowdy present PARIS, The opinion generally expressed riie on of the and a ;omfortable, and at intervals they that remained to the beautiful clock the tower many considers it convenient to h»er that the Belgians blew up Fort De with a traveling bag bunch .of the rapidity with which the Germans into subterranean rest Belgians that should the allies later attack Ant- t-t.>tel de Ville (town the te a woman before t jiroaden out hall), dispatch plan of campaign she will not hesita' Meuxem. to the north of Antwerp, flowers by young have conducted their campaign against , ooms, in which the troops may sleep the of werp there would be a of says. fell in the flames. Thousands of waters tlie The All this took place befe after loss Liege and Namur, repetition to utilize the neutral of Rotterdam Courant hears from game began. the tide of battle is flowing i n security. The first line has taken is destitute inhabitants have taken refuge as an arid a reliable source that the Boston bench. Antwerp, comparative what already place.that , but except airship, Belgians the of France. The rnay be reached from the second has fallen before the Germans not neighboring villages. a submarine base, it is coii- themselves destroyed the oil tanks in slowly in certain parts to say, the German garrison could lnr. possibly James and Plank. * II ruuy II UIIUCISIUUUU iiAOoagCD. Phe Rome correspondent of the Daily tended that she can derive no advaii- Antwerp, while another report engagements in the Woevre district, routine of the German Gen. von Beseler. The under hold out against them. Xe ;ws quoted the censored The daily siege the following tage from this waterway. cates that Fort Waelhem was also de Pla according to the statements of wound- j orces in these trenches is carefully Dispatches attempting to analyze gr. received from Berlin by the Tribuna:teleam strayed by the Belgians. indij James and Gowdy for Boston. nk ten German plan of campaign with for were the b«*it- ed soldiers who have been brought c>bscrved. The fire of their heavy occupied days. 'German correspondents at the front Announcement From Berlin. A dispatch from Roosendaal. Holland, and Schang Philadelphia 1 is determined the study in their hands declare thatAntwerpthe ^ y that the French forces defending back from this territory, continue to through artilery A from The is to over north- says the hospital Stuivenberg in teries. *>f and aerial reconnaissances and dispatch Hague German purpose sweep y :rdun rapidly shift the position of thei-' An official announcement of the fall Ant01 of a slow and maps ern France with the of taking werp was hit by two bombs while the take the form steady s directed to the ravines and object Id guns to simulate a retreating quarte.' out German &1 was mostly says that the city surrendered at of the channel and Antwerp, given at gener attack in progress. Three % voods where the enemy is to possession ports wj.lile they advance in another. dred wounded soldiers in the FOE GERMAN LINES siege. supposed thus bring the warfare nearer England. headquarters late last night and tran hospitalhuns- SCOUTS The German trenches in the Woevre i>e. The allies have just installed a 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. A *Their knowledge of the ground and were removed to ships. been constructed in two one It is said here that German newspapers wc>ods them. The Germans am jnitted here via Marconi wireless, sai<|. have lines, £system of drainage in their trenches are the use of this northern helps the other. The outermost is fur- * time German official announcement predicting ^ hting with the courage of despei'ation. "This forenoon several forts of the inn'er as ifor behind vhich up to the present has been as a base for opera- 5 Famine Among Refugees. U. S. Ships May Act Convoy with guns, with a most Belgian position vaneing step by step. ha1ve nished quick-firing \rery successful. Drainage is tions line of the fortifications of Antwerp constantly on guard. In the r as of the coming by way of London against England. 'Maj. Morath. military expert of th# uiapaitu iiuui -iiiiYvci p, cv lurniijr Vessel's outposts lecessary precaution, many says With Antwerp taken, the Germans fallen. The town since midday has be<,jj Departure. meantime the larger detachments shel- t are from p®rliner Tageblatt. says that serious before the surrender. says: roops suffering inflammatory that "the town since will now be able to detach the consid- in our possession. jtiled The contemplated trip of the interried ter themselves in the second line. These i heumatism. midday of xiety is now fully justified." "The stream of fugitives continues erable force used during the siege "The commander and the garrison evac_ German liner Kronprinzessin Cecelie (Friday) has been in our posses-1 the city and transfer these men to the fortifications. a few forts! without a break. Many people spent to their right near the French-Bel- uated Only from Bar Harbor, Me., winter qut sion." The British war office wing, yISCOUNT ACHESON WOUNDED. are still occupied by the enemy and th is an entire night in coal cars. Thousands ters in Boston harbor may be rra an-! gian frontier, which has been sorely -is without influence on our position in pressed. of peasants, who never before had left under a convoy of United States nai capture of antweRP DECLARED nounces that was Antwerp." home, are afraid to cross into Holland "Antwerp The moral effect of the fall of Ant- JJis Wife Was Miss Mildred The Germans delivered one of their and spent the in the streets of vessels. the werp is not minimized in England. The Carter, " night by Belgians evacuated last furious attacks between 6 and Asschen, where famine prevails. The The warships would go as scou a serious 13LOW TO ENGLAND yesterday." city was called by Napoleon "a pistol American Diplomat's Daughter. o'clock Friday morning. The Belgians re~ Dutch soldiers are to warn the iln The French official statement pointing at the heart of England." The distributing wajter, however, merely capts has one of the I fisted them valiantly in their trench* milk and bread and have been ordered of the liner should British or otller LONDON, October 10, 3:1S p.m.."The "The fall of this fortress," adds the seaport long been great- iO.N'DOX, October 10..Viscount and the fighting resulted in that it is announced est of Europe, resembling in a sense so a lieutenant in the Coldstream desperate to give the famished thousands all cruisers put in an appearance wh capture of Antwerp in eleven days car- rlewspaper, "not only means the over- says only today Achon, very heavy losses on both sides. was outside fje Liverpool and the River Mersey. Gu is those named tr.% possible help." the Cecelie the three-m ries the germ of the caPt»re of Paris," tbrow of the but it is a most that was lards, among in During all Thursday night Zeppelin ai **- The British minister The her to towa1rd Belgians, Antwerp taken at Hague limit, permitting -hasten the Deutsche serious blow to Tt Fifth of Lille Battle. lis t of wounded made public last night, ships directed the firing of the Germsin has asked the government to shore and avoid capture. says Tages Zeitung, ac- England. proves that that Day the of we permit to a ' t is only necessary to break down a but the conditions under \discount Acheson married in 191 o heavy artillery, results which re the free passage of a hospital ship This suggestion was made at t:he cording dispatch from Berlin by yesterday,The correspondent of the Daily Mail appalling. to to but of Amsterdam to the ' arge section of even the most was Miss Mildred Carter, daughter of John convey wounded from Antwerp State Department, »t may prove an way * Reuter Tele- fortresses in to render which it occupied the in France under date of at The German artillery forced its w;iy This, it is was unnecessary It order extenddthe by Thursday Rj,dgely Carter, former lirst secretary England. explained, precaution. .is .heJie.\r£d gram Company. 11 part untenable." 1 in the battle at of the American in Ixmdoti. across the River Nethe, in which mainy the only foundation for the report that that no objection would be* offered to renainingGermans are not yet known. noon, describing Lille, embassy .of the artillerymen were drowned. The Great Britain had asked the .Dutch to the trip by the British foreign office i* which has reached its fifth day, says: s. lighting has been indescribably sa n- allow British warships passage to the matter were laid before it. a i ne atternoon "Yesterday the French force firing guinary. Antwerp. that course probably will be taken IS 3FRI IM MPQCAnr DCPORTC announcement over I^ens at the German position near The Belgians succeeded in blowing UP' The situation in is terrible, avoid all possibility, of. .raisiug- t GERMAN DIRECTING I the village of Loison wrought immense two and possibly more of their enem:>'s Antwerp gj of the French war office of the of and the German advance batteries and according to a dispatch to the Reutei question right the belligen says that; destruction, Germany Expects War heavy- artillery. Telegram Company from Hulst, powers to interfere with a vessel X SYRIAN GENERAL STAFF KING ALBERT WOUNDED the entire battle front of the allies from the northeast here received an . the status effective the for Guns. gium. Many streets have been peculiar of the Germ an October check, Germans, With Soon Triumph Big in the bombardment, and Bel|thes liner. LONDON, 10, 8:35 a.m..An LONDON", October 10..A wireless has been maintained in of; to the latest information, retiring Portugal destroyed to spite according The Times* military correspondent in P°Pulace. panic-stricken and driver = Athens dispatch the Daily News from violent attacks the Germans at about eight miles. LONDON. October 10, from their are in the) the nessage Berlin says that it is by "The battle began Sunday, when the Commenting: on the fall of Antwerp say homes, sleeping states that German Col. Von Geek roads, with their children and old at Damascus p there that King Albert of reportedseveral points. Germans made a desperate attempt to 12:52 a dispatch "Permanent forts in an exposed situ pie, in the Therepeoia- has arrived and has taken the movement of the p.m..In outlying districts. THE DAY IN CONGRESS. direction of the w has been slightly wounded. escape encircling fion stand no chance against modern.are no means of departing by railway over the general staff Bel;ium Paris reports also allies' left wing. A violent series of from Amsterdam, the fcrtillery. If the German forces hold An[t- Seven trains bringing refugees from [ Senates of the Syrian troops. He is also partial engagements occurred Sunday AntwerP arrived here last and Bedouins. the Russians on successesthe between some H),000 Germans and of the Exchange we resi night Met at 11 a.m. by afternoon correspondent jaerp later and attack it the alt' | recruiting the were met by representatives of the wai A from Island of 63,000 Ecclasiastics With Armies.. East the French infantry occupying: jsrill be the same. refugees committee. A majority olf Sent administration Alaskan dispatch Larnaca, Prussian frontier, and that town of Lille and its surroundings. Telegraph Company says "The of the G«w- » coal to Reuter's Telegram the capture Antwerp by those who came in on the trains wer« lands leasing bill back to Cyprus, Company, ROME, via Paris, October the siege of Przemysl -continues Savage fighting was continued in that the Bureau Weinzehr, mans will have an eifect which cam»ot; of the well-to-do class and did nott conferees on point of order says that large numbers of Christian 4 at streets and suburbs until Monday be denied But the ev.en to reports received 10..Accordngthe Vatican under conditions to the was upon opinion. city. need assistance. new of various nationalities con- morning, when the enemy finally a semi-official news into a German ss against section. refugees j,icre, more than 63,000 ecclesiastics are favorijflc agency, Jf converted first-da ! The others, however, bore sternei to arrive at Russians. repulsed. fortress. will the Germans littie Resumed debate on war revenue tinue Cyprus by steamers riow in different with that a declaration of bring evidence of the experiences they hac vessels from serving capacities asserts advantage, for the Scheldt cannot be us . uiiuciftuuc. 01 carncu menr bill. and sailing Turkish ports, with of Germans Claimed. man} meats he armies in the field, especially A Repulse war on for naval purposes. Germany doubthsss in brown 3 nuusr; ^here there is great unrest. Numbers from Amsterdam Germany by belongings paper parcels | he Belgian, French and Austrian dispatch a occurred between hopes to retain Antwerp when pea over their shoulders. The dis Mohammedan women and children "Tuesday fight icej.slung Me,I at noon. of ^orces. Most of these clergymen are asserts that is a stretched is in Berlin at comes, but there is no chance that tllis | tressed ones were provided with warn withdrawn into the fear- Germany expecting the French and big army expected Portugal have interior, dream will be realized." I meals at the stations, and then sent bjr Resumed debate on Philippine c ngaged in hospital work. They a declaration of war northern and moment. A a bombardment by war- seven and nineteen other momentarily along the whole eastern, any dispatch to the Dally Mail from 0 s- | omnibus to various institutions, pend bill. ing foreign c bishops lnlude of Lille. The tend seya that the Germans have ing arrangements for their housing:* ships. i >relates. upon her by Portugal. northwestern suburbs

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