Show PORT SHOWS r GREAT I REDUCTION CAUSED ED BY BT THE J WAR WARI I V TORN TORK Sept IG IGA A A A report of or orew New ew Yorks York's Imports and exports for tor Au Auf August Au Au- f gust compared with tho the month last year car made mado today b by Collector Dudl Dudly Field Malone reveals large trade trado losses resulting from the Interruption Inter Inter- European war ar and the thc attending of rot commerce The Tho total foreign trade of or tho the port for fOl August Including both Imports and exports ex ex- ports was nas In n the s mc- mc month last year ear It was Imports In August were compared with 3 In In the tho same month In 1913 L Last ut months month's exports w were vere re while In August a year car ago tho they were 76 5 The August Imports from Gorman German had bad hada bada a value of or only i G 31 compared with 95 In August 1913 lOiI Tho Tue exports amounted to only compared with 9 95 In the same rains ime month last year Austro Imports Ag aggregated re- re gated g In comparison on with 10 1 51 0 In August 1913 No merchandise left heft this port for Austria last month while e. e exports In August of or last las year car reached ALL EYES NOW TURNED ON CROWN PRINCES PRINCE'S ARMY IY LONDON TODON Sept hI 16 10 1020 O a. a m. m The m. The center of interest in th the western theatre theatre the the- atre of war ar has shifted from the ri right bt win wing wine of oC f the tho German army un under c General Gen Gee eral von on Kluck to tho loft left wing where the relief of Troyon Troon b by the French is is regarded in London as lea ln leaving the army of the German crown prince Frederick William apparently in a dangerous sit sit- nation As had ball been predicted in in England ii too the French have retaken m but this step is of greater moral than value for the tho line Jine of the tho northeast of this iowa town provides pro a better hotter defensive position for or tho German forces than does docs the front marked b by Rheims it it it- self f. f According to advices ices n received c a here from Berlin tho the demand for news in Germany where tho the people appear to be bo growing impatient has b been cn soothed to toa toa toa a certain extent by the reassuring statement state ment meat from the general staff that tuat the tho German Gorman line hue is holding out successfully against tho the offensive e movements of the allies So far r as tho the last tout ur hours aro are concerned this information agrees with news received in L London Loudon udon with tho exception of that r regarding arding tho the German leit lest wing This part of the line linet judging from mado made public lu in London dispatches appears ap sp pears not only to have ha withdrawn from the investment of Verdun but by br per per per- permitting mitt ug tho the relief of Troyon winch is 18 twelve miles southeast of Verdun to have left itself only one oDe lino line of re to- treat This is through tho the Stenay gap to reach or by way or ot Longuyon au arid anti Lon Longwy w to reach Talon Talon- villo ilIa l If t the e allies aro are able ablo to prevent tho the army of tho the crown prince prineo from us using ng Meta Metz as a base baso of operations it i is felt feltin feltin feltin in London that tho the Oon Gorman ali left WiD wing would 1 be in as serious a situation as 15 was its right last week Expert Export military ob observers in Petrograd Petrograd Petro Petro- grad have ha declared declare that the Russian investment investment in in- vestment of Koenigsberg and General foray into east Prussia were planned with the tho deliberate intent intent in in- tent of compelling German Germany to detach some of her force forces from Prance Franco to the relief relie of her cast east Prussian frontier In military critics unite in characterizing this maneuver as brilliantly brilliantly bril brito successful l so much so 80 in fact that the salvation of or the allied forces in in the west undoubtedly was duo due to Germanys Germany's having sent several of her herbest best army arm corps to e cast t Prussia With this work apparently accomplished accomplished it ii if is being predicted in En England Jand today that the tho Russian forces investing investing invest invest- ing tog Koenigsberg together with ith General Gen Gen- eral army arm army will be bo withdrawn within the Rus Russian border If it is is a fact that German Germanys Germany's s ally in Galicia has retired within tle thO fortified forti forti- fied triangle dominated bv b as is dispatches received hero here Indicate the th the inference is is drawn by British observers observers ob ob- ob that the Russian ri bt is servers right now I free freo to advance from tho the southeast and that an aggressive movement mo from this quarter may be looked for |