FIRST BATTLE
FOUGHT
BIG LINER SEEKS
King Albert Takes
Troops — Barbarities
German Commander
Proclamation To People.
Command Of
Charged.
Issues
jrussels, via Paris.—Several
sand dead and wounded is the toll paid |
by the German Army of the Meuse for |
its attack on Liege.
The Belgians made a heroic
repulsing the ans after heavy and |
continuous fighting
The fortified
defense, |
Gern
position of Liege had
to support the general shock of the]
German attack. The Belgian forts re
sisted the advance fiercely and did not |
suffer. One Belgian squadron attack
ed and drove back six German squad
rons,
Belgian troops fought like lions.
first detachment of Uhlans
the country was cut to
& group of ten commandin
the German side seven
the first hour.
Eight hundred
are being transfer
Liege, where they
The Germ
The
Qut of
g officers on
killed in
pieces,
were
wounded Germans |
red to the city
will cared for.
tted repressions
fown |
of |
be
ans commi
against the civil popula
of Vise, eight miles
burning t! ity and
of the residents
tion of the
northeast
12 ( shooting
German General Appealed To People
lefore battle
Emmich,
army of the
ing
people:
“To
troops
frontier
ready been
who, disgu
automobiles
to avoid a conflict between {
have always
allies. Remember
the
your country’s
“But we must
The destruction of bridges
railroads must be
acts, |
Meuse will not
you. We wish
tack those who attack us i
that Belgian populat
have to suffer the hor
will pay
will
of f
have
deepest
“Your
show
vent your
into the
the General von
commarl German
Met
y
prociamation 0 »t
follow
sigian
Germ
igian neutral
violated by Fr
ised, entered t
Our greatest
been friends
Water
armies helped
independ
German
ence
have free passage
tunnels or
as
\n army of th
called upon to fight
road to at
guarante
ion will no
We
and our soldiers
best
considered hostile
hope the Germa
be
for
an onan
an open
the t
rors of war
for provisions
ss
show themselves to be the
riends of a people for whom we
the greatest esteem and the
sympathy
and
pri ide nes
you that it is your
country f
ors of war.’
IN COMMAND
hort
KITCHENER
Premier Asquith Will Ask For $500,000
More.
eld Marshal Earl Kiteh
appointed Secretary of
London.—Fi
ener has
State
Earl
succeed Viscount
of the
to take
president
board
Premier Asquith announced that the
British government would ask an-
other credit of $500.000.000
Premier Asquith in the House of
Commons, after giving a summary of
the war news already published, said
that the Belgian government had in
vited the co-operation of the Fren
troops with the Belgian army and had
given orders to the Belgian provincial
government not to regard the move
ments of the French troops as a viola
tion of the frontier
been
War
hamp was appointed
Morley as pr
council and Walter Run
the of John B
of local
for
Jeatic to
esident
iciman
irns as
government
place
the
for
GERMAN STEAMER SUNK. |
Luise,
Liner,
Koenigin Hamburg. American |
Sent Down.
London.—It was officially announced |
that the British cruiser Amphion has |
sunk the Hamburg-American Line
steamer Koenigin Luise, which had
been fitted out for mine laying
Passenger Ship.
New York.-—The Koenigin Luise, ac-!
cording to Hamburg-American Line |
officials here, was a small passenger
ship of 2.000 tons registered, which for
several years had been in service fron
Hamburg to the summer resorts on
the German coast.
of about 30.
she was la Hambuig.
CRUISER PANTHER SUNK.
French Fleet Off Algiers Destroys Ger.
man Warship.
London. — A dispatch to the
Chronicle from Paris says that after
bombarding the Algerian town of
Bona, the German cruisers Goeben,
Breslau and Panther were caught by
British and French squadrons which
had been awaiting them,
The French warships captured the
Goeben and Breslau and sunk the
Was Small
Panther.
Message Sent To Kaiser Before Cable
Was Cut, But To Make Sure
That He Gets It Wireless
Will Be Tried.
President
the
Washington Wilson
formally offered services of
United States Government to the war
the
sire now or at
conflict to dis
He
any future time in the
‘uss terms of peace
tendered what
“good offices.”
principle, would
is technically
if ac
followed
ntatives of
wil the
play the of
Ww hich,
De
of represe
cepted
by a conference
+) .
eo UTror
th Europe
would
powers of in ch
role
mediator
Under
which all
The Hague
Europea i
are SiN
convention
nati
atories,
1S exce]
ervia
nation is permitted
time
aven
international
offices
I of
to tender her good
NE powers
Form Of Offer Given.
Acting under the terms
convent the
William of
Hague on
cabled Emperor
udden
4 reed
BRITONS SEIZE GERMAN SHIP,
Bark Sailed From New York
Cargo Of Case Oil
England A British
seized the German bark
New York July
The Perkeo flew the
the first time less than a month ago
From the time she was built, in 1%01,
until a day or so before she sailed from
New York last month she was a
British vessel, her name being the
Brilliant and her owners being a firm
of London Her new own
ers were Lacisz & Hamburg
With
y
iover
wa rails
warship
Jerkeo, which
18 for Hamburg
fia yf
German r
importers
Co.
100,000 VOLUNTEER IN CANADA
Meets Quick Response.
Ottawa.
Hu
Ontario Col Samuel
ghes, Minister of Militia, announced
20,000. men for services abroad. Men
are to report to the officer command.
in each district. Colonel Hughes
from more than 100,050 men.
A Singer's Appeal.
Ernestine
opera
- Mme
grand
Chicago. ~
mann-Heink,
Schu-
singer,
assistance to get out of Germany. The
German singer,
American, went to Beyreuth to sing
ug a divorce dn Chicago from William
Rapp, Jr.
HOLD WOMAN AS SPY.
Of Norwegian Fortresses.
Stockholm. —~ Word was received
here of the arrest at Oestersund, in
North Sweden, of an Austrian woman,
who 1s accused of being a apy in the
service of Russia. Her name ia Julia
Kos, and she Is said to have traveled
throughout Norway on horseback.
Photographs of the Norwegian fort
resses and maps were found in her
possags an.
’
go of Gold and Many Pas-
sengers, in Safety.
TURNED BACK
{
Cruisers of Powers at War—Too
Rich a Prize to Be Overlooked—
Had to Sail Through Fog
Without Lights.
Bar Harbor, Me.—The K
ein Cecelie of the North German Lloyd
line, with a cargo of $11,000,000 and
full list of passengers, arrived safely
in the harbor here, having crept in
under cover of fog and night, and
dropped anchor.
The liner, her stacks painted
to resemble an English warship,
porthole blanketed to cover the ii
returned to America after being halted
in midocean by wireless messages
stating that capture by English or
French warships was probable She
feared to put in at New York or
ton, Capt. Charles Pelack
desperate run through
cape capture.
black
every
ghts,
Bos.
made a
fog to es
the
Was an Eventful
following
written for
Haggard
Voyage.
The of
age
account
was the Chil
Sewell
iar
EImMopoiitan
who was a
The
1.454
£060
passenger
Kronprinzessi
passengers
{1 nm Re wid gilver
of New Y
+
harbor at ten
ng of
to
ork
1 morn
all was
£* herbourg
war
jority
being English
some lation
happen
of ¢
and
BCAre WAS on,
of her firstcabin
and German
specu as to
clared wii
Persons
fami i
can war precedent
leaving
clared
by
rt
were in
prize courts
A Say Voyage, bute
speculation
sh
yecame ae
Atl
voyage
th
trip across ne
a dance each
ana Ger n Pa
the smok!
hope to
of the diffi
The w
knots the first day
eather was
FOO
the third
king re
utes past ter
startled bs
ship was being tu
some
gors
were
rned arou
unced discovers
to be laughed
103+ 94
A020
ann
ly
At
the
huge
face
at
Captain
king room
Ik a
appeared to
Pol
He
Hittle n
ack entered
carried
ore erect:
si
his
his
be a little more se
than usual
he
rious
“Gentlemen.’ sald, “1 want
an announgement
to make. War has broken out between
England, France, Russia and Germany,
and we are going back America
We have plenty of coal and | think we
will get back safely. | want the gen.
tlemen to assist me in allaying
fears of the women.”
News a Shock.
uttered a sound for what
be a very long time 1
was seated at a table with an English.
man, a Bavarian and a Greek The
Bavarian, a kindly faced gentleman of
perhapa fifty, was the first to break
the silence. He arose; we all arose:
he grasped each by the hand, the
Englishman last, and as he grasped
the Englishman's hand he sald, very
intensely, “I am sorry, very sorry.
Afterward It was learned that he
was Major General Kristof Kiefeber,
retired, of the German army The
Englishman makes his living selling
After the captain left
the smoking room an American ap
it
were not possible to buy the ship, here
your
attention i
have
to
the
No
seemed
one
to
That
the passengers,
her $11,500,000 of gold and silver con-
there any
COST OF WAR IN DOLLARS
A——_—————
Admitting Possibility of Struggle Last.
Ing Five Years It Would Mean
One Hundred Billion Dollars.
Poston.—-A leading financier counts
the cost of a general European war as
follows:
Iconoclasm beyond all belief and
ravages of the most heinous propor
tions await the world in the impend-
ing war in Burope. Inviting as is the
incentive to dwell upon the social
to enil
“
and French warships
down the American coast
what were the
And so it went
No one could answer, but the
tions were asked over and over again.
But what of the bridge? What
golng on there?
The ship was 8
mouth when she
She would have reached that port
Sunday night or Monday morning
The problem confronting Captain Po-
lack was to get his load of gold and
souis back to America with
out being overhauled by a French or
English warship. There was an-
swer from England, it {8 true, he
did not know It.
Couldn't Use Wireless.
could not afford to
messages because he
could interce
coming out of the
admonished him
told him that Fre
vessels were
chances of slipping
ques
was
50 miles out of Ply.
turned back
no
but
He send
would
pL.
Every message air
Sayville
careful; they
to be
nch and
already talkin
the Kronprin-
with her gold on board.
Friday night he considered himself
reasonably safe He steered far
the north, out of the beaten path
took po further precautions
the usual Marconi ne«
omitted and lunch
passenger f« printed
the would be turned ot
Lo
but
Saturday
sWEDADEr Was
Sac 3
that
it
ar
and tha
the table
at
und a notice
electric lights
that night in order to
irentity from passing vessels,
we must be content
There were
conceal
with oll amps
re make
of
with
tha
sent the
no deck
matiers
the
lHghts. To
worse from the standpoint
yo
was to
broug
passengers, ! urday
for the for
king of the He
best 5D
boat pee
it a dense
capiall
along at thse
gh
make throu weather
gers were speculat!
¢
Or Tt
headed
ng debated
ndicated
wireleas
ipt to make
had to make
fragments of information as he c«
grab from the | first came
to
knowe
air
his mind, but then he
He
favored a less
ard of Bar Har
but he was not
water thereabouts And
Ledyard Blair of Blair |
New York Mr. Blair's
Blair, has a summer
A
of course,
had he
rt i he
f here
enters C
bankers,
father, D. C
at Bar Harbor
their yacht in
that he knows
as well as he does in
uratively speaking, Mr
took the helm
Heads for Bar Harbor.
Wea were headed for Bar Harbor,
but the information was confined to
the bridge We folk below were not
even told to pack our luggage hose
who stayed awake could tell that
something was in the wind We were
taking soundings every little while
Evidently we were running into some
place that we were not quite sure of
The fog was thick, and the fog horn
was crying out every minute. Then
daylight, and the fog lifted
Mra. Howard Hinkle of Cincinnati
and her daughter were awakened by
the unusual doings. She got up and
peered out of a porthole. She could
gee land
“1 do wish we would land at Bar
Harbor,” she sald to her daughter.
Mrs. Hinkle has a cottage at Bar Har
era,
me
led
ofter
the sons had sai
these waters
his way around
Wall
Ledyard
and
fo
there
Fig-
Blair
street
She took another look.
around about seemed familiar. “Why,
it is Bar Harbor,” she exclaimed.
curse of the strife if extended over
Europe, the cold calculator of results
in figures is content to point the moral
of the condition by naming the war
in the terse descriptive. A Twenty
billion-dollar War.
This {a the conservative estimate of
a general war, the kind of war that
is now impending. Should the strug.
gle last five years one hundred billions
of dollars would be needed for the
cost.
wn —
Miko. WILSON
LAID T0 AEST
Funeral Services at the White
House Were Private.
CABINET AS PALLBEARERS
Remains to Rest Where President's
Wife Spent Many Of her Girlhood
Days—Services Meld in
East Room.
Washington, D. C
for Mrs. Woodrow
President
noon at 2
in
a few
happy
Funeral services
wil
held
the
son, wife of the
Monday after
White Ho
where
were
o'clock at 186
the historic East Room, but
ARO
of her daughter
Sayr re
months she
marriage
Francis B
Tuesday
where Mrs, W
girthood days
and father
The
witnessed
(
Jos
to The interme
Was afternoon at
ilson
and where
are buried
Ret t
vices a the
private, but were
Cabinet
Sylvester
who ms
McAdoo i
31,000 SHIPS ON ALL WATERS.
World's Carrying Power
Twenty Years
}
i
ah.yvear period
foreigr
to $4,225.00
American
JO GOD TOO
ITALY WITH WILSON
Heartily Approfes Of Mediation Ofer
and Will Give Him Its Support
Rome (via London President Wil.
son's offer of mediation in the Europe
an conflict is warmly ived by the
talian government and will be heartily
supported should the opportunity offer
‘or its application. The offer of medi
ion by President Wilson has produced
an
rece
excellent effec
Washington China, through her
sgation here, has approved President
Wilson's action in extending good of
compose the European war
through mediation or arbitration. This
approval was expressed to Secretary
Bryan today by Minister Kal Fu Shah
Hees to
velopments In East
Mazatlan, Mexico The Japanese
cruiser Idzuma is coaling at Manzanillo,
Ee EN RE rl
GERMAN POSSESSION SEIZED.
British Ganture Port Lome, On the
African Gold Coast.
London. —A British force on the Gold
Const, West Africa, has seized Port
Lome, German Toholand. The seizure
of Port Lome was made on instructions
from the British Colonial Office. No
resistance was offered by the Germans,
who simultaneously surrendered
Southern Toholand to a distance of 76
miles from the coast
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