THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Aug. 23, 1914,
Japan declares war on Germany.
Namur, Belgium, captured by the
Germans.
Germans advanced westward
against Mons and Charleroi,
French and English forces moved
northward against German right
wing.
Germans occupied Luneville,
northeastern France.
Austria announced victory over
Russians at Krasnik.
Aug. 24, 1914,
Retreat of the English
from Mons began.
Germans in East Prussia retreat.
ed before Russians.
Antwerp bombarded by German
Zeppebin.
Japanese
Tsingtau.
forces
warships bombarded
Aug. 25, 1914,
Austria declared war on Japan.
Germans in East Prussia retreat
ed on Koenigsberg.
Russians reached point within
eighty miles of Lemberg, Galicia.
French evacuated Muelhausen.
Lord Kitchener made his first
speech in house of commons, pre-
dicting a long war.
Aug. 26, 1914,
burned Louvaln, Bel
Germans
gium.
Longwy, France, occupied by the
Germans.
German Togoland, West Africa,
surrendered to British force from
Nigeria.
French cabinet resigned and
new ministry was announced.
Ministers of foreign powers at
Antwerp protested against throw
ing of bombs from air craft.
Beigium protested to
States against German acts.
Sritish marines landed at Ostend.
United
Aug. 27, 1914,
Austria declared war on Belgium.
German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse sunk by Brit.
ish cruiser Highfiyer off West coast
of Africa.
German cruiser Magdeburg sunk
in Gulf of Finland.
Three day battle begun at Oer
telsburg, East Fruseia, that result.
ed in Russian defeat.
French retreated from Lille, Rou-
baix and Valenciennes.
Japan Blockaded Kiaochow.
Aug. 28, 1914,
French cabinet issued a mani
festo.
Gen. von Kiuck defeated
French near Maubeuge.
the
Gens. von Buelow and von Hau
sen defeated the Franco-Belgian
forces between the Sambre and the
Meuse.
Two German cruisers and two
torpedo boats sunk by British fleet
near Helgoland.
Germans attacked
Congo.
German airships again bombarded
Antwerp.
Norway and Sweden formed mili
tary alliance to preserve their neu-
the Belgian
trality.
According to Notice,
During a sham fight which constitut-
ed part of a certain infantry bat.
talion s training for the war a com
pany told off to follow up the re
treating ‘enemy For this purpose
the who had been having
& strenuous time, had to cross a fairly
wide river, and were marched to the
nearest bridge, which about four
miles away. Imagine thelr disappoint-
mént on arriving to find this notice
attached to bridge of the “ene
my This bridge is blown up.” But
the officer in command of the pursuers
was a man of action, and promptly
attached a notice to one of his leading
men and proceeded to march his force
across the bridge. They had almost
crossed it, when an umpire suddenly
appeared, frantically waving his hand
and exclaiming: “The bridge is blown
up; all tise men are drowned!” The
commanding officer made no reply, but
simply pointed to his notice, which
read ‘This company is swimming
across!’ ’
was
pursuers
was
the
’
Reliable Method.
“Can you spell the ngme of this new
bigh explosive?’ asked the man who
shirks.
“Nes,”
at a loss.
“How do you spell it?”
“By looking in the dictionary.”
M'CLARYGRAMS
He who lies must sometimes crawl.
It is easy to tell the man to whom
one can tell nothing.
The man who gets two ideas at once
fsn't much ‘better off than he who
gets none,
replied the one who is never
a]
There are some people whose chief
study in business might be called that
of “trickencmetry.”
26 AMERICANS ON
[ORPEDOED LINER
Sinking of Arabic May Determine
Relations With Germany.
—————
NO WARNING WAS GIVEN
Eight American Citizens Be-
lieved to Be Lost.
Millions In American Securities Went
Down With The Arabic—Survivors
All Agree That The German
Submarine Gave No Warning.
Washington. ight names appear
on the State Department's list of
American passengers not found among
survivors of the lost White Star liner
Arabic. A dispatch from consul
at Queensiown, relayed by Ambassador
Page, at London, gives the list:
Mrs. F. T. Moore, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Burgess, J. Kellett, Mrs.
sephine L. Brugulere, Dr. Edward
F. Woods, James Houlihan and
Thomas Ellnore.
No decision has been
President Wilson and
to what the course of the government
should be in connection with the sink
ing of the Arable, and none will be
all the facts are at hand and
suflicient time has been given for their
thorough consideration One of
points to
the Arabic
the
Jo-
hed
advicers
rego
his
the
under the
when
was
she
If she was being con
the German
its rights in sinking her
warning. And this gover:
would not be entitled to make
of the case with Germany
But the State Department does
voved submarine
an ji
not
belief is based
of survivors that they
boats of the liner
siatle
in
and =a
picked up
relief
This on
were
four
their
of offi
steamers sent to
According to the view als of
Arab
the
when
that
had been
length of time if
under
Convoy
Several of the American survivors
The Whites officials in New
n all miss
their
Star Line
ing or lost, and according to
Mrs
Edmund
Consul
Americans
Bruguiere and Dr
The American
Lewis C
Josephine L
Woods
at Queans
Mompson, is supply
American = with all
He has provided for them
which will
without being
regulations
of
the urvivors
documents enable them to
The the American
moment is
attitude
for the
awaitl
Eov
red eplive
anxiously details
and
the act
DE accurate
g Judgment to whether
was “deliberately
decision
reservin Ar
On
The fina
infriend
rogts
with
White
ind from Liverpool for New
London The Star
of whom
and
without
American
243,
ing by a
citizens
was
German
torpedoed warn.
off Fast.
thmarine
and sur
landed at Queens
poris. The remaining
2 are believed to have been lost. Not
than six of them, it is reported,
passengers
yet been
American lives were lost
firet official lists of survivors
compiled the names of 10 Americans
to have been aboard as pas
fail appear
Great Hole in Ship.
The torpedo struck the liner on the
hundred
have been
Three ninety-one
It has not determined
any
the
In
to
Tom
It tore a great gap in the ship's
making the watertight compart:
The scene of the tor
eide
Head off Kinsale, the
Lusitania
The White Star Line issued an offi
cial statement containing the state
ment of Captain Finch of the Arabic,
grave of the
torpedoed without warning.
In view of the fact that the veasel
war westbound, and that she carried
neither guns nor ammunition, London
received with stupefaction the news of
the attack. It was hardly believed
possible here, considering the tension
between the United States and Ger
many over previous submarine atigrks
that Berlin would give deliberate prov.
ocation to the United States Govern
ment.
Official London tonight finds it dip
ficult to conceive & motive for the at.
tack. Although the Arabic has been
in the arms-carrying trade since the
beginning of the war she had unload
ed the cargo of war supplies and was
bound for New York with a general
cargo of merchandize,
Reporte are prevalent that the ves.
pel carried a large consignment ot
American securities which bad been
sold by English investors against de.
livery in New York. The amount of
these securities not known, but re
ports set it at from $600,000 to rev
eral millions. There are also reports
that the Arabic carried a consignment |
of gold, but this is not credited. i
Chairs Upset,
was a day out from
Liverpool when she met her doom.
She was just off the Irish coast, mak-
ing a fair speed through a calm sea.
Practically all the passengers are
reported to have been on the wide,
roomy decks which made the Arabic
f favorite in trans-Atlantic sery-
ice,
Suddenly, according to stories told
by survivors brought into Queenstown
on warships, a terrific shock threw
the vessel far to port, epilling pas-
sengers from the chairs, throwing
those standing to the deck. A terrific
explosion told more plainly than words
what had happened to the Arabic.
After first momentary
ment there was no panic. Passengers
below hastily made their way to deck,
buckling on life belts. Stewards
worked rapidly, assisting the passen
to don the cork preservers, and
the seamen of the crew, who had been
Passengers’
The big liger
the
the excite
gers
put through lifeboat drills dally, hasti-
ly and smoothly manned the boats.
Under the direction of Captain Finch |
and the ship's the survivors
were hastily put into the boats, whieh
were cut free and launched as fast as
passengers could be crowded into
them. The sea was calm and the men
at the oars pulled away fast from the
rapidly listing steamer. Eleven boats
in all reported to have been
launched
Excitement gripped a few,
of these leaped into the sen, according |
the The few
Casualties AaMONK PASBENRETrs We
fered i believed
The sank within 11 minutes, |
four took the Lusitania to
Eo down
WILSON'S NOTICE TO |
GERMANY NOT HEEDED |
officers,
are
and some |
to stories of survivors
from
this cause, it
Arabic
less than it
to Take |
Vigorous Action.
Was
cialis pay
Act
klon inte
that th
as
hin Department offi
ravity of Germany's
United Btates
determined until
whether there
cans on board, and whether
submarine, before making the st
upon the vessel to stop
intensified, of course, if
loss of American lives
the
concerned, cannot be
known
were Ame;
the
definitely
called
It would be
there were
May Be Germany's Reply.
Not an official in Washington will
to give his private the
ng
views on sub
failure (0 observe the accepted rules
of naval warfare, for which this Gov
ernment has contended. the affair
lead to serious consequences. the least
of whic id be a severance of dip
lomatic relations Many
view of the language used in the last
will
h wo
contend, in
note of this Government
that mere presence of Americans
aboard, if were violated
would force the United States to take
vigorous action
note neve:
German
the
these rules
Fhe last Lusitania
bas been replied to by the
Office diplomatically
the offic of this
iack on the
Arabic is intended as Germany's reply
Foreign
Not a few an
nong
Government fear that the at
ale
16 Americans Known Saved.
Vice-Consul Thompson at Queens
town cabled the State Department the
names of 16 American survivors of the
Arabic
The
Vice-Consul's message
the
ERIC:
thip was
warning and sank
Excellent discipline
21 boats were lowered and
except that
rescue
“According to survivors
torpedoed without
in 11 m
prevailed
apparently all
were
inutes
those
picked up by
wore
empty
wells
in its last rmany the
subject of neutral rights this Govern
ment summarized the principles which
it insisted be observed. They
were:
That the high seas are free: that the
character and cargo of a merchantman
must first be ascertained before she
can lawfully be, seized or destroyed,
and that thd lives of noncombatants
may, in no case be put in jeopardy
unless the vessel or seeks to
escape after being summoned to sub
mit to examination
YER
note to Ge on
must
resists
GOLD LOST WITH ARABIC?
Wall Street Thinks Probably $3,000
006 Wert Down,
New York.-In Wall street there was |
a pronounced opinion that the Arabic
carried a shipment of gold, perhaps
not a very large shipment, probably
not more than *2.000,000 or $3,000.
000. in addition to a considerable quan-
tity of American railroad securities,
It was the presencd of the gold, ac
cording to some bankers, which
prompted the Germans to torpedo the
White Star liner. The argument they
followed in developing this theory was
that, inasmuch as the steamer carried
no munitions of war, the only reason
the Germans could have bad for de
stroying her was that she might be
carrying specie. It was freely ad
mitted, however, that this would never
be established. The British Govern:
ment was expected to make good any
logs which may have been sustained,
and, it was sald, would probably Im
pose secrecy on the few who might be
in possession of the secret--it there
was a secret.
ITALY AT WAR
WITH TURKEY
Will Now Aid in Forcing the
Dardanelles,
ARMY OF 50,000 READY
the Austro.Ger
man-Turkish Alliance Is Not Open-
ly At War With italy, Though Such
a Declaration Is Considered Prob.
the Support Given By Turkey To
the Departure Of the Italians.
London italy has
Furkey and
declared
Italian
onstantinople
War
Rains
against the am
nas
left (
made in a Reuter
Constant via Ber
inopls
r
Hn and Amsterdam
Marquis di Garroni, Italian ambas
sador to Turkey, handed
& note declaring Italy
congidered her
self in a state of war with
nanded
The
ME passports
Feasone given in the note
for
the
the re
aly's declaration War were
ipport given by rkey to
Libya revention
I
departure { Italian
and th i
residents
reason for de
ws
Bs ¢ f ¢
the fa
refused to
Fvisis in OMlomean ferritory
*
LIE
ts
GETTY
permit
tive country to
Austria, Tur
newspapers
Turks plot
annexed by Italy
rko-1t
Were
nlian war of
also charged that
in Turkey have beer
ce Haly's declaration of
\Uslria three months ago
reulated in Europes
italy had
mated at be
which was
ARO (hat
Tiny
ets
Tt ¢
1 (0
£8 10 co
troops in the
to Constant
nopis« Later fleet of
por said a
transports was concentrated near the
Italian naval f
CORBYOY the (ransports
3 ov
Dare iRranto
to Gallipol!l the
moment ation of war was
AustroGer
Rot openly at
uh such a deciars
The Ber
weeks ago de
red probable
seversl
to
pHianning OeCiare
and that Italian
ihe
BEWw
way by print
Turkish outrages
Berlin
taking the
HOwWevYer
Yiew
arn 10 the
nec BEATY i
Tripoli b
wahikene
ful ean
in er frontier
a that
CPEs
11 CERMAN WARSHIPS SUNK
Dreadnaught, Three Cruisers and Sever
Torpedo Boats
ihe President of the
ihe (sermans
ueht Moltke
i toryp« do boats
normous
soldiers took
d by Rus
operation
repulse
ot
ha
na were
QUES CRD
official announcement
fieot
Ad
the German
Riga
The
fs
Has el
A that Rue
destrovers in the Black Sea have
106 Turkish boat:
announcement adds
an
SUNnK Over
TO INSIST UPON RECOGNITION.
Before Answering Note,
Carranza, is
Cruz to
have his
Washington. —General
preparing to move from
Mexico City at once and lo
government established in the old cap
tal by the time his response to the
Pan-American peace appeal reaches
this week.
According to all information reach:
ing here, Carranza, in replying to Sec
retary Lansing and the Latin-Ameri
can diplomats who offered to aid in
restoring order in Mexico, will reject
the peace conference proposal and
tirge recognition of his government as
the surest guaranty of peace.
Vera
WAR SHIPMENTS GROWING.
Allies Getting $15500,000 Of Supplies
From U. 8. Monthly,
New York.—The United States is
now shipping war supplies to the Allies
at the rate of $15,500,000 a month, or
$186,000,000 a year, according to fig.
ures made public in custom house
manifests. This total, however, does
not include the exporis by rail via
Canada to England and Russia, It is
intimated that these American muni
tions of war amount to enough to bring
the grand total of exports to $225,000,
000 a year.
fast
HE,
Our Hider Agents every where sre
im the UB without a crnd depot! in
yon wish
We furnish the highest grade bles cies it is
possibie 10 make st one small profit s
your
[YOU WILL
ndertully
the wo
ies cles Tur lows mone
i) above factory cost, ¥
BECOND
out prom
COAS
when you ressive our beautify rte
logos snd ead y our saber Bode at
the Mighe! grade A
Ne are setiefied with $45 prof
DEALERS, you can sell our bey Ces wader your
Tiows, Orders Bled the day received,
our Chis
By GO tela sores. Tigre we gear
10.
Demcripiive bargain Diete tosfied free,
prices,
A SAMPLE PAIR
The regular vetall price of these
Fires te 310.00 poor purdy, but to inire
Bruce we wil] *ell you a sample pate for 0 (oosh
#0 MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES
Malls, Tocks or@iises will not lot the sir owt,
A hundred thousand pairs sold just year.
DESCRIPTION Meds in all sizes. It
is er and easy
Fiding, very durable and lined inside with
B special guslity of rubber, which never be-
Comes porous snd which closes up small
bunciures without allowing air 10 escape
repared fabric on the tresd
80 per pair
received
1 All orders shipped same day
We will ship CO. D
Notice the thiok rubber treed
‘A’ and puncture strips‘ 8"
end “D' also rim strip “'H"
to prevent rim outting. This
tire will outiast any other
mako--BOFY, ELASTIC and
ed EASY RIDING.
You do
We will allow a cash discount of 5
Fou rend FULL CASH WITH ORDE
You run no risk in
abies
iF YOU NEE,
Troe grote] above
lenie of Lire atid Dloycie
DO NOT wal of Gres £7006 88 yone ©
J. L. MEAD GY
TIR
if you order
ok finer
Le po wel! planned that when you wast
”
you send for a pair of Hedge
val and trial at the special Introduce
oh Goscribes aod quotes ali makes sod
ut Lif Lhe Lue prices
DO NOT THINK OF BUYING « bieydie or a pair
6 Khow The bew abd wonderful offers we sre making.
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Paris
of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING
Bevera
and Delaware (
ies tended
Pomona Grange
farmer
ed
about
DEAT
suicide by
forivfive
five chil
Logan a
commit
He
itaves
Larose
olson WHE
i¢ and & wiCow and
ACRE WAS
Martin, of
pending a scour
Mame
Alderman ¥P. J
charged wit?
Miss
Pottsville
rious jetler u fOvie,
hiner rincipal
Quin
once |
School, ar
former teachel
Laitheran Church
Kate E, Fe
married in 2
Gebert
iWelier a
WET OY
by Rev. George
eighty thre«
it is said
William
tired of |
Berry aped
ife and poor
himself ir
in ia
WO € ry
Hving
room »
died
DR no children
His wife
Panama Expos
Was
'
Lome 0
Returning from the
William A Caindry, of
died suddenly at the
law. Mrs. Helen Hokenden
Meeting
0d
fon De
his sister-in
gt Piymoutl
Newhard famil
Major
president
10 ¢Tect a
reunion, Al
James DD. Newhard was
the 700 present
monument over ihe
At he
elected nd
decided
grave of their common ancestor
Charles Sigehee, a son of
Ad:
Dwight
Charles D retired
od States Navy
Migs Agnes Felconer
dow. daughter of James Haddow
Kigsbee,
married at
Hud
wae
io
thirteen old
sttempting to
wag
wit
Wilbur Hughes, VOATS
of Shenandoah,
the
whiis
alley tracks,
His mother
and is ip a critienl
Lehigh
nessed the accident,
condition from the shock
Running Inte an suite with his mo
George DD. Henninger,
son of Oscar 1. Henninger,
Allentown, candidate for County
Harrisburg's firet “movie”
strike has ended and there will be no
interruption of amusements
of operators went on strike,
ing more pay and fewer hours
were mollified
demand:
They
Walking on the Reading Rallway
tracks near Allentown in order to take
sixty-five vears old, a peddier, was
struck by a passenger train from Har
risburg and killed instantly.
George W. Schultz, a former mem.
Beulah Kinoheloe, both of Shamokin,
were married at the Kinoheloe summer
home at Manassas, Va. the ceremony
being performed by the Episcopal pas
tor of that place.
Francis Brenneck, aged twelve, a
newsboy, of Altoona, was riding his bi
evele out Beale Avenue, when he was
“run down by an automobile driven by
Miss Pearl Jones, daughter of Theo
dore Jones. The boy was injured in
ternally and may die. The car struck
8 tree apd was wrecked.
NO MORE EXEMPT
State Tax on $1,000 Property le An.
nounced in Letter
Auditor
issued by
Genera!
Manufact
therin has
made the
statements regarding cap
axation yw being worked
companies already
ium appraisemen
of capital
if made
slock
all con
characte
against
tive of the
amount of
Under
¢
passing of a
on
ivities or the
vested In the Btate
practice the
account
stock being
renders it
the same to be opened
by sul
i'nder the
tlement
errors, after
made thereon
ttlement
Audit Genera
sel
a}
wr clerical
of woluntars
iv 8.200 don
about 22 560
esc org
on the books
in
manufac
this
t
paymes:
capital in
» engaged
te a number in
} exempted fron
nvestment of
cturing
For
State
Prevention of Avoidable Fires.
Fire Marshal Joseph L
ssued the following list of
‘Don’te” for fire prevention
start a
Bald
win has
Don't use coal
fire
Don't
oil. It is
Don’t polish a stove while it
Don't, fill an oil or gasoline stove
after dark if n fill them,
fle lighted, as the fame
vapor in the air
causing an
oil to alow
iry to siart any fire with coal
dangerous
is hot
ust
ever do so wl
fire
the
might set to the
and ignite
Bion
Don't leave a
away from home
Don’t leave a lamp turned down low,
it is liable to cause an explosion
Don’t use swinging lamps near
open window,
Don't any but safety matches
Don’t permit gasoline, bensgine
naphtha 10 be kept in the house
Don’t wash clothing or other ar
ticles in gasoline, benzine or naphtha
in the house
Don’t throw gasoline, benzine or
| naphtha in the sink or cesspools
Don’t throw water on flames caused
by burning gasoline, benzine, naph-
| tha or coal oil, as it spreads the flames
Smother it with a rug, quilt or heavy
clothing.
Don't
liguide
Don’t Hight a match when looking for
| leaking gas
Don't put ashes In wooden boxes or
‘barrels. Use metal cans
| Dent throw hot ashes
| fence or bulldinge.
Don't fail to burn all rubbish. Waich
it, and be sure the fire ix out before
you leave it
Don’t burn rubbish near fences or
bulldinse
Don’t permit rubbish, paper or greasy
rage to accumulate.
Si
Forty Vinegar Prosecutions.
Sampling of the State's vinegar.
which wns made by purchases of 225
bottler ia practically all of the coun
ties 0 fthe State, has resulted in forty
oil explo
lamp burning when
an
use
or
clean beds with inflammable
against
prorecutions,
5