Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 1, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO ~<>~1 PHEP EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., OCT. 1, 1914 ::1 highly developed industry and & 3 % T30 {the sport itself almost a nation- Idle Crowds Watch Achievements| ! s jal pastime. Says one writer in : e o : ;. Enghsh Recruits 5.0, Tl | Of Gen. Joffrelg ; N :5 Enlist In Army | et e yanger of THE SILENT _MAN AT (S {socalled carrier pigeons. Toj HEAD OF FRENCH (By Assoclated Press.) 'any sensible man the danger is; ARMY. London, Sept. 30—No con- removed by the police rcstric—i ~ trast between English and for- tions and the fact that birds will, (By Associated Press.) eign ways has so impressed practically speaking, only use- J & - American tourists as the recep- fully fly in one drection (i. c,,l A silent Frenchman is not a; tion of the recruits here during that in which they have been | Well known institution here in war time. An idle crowd stands trained for racing). The danger.‘\mc“ca' but there is such a, during the day around the re-|of hirds being released, say, in| thing, nevertheless, and in Gen- and 2-horse Wagons is complete, and if you need a Wagon cruiting stations watching the' Lancashire, in order to convey|eral Fjofi'_re, cognman:der-iqighief for hauling fruit this fall, see us. @ We sell the applicants. At evening when g information to the French armies the military, the newly enlisted men m:\rch,tahl:ném?{i“izfm{s ]I;l(:;?st ! l?onc. world has a mighty figure quite . “COLUM BUS” make and the name is a guar‘ntee of quality. out in a column of fours with Sych birds to be of the slightest |as silent as was Grant or Moltke. | & some attempt at a military | yalue would have to be continen- Gen. Joffre )5 notably taciturn, | & swing, singing or whistling, ta] birds already trained to fiy and the New York Evening Post “It's a long, long way to Tipper- {he distance in the right direc- sketches him as an officer who ary,” heads pop out of windows tion, and it is absurd to suppose has been silent through a labor- and crowds gather on the curbs, that aliens wishing to communi-|10Us military _career of forty-, but there is seldom more than!cate with one another in Eng-jfour years. He is now sixty- faint cheering if any at all jang should use the cumbrous TSI OH (. We can save you money on Wagons. Our stock of 1 BB ) it o g 'one, but still in the full vigor of his strength of body and mind— There is none of the running up and risky method of the pigeon, to hand the men tobacco, fruit \vhile, so far as is known, the common to more CmOti(m:\l ])CO-| Dritish Post Office is still open ples. [to carry the message for a penny Once in the forces, the re- or by telegram. cruits, who are mostly youths, may be seen marching to the, parks for drill, but even thc"‘PRINCE OF WALES are \\‘fllf!]t‘(l only by voiceless MOBBED BY LOAFERS idlers. The last seen of them in London is on the platform Of, (By Associated Press.) one of the great railway stations,| [ondon, Sept. 30—“A big to be sent no one knows where.{erywq has acquired the bad Generally they depart in the papii» cays the Pall Mall Ga- night. : . zette “of loafing around Well- _ There is something grim and, ;o Barracks each morning impersonal about the Englishiy "coo the Prince of Wales in way of taking the war. But the 'pp1:° op Wednesday the 2 & A % fi - i American cannot turn on a Lon- pu. 0 (oo practically mobbed War of 1870 broke out. He en don street without meeting an ;. =3 R extended hand for some fund to \ioficed across ol Buélzlin‘q.ham hcm.*ht" _thu soldier. * r('n"}]-\':]"alacc and it took quite nllzlrge Atkins” is r]mt mfldfi m}‘c}{ of l“:" number of police to prevent hun- dividually, but collectively IS 45 of people, who should comforts are well looked after, 1,0 known better ,from follow- ) even to the question of tobacco s ; A i § h ing him or running along-side. in the firing line. |18 g BRRl0L CARRIER PIGEONS PERFORM IMPORTANAT ; PART IN WAR b b P (By Associated Press.) (By Assoclated Press) London, Sept. 30—The Secre- AGED OFFICERS TO TRAIN RECRUITS and by far the most noteworthy figure which this surprising war! has so far disclosed. Clemen-| cau sharply criticised him and the others of the general staff, but he, too, has reversed his, judgment since the mobilization proved their foresight and com- plete prganization of the mili- tary resoeurces. A little more and Gen. Joffre will be the incar nation of the soul of France in her life-and-death struggle. Joffre was a first-year mili- tary engineer at the difficult 'Ecole Polytechnique, and only | seventeen years of age when the/ listed and fought like the rest to the bitter end. He came out {a licutenant and was employed 'when peace followed, on the plans for the new fortifications for Paris. Marshal MacMahon, who was himself amid the other officers on a visit to one of the forts and unexpectedly saluted him—“My compliments, cap- tain.” So he was a captain at twenty-two, long before time. And he was sent to or-! ganize the defenses of B OB his' Pontar-| MODEL HARDWARE Go. Phone No. 340 C. E. TODD, Mgr. We Want YOUR Business :WWWW&@W@-}C H3FFOFOFRBUFRPO SO VSFPEFPOICIUFLIRITRPRIAT OO \ QU PR CHILRE0E moment strove hard to preserve her welcome pretext to take | the peace. in the war. “These offorts had to be futile,! “Germany, however as Russia under all circumstan- forced to enter Delgium ces had resolved upon war, and cause she had to forestall as England, which for decades planned French advance had encouraged the anti-German Belgium only awaited this nationalism in Russia and vance to join France. That onf§ France did not avail herself of ly a pretext was involved as i the splendid opportunity offered as England is concerned is pr her to prove her often empha- en by the fact that already sized love of peace, otherwise the afternoon of August 2, t the war between Germany and is, prior to the violation of France and England could have gium neutrality by Germany, been averted. | Edward Grey assured “When once the archives are' French Ambassador unco opened the world will learn how tionally of the help of Engl often Germany extended to Eng- in case the German fleet attack land her friendly hand, but Eng- ed the French Coast. land did not desire the friend-| “Moral scruple, however, thg of English policy does not know the development of Germany And thus the English peopy German Chancellor Talks of the W\ar (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 30.—Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Chancellor, early in September made a formal statement to The Associated Press. The _exis- tence of the statement was known but it failed to reach America by either mail or cable and its text has become avail- able through a copy of the North German Gazette, just received here. The Chancellor’s state- ment follows: “General Headquarters, Sept2.| " “I do not known what is|Ship of Germany. Jealous lier, just where the Germans, if thought of this war in America. they break though at Belfort, I assume there have been pub- mav now sweep down along the lished in America the telegrams Swiss frontier. 'exchanged between the German Then he went out to build Emperor, the Emperor of Rus- forts on Tonkin, but Admiral sia and the King of England,| Courbert who was in charge, containing the history of the scented the born commander, cvents that preceeded the out- and set him to fighting at the hreak of the war and * which head of the trdops. He was hears irrefutable testimony of i (Conitnued on Page Six) how the Emperor until the last London, September 30.—Dur- tary to the War Office makes a ing the height of the spy and world-wide appeal to former of- espionage excitement in the ficers of the army, who by reas- British Islands some one seems on of age are not on the Reserve to have urged that all carrier of Officers, to communicate with pigeons be shot whenever seen..him, The announcement adds But correspondents by the score|that it is intended to' utilize the have sprung to the defense ofiservice of those incapable of} the birds. They point out that enduring the rigor of campaign- the breeding of racing pigeon is ing in the training of recruits. vfia«gutu:».i. & oo e 3 z ey and feeling that by German ef-|who always posed as the protag ficiency and German industry onist of Freedom and Right ha she has been surpassed in some allied itself with Russia, the rep fields she had the desire to crush resentative of the most terribl ermany by brute force, as she barbarism, a country that know in former times subdued Spain, no spiritual or no religiious free Holland and France. She be- dom, that tramples upon thg lieved the moment had arrived freedom of peoples as well as o and therefore, the entry of Ger- individuals. 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