Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 13, 1914, Page 1

Forces Which Have Been Investing Liege vflaved tb the Norflu---New(}orps Has Taken Tbar Plaee FRENCH AND BRITISH Atflifl TO CHECK ADVANC for Possession of Liege Forts Has Been Renewed—Rus- sians are Mining Vladivostok Harbor—Austrian Ambas- negrins Invade Bosnia—Prince George of Servia Re- ported to Have Been Wounded. That no important engagement has occurred ' between the French and Germans is indicated by an official an- nouncement made by the vs French war department that up to Wednesday af- ternoon there had been no encounters between the respective forces except those of outposts, Later, however, Paris reported that the bombardment hy the Germans of the important town of Pont-a-Mous- son, in the department of Meurthe-et- Moselle, had commenced. This town taken place. “The occupation of Muelhau§en was effected by a French brigade of in- is 20 miles from Nancy and sixteen | line miles south southwest of Metz. It ‘was- the birthplace of Marguerite of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England. important ' development in - the | tion is the preparations which the Austrian ambassador is making for his immediate departure from Lon- g@on. A London despatch says that war between Gmt Bfluu: .and Aus- m;bi: Gw be o 1 ad: lnlflnx erman army is adv: into Belgiu forces the heart inval% which hnvc Lxeg. have g army German successes are | Berlin' announced at Muelhausen and La- grade, with the taking of many French prisoners, o‘!mfh the clurmg of German territo: around Tirle- towns and possession of the nced. enced. office information the majority of the Iwenty-six Ge: y army corps have beefi located and that the mass of the troops, are concentrated be- tween Liege and Luxemburg. ‘Their endeaver to keep the steam- g{p routes clear on the Atlantic, the h admiralty and the French gov- ernment have sent out cruisers and armed merchant vessels to search for German craft. The Russians are mining . Vladivo- stok harbor. ‘The combined Montenegrin and Ser- the struggle for Liége forts has The British w, bureau says th: Germans Have. Lixhe for Ti MADE CIRCUIT ALONG 20 MILES OF BELGIAN. FRONT o it Correspondent Says No Heavy Fight- ing Is Likely h“ln Um * WITH 1012 PASSENGERS. as|All of Them Without Baggage and Gannanl o.l ‘h was profitably em- vlfl’-d the French and Britfsh in e;,-i:qnt.r-unt masses at convenient points, The allied :o:eu have been so the Germans and also the lnurvm sale between the forts, thereby preventing the passage of artillery and tnmwrt wagons. BULK OF GERMAN ARMY CORPS LOCATED Is Concentrated Between Liege and Luxemburg. 7 London, Aug. 12, 7.06 p.. m.—The of- ficial press bureau of the British war office says today: “Of the twenty-six German army corps the bulk has been located, and it is evident that the mass of German troops is concentrated between Liege and Luxemburg. “The number of vian invasion of Bosnia has begun | Servian .General Jankovitch, who wag commander of the Servian army corps at Prisrend in the Balkan war, Prince George of Servia is reported to have been wounded while watch- ga the Austrian bombardment of o5 L FIRST BATTLE IN OPEN CDUNTRY REPORTED German Troops Wcro Checked by lolghnl—Ton Thousand Men in Battle + ~ Brussels, via London, Aug. 13, 3.40 & m—he first battle in open coun- Yy is reported in the following offi- illl ‘e ~unication: 't 2ving passed (‘hlem < the position they had hed ‘the. retreat of yester- . the Germans this morning ad- vanced in force towards a point in sur dispositions, which they thought was not held, “Our staff. however, was alert, and, w th'}'.’xmw:gry reconnaisances, e to lve 6 necessary orders, ith the result that the enemy found their advance checked. An engage- ment took place, in which our troops were successful. Ten thou-nd men the night troops in open country and their con- Buct s a good augury for the future. Apart from this, the situation, to all has ‘undergone no anrumnn - rm al plan ar. BERMANS COMMENCING NEW PHASE OF THE WAR Are Entrenching- Along Their Maas- tricht-Liege Front. Al ., via A mmu London, Aug. an attempt - 'c to the south of the river the upper !lénls BéLY OUTPOST I‘NWUN’FE!C EEN GERMAN AND FRENCH M Statement lssusd by French | War . 13, &10 P. m.—The fol- that country proves that in the east- ern theater of war, the Russo-Ger- man' frontier so far Germany is concerned, 1is compm.flvely lightly guarded unless by reservists.” GERMAN EMPEROR TO' ' TAKE PERSONAL COMMAND Of Army in Belgium—Reported to Be on His Way. London, Aug. 13, ..55 a. m.—A Brus- sels despatch to the Daily Chronicle says that the emperor is re- ported on his way to take personal command of the German army in Bel- um, A similar report was current on Sunday last. The report has not been confirmed. A despatch from Brussels says that the food supply there is abundant, the government having bought an enor- mous supply of grain. GERMAN ARMY MOVING TO HEART OF BELGIUM. Screen of Cavalry Along the Whole Front of the Allied Armies., Brussels, Aug. 12—555 b. m, va Paris.—The German army, has moved north of Liege and is advancing to the of It is difficult to There is a T in extraordinacy force along the whole front of the al- lied armies. A new army corps is investing Liege. ‘The French cavalry is actively engaged int sharp fighting, Both the German and allied armies are feeling their way. FRENCH LINE REPAYING FARES OF AMERICANS. Upward of 2,000 Have Been Living on Steamers at Cunpany’. 'Enonlfl- Paris, Aug. 12, 5.5 p P. m.—Americans to at Havre waiting for the French line steamers France and Chicago to sail for the United States are deserting the vessels and returning to Paris or pro- ceeding 'to England. Upward of 2,000 | Americans have been living aboard the steamers at the nzo a day. dating from Aug. 11. s:v‘ eral hundred of the passengers have “The agreement between ney general and the rmeun % this ‘company ‘of March ich was ratified by the ltoekholdm m- vided that the company should hay two and ‘one-half years from Iub !lt. 1214, to. complete the sale, ‘but, M good cause shown, the.time may extel:ded the United S'.ltel lllltfle'l court, “The arrangement just agreed. to provides that the company shall have until January Ist, 1911 lo dispose’ of the stock, unless, for good cause, the court grants additional “But if by July 1st, 1915, the New Hdven company and the .Massachu- approved by the court, be adopted by order of the court.™ HAS GERMANY MADE OVERTURES TO BELGIUM? London Daily Mail Says Kaiser Has Asked Belgians to Reconsider Its . Refusal. London, Aug. 13, 8 a. m.—The Daily Mail says it learns that on. Monday, after the fruitless assault by the Ger- mans on the Liege forts, the German again ' approached ' Bel- gium, . through Holland -as interme- no quarrel with Belgium sire to be at wn.r with her u.nd the Belgian government to reco: its refusal to allow the Gérman drmy to traverse Belgium in order to save useless expenditure in blood and treas- ure. The Belgian government, according to the newspaper, mlde r ply, again refusing the ' German ri it. The Daily Mail says lt understan: that Turkey has assured the Brl!llh government that the German cruisers Goeben and Bresiau, which u—nnow ln the Dardanelles, will be disarmed, bu that there is reasen to Dbelieve T’fl!‘- key has purchased and intends to put the two cruisers in commission. RUMOR THAT CARBAJAL HAS LEFT MEXICO CITY, .| And That Federal Power Has Been Turned Ovor to [urbide. Mexico City, All(. 12.—A wllmnt‘ rumor is in circulation that Provisi al President Cubl..hl left the m&l&\ for Vera Cru: tonight and that the federal power already has been turned over to Eduudo Iturbide, governor ot the federal district. -~ T At a late hour tonight all the fi- partments ot-mahaddcfllmmm representatives of the press. > Buenos Aires Banks R Buenos Alres, Aug| 12—The Buenys Mres banks, which have been clossd for some days, reopened. today. They | b did a large amount of In or- economize in coal, the supply of restricted on g;elAled. nfl‘i the city- electris and in the e - furnished omly Many WM Money. New York, A !?—Tha American liner Philadeiphits with the e Aest great olhAmg(.mvloruhad when vario declared war, arrived in New ‘!ork tonight. :lhn wmmm the NM l-.w-u Famine Basis—Armour & G..ml(llh‘ Fu—-fl..-'l’hnbflhuknylkn recelpts at the stockyards here for-the last two weeks have been approaching a famine In that llm- the statement expiained Armour and. Company have killed fewer hogs than during any similar périod in the history of the concern. “The nine Armour plants killed only 14,738 hogs last week l‘Illlt 70,336 the week before '.he war,” the state- only l‘Lil! ment read. “They killed cattle last week as against 21,836 the week before the war and only ”Dfl 5 the urried | sheep last fweek as against 46,39 torpedo boat—the stop. e:rded the liner m%q king close- fl. of the pnne fi e Frinch naval of- - the Phfladelphia and that t.\l: icans, one o - English e that proceed. the Fremnch returned asd steerage were ~the ship. The from the women, usbands wives by this ‘than Sleep in the n{ these passengi For many weeks Villa has been busy rocrumn and buying ammunition, d Carranza has not objected to shio- mbnn of the latter via Tampico. T>- day . However, he called a halt, and agents of Villa who_ have been pur- ammunition for him were very much surprised. Reports of increasing friction be- tween the two constitutionalist lea?- m uu:hsd here today from various P\'vm General Villa himself to par- sons in direct touch with him came a Synopsis of the reasons why he is dis- Pleéased with the attitude of General Carranza. He sets forth that he w:il insist on the carrying out of the agreement recently reached at Torreon Wwhen_the breach was tentatively ad- Jjusted. There it was agreed that dele- gates representing every one thousand. soldiers should meet in convention ‘o draft a plan for holding the elections. NURSE GAVE BOY POISON BY MISTAKE Physicians Were Hurriedly Summon- ed, but,Boy Died Two Hours Later. New -Haven. Aug. 12—John Kiley, aged 14, died in a local hospital today, as the result of poison given him by mistake by a nurse. Physicians pre- scribed a dose of castor oil. Mar- garet Whittle, a nurse, prepared the mixture ang it was given to the boy by another nurse, Elberta Wildman. ‘lhc youth went into convulsions. Physicians were hu: » summoned bllt to no avail, for the boy died two PR vestigation by the hospital mthurluu showed that the bottlepwu unknown mani u;“ i, h wm; mer the poizonous aci: had been poured into the hottle. Both nurses are prostrated. The authorities are. investigating. No arrests mave been made yet, NO TELEGRAPHIC TOUCH WITH GERMANY Western Union Says All Cablegrams Are.. Strictly Censored. ‘New York. Aug. 12.-The status of the Western Union Telegraph com- pany’s cable situation resulting from the European war was described by the company 'in detail tonight and shows that m::&-mn'::mn has no ic con: lon th German: Austria 5 cables e essag: the is to Mvefim by the tish’ mil- itary authorities, it was stated, and messages which do not conform to the requirements ‘will not be passed by n]ll_ censors who have been placed” in all the cable stations In British * mt.uz Code aff i.l itogether and undoubtedly will be, the my believes, until the vlr is o week before the war.” Shortage of Livestock. Mr, Armour said the packers had contended with a_shortage of live- stock for a year and lately with the natural tendency of the producer to hold back his stock in hopes of war time prices, n Rl Tek e Yy yone e con! anyl rectly affected livestock meat prices,” he uid. ““The. nnudul dt- uation everyw) fortunately now thing of -the put, made it Imnoulblo for buyers and shippers in the stock- Conditions Becoming Normal, “Then Washington sent out and properly so, official advice to farmers to hold their crops. While this was ad ' directly to cottorand wheat mu it had its effect upon all farm products.. These - circumstances, -addeq to the livestock shortage, fluctuations which nobody could con- tral. The conditions are fast becom- !n' normal and nrle- soon will be on our ‘own business. They are to be paralleled in that of every other pack- ing company. -Only the otheér day, we were able to fill ifllt one-third of an ordér from one of the rations at war because the raw material could not be .obtain No Oeenion for Hysteria. “Our- business men are as patriotic as’ any other elemént in.our poplila- tion and are mot looking for a chance to squeeze an extra dollar out of ab- normal conditions.. If we all keep cool and avold hysterics, we will pull through this‘unusual situation to the satisfaction of everybody.” NEW HAVEN HOTEL MAN SHOT BY BELLBOY Boy Claims He Was Refused His Pay When Discharged. New Haven, Conn., Aug. 12.—James F. O'Toole, proprietor of the Hotel Duncan in this city and the ‘Hotel Shore! at Morris Cove. was shot and perhaps fatally injured late to- night, by Walter Sherman, aged !o. bellboy at the Hotel Shoreham. Sher- man, who was arrested, says, accord- ing to the police, that he shot Mr. Toole because he refused to give him his pay, after he had been discharged. Sherman, so the police version goes, was.told to do a certain piece of work and he refused, whereupon he was discharged. He demanded his money and Mr. Toole said he would not pay him tonight. Sherman then 'w a revolver, it is said, and fired four shots at Mr. Toole, ‘who was seated back of the desk. Two of the shots penetrated the neck, another lodged back of the ear and the twhshltruck hlz hhe‘ll:i Attendants grabl lerman an him until the arrival of the authori- ties. Mr. Toole was rushed to St Raphael's hospital, where at a late hour, it was said, his condition was critical. —_— COMMENTS ON RIGOR OF FRENCH CENSORSHIP, London Daily Mail Says It Throws Veil of Mystery Over Operations. London, Aug. 13, 315 a. m.—The Daily Mail's Paris correspondent com- ments on the rigor of the censorsh:p prevailing in France, which has thrown an impenetrable veil of mystery over the operations on the French frontier, with the result that the French public is more ignorant of what is happening than it was when Napoleon was fight- a century ago. ‘"‘Gnen the soldiers now depart for the front, says the correspondent., they leave no trace; their relatives have no dai:.‘- BEING CONSIDERED TO QFFSET FALLING OFF IN REVENUE eaten| EUROPEAN WAR CAUSE Cincinnati hlwu announce that next Monday all five-cent loaves of bread would be raised to 10 cents. The twelfth annual convention of the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association opened in Washington. Mary Frank of New York, 55 years old, was held in $500 bail on a charge of having heroin in her possession. Samuel. Prince, former Assembly and prominent in labor ornnl-d died In New York aged 63 years. Sewall C. Mn«t. associate justioe of the Supreme Court of Maine, re- tired, died in Porfluul, aged 86 years. !lovmmmnmun&when Akron to Cleveland ujrm‘ lntnnhlnlaewn‘r rd, O. John Toomsy, an electric light line- Y Pa, was cnuhoa'l.uo South Shore trains of the Long Is- land Railroad were delayed for half an hour by a freight train derailed at Rockville. The State R-pubuun Convention opened at Waco, Tex., to momimate candidates for governor and other State offices. . rvians at Globe, Ariz., 25 persons injured. The police arrested 21 e rioters. Tlu mutilated body of Miss Lo Mick, 18 years old, of Schuyler, Neb., was fnund in a cornfield. The girl ‘was kidnapped from her bed. Supreme Court Justice Eugens A. Philbu\. of New York, was en with appendicitis while spending his vaeaton in th.‘ Admndach. “"5 G'Irhn |= :’or ” P Mors- than 4,000 children will - take part in the festival of nations at-the New York tercentenary celebration at New Brighton, Staten Island. Edward J. Connell, driver of an au- to truck owned by Swift & Co., was killed when the “machiné was struck by a trolley car in“New York. Henry Melzic, a wealthy resident of Verona, N. J., 76 d, was seri- ously burned by a flash of black pow- der which he threw in'a bonfire. R. W. Gildersleeve and Ralph S. Seal, of Plainfield, N. J., are in jail at Freehold, cl with the theft of an automobile at Pleasure Bay. George M. Bowers pof Martinsburg ‘was nominated for congress by re- publicans of the secopd West Vir- ginia district convention at Elkins. George Webb, a negro accused of kidnapping and ‘holding 13-year-old Catherin Larkin, a prisoner in a pub- lic school in New York, was held in $10,000 bail. D, W. Tomlinson of New York, a of the naval academy at sustained a compound the leg by falling into The Commissioner of Correction has asked the New York Board'of Esti mate for an appropriatien of $5,400 year to pay for the services of five prison cooks. J. L. Fitzgerald, of Fitzgerald, Ga., who is visiting in New York, walked into the Post-Graduate Hospital and announced that he had shot himseilf accidentally. Ogden L. Mllll. who managed May- or Mitchell’'s fusion campaign, has announced that he will be a candi- date for the Republican nomination for State senator. Lleutenant Stephen’ Healy and Mi- chael Sheridan, firemen were injured when a fire truck overturned while re- sponding- to_an alarm on Riverside Drive, New York. Observers . at Navesink Highlands sighted a British cruiser headed to- ward New York harbor shortly after 3:30 p. m. yesterday, which they sup- posed to be the Suffolk. The House voted against the Cul- lop amendment to the Rallway Malil Pay Bill removing all assistant pay- masters, clerks, and employes in local postoffices from civil service. Louis Levy, who completed an 18- mmhn’ term in Atlanta for Angeles tdllll’h were :Mfl:&tfldlvnw for '-h: 1018 e International peihs +b et e s.In a fight between Austrians and|from The Normal Revenue On Importations From the Countries Now at War Approximate $16,000,000 a Year~Na Change in Income Tax Could be Ef- fectivd Until After July Next: Washington, Aug. 12—How to raise about $100,000,000 to offset the loss to the United States in import duties ex- pected to result from the war in Europe will be the subject of a con- ference tomorrow between Secretary McAdoo and Representative ‘'Under- Wood, chairman of the house ways and means committee. Imports From War Zone, Treasury experts tonight completed a statement showing imports Trota the They did not hazard an estimate of probable loss in revenue, ::ou‘gl:‘doflch.ll‘hly it was admitted that e tof might approximate $100,000,- 000 for the year. Figures aiso have prepared to demonstrate m might be raised by increased taxes on liquors anll tobacco and by -dfl!n‘ to the income tax. Making Thorough Stury of Situatiom. a thorough study of the situation, but will not attempt to frame a definite plan of action until Secretary McAdoo has outlined actual conditions. Then the advice of President Wilson wilk be sought. Japan May Reap Harvest. The normal revenue on importations the countries now affected— y, Great Britain, A: |m“n. gary, Russia, France and ' Belgitm— approximates $116,000,000 a year. Ger- say may provid by l;nghnd and other countries. Japan might take advantage of the m tunity to increase its expo glclee normally -uwlied by Germany. e chief ‘will be in pottery, laces and em leries .toys, ayes, etc. Ad Valorem Tax On Tébacco. Among. the. schemes being !ornuflv !lon- w xn many axyom mny 3 000,000 could be brought in.. No, change in the income tax could be effective antil after July 1 next. Senator Shields of Tennessee issued a statement today urging the use of the commission tax to provide any ld- ditional revenue needed. “I favor.an increased I.nevn- tax.” he said. “thus placing the burden on ‘wealth of the country, which, although receiving greater protection and ben- efits, has always borne, proportionat ly, the smallest share of its mainten- ance.” Treasury Department Receipts. The treasury statement today show- ed that the customs rzulvu for the month of August, up to aggre- gate $7,766,538 l&lh\lt 310206 958 for the same period last year, and that since July 1. the total has been $30,- 755,003, about $7,000,000 less than dur- ing the first six weeks of last year. AMERICANS NOT PIEVENTED LANDINGS IN GREAT BRITAIN. Secretary of American Embassy London So Declares. London, Aug. 1.—Edward, Bell, sec- ond secretary of the American embassy here. who is in charge of the working of the alien act so far as it affects Americans, said today: “So far as we know not a single American_has Lteen prevented from landing . i Great Britain” Secretary of State Bryan's cable- at such ports on their announcing thelr American citizenship. United States Minister Van Dyke at The Hague has informed the Ameri- can relief committee here that he will ericans b ENGLAND PROTECTING ATLANTIC TRADE ROUTES. Admiralty Has Sent Out Cruisers For That Purpose. ug. 1.2.—The admiralty has ient anttcrul&cn vmca&m ply the! tlantic for the purpose protecting trade routes. The French government also has sent out warships to flrchl foernau!m-knovn'obom the Atlantic. “The enemy’s ships.” says the official — “'fllb.h\mud'eou-‘ mbfimmmm&y will be kept too busy to do much mis-