The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1914, Page 1

LONDON, Aug. 3.—A battle between French and German troops is in progress today at Longwy, a few miles on the French side of the Belgian frontier, The Germans attacked the French at daylight. The engagement is expected to extend all along the Franco-Belgian frontier. Hurling bombs from a soaring aeroplane, a French aviator is doing heavy damage to the German forces. Among his exploits, it was said, he destroyed an armored train. French troops were pouring toward the frontier all of Sunday. Local , transportation was paralyzed. All the underground railroad employes have joined their regiments. | BERLIN, Aug. 3.—Russian Cossacks who had crossed the frontier into | Germany from Russia were repulsed today at Johannisberg by the 11th Pomz2- \ranian dragoons. A Russian officer and five Cossacks were killed and 11 cap- tured, Seven Germans were wounded. German troops have occupied Kalisz, in Russian Poland. see ee | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Secretary Bryan issued this afternoon the fol- / lowing statement: ‘America has agreed to take over German embassies in the |warying European countries, with the understanding that it will not prevent aN similar service to other nations wherever asked. Germany has not replied | whether this will be satisfactory.” ‘LONDON, Aug. 3.—A French army surgeon made an attempt Sunday to pcison the wells at Metz with cholera and other germs, if was stated today at the German embassy here. He was captured, with two associates, and all three courtmartialed and shot. LONDON, Aug. 3.—Six German and two British warships were reported sunk today as a result of a desperate naval battle in the North sea. The infor- has comast rested on authority of a news ticker service. The Seattle S peer the Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News From a Photograph Taken In the Streets of St. Petersburg.” The Russian Fighting Man—Here Is What He teohe Like. JOSH WISE SAYS: “Th' nearest Beeleysport ever got to havin’ a municipal light plane te Hightnin’ bugs.” | AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST gonna be fair tonight and Tu ay, says Mr. Salisbury, Light westerty winds. ‘ pantieneemeeneemenenenmmnaeEa I —_ VCILUME 16. NO. 136. . SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1914. ONE CENT Siw ra Sua French Aviators You saw 'em Satur- j day in The Star. You see "em again today in The Star. The biggest, lat- est and best war pictures obtainable. As a mem- The Star is enabled to best pictures of the war. LONDON, Aug. 3.—Although war has been in LONDON, Aug. 3.— progress but a matter of hours, already the gigantic War Today England has declared for and deadly effect of modern inventions is sending sol-, at a Glance war. Mobilization orders diers to a horrid death! have been issued. A for- The first aerial battle has been fought. Automo- | o.c.2anc, ies te,9° §° 4": |: mal declaration of hostili- biles and motorcycles, the wireless, field telephones, | German army of 1,000,000 men | ties against Germany is new explosives and a hundred other inventions of com- | iiready th progres, * | momentarily expected. — paratively recent years are playing an important part na sh OS The continent already is in both offensive and defensive military movements. '| oon rammed and deareved by | Plunged into its death The German scouts in the battle today on the French |] French Aviator Garros, who lost struggle. Three German frontier are using automobiles and motorcycles instead of |] 'fe in aeroplane. | armies, including 22 eorps, he ross Tae 4 si ea Six German and two British | and nearly 1,000,000 men | arly in the engagement a French aviator, soaring high || warships rumored sunk in naval . above a German aerial scout, was reported to have fired || engagement in North sea, strong, are advancing on down on the latter, killing him and sending his machine hia Vernerael cor Wedeale France today. : crashing to earth hats Wh Bortnany. bay Kabir dee One of these armies is Roland Garros Sacrifices Life waradiatbiender. wird vr marching through Bel- | This was not the first aerial fight reported since Franco: Divisibn of Uhians, Germany’s |, $!um, the second Is ap- |Germany hostilities began f crack cavalry, repulsed proaching French territory, | A Paris message told of Roland Garros’ sacrifice of his |] French at Petit Croix, spread cut in faulike tae life in bringing down a German dirigible Sunday, just after Battle between advance |’ mation from Metz, and th it had crossed the frontier from Alsace-Lorraine ir France, |] guards of French and German ‘aks A . {killing every one of its crew of 25 , troops raging at Longwy, on third is moving from a The dirigible, a big Zeppelin, was said to have been || frontier, point close to the Swiss scouting | frontier. | Garras, as soon as he sighted it, swooped down upon it, arras, venty-fiv. the story ran, from a height of 1,000 feet, ramming it with a ty oe his machine's full force. Instantly, it was stated, the dirigible aG troop ay invad- }burst into flames, and, with the aeroplane still entangled e ermany, cross! ing the lin its wreckage, dropped like a plummet frontier at Muensterol, the | The victims’ corpses were said to ,have been charred Berlin war office announc- | beyond recognition is o2l ed. The German frontier Another German Zeppelin was reportec ost near the a l village of Toul at dusk Sunday night | patrols are retiring before | Zeppelin and Crew Destroyed it. Three German army } Like Prag i air craft, it appears to have been scout- corps ee er to ing. A French aviator, seeing it, made an immediate ascent meet the invaders. Avia- with an aeroplane to a height much greater than the Zep- e e tors are scouting in ad- | pelin’s and rained shots upon it | vance of the French force. | His fire proved so effective that the dirigible soon] WASHINGTON, D.C. Aug, 3.— All this despite the fact crashed to the ground and all on board were killed. Their! By a vote of 231 to 6, the house that neither France nor Inumber was not given but was supposed to be 20 or 30. today passed the senate bill making The aviator who brought it down, however, lost control | available immediately the unlimited Germany has as yet de- of his own machine during the fight, fell with his machine | mittions of currency in the Unted|Clared war on the other. The Photograph Shows the Type of Dirigible Military Balloon Upon Which Germany WjIi Depend to Do Her Fighting and Spying In the and was dashed to. pi¢ States treasury. as amended so| E2ch nation, it is thought, Alr. it Air-Craft of This Type That Was Rammed and Destroyed by French Aviator Garros Yesterday. In the Photograph the \ French flying man was sid also to have done much as to remove the limitation of $500, i8 trying to force this step damage by dropping bombs into the city of Nuremburg and | 999,000, and authorized Secretary of upon the other. till another Frenc a aviator was brought down by a Get-/the Treasury McAdoo to use more 6 sman at | if necessary to stay a panic in '1t has become commonplace for men to predict that the United Staten was facing « revolution. ("The tenate was expected to ac A 1O0-MILE LINE Such rediction has not been confined to the ignorant demagogue, | cept the bill as amended by the) Saar % but has been uttered in all solemnity by thoughtful men throughout | house. lene the Gatine Aitrspastinytise | the nation lui the te : . i But they have not gone far enough. They have not realized that | | poaching: Trane ogo Glecee ane the conditions which imperil this republic exist in every civilized ¥ | | ; i. ag. Airship Is Bhown Co operating With a Regiment of German A rtillery. pen ORL H | at Ithinkcabout i Leis Sst Qué MANS Qoiviay BECOME A BYWORD AND LICENSE AN IDEAL, man mar country, and in a higher degree In most than here. jgium and Luxemburg and the oth. Such a conflict av at present menaces Europe will ‘destroy our| Hie al the way eed Coenen foreign markets. It would tend to force the price of foodstuffs up. } hare. the Germau aca aeamee ae And the burden of living has already become so heavy in the United) vance guards were alrcady en States, as it has in European countries, that hundreds of thousands of | |gaged, southeast to Cirey, a dis men are talking openly of remedying their wrongs by force. | a | tance of about 100 miles, “i 1! am not a banker, bond buyer or financial expert. But to me it EVERY OMINOUS SIGN THAT EXISTED PRIOR TO THE COL-| eT! : 4 T T paltbaw, , Sociaidecshty | — pe wats a RECIAN, EGYPTIAN AND BAB VICTORIA, B.C, Aug 3—This| The a Ue t ic Loonie alls iota Why Meche Bind) ay sSnzsudeloas hiotn CIVILIZATIONS IB IN EVIDENCE TODAY. The fall of ites ardet city is in the grip of Intense war «mailer in dimensions, but carrying | | NEW Pha ton pe a-HBanks be- egg ugh ok Go unscathed, For to me the real issue ie the same here sia systems was predicted by widespread corruption In government, | excitement today in anilelpalion {i bigger Auns, ts stripped for action, | sclation here today voted to 90 | A GREAT BATTLE as in Europe. a possible confilet betwee " . ‘ Our chiilization has not been endangered because some princeling srtand HF op | y rasp by Ue teu nie pal bernaiig M. C, 8, Rainbow, British cruiser, “ng-fies in the harbor ready to pall} temporarily upon a clearing house | France, wae understood to be hi rae d, be a bi ountr, ants to steal the .s jand the German cruiser, Leipzte. hor at a moment's notice. he | certificate basis, lrushing forward a force of abow sorttiaey of a email country. ‘We stand in danger because society ip, AO ROVERNY: AE Mian eRe MTQRRE! SNe INANY: ‘The Leipaic, which’ has been tainbow is the only Canadian naval] CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—Local banks | 1,000,000 men to resist the invad. lop-sided, because the good things of @ie world have been seized by the| Increase the burden of living in the United States and tremble for | cruising the Pacific, and is abo nder, and tn the event of its| were issuing clearing house certifi- ers, and it is thought that the “4 lew and poverty Kae slesrees are the portion of the many, because | the republic. 0 return to Germany, is reportgil the Letpzic will have noleates today. Savings depositors | Longwy-Cirey encounter will de-_ Justice is openly sold to the highest bidder, because the dream of) AM | TOO PESSIMISTIC? WELL, THINK IT OVER CAREFULLY, |low of fuel. It is feared she will trouble getting whatever supplies | were being required to give the le-| velop into the first great and per- , been shattered by greed, because the church has ceased| AND TELL YOURSELF HONESTLY WHETHER OUR SOCIAL 8YS- [attempt to take the coal from sqine it desires on threats of bombarding|gal notice before withdrawing | haps the decisive battle of the AUSE LIBERTY HAS TEM 18 JUST. Canadian port, { ithe port. funds, | Franco-German campaign, { { teachings of the Nazarene,