The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1914, Page 1

LAST EDITION SCOOPED! The Seattle Star | ONE CENT ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS, be | VOLUME 16. NO. 140, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1914, ARE SHOT ‘BERLIN, Aug 7---“Our ad- The Star has been scooping ’em right along. On every big war event The Star has scored first of all the Seattle papers. The Star was first on the streets with the news of Germany’s declara- tion of war, first with the news of the big aviation battle, first with the news of Mrs. Wilson’s death. The Star was out on the street first by an hour with the story of the sale of two Seattle- built submarines to the Canadian government. The Star has been Johnny-on-the-Spot onevery- thing important---AND THIS PAPER IS ’WAY AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS IN SEATTLE ON WAR PICTURES. If you’re downtown. and want the very latest war news, buy a Star. You can rest assured The Star will give you the news first EVERY TIME. The Star extras cost only ONE CENT. Have you any conception of the horror of war? Unless you are a veteran, a6 99 | and have seen the comrade with whom you were joking a moment before fall dead " H i CHARGE T0 THE GUNS @ before your eyes, or drop, screaming with — from a frightful wound, yourg) UC” SArteS vite jealous of our d . Wear eas Elites wos cose tenes “Cheam Maakene Bina | refuses to a paint a icture of war in all its hideousness f velopment,’’ declared the kaiser Belgians,” as your sympathies may rest, and pass on to the perusal of other en Ps no When you soa it, do you think of the writhing saab trea ma proclamation today. “But wounds, men with gaping gashes in head or body, men whose arms have been shot 4 ing from thi ith i i \ L sh cena poh ye Jape Away Kansas ve n away, men dying thirst with curses on their lips for their mind picture the aged mothers, the wives, the toddling babes at home, thousands of them hungry, poorly clothed, i This is war. And war is hell. we will fight to the end, even | against a worldful of enemies.” | NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—A cable received here today by the New York correspondent of La Prenza, a Buenos Ayres newspaper, from Berlin said: “By emperor's order hundred socialist deputies shot in Berlin, including the socialist leader, Liebkneckt.’ The news is unconfirmed. (Note—Owing to lack of cable communication with Germany, the German story of the fighting before Liege is unobtainable. The die patches received spring from Belgian sources. Allowances should be made for this.) i an- constantly menaced by the BRUSSELS, Aug. 7.—The Germans admit have lost 25,000 men at Liege, it was officially count of the devastating Belgian fire. Three regiments of Uhlans have been to the last man, either killed, disabled by captured. eeeee BRUSSELS, Aug. 7.—German troops were slaughtered wholesale at Liege early today. The Belgians simulated an evacuation of their outer fortifcations. The Germans rushed in to seize them. This brought them within the circle of the Belgian main defenses. The Belgian artillery opened ch them with in- conceivable fury. % The strong German force which had been led | into a Lexy practically annihilated. Dead men and horses lay in great heaps. The Belgians took 27 German field pieces. ‘ The slight advantage which the Germans gained Thursday night, after two days’ desperate fighting by the capture of two of the outer Liege forts, was com- pletely lost by today’s reverse. The battle still rages uninterruptedly. The Germans did not cease thelr bombardment during the night. The Belgian guns answered them with a murderous fire. The roads from Liege back to the frontier, about 20 miles, were Iit- tered with German dead and wounded. There were scattering corpses on the roads and in the flelds as far forth as the Dutch frontier and south to Spa and Stavelot. Besides keeping up a hot bombardment of the forts, the Germane began raining sheila Into Liege itself as the day advanced. The Palace of Justice, the Cathedral of St. Paul and many other bullding were damaged. Numerous fires were started. The police were helping the firemen to fight the flames and clear the debris. ‘The city was caring for hundreds of Germans as well as of its own wounded, in private homes and hospitals. it was impossible to rescue the wounded on the plains before the forts, however. The shelling was too deadly. The German Infantry has been withdrawn from directly before the city and Is concentrated on the bank of the Meuse, apparently awaiting reinforcements. War officials here said it was impossible to esti- i. i § wounds or This is the way German soldiers are meeting death in Belgium, in their battles to reach French territory. The picture shows a charge of the kaiser’s infantry with fixed bayonets. SITUATION TODAY UNCONFIRMED REPORT from Berlin says kaiser has ordered execution of 100 socialist members of Reichstag. GERMAN COMMANDERS at Liege ask 24-hour armistice to bury their dead and care for wounded. GERMANY OFFICIALLY admits lose of 25,000 men in battle of Liege, according to Brussels diepatchee. | NO CONFIRMATION of rumors of engagement between British and German fieets in North sea, although reports continue to ar rive, REPORT GERMAN FLEET _ FLEEING FROM ENGLIS LONDON, Aug. 7-—Firet Some cisimed a glorious coast with the British fleet In of the dreadnought type. NQ@ WA " * Lord of the Admiralty British victory, but these close pursult, according to a A fleet of these leviathane |}, ., Havens Sg ted Te Meret ds x9): hpl dongs: Siecis es aenires the mate the German losses with accuracy. They ran storiee are not confirmed. Ru- of the air was held In readi- high into the thousands, however, it was stated. as well as Belgian aviators were busy. Churchill denied in. the house of commons today that a gen- eral engagement had occurred dispatch published In the Dally News today. The dispatch says the fleets engaged in battle off German forces are engaged elsewhere. ADMIRALTY ADMITS destruction of British warship Amphion nees to aid the German squad ron In its struggle with the mors are current that from seven to 19 warships had been between the British and Ger- sunk. Other accounts were Ahe South Dogger banke. The English. Hardly a British port by mine In North sea. | One German had succeeded in hurling a bomb man fleets. that they surrendered. German fieet is said to have falied yesterday to report the THOUSANDS IN warring Europe are facing famine. \into Lie e. — The admiralty is besieged retreated after heavy loss. The sound of naval guns. These UNCONFIRMED REPORT that the German crown prince was ge. A North sea clash between by inquiries, but refuses to dis- admiralty has informed Eng- | engagements were thought to It struck and exploded in the Square d’Avorey, British and German fieets was reported today from many sources. it isn’t right to laugh, Bu » Listen to Ban Johnson, the basebail “It le an awful thing for a the game for what he can get out of Can you beat Ban for nerve? cuss the reports, The German fleet is in full flight toward the Holland and agree with me: If the magnates are In it for money, why not the players? Money fe back of professional baseball, and even Ban won't deny it. ver. ‘Wt ceems to me Ban fen't auite the person to held up hands of hor And maybe it. | really can’t help it. | openly to boast that he is in lish ship owners on the Tyne they may now send their ves- sels anywhere in the North sea with safety. Official confirmation te lack- Ing of a report from Whitby that 19 German warships had been sunk by the British. The German fieet is reported to have been driven back from the open sea to ite base on the German coast. Admiraity nounced that “the first official news may not be favorable.” The German ships at latest authentic accounts tay shel- tered under the great land guns at Wilhelmshaven. The British vessels surround- ed them and Admiral Calla ghan hoped to draw them into an engagement by feinting with his destroyers and subm»> rines. The battle was expected to furnish a test of the efficacy of dirigibies against sea craft authorities an- be skirmishes between scout cruisers and destroyers. Evidently there were many of them, however, and they were not bloodiess, for ships were already being sunk and wounded sailors, both English and German, were arriving at the naval hospitals. FORBIDS FLYING OF NEW YORK, Aug. | Austrian reservists also banned. aituation {ts other paper. } FLAGS IN NEW YORK 7.—Mayor Mitchell today forbade the flying here of flags of the nations now at war. He feared they would provoke outbreaks, Parades planned for this | afternoon by German, French and were FINANCIAL SITUATION CLEARS LONDON, Aug. 7.—The financial clearing here. The! igy and the Goesben took refuge In Italian waters after their com-| Bank of Kugland bas resumed pay- ing gold in exchange for notes and| Panton ship, the cruiser Panther, |] seriously injured by a would-be assassin, who escaped. German Ships Go Bravely to Meet End MESSINA, Aug. 7.—Cleared for action, with all gunners at, thelr posts, with battle flags flying and with their bands playing “Die Wacht am Rhine,” the German cruisers Breslau and Goesben steamed from this port today—presumably to certain destruction. The British Medi- terranean fleet Is known to be awaiting them. ‘taly, neutral In the war, having ordered hostile shipping from ite | ports, the two crulsers had no choice but to leave or disarm and re- main at Messina, interned, until the conflict was over, They chose the former course, though all were eure It mean they would soon be at the bottom of the sea. Their commanders’ foriorn hope was a dash for safety. The Bres- had been eunk and they had been routed by a.French naval force off the Aig -rian const, : killing 17 and wounding as many more. Belgian airmen ascended in hot haste to kill the German, but he swung his machine in a wide circle and escaped, descending well within the German lines. Kitchener Gets Army Ready — LONDON, Aug. 7.—Lord Kitchener, newly appointed to the British ministry of war, le, rushing army _ preparations today. Communication with Ger- many |e still cut off and cable connection with Russia is also severed. Before the Russian connec- tlon was broken, messages were received, saying the ezar’s troops were driving the Germans back along the frontier. It was also learned that Ger- man ships were attacking the Russian Sveaborg _fortifica- tions, evidently in the hope that the German vessels might enter the Guif of Finland and destroy the Russian warships there. The Austrians were re- ported shelling Belgrade again. ai WEATHER FORECAST— | Fair tonight and Saturday; Sat- urday warmer; light southwest- erly winds.