The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1914, Page 3

WHOLE FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER PROBLEM EXPLAINED; STUDY MAP FOR WAR GAME MOVES). To reach Parts, Germany has to mové her armies only the distance |diatween New York and Albany, if Ishe strikes via Alsace-Lorraine, or |the distance between Boston and eprusses @warTeRLoo COBLENCE Albany. if she invades through Belgium France's chief military center J's on the Alsace-Lorraine border in | NANCY Her chief military center on the |Helgian border te LILLE, and her Jeentral defensive post opporite Switzerland is BEANCON - Border Strongly Fortified ~ Ly “; |_ By turning the French map half a) ro. S LUE BROS em 2G. \x way around, and covering it with } LES |the Eastern states, Nancy would fall pean uy On ” » » New York, Paria on Albany, Lille Iwonld about coincide with Boston and Beancon with Allentown, Pa (See map.) The French frontler has a triple STAR—TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1914. PAGE 3, DO YOU KNOW THE ‘INS’ AND ‘QUTS’ OF WAR? READ THIS: "TWILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING men last year as being too wide and not having sufficient subordt © defen he military experts replied that tha troops between La Fere and Chalons could take care of all the Germans who would come through the gap It wan also pointed out tf the Ger mans invaded France that Way, the French northern army at Lille-Val enclennes-Maubeuge would be able to deliver flank and rear attacks. Depended on English. The real reason why. the Mau- beuge-Verdun gap has been left comparatively undefended by the Fronch, Is said to have been to en tice the Germans to cross Belgium! and by destroying the neutrality of the Belgian kingdom, FORCE ENG.-| LAND TO COME TO FRANCE’S| ASSISTANCE ~~@ CHALONS @ PRINCIPAL DEFENCES @ SECONPARY Derences SCALE OF MILES 25m1. as a faomi. Note particularly above the biack lines, showing where an Eastern s: has been laid down over Western Europe for purpoi section is an American city at exactly its proper relative distanc: from each other of Western Europe citie: to be found at the bottom of the map, you will be able at any time to fix positions of armies and loca- tions of battle. We suggest that our readers cut out the above carefully drawn map and retain it for future is for this map only. ODEON Tuesday aed Wednesday War Dog” A three-part drama of the Ral- kan war and other pictures. HIPPODROME Fitth Untoa Orchestra, Te strength, nervous Gebility or other weakness that gives life and strength to the body. 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WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The! ‘This shock met, {t remaina on | finactal effect in the United States for industries to adjust themselves of the war in to the new relations and to meet Europe will jthe new demands. j eg ge al Stimulates Home Production | This is estimated It is easy to see that a complete | vartously from 3 jembargo on foreign tmports must | days to @ year. }| stimulate home production {n all Modern ware are } articles supplied in part by foreign fought swiftly | manufacturers. | The department store cannot get }{ts stockings from Bavaria, as in the past. It must buy them in New England | If the dealer cannot .get his gloves from Paris he must get [them from the Gloversville fac |tortes tn New York | Prices will go up. So will profits for the glove makers of Glovers. | ville and the stocking makers tn New England. By Gilson Gardner | tremendous. Their method of maneuverin are more rapid than formerly and there are ne cessities whic require quick de | termination. The manufac! | ture of smoke- Gilson Gardner “Tt Is an fil wind,” ete. 88 powder, for instance, is a dell-/ Thus the war means work for cate and complicated task which|the mills and waiting for the agri | quires nearly six months, and {t| culturists. Manufactured goods wil! |has been stated by one of the Du-| go up, but foodstuffs will stay Ponts that the present supply of|about where they are until they| smokeless powder would not last | find § a way Into the export trade. six months. | aneene . Modern Wars Are Quick | The Franco-Prussian war lasted seven months. Its decisive actions were over, however, in less than 60 days War began tn July. an y 23, 187 fered and the been completely destroyed. Modern wars, like that betwee Russia and Japan and the re kan wars, have emphasized the fact that their brevity must be in portion to their destructiveness 1870, and on French army had We guarantee While the war rages this coun-|Saijsfaction when you have try must see its exports and im-| rts shut off. |Glasses fitted by us, whether Some commerce will be jed in Seattle and other Coast ports from the far F it will be comparatively trifling C 0 ti ] C Atlantic Ports Blockaded urry Uptica 0. | The Atlantic ports are today in| a condition which is equivalent for|_ EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS all business purposes to a complete | Third Floor, 3064-66 Arcade Bldg land effective wir blockade | Bring This Ad With You he carrying ships of the world |__| |have been diverted into war activ. | | {ties and millions of tons of cotton, Anything Delivered Anywhere. | foodstuffs and other articles AUTO DELIVERY CO. | tined for forelgn markets must re Phone Biltott 254. 508 Olive St conduct-| you pay $2.50, $5.00 or $7.00. Pacific | st, but} main in stora while millions of tons of manufactured goods expect jed by merchants 1{n this country from Europe ist remain on the side of the ocear ‘0 efforta will be equal to sup ng the place of the vast mer nt marines of Great Britain, many and France, which ha been withdrawn from the carrying trade. “DENNY-RENTON” All Clay Products 1007 Hoge Bldg. World Must Wait A year of most strenuous effort would hardly make impreaston on this gt ntic tas Thirty |days will do practically nothing The United States must wait; #0 must Europe. The United to 90 ‘Acid Stomachs Are Dangerous States walts for things not necessities—manufac ommon Sense Advice by « Distin- tured goods, woven cloth, glovhs,| Common Senne Aduiee ta late stockings and the like. Europe! «cia stomachs are dangerous be waits for wheat the ne 1a frrit nflames the ining cessities of life. This country can play the waiting game best The credit system of the civilized world broke under the sudden im pact of an unexpected world war. | redicinal treatments are use Wilson Meets Shock Here muck for they leave the source The shock to credits in the Unit ble, the acid In the ston ach, as dangerous as ever. The acid jed States has been met by the ex-| roi he neutralized {te forma |traordinary measures taken by the | tion pravented nd best thing president and the secretary of the|for this purpo eeasnet id treasury, backed up by practically mPaeeE ORAOE TD, © Sat oe Oe au ach, thus 4, taken in a little warm or cold animous congress ter eating, which not only The issuance of paper money, the acid, but also pre practically unlimited, authorized ® Weveloped.”” Foods pat pt under the Vreeland-Aldrich act, 1s eee turning the demands of credit into cash and enabling banks and mer. chants to meet their temporary ob ligations and to tide tmpunity followed with a iit 1esia, which any druggist, over the! kept handy. wap CASS — | ~ ‘ | \ | 1 a LNAL } | Toul-By |route to ‘soldiers are series of fortron between which are two wide gaps, to permit the England couldn't afford to see Germany secure contro! of Belgium,| Germans to come on. because possession of the Belgian! The first lot of fortresses runs coast would give the Germans an from LAlle through Velenciennes to enormous advantage In STRIKING MAUBEL Then from Maubeuge| AT THE ENGLISH COAST. for about 100 miles is a gap, which) England's interest in preserving has only subordinate defenses, The| Belgium's neutrality le equal to ds at VERDUN | America’s In preventing a possibly Defense Line on Meuse. | hostile power seizing Cuba. The second defense Ine runs} Germany Fortified, Too. long the Meuse river from VER-| Germany's her side D TOUL, on the Moselle. of the Alsace-Lorraine border, the om Toul to EPINAL, about 40! only place where the two countries is the second gap, along the| Join, are as elaborate as the de fenses on the French side. The chief center is Metz, which to BELFORT and the Swine frontier | Marshal Bazaine surrendered fn the is the third series of fortresses Franco-Prussian war, must be de| In the south, Germany has just through the| finished new and secret fortifica- | gap, or through the| tions between Colmar and the Swiss Maubeuge- Verdun gap, or else be-| frontier, low Belfort and by way of Switzer-| North of Metz, Thionville and land. (Note these on map.) \T ves are fortified camps, and be Chooses Weak Point. |tween them, at Saarburg, Germany By !nvading Belgium and Lux-| bas built the finest strategic rafl- emburg. Germany apparently indi-| way station tn the world for dis- ates has chosen the Mau-| embarking her troops uge-Verdun gap as her principal! There are 12 other smaller stra Parts |tegic railway stations between This gap was ws criticised by French. | © ologne a and the Belgian frontier. WHERE THEY AMERE THEY | PROTESILAUS TO on FRonTiER| /AKE A CHANCE | The Blue Funnel liner Protesilaus, jcommandeered by the British gov ernment for service, but now re leased, is preparing for an exciting voyage across the ocean el in now at Victoria, and will pro 4 with loading the outward valved at mo! will dodge ( for prizes VIENNA JOYFUL INA, Aug 11.—-Both Russian sedan attacking on the north, and Montenegrin soldiers, an Austrian invasion south, have been heavy losess to the enemy, while Austrian frontier troops are report ed to have carried on a number of successful reconnotters, | According to the Retchpost, Ser- vian supplies are being cht off by | Austrians as the latter proceed to \surround them. There {s much j celebrating here. defenses on miles ning at Epinal and running b cargo e than $1,000,000, She from the CRYING FOR FOOD NEW YORK, Au. 11—The Rel- gian minister of war has appealed |to America to ship wheat to Bel sium, declaring England assures the safe passage of grain-laden ves. sels across the Atlantic and the Belgian government tees payment Announcement was made yester- day that the British government will insure war risks on grain in British bottoms only. guaran- PARIS, Aug. 11.- Austrian ambassador to was given his passports and the country last night, the declaration of war on Austria by France, “11.—Count Szensen, France, WILL DISCHARGE CARGO The German steamship Saxonta, now tied up in port here, will dis charge her cargo, Shippers will be consulted regarding places for the inloading of the big shipments aboard. 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Come and get one, If it isn’t all you expect, we will with each machine, all All the Records for all the Machines All the time. Dstributers Victor, Columbia and Edigon hyrictings Machin University St- that | (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper | she is a girl of the strictest principle Mollie came up to dinner last home, I had plenty of time to lis left|to the latest news in reg following | “Job.” | my boss, |slangy way new one on me this morning “Mollie, Moll |particular about juse more slang than a the street “I know It, all the while you unconsciously drop into ft, Complete Report of Market Today Vegetables Godwin & Co.) OK 01K + O14O 01K na, ereen : 28 abbage +e 0: Cucumbers ° Haete, sack : 125 @ rots 1 @ per sack, 10 dox yoal radinhen 12% Cauliflower, per dor 1.26 I elery 1 Hot Map Showing Border Line Be-| wat tween France and Germany. The !i*! Star Marks the Duchy of Luxem- @ eseco berg. The Province of Alsace-Lor-| raine Lies immediately to the South | ‘ $ of This, on the German Side of the! $ | Border. nk o |ALGERIANS FIGHT @1 ap Malag Cal. peaches Local peaches ie Pro ultey. UNDER FRENCH FLAG idioes ‘are tights pide by. aide of the mother country, with those Veal and Py rand the famous Turcos, native Al i roontsr prada cH gerians, have forged ahead of the| {tuna over 4 ibe ra main army and today are penetrat-| tens, § Iba, and under 10 ing Upper Alsace. These remark-| Pucks te a »le native sharpshooters showed 9.00 their bravery in the Crimean and ot ; 16 ‘ranco-Prus Se eae ee e a @ 10 od daily by the Bradner Gop Kear a3 Butter Warhingto BAKERY and ry, brick s*..--- 29 RESTAURANT Binion : 87 |} Slang except when I am talking of |my boss. jexcept in the idiom of the str | He Is that kind of a man, you know “What do you mean by that, Mol- " T asked, curiously, Was new to me. “Why, the kind that has no use for any woman unless she ts pretty. Wh he'd leave Jane Addams any time follow |kind that must have a cocktail be- fore and wine kind that | creation, » women who accept the attention jof this kind of | vanity | What an arraignment from a girl |surprised if jopinion their stenc \them, “Well, rs continued Mollite, mouse-colored women in tow, She} of the Colonial last night | really |than he, and tays at home always and takes care | Special treat for the jewelers, jof the children while her hus |turkey h pictou voice, ographer, James.’ ‘James’ chair and said want you to know Miss Waverly be demurely, as T wife's cool greeting “You see, dear, ed Miss Waverly to go to lunch with) but 912 SHOOND, NBA MADISON Wisconsin triplets me, Just to try her, and I found out! power man is brought to regard his Bushman THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE | DICK WINS HIS OVERDRAFT * Enterprise Association) “my dear, she wouldn't go.’ I wish you could have seen his come | Wife's face n| Pretending me be It was another case of| She knew he didn't ask “A ause he wanted to find out! drama; and as Dick did not ard to her about my principles. ot “The “You simply have to hand it to| “I was furious, and sald: ‘I am| series; Margie,” she said, in her|/S0mewhat curious to know what, | comedy, “He pulled an entirely | Under the circumstances, you would | torial.” | have done had I accepted.’ yu must be more! “Poor man; he had not thought of your speech, You that, and he stuttered and stam- swsboy on|mered while trying to find an ex- It inn't nice, my dear.” |Cuse until I rather pitied him, and but when you hear it| continued, ‘I don’t know about my ‘ having the strictest princples, Mrs. Denton, but I do know tt ts not policy to mix social relations with business relations, and I am not going to do so ff I can help it.’ ‘Oh, how I wanted to tell her, Margie, that if I hadn’t a principle on earth I would not go with him. I am glad I am in a position to talk up |to him, but, Margte, I am thinking of |all those other poor girls who are afraid of losing their jobs. What would they do when an occasion like arises?” “I do not know, Mollie—tI do not | Brone know.” virl, (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) man; Besides, I never use much edy, You just can’t talk of him for the idea| Nature,” he is the kind of a man that} ims any interest in anything he describes. as highbrow Lillian Russell, He {s the| Art,” ter his dinner—the in its own mind, is lord of but in the minds of even ama and feed his , he fs just a plain boob. comedy. ny men would be| only knew the| aphers have of| And yet m PLAYS THE MEMBERS OF THE WASH- ington State Jewelers’ association, | who are holding their annual con- vention in Seattle, were the guests yeste about half past | “in came the having one of those little about 10 years older; Showing the making of a watch ina I am sure that ghe| large American watch factory was a loked and | see trots about the restaurants’ ® the lights are brightest. at the Clemmer today shows views looked at me rather sus-/of interest in the European war} ?— y and sald, {na frapped tone | zone, and notables interested in it.| T see you have a new Api i about tn his| “MAN AND MASTER,” A BIO- es, dear, and I|/ staph drama at the Class A theatre, appeals particularly to the worker, she ts one girl in a thousand.’ and to all those Interested in the hank you, Mr. Denton,’ I said,| final realization of the true broth- acknowledged his|erhood of man. In the strife be- tween capital and labor, justice may be submerged in personal prejudice, through guidance of a higher wheeled the Day Married yesterday I ask ’ the records Complete, As Pictured, buy {t back and refund every penny you have ensy that the money will never be missed, Ten | pald—or we will exchange it for any other Better yet, | instrument—Victor, Columbia or the Edison model and we sell them all), if you desire. Remember, fifty records, your own selection, for $78.50, end om terms of $10.00 down and $5.00 a mont» Bring the ten in tomorrow morning. fellow as a brother. in “The Motor neers” and a Kalem comedy 4i “Don't Monkey With the Buzz |complete the bill. | . ‘ “THE WAR DOG,” A THRI |part drama at the Odeon and Wednesday, | Balkan war, in which a Great D | dog plays the leading role, eee 8 a story of Clemmer Until Tuesday Ni Daughter of Eve. “The Living Dead,” “Hearst-Selig Class A Until Tuesday Night “The Motor Buccaneers,” t Essanay drama with Francis “The Master and the Maa,” Biograph drama; With the Buzz Saw, caleam Until Tuesday Night “Etienne the Glad-Hearted,” two — part Selig drama Vitagraph drama; Edison comedy; Essanay com Colonial Slim's Inheritance,” Melbourne Until! Tuesday Night “Shorty Turns Judge,’ Broncho drama; two-reel with Mabel Normand; American drama, Grand Until Tuesday Night | “The Star of the North,” two-reel PHOTO] pen" * | Love,” . Squares It With His Boss Mission All Week “The Little Jane Grey Odeon Tuesday and Wednesday “The War Dog,” A film] ma, and other pictures. ee a three-part drar Alhambra Until Wednesday Night “The Flower o' the Flame,” three- part drama; x THE HEARST-SELIG WEEKLY | #24 another picture RESIDENCE THEATRE! At the Home Until Wednesday two-part drama; of Old,” drama; “Almost “Circle 17, STEWART HOUSE 86 Stewart st. Near Pike Public Modern single rooms 25,