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NEW YORK, MONDAY, _?R INFaNATRY OF GERMAN SRMY ON THE MARCH CEGILIE'S GOLD SAFELY DEPOSITED Treasure Worth $13,000,000 Brought From Bar Harbor in Three Steel Cars. section of the Now Bar Harbor, \ Grand Central : contained more th: has passed through varied adventures im the last two weeks in the unsuc- cessful effort to land it in Europe, The treasure was removed yester- day from the strong rooms of the Kronprinzessin Cecilie at Bar Har- bor, where the liner put in early last Tuesday morning after dashing back across the Atlantic to escape Seizure at the hands of hostile war- on ‘The revenue cutter Andros- Haven train from rriving at the on this: morning | IN SUB-TREASURY $13,000,000 that | coggin transported it — across Frenchman's Bay to the Maine Cen- tral, under guard of an armed squad of United States marines, Every precaution was taken for the safety of the forty tons of gold and silver, All the way to New York another train preceded the section carrying the treasure, while the sec- ond section trailed tt, Each of the three cars contained it guards furnished by the American Express Company. All werer armed with rifles and some nad revolvers strapped around thelr waists. A great crowd of curious passen- gers gathered as the train caine to a stop. peered in at the unusual array of herring kegs packed with gold. Th | yellow stuff could not be seen, but! Three steo! baggage carson the first | the allver bars were !aid out In row across the width of the car, It was necessary to call m squad of station guards to disperse the mob eager to the fortune they had travelled | with from Maine, | ‘here were 24 kegs containing the | gold coins amounting to $10,769,545,36, while there were 600 bars of silver totalling $2,400,000. The first steel car carried 100 kegs and 65 silver bars; the second had 135 kegs and 85 bars; the last car carried only silver, there being 450 bara, covering the Soor in rows, ‘The train was due here at 7,53 ath lae OE MO Me bil They thronged the doors ena} Yee “AUGUST. 10, PRICE ‘ONE OENT. “1914. 12 PAGES BELGIAN AND FRENCH ARMIES — HEM IN GERMANS AT LIEGE) GERMAN TROOPS ON SKIRMISH LINE . LINE AND ON THE AND ON THE MARCH! GERMAN INFANTRY On HOTe, BM PAUL. HOMPooN | tho passengers had been unloaded |yards and then the three treasure Express Company Building fourth street and Lexington avenue and there unloaded under guard and at Forty- ered motor trucks, which conveyed the gold and silver to the Sub-Treaswy for credit to the various banks that shipped it abroad The value of the gold and silver | which had been dest | firma nipping: it te Aneta nk, anty ional addition r WINNERS AT SARATOGA. FIRST RACE—Solly, 18 to 5, even and 2 to 5, first; The Finn, 1 to Sand out, second; Menlo Park, third. Time, 1.05 3-5. SECOND RACE.—Brosseau, 2 to 1 and out, first; Senegambian, out, sec- ond; Swish, third, Time, 4.33. THIRD RACE.—Grover Hughes, 7| to 10, and out, first; Pomette Blen,| found she had a fractured skull ana Cruisers and a French cruiser. 1 to 4 and out, second; Bac, third. but did not arrive until 8.19, After all | and cleared from the platform the| passenger cars were backed into the! cars were shunted into the American | the kegs and bars transferred to cov- | for Europe | lows: | SKIRMISH LINE © a ermes, AS50c1AT! OMe BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK, GIANTS— 0003 ST. LOUIS— oool Batteries—-Perdue and Snyder; ‘Tes. reau and Meyers, Umpires—Rigier and Hart. AT BROOKLYN, | BROOKLYN— 114 | | CHICAGO— 0000 Batteries—Lavender and Archer; Allen and Miller, Umptres—Quigley and Kason. CVERCOME BY THE HEAT MISS VAN WYCK FALLS | ‘FROM WINDOW OF HOME Mixs Garretta Van Wyck, thirty- one years old, fell out of a fourth | | story window at her home, No. a6 West Fiftieth street, to-day and is at Flower Hospital in @ critical condi- tion, Sho is the daughter of J. A |Van Wyck, connected with Park & Tilford, who {8 a cousin of former Mayor Van Wyck and Justice Augustus Van Wyck. She was leaning out of the bath- ome puppies and kittens in the bi lard wien Abe called ths ane keeper, Mrs, Mary Winston, to them. Mrs. Winston found ne laughing and mutch Interested, bw | of the strong | | sun Night, since sho had suffered a | partial prostration from the heat a | week ago yesterday during an auto- | mobile trip, | The housckeeper went downstairs and a few minutes later hea \crash in the yard, She ran out oe found the young woman unconscious. Miss Van Wyck'’s mother and Dr, | Nesbit of No. 34 West Fittieth street were summoned, The physician she was taken to the hospital, where it is will die, , been his guests the day before. room window watching the capers o ‘Cruiser Disabled in Battle Off the Bahamas * GERMAN CRUISER KARLSRUHE ‘BATTLES WITH FOUR WARSHIPS, DISABLES ONE, OFF BAHAMAS : One Big French Force Is Reported to Have Reached reps a and Joined the Belgians in Cutting off the German Retreat—Kaiser Said to Have Lost 8,000 More Killed and 1,700 Prisoners. 4 | Gen. Joffre’s French Army Spreads Over Alsace Like a Huge Fan Kaiser Reported at the Front to Lead in Forcing Passage Through « “ Belgium and Luxemburg—Austrian Fleet to Aid German Cruisers. BRUSSELS, Aug. 10.—French and Belgian cavalry, supported by field artillery and {mounted infantry, are to-day attacking the German invading army north of the Meuse. * | They are reported here to have penetrated the German line of communication at ‘several points and to have blown up bridges, destroyed the railroad tracks, and 80 | ‘interfered with transport that the German army corps at Liege are in danger of being> 4 cut off from all stipplies. Fighting at Liege itself, the War Office says, is confined to a long range artillery. duel between the forts and the German siege guns mounted ina circle in front of the forts; According to the officials here the Germans have apparently abandoned the plan of carrys ing the forts by storm. They say the forts can hold out indefinitely as they are well supplied with food and: ; ammunition. Each has a separate water supply. By a series of dashes the French and Belgian cavalry and their supports have penes trated far north of the Meuse with the result that they are harassing the German base toward the Dutch border. The Germans because of this have been compelled to abandon i their attack along the River Ourthe, which joins the Meuse a.mile from Liege and are cone. centrating to oppose the raiding column. It is believed here that the allied army is about to assume the offensive. ‘ All the approaches to Brussels are well guarded to prevent anything in the naturé © of a surprise from reconnoitering parties of German cavalry. Small bodies of Uhlans have been signalled in all directions. Generally they had lost their bearings and sure \rendered immediately on being challenged. The Liege garrison with its reinforcements retreated, tfié War Office says, for “strategic reasons,” and is now falling back on Namur, where the French, Belgian and - British armies are in force. The check to Germany has enabled France to get her reine forcements in position and Germany will have to fight every inch of the Belgian territory” jadvancing south. AS | Patriotic enthusiasm is running high. The Belgian Minister of War announces that |40,000 volunteers have presented themselves for service with the colors. After the German troops reached Warsage in the province of Liege it is reported — they assembled all the inhabitants and chose fourteen from among them. Of these eight are said to have been shot and two hanged. The Mayor was arrested but afterward liberated by the German officers who had Other instances of alleged outrages by German soldiers are related in the Belgian | governmental press. | SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Aug. 10.—The German cruiser Karlsruhe took on board 900 tons of coal here yesterday and sailed at half-past eight in the evening for an unknown jdestination. As she left the harbor she put on full speed and all her lights were ajextinguished. i The captain of the German war vessel reported that he was in an engagement ly Friday night off the Bahamas when the Karlsruhe was pursued by three Eng I He said that he had opened with his entire, j batteries, and that he pel “ i one oer ah anti ws ccnencigy ASGARD ~ ene at ES Se

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