The evening world. Newspaper, August 10, 1914, Page 2

m PR ge yy tame “THE EVENING WORLD, EN. _ JOFFRE HEADS GREAT TAS Se a eda Ro NE ay AR li 2 ONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1914. FRENCH ARMY IN ALSACE assisting her. ing an English cruiser of the Lancaster type 190 miles to the northeast of San Juan at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon headed southeast. 18 The German steamer Odenwald and the British steamer Salybia, both bound for a _ European ports from the West Indies with freight and passengers, have sought refuge in| ~ San Juan harbor. a French Troops Cut Off Germans at Liege LONDON, 3.54 P. M., Aug. 10.—The North Sea was again closed to the fishing fleets | | to-day. The harbor master at Scarborough received a message from the Admiralty in- MY a structing him to tell the masters of fishing vessels not to go out until further notice. a ie a) the Baltic is out ready for business. =... A telegram from Charleroi, Belgium, to the Daily Mail, despatched Sunday night, says ‘a force of French troops arrived in time to participate in a fine success of Gen. Leman’s )» Belgian division over the German troops investing Liege. Ba 4, The correspondent adds: “The French succeeded in reaching the town of Liege and working behind the Germans cut off their retreat. The Germans are said to have lost) -.’8,000 killed and wounded while 1,700 of them were captured. I give these figures under feserve.” he aa) 4 Another development at Liege is expected to be the arrival of the Belgian main army advancing from Louvain in the northwest to attack the Germans occupying the city. F Messages received to-day from the Belgian General Staff assert that the occupation | = of the city by the German troops has had no influence on the strategic situation. ih It is declared that so long as the ring of forts around Liege remains intact, the guns| will command three of the principal roads by which the German army can advance. This| ‘makes it impossible for the Germans to receive supplies or ammunition. : Every line of railroad between Liege and the German frontier is alleged to have been estroyed, and the Belgian troops are said to have blown up every bridge,culvert and tunnel. The Belgians declare that the Germans, expecting to take Liege in a few hours, pught with thgn only sufficient food for a few days and little ammunition. They deny p reported capture of 4,000 Belgian prisoners. The Belgians report that many of the 120,000 German troops at Liege have been so akened as to be unable effectively to attack the forts. It is not possible for the forts to oncentrate their fire on the city itself. In the House of Commons this afternoon Premier Asquith said that Lord Kitchener, Minister of War, had directed the raising of a second volunteer army of 100,000 men. is is interpreted as meaning that the entire available British army is now under orders service on the Continent. A good portion of it is already. there. ©. ST. PETERSBURG (via London), Aug. 10.—The regular troops of theGerman army p now concentrating near the Russian border in brigades of two or three regiments each. Frequent skirmishes between outposts are reported, while German military pplanes fly daily in the direction of Kovno. "Kaiser at the Front to Head His Army PARIS, Aug. 10.—Kaiser Wilhelm is reported at Aix-la-Chapelle prepared to assume me command of the German army that is trying to force the passage of Belgium d Luxemburg. The English, French and Belgian armies have concentrated on Namur. The line % considerable able damage to one of the hostile ghips, as the others stopped and seemed to be Alsace. They are picked soldiers from the Au the Austrian Tyrol, mountaineers, who will be able A lumber schooner from Jacksonville, Fla., arrived here to-day and reported sight- France Declares War. This is taken to indicate that the German fleet which was supposed to be bottled up, to harass the French. Against Austria France formally delared war on Austria to-night. The declaration followed the failure of the Austrian government to make satisfactory explanations of the movement of Austrian troops from the Austrian Tyrol through Switzerland to the Alsatian border. In the capture of Mulhausen the French took possession of a big aeroplane factory in which they found a number of machines designed for the German army nearing come pletion. They will be finished and confiscated by the French military authorities. It is stated that the attempt of the German engineers to flood the valley of the Seille has so far proven a failure. In the fighting along the ridges of the Vosges Mountains both the French and the |German aerial forces have been very active. Detachments of the famous Turcos, or native troops from the French colony of |Algeria, penetrated Upper Alsace to-day. Big Austrian Fleet Rushes to Aid German Cruisers ROME, Aug. 10 (Via Paris)—An Austrian fleet of. thirteen warships and sixe teen torpedo boats is said to be going at full steam toward the Strait of Otranto, which connects the Adriatic with the lonian sea. The probable purpose of the fleet is to give succor to the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, which have been reported in that vicinity. Eight Austrian regiments are reported to have crossed Lake Constance en route for Alsace, The Austrian steamer Bayern, laden with dynamite and. live projectiles, is reported \to be trying to penetrate the Adriatic Sea. She is trying to replenish the munitions of the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau. TOKIO, Aug. 10.—The German fleet at Tsingtau has already seized.the Russian | steamer Riasan, carrying British subjects, has driven one hundred merchétmen to the refuge of Japanese ports and has embarrassed the entire Japanese shipping in the Orient. The press gives prominence to an alleged ed communication from America saying the United States is sending a fleet to Asia to protect its interests. The report is considered baseless, but it has nevertheless reawakened interest as to America’s attitude. Forty missionaries, chiefly French but some of them German, are leaving for their home countries to take their places in their armies. ROME, Aug. 10—The Giornale d’Italia’s Genoa correspondent says that the Casino at Monte Carlo has been closed and Vice-Director Kotz has been shot as a German spy. Servians Drive Back Austrians Seven Times LONDON, Aug. 10.—The Servian Legation, in an official statement issued to-night, confirmed the report that Austrian troops have abandoned their attempt to on into Servian territory. The statement says: “After seven fruitless attempts to cross the Danube in the face of the Servian defense the Austrian troops finally abandoned the effort and retired leaving the Servians n possession. Servian troops are now operating in Bosnia.” PARIS, Aug. 10—According to advices received here, the Servian advanced posts have arrived before Visegrad, Bosnia, to which place the Austrian troops fell back when they retired from the Servianédrontier. A dispatch from Rome says Montenegro has invaded the new State of Albania and taken the city of Scutari, which was taken from Montenegro by the powers at the close of the last Balkan war. Montenegrin troops captured Scutari during the conflict after ixtending from that point across to Luxemburg will have to check the crack Prussiamterrific fighting. try, which will attempt to push south along the Meuse River. : War Office advices to-day indicate a big engagement is pending between French and rn troops in Lorraine below Saarburg. eer ttacking column engaging Germans advancing from Saarburg. ed against the Germans. The German army is concentrating on Gen. Joffre’s front. advance. fench lines extend across to the Shine along the Swiss border. a a m Desperate fighting marked the wresting from German troops by the French invad- ig army of the passes at Bonhomme and Saint Marie, on the frontier below Mulhausen. "War Office reports say the French now occupy the village of Saint Marie aux Mines. ghti ing continues all along the line to-day. ench Army Moves in Alsace Like Huge Fan. The French in Alsace, led by Gen. Joffre, is moving in a formation shaped like a huge) m from the Jura mountains on the Swiss border through all of Alsace to a point east of | It is believed the French artillery is support- Ferney, Mulhausen and Colmar are in the hands of the French, and all of Alsace Breisach, to the east of Colmar, and Strasburg to the north, are the centre of the s The German army of the Lower Rhine is already marching against the French. The German cavalry, supported by infantry and artillery, have driven the French lry patrol from the little border town of Longuyon, in the department of Murthe et The Montenegrin forces have also directed an attack against the Austrian ines at Trebinje in Herzegovina, fifty-two miles southeast of Mostar. ra 8 a BELIEVED DROWNED tpt, Front of Fixed Weapon and Officer Who Led Lahding Pulls the Trigger. OCEAN CITY, N. J., Aug. 10.—| parrelied shotgun in a vise eo that Party at Vera Cruz Disap- pears From Battleship. peared from his ship and it is thought he has been drowned, according to a dispatch from Rear Admiral Badger. Commander Keating has a brother, Harry W. Keating, at Hagerstown, Maryland, Scateaeciameniie THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS MAROONED IN SWITZERLAND ARE GOUGED BY BANKERS. |, Aug. 9 (de- jroncesieee and of the Pleasant Mills Paper Compesy, formerly State Senator trom Cage May County, committed suicide in bis private garage this morning. He suffered much from kidney trouble and worried in the last few weeks over the injuries of a boy who was struck by his automobile, ‘This morning he rigged a double Lewis M. Crosse, President of the| he could stand before its mussie na First National Bank of this city and! pull the trigger. mtn consular bout 6,000 Americans wer 10,000 Eng- lish were held up in Switzerland owing to the outbreak of war. ‘The Swiss GoverniMent for the pas few days has prevented automobiles leaving the country, as it intends to use them if necessary for military purposes, BANKING AND FINANCIAL, BANKING ANO FINANCIAL, WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—Lieut.- Commander Arthur B Keating, of the battleship Arkansas, who during the Ighting at Vera Cruz Idst April, com- per Sant The American Danning | manded the landing party from the ncies here also hi exun again to Florida and the Arkansas, has disay- take travellers’ chec! A number of American care are among those held, ‘The Swiss banks have begun to die- count American checks, but charge 20| Foreign Exchange Clearances Owing to the serious derangement of the for- eign exchanges, The National City Bank of New York will undertake to act as a clearing house to facilitate the exchange of bank and cash credits in South America and in other parts of the world. As a result of the moratoria and ar. The forces that are engaged in this invasion form the second mobilization centre French army with headquarters at Langres. | ; After making their initial stand at Altkirch the Germans fell back rapidly and it was! wot until Colmar was reached that any serious resistance was encountered by Gen.| ffre’s men. Muelhausen was taken without any long continued fighting. At Colmar there was severe fighting ingwhich the French are reported to have overs med the Germans by a series of brilliant bayonet charges. German troops are moving on France through Luxemburg, the main column being ed at Esch. This will be very heavily reinforced in view of the check at Liege. It is abe: that the original German plans were believed to call for practically the entire ‘German army with the first and secondary lines of reserves, a total of nearly one | MIDOET wre gg wthe an ee Di. “Ag, a we 4 "Cream 0 peta . Be] | avis ie Oc os eee TPM 10 soe oa, Bank holidays that are in force in many import- ant commercial countries, it is for the time being impogsible in a normal way to buy and sell exchange upon those countries, It is feasible, however, in many cases to clear debits and credits upon foreign points, pro- vided there can be brought together business interests having credits and debits at the same locality. If corporations, firms, or persons having for- eign credits or desiring foreign credits will communicate with us, we will undertake eo far as possible to offset these debits and credits, Tho National Clty Bank of Mow York CHOCOLAT! PRIKK— A collect