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SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1914.
ON TRAINS
STAND 4 I
PRICE TWO CENTS
GERMANY DEMANDS
ITALY ASSIST HER
REPULSED AT LIEGE
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BELGIANS
London, Aug. 5. That the
British cruiser Amphion had
sunk tbo llamoure-American lin
or Koinigeu Luise, which had
been equipped for mina laying,
was announced here this afternoon.
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'THE BELGIANS WIN
! SWEEPING VICTORY
ADVANC
III
BOMBARDED
Mined Train and After Decimating
! Two German Begimenis force Them
I to Surrender.
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BULLETINS
Borne, Aug. 5. Formal notification
from Berlin was received here today
that Urent Britain and France were
attacking Germany. Italy was called
on to lend aid to the Germans. Hither
to Germany has nHked for Italian help.
Now it is demanded.
The cabinet wns considering the mat
ter. It was believed its decision would
be to remain neutral.
Italians don't consider that Oermany
has been attacked. They hold the Ger
mans themselves are the aggressors.
The triple alliance only requires the
powers concerned to help one another
in defensive campaigns.
Leaders of the anti-military move
ment were watching the government
closely in readiness to tie the country
up by a general strike if it showed any
signs of allowing the nation to be
drawn in the Anglo-Franco-Russo, Bcl-gic-Servian,
Montenegrin struggle.
Bombarding Liege.
Brussels, Aug. 5. Entrenched in a
semi-circle about Liege, German troops
were bombarding the city heavily to-dav.
This followed their repulse when they
attempted to take Liege Tuesday.
The capture was necessary to a con
tinued advance of the kaiser's forces
through Belgian territory to the Fronch
frontier.
The city is strongly fortified, how
ever, and when the Germans, number
ing about 50,000, attacked it, the Bel
gian garrison of 25.000 opened on them
with their artillery, keeping up so fur
ious a fire that, after repeated resolute
charges, they were beaten off with
heavy losses on both sides.
Burn Two Belgian Towns.
The attacking force had no notion
of abandoning their attempt, however.
They burned tho towns of Vise and
Arfjfmi'n. killing semen in the fighting
which attended the Belgians' resist
ance, nnd began throwing up fortifica
tions for a teige.
The troops engaged in the operations
against Liege are part of the Cologne
army, which, dividing as it entered
Belgium at Gemnienieh, threw a de
tachment against Liego and another
against Nnmur.
The latter place, it was understood,
wns also being shelled today. Like
Liege, it is heavily fortified.
All Germnns had been expelled from
both cities.
The German forces which have al
ready crossed the French frontier and
were still operating today in the vi
cinity of Longwy. reached tho border,
not through Belgium, but by a march
across the Duchy of Luxemburg.
advance through Belgium had been
checked at all points.
German Steamer Chased.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 5. The Ger
man steamship Frieda Leonhart re
ported upon its arrival here this after
noon that it was pursued by a British
warship for 12 hours last night.
Russian Cavalry Repulsed.
Amsterdam, Aug. 5. A repulse by
Gormans of the Russian cavalry at
Solda was officially announced here to
day. It was reported that the Russian
losses were verv heavy.
A Small Naval Battle.
London, Aug. f. A naval battle in
the North Sea was reported in an ex
tra edition of the standard today but
it was stated that it "was not of de
cisive importance."
The Fronch embassy hero announced
the capture by the French war fleet of
another German cruiser.
It was believed also that a German
scout cruiser n the North Sea had
been taken.
LONDON, Aug. 5. The government
today' commandeered all automobiles
aud horses In England, Scotland, Ire
land and Wales for army use. Even
the racing stable were denuded.
LONDON, Aug. 6. General Baden
Powell, head of the Boy Scout move
ment, today offered the war office the
services of 1000 Boy Scouts who had
volunteered to carry dispatches, protect
Puts Crimp in Kaiser's Plans
as Army in France Now
Awaits This One
GERMANS LOSE THREE
CRUISERS AT ALGIERS
wires, guard
similar work.
bridges and do other
LONDON, Aug. 5. Capture by Brit
ish cruisers of the German steamship
Willehad off Newfoundland, was re
ported here today.
Magazine Explodes on One;
Others Badly Crippled Are
Forced to Surrender
AMSTERDAY, Aug. 6. German !
troops were crossing Holland today, en
route to France. Fierce fighting was
reported, the Dutch troops finally re
tiring. The losses on both sides were
heavy.
Germans Are Bouted.
Brussels, Aug. 5.-That the Germans -77, I" ZTnlJ
l, i t ' . l t t :.. . the Baltic two miles oil Gedser,
5:"?"?!!? fl'T WaS 0tflClally cording to a Copenhagen dispatch
ANOTHER GERMAN REPULSE.
London, Aug. 5. Tho Germnns wero
completely nnd heavily repulsed today
in an attack on Fort Flerus, according
to a new-B agency message received this
evening from Brussels.
RUSSIANS INVADE GERMANY.
LONDON, Aug. 5. A German tor-
pedoboat has been dynamited and sunk
ac
cording to a Copenhagen dispatch re
ceived here today. Thirty of the crew
drowned.
London, Aug. 5. Russians have in
vaded Germany at Lykljynln, driving
the German frontier guards back, ac
cording to a Warsaw message received
by Reuters Telegram company here
this evening.
SALEM CITIZENS ARE
BUSY "DOING" EUROPE!"
LONDON, Aug. 5. German Ambas
sador Linchnowsky received his pass
ports at 10 a. m. today, transferred his
embassy to United States Ambassador
Page and left at noon for Berlin,
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 5. The
porta announced today that the Bos
phorus was closed to war vessels. The
Russian Black sea fleet, therefore, is
bottled up.
MANCHESTER, Eng., Aug. 6. The
, German steamship Dryad was seized to
j day by the British naval authorities
here. Its crew of 17 was arrested.
Brussels, Aug. 5. A sweeping Bel
gian victory over the Germans near
Spa was reported hero tonight.
It was said two German regiments
were decimated.
The Germans, at the point where the
fight occurred, were bringing up an
armored train, it was said. The Bel
gians, covering with their artillery a
stretch of track along which it must
pass, mined the track, fired the mine
as the train crossed it and blew the
locomotive and two forward cars into
the air.
Then the Belgian artillery opened on
tho rest of the force.
The Germnns, surprised, yet resisted
fiercly but finally were routed and
fled. The Belgians hung on their rear,
slaughtering them mercilessly until the
German commander surrendered.
The survivors were all taken, pri
soners, to Hpa. "
The Belgian loss was said to have
been lnsigmficaut.
me ren.cn ana Holgiaus, it was
stated, had affected a junction at Tour
nai and were co-operating.
AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR
REMAINS IN PARI!.
Faris, Aug. 5. The Austrian ambas
sador was still in Paris today. Paris
newspapers voiced protests against his
remaining in France, but he would not
say when he would leave.
The government appealed today to
all men exempted from duty in the
army to volunteer for farm sorviee.
sary war measures by the government.
Many women were clamoring to enlist'
for active service.
By William Philip Sims.
Paris, Aug. 5. Germans were attack
ing the entire French frontier today,
the war office here announced.
Nor was it the Franco-German fron
tier alone that they were attacking.
They swarmed In Belgium and were still
operating on Dutch and Swiss soil.
In their fighting with the French
they had already met with heavy losses
as against comparatively light ones
among the Gallic troops. This was no
doubt partly due to the fact that the
Germans were the aggressors, while the
French fought, for the most part, be
hind strong fortifications.
une encn wics, nowever, seemea . Par;9j Aug 5Neff! tlmt the Qer
""- 1. "r8 ; !"'' had been checked in their at
T,r .'T tempt to reach the French frontier
J T'u" ,u T .rr. " Belgium was received here with
"""""i .""re." roioicing today,
iwun u.,.1, Hl 1f the Bol iang C0ll,u continUe to
a givou igu, uuuuuuud BOid thom back until French and Eng-
ure, expwnuH ww niusw uoiuio w .:. rinfnTPI,mBni. .nlli.i arrivB t wa
a murderous fire from batteries of ma- bc,ioved thfl invasion collM ba gucce8g.
cnine guns. fun ro.,eieil- The Franco-Bolgian
Germans were entrenching on French , (Jd wag concedod w08 a wBeak
sou between Toul and Epinal. t b ,t f , L ' th t t,
Between Toul and Aancy they wereiy1 ' frontior it believed the
ambushed and routed with heavy loss, u, , r u..wns u011"ed tne
. t! III 1 . . Zm T ! French fortifications were stronger
At Longwy they were still held in, .l. n i.i
German battleships have been sunk In i check. , , . ! Military experts, too. were of tho onin-
North sea engagement were published V At ueuon tney were repuiseo, ana ( .. . invBBioil bv wav of uwitzer.
iby the Central News today. imany were killed, wounaea or maae ,anJ wag out of tm owin(t t0
ENGLAND DECLAR
WAR ON GERMAN,
WILL AID BELft
(By Ed. L. Keen.)
London, Aug. 5. England's eyes today wC
North sea. Its ears were strained for the poun
by British and by German naval guns.
There were reports, indeed, that a gre at er
had been fought already and that two German i
had been sunk. This the admirality official!
The fighting, it was stated, had been corfined
ishing between scout cruisers and destroyers. :
This did not mean, however, that it had been
or without damage.
An English mine-laying ship had been sunt
destroyed Pathfinder, which accompanied it, esc
rowly. A German torpedoboat had also been
off Gedser and its crew of 30 drowned.
About 20 German merchant ships had been
prizes by British war vessels.
Admiral Callaghan, in command of the Brit
fleet, was under orders to capture or destroy G
laval forces. It was considered certain the
would resist' capture, and, considering tho supei
the British fleet, it was believed equally certain
kaiser's squadron would be annihilated.
The engagement was looked for in Germa
It would be an air as well as a sea fight, it was p
The Germans, in particular, were knovl to ii
aeroplanes on their warships, with dirigifii; o .
serve on the shore. ' "
Some believed the kaiser depended on the co-
of his air fleet to make up for the weakness c
fighting force, as compared with the British
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LONDON, Aug. 5. Rumors that two
avjMsisr5u -i
Others clung to the view that the German vcsj g i
seek refuge in the Baltic and try to prevent V. 8
Checked by French.
Paris, Aug. 5. An artillery duel was
in progress today at Petit Croix, on
the France-German" frontier.
The German advance guard tried to
rush the town at the charge but the
French garrison mot them with a hea
vy fire ond they were beaten off with
considerable loss.
Then the cannon opened at long
range.
prisoners.
BERLIN. Aue. 5. A anecial meeting Aoout 1 Putt ana Mars L,a
of the city magistrates was called today I tey admittedly troublesome
for Thursday to apuroprlte $1,500,000
for the purchase of food supplies, to be
Practically every corner of the glooe
is affected by the conflict in Europe.
Among the Salem citizens who are war
houml on tho continent are Eugene
Ecerlen and wife, who left here for j distributed from municipal stations,
Germany two months ago; tharles 11.
Hinges, Salem jeweler, who is in Ger
many; Louis Laehmund and daughters,
who were in England waiting to come
home; Kola Neis, hop buyer, who left
Ualem last winter for the Fatherland;
Mrs. W. P. Lord and son, who are mak
ing a tour of the world and investi
gating the flax industry; Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Jenks, of the 11. S. Gile com
pany, who' live on North Summer street,
wno are now. in Germany, and Emman
uel Schindler, one of the proprietors of
the Fairraount dairy, whose former
home was in Switzerland.
Since the outoreak of hostilities in
Europe and the continent placed in a
state of chaos no word has come to
Salem of these people. Cable communi
cation with Germany has been cut by
tho Ttritiah mij tha nnlv wav nf pnni.
municatiou is bv letter, which chance is ! tion' ""SSing and kissing him.
PTfPAilintrlv filim nn nppftiint nf t.hft '
danger in running the blockade. Withi WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. Dispatches
TOKIO, Aug. 6. The Japanese cab
inet announced today that at present
Japan is neutral in the European strug
gle, but that if England becomes in
volved so as to require the Mikado's
aid It will be extended.
SAN PEDRO, CaL, Ang. 5. The Brit
ish tanJg steamer De Sabia arrived here
today from Antofogaata without sight
ing the German cruisers supposed to be
off the west Mexican coast. She will
remain here indefinitely.
PARIS, Aug. 5. Santos-Dumont, the
famous balloonist, volunteered his ser
vices tody In the French military fly
ing corps and left for the front. An
enormous crowd saw him off at the sta
tue American cruiser Tennesson on its recelved here today by the state de-
Germans Repulsed. I way with money it . is expcil that . parunent declared moos nad destroyed
Brussels. Aug. 5. German engineers! Salem's war-bound citizens 'may booh the Russian embassy In Berlin and the
attempted todav to replace across the i escape from the theater of conflict, j German embassy in St. Petersburg.
river Meuse a" bridge destroyed this 1 Many persons were reported injured.
forenoon north of Viese. The Belgian A woman's tongue is her weapon j Secretary of State Bryan notified the
artilleTv on the river bank prevented ! 'Pt few women are arrested for car- German and Russian ambassadors here
this, however, and drove the Germans ; Tyg concealed weapons.
back. It was stated that tho German ' JS obvious.
The rccson 1 of the report.
! BRUSSELS, Aug. 5. Belgium sharp-
mur. MMrir.ii inmr itin mTn inTKirmr Prnmnn shooters shot a German aviator literally
Ittfc KKIUMI AKYII HAa rlNL AiulLLLnl .MKVllfi!' ue today, his body
At Villars La Montague their dra
goons were repulsed by French rifle
men. At Monfontaine French infantry
drove the German cavalry back.
Altogether the French war office was
tolerably satisfied with the results of
the fighting thus far on the frontier
dividing France from Germany and the
Duchy of Luxemburg.
The Franco-Belgian frontier had not
yet been reached by the German troops.
Belgium s army met Ihe invaders in
gallant style, and though outnumbered,
P I". IIIUNUI.IUUIIO bU.lUVLUl V L K.IO V V U H
10UT t, ji . .., t 4i. n.
mans to traverse.
German Advance Stopped.
Though the kaiser's troops had pene
trated about 20 miles into French terri
tory between Toul and Epinal, it was
stated that the French hnd stopped
them and wheu a strong detachment
tried to get through the French line be
tween Toul and Nancy, it foil into an
ambush and was routed with consider
able loss.
The Oerman soldiers who, crossing
Luxemburg, were still skirmishing with
the Freneh iu the vicinity of Longwy,
apparently were not making a vigorous
fleet from following by seizing the Danish anu
coasi aeienses, mining tne cnanneis ana Straus conm.
the North and Baltic seas. Most experts disbelieved tin,'
however, holding that the Germans would be so anxious
to use their navy, rather than to have it bottled up in the
Baltic, that they would risk a fight.
It was thought here that the British and French fleets
had joined forces to make absolutely certain of dealing a
hopelessly crushing blow at the fatherland's sea strength.
tUM xilnetilnr A tiAaf 11 Am.
fnZ r.7 tW. vZV 11 Va Z 'attempt to advance until reinforced by
fenses of Liege and Namur, held them.,,.,, ' nnw . 1(1 , .hm,k on BJ
ENGLAND DECLARES WAR.
London, Aug. 8. Great Britain
formally declared war on Germany last
idght at 7 o'clock. Great Britain's
ultimatum to Germany demanding a
satisfactory reply on th subject of
Belgian neutrality, . was . answered by
the summary rejection of the request
in cnec.K on uei-, that Belgian neutrality should be re-i be expected.
spcwi, Alio uugiwvwun or war rol- rpt,A ,.tii
change of declarations of hostilities be
tween London and Berlin in the early
morning hours.
The pnst few days of uncertainty
have been a tremendous strain, and the
feeling, the struggle having at last
begun, was that the country at least
knew where it stood and what was to
in check while it awaited hels froroJ. 8r"7
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trance ana engiano, upon Dotn or " , . . T n . , Bp-two. oi;if,Mon oi war roi- rptlA .xu ., i i.i
which countries Kin Albert had called' . Aronn1 ,?0,f?rt' La lowed shortly the receint of Germany's LA1 8 Publie ,w8... ne'h. awaiting
for aid in defending his Deonle'Bs nan-! Tour t,,e '". re harassing reDiy. i "",. J KrPa' "fiuim naval victory.
trality. Ihe e""""'" oy commandeering GERMANY'S quick uppiv
Snd, too, was resisting invasion. S': .o 7 SSiSS.
The people there had threatened to I j"'1 4 '0'" nounced in the house of commons to-
open the dyio gates aud flood their : t"!, that Gennany declared war at 7
country but they evidently preferred to . . ' wouimuu Tuesday, when his nnsp
and prisoners.
Italy's Action Pleases,
try fighting first, for it was reported
they had aireacy inflicted serious losses
on the enemy.
At sea France had one distinct
tftTV trt Ia1.hraa T f a naval fnmao
was confirmed today, sank the German ,,en Pccted
; p. m. Tuesday, when his passports were
handed to the British ambassador in
Berlin
I Warn, apprecut on was expressed on n8 intended to ask them Thursday to minister. He
vie- ftH ,811r ?.t,lt1",y Hn.').ruso'7a1t,on, of 8 vote a war credit of $000,000,000. ' office withou
It neutral attitude. Tins had hardly of newg f ro
It was admitted that,
cruiser Panther off the Algerian coast, :,au "l' n invas- T.oikI.mi. Aug. 5. Kngland seemed ;
where it had been bombarding French l0" ,m " solltllast the difficulties almost relieved today niter the knowl-:
towns, and captuted the cruisers Bres- of ,ll'f''n,llllK the countries frontier ( C,K that the Gcrmnn and British actu-1
lan and OnnllPIl SftKr hnHlw damaulnir WOUld have been enorlMOUsly increased. nlK- worn nt hf. fnllnwinir IhA av.
vvun Aumirai air John jeincoe iu
command of the home fleet, which was
oxpectod to bear tho brunt of the sea
fighting, and Field Marshal Sir John
French appointed to the position of in
spector general of the British land
forces, the country was demanding to-
He informed the commons that! dny that Lord Kitchener be made war
was assisting at the war
t an official title.
rom the Husso-Germnu fron
tier thero was almost none. The Ger
mnns hnd repulsed the Russian cavalry
at Nolda with heuvv losses, it as
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Several German"! merchant vessels
were also made priies of war by the
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fell within the Beletan Unes. Othur ! French fighting craft.
German aviators were thereupon with-' Thcre wero few Frenchmen of fight
drawn. ! lag age left In Paris today. The male
population was fighting at the frontier.
VIENNA, Aug. 5. Austrian sharp- Women, many of them prominent in so
shootcrs today winced a Russian aviator , cMy, were working like men in shops
; who was scouting over Lemberg. He ! and offices. Girls were even acting as
! fell 500 feet and was killed instantly. 1 Ucket seUei" on tbe underground rall-
' road and as conductors on the few street
cars and bussee which continued to run.
I WAR WILL ADVANCE
THE PRICE OF HOPS
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Phulu l -j Amri iun Prewi Association.
British Rapid Fire Gun Drawn by Bicycles
One of the novel features of the British army In a mnrhlnp gnn division
consisting of rapid tire gnus drawn by bicycles. Tbie hleyellsts draw each pected before the American
That the war m Europe will raise he
price of American hops is the opinion
expressed by a prominent hop man of
this city touay. iiis opinion wns based j
upon the-theory that -(.ierman shipping'
: would be swept from the ocean by the
i fleets of the allied powers and that
j shipments of hops to England could be
. made with safety. England buys the
; surplus American hops and also buys
hops from Oermany. Now that the
. war has begun it is unlikely that
the Oerman hop crop can be harvested
; or if it were taken care of it is doubt
I ful if the tntilish merchants would bo
able to deal with the Oerman hop firms
; until the war was settled, in the event
i that there is a scarcity of hop's in Eng-
land keener bidding for merjenn hops
will result an I the price raised as a
result.
Clifford Brown, of William Brown &
Company stated that the present war
1 had not affected the hop market as
i yet but that developments were ex-
crop was
taken fare of.
Invaders Are Checked.
Brussels, Aug. f. That Belgium's
I forces have effectively checked the
i German invaders, with heavy lonses to
the Germans anil a comparatively small
number of casualties to the llelgians,
fighting behind strong fortifications, Africa
was announced here tunny.
It wus stated that the king would
take per ho lull command rf Iiis army as
soon ns he had arranged for.ul neces-
linsiness throughout France was pros-
trated. Paris was half deserted. Most
stores wero closed. Tlioro was no ono
to open them, the proprietor" nnd their
assistants having gone to war. Most !
of the shops where provisions aro sold
were open but, women wero in charge
of thom. There was practically no J
street traffic. A fMUcarH wero run-'
ning but their number had been reduced ;
by fully three-fourths. Cafe lifo had I
almost ceased.
Lost Three Cruisers. j
Toulon, France, Aug. 5. Germany's i
navnl defeat by tho French off the Al- i
gerinn coast Tuesday wns a crushing j
one, it was learned here today. J
The German cruisers Breslau, Ooeben
and Pnnther had been boinliardinir i
noun, the French naval base in .Vi7M.' .
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nun iiuirr iM-i lu n Mins wueil
(Coi tinucd on Tage 8.)
SERVIANS ARE A RACE OF SEASONED VETERANS
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The WeaiHer
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Fair t o u i g lit
aud Thursday:
northerly winds.
word was received that llie British ,
siiuidroii from Malta was approaching..
Steaming to the. westward to escape'
this dnnger, the three Germnii vessels
fell in with a superior French naval;
force. , I
A furious oattle ensued.
i The Panther wns hit in a vital parti
; nnd its magazine exploded. It sunk im- j
mediatelv nnd most of its crew iier- !
if. lied.
The Goi bens mm hiiiery was disabled
nnd it was forced to surrender.
The lireslnu fled, but having already
been badlv damaged, wns soon over
! taken by the French warships. Kesist
nce was hnpelesK nnd it struck its col
! ors.
I I hi rim; tiie bombardment lit lioua
broadsides were fired into the town by
the llresluu. A large number of houses
were knocked down and there were a
uuinbpr of casualties.
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Photo liy American Press Association.
Vfetcran Fighting Men of Scrvia
The St-rvlnn army Is largely composed of veterans who know w!mt wnr !s
They have recently been through two wars, one anlust Turkey and nuoUier
sual'ixt Bulgaria. Army experts consider thera to be excellent llx'.itera
fun, but the photograph shows only one.