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FRIDAY. AUGUST 7.
Belgian Forts Intact After Bloody Might Assault
Germans Abandon the
Attack on Liege Forts
After 3 Days’ Battle
Not Single One Taken From the Belgians.
Tenth Army Corps in Assault Last Night
Crossed Mine Zone—Whole Battalion Dead,
1,200 Wounded Picked lip
Brussels (via London) —It is reported the attack
on Liege forte ,:us been abandoned after a three days
encounter. .> German division has retired to the
left of the Hirer Meuse.
Reports from Liege last night were that the forts
still were holding out under a bombardment of
heavy shells. The Belgian fire was working havoc
among the Germans.
- Are Intact.
London. The correspondent of the
Daily News at Brussels sends this
dispatch dated last night:
“All the forts surrounding Liege are
intact. A Belsian airman thus de
scribes the German attack on Liege:
“ ‘After a terrible cannonade the
German infantry approached in mas
ses and re tched the glacis of the forts
where the heavy defensive guns were
unaMe to reach them. Gen. Leman
sent artillery to a point where the
invading infantry could be shelled
and the Germans were swept from
their position. This occurred several
times during the day and night.
Remarkable Exploit.
“A patrol of Uhlans performed a
re 1 ; arkable exploit by riding into the
biw,n. Belgian officers recognized
them as Germans and a desperate
fight ensued.
“Red Cross automobiles arriving at
Brussels report that the ground be
fore the fort is covered with dead and
wounded Germans.”
AOVICE GIN BY THE
DEP’T Afi’L IN COTTON
SCAREJSjEP CALM’
Consumption of American Mills Will Be Greatly Increased if
War Goes on—South’s Farmers, Able to Do So, Should
Withhold From Selling—English Mills Able to Organize
Spinning in Very Short Time
Washington, D. C.—“ Keep calm; use
the nation’s great credit and business
staunchness to the fullest extent; with
hold cotton from the market and give
careful attention to warehouse facilities
for grain.”
That was the advice of the Depart
ment of Agriculture today to farming
interests as a means of relieving threat
ened crop congestion on account of the
European war.
Cotton Most Important.
“Cotton is the most important factor
in the situation,” said Charles J. Brand,
in charge of the office of markets, in a
statement. “Cotton is the International
crop and the only crop that goes into
the industries and is used only in manu
factured state. The continental situa
tion Is bad, so far as cotton is con
cerned; the greatest continental centers
are In Alsace-Lorraine and the imme
diately surrounding section.
, The United Slates Must Have Quickly
Powerful, Efficient Merchant Marine
Reason for Service is That Our Latin American Neighbors
Do An Annual Export and Import Business or More Than
One Billion, Eight Hundred Million, and They Would Pre
fer Our Ships to Carry the Trade
(New York American).
There is no mean supply at our doors of ships that might be bought
from neutral flags. The North Atlantic, the American, the Red Star
the Holland-American, the Sandinavlan-American, the Norweglan-Amer
ioan lines and others.
The whole wide commerce of South America is open to us now al
most without competition—and the way Is clear
The country knows what it wants. It is abie to get It- The thing
Is, to make a start. Buy a «hlj>—either by the government or be the
agency of private American capital. Let the contract for building other
ships. That is the policy.
With governments as with men, In all things great or small that
ought to be done, the thing to do Is to go at it
Today we are not nearly eo well
off as we were In 1860, when we did
sixty per cent of the ocean-going
trade of the commercial world; today
we do less than nine per cent, and
we have only nine vessels on the Pa
cific coast, flying the Stars and
Stripes, enterd Into the over sea
traf ic. while, on the other hand, Ja-
P'n has 650 efficient ocean-going ves
sels, capable of moving over 200,000
troops at one time.
Some of these vessels are carrying
our Pacific coast armament for the
Philippine defense, which has caused
my frlpnd. oln-Tcbang, to smlie
broa llv and wonder why we should
> pend 1500,000,000 build a canal Tor
the powers of all the world to use,
them to benefit by the first
• ail ;o the Pacific virgin field, with
All reports of the fighting at Liege
agree that the German infantry ad
vanced in masses, holding to abso
lutely close order. This resulted In
heavy casualties.
Cross Mine Zone.
Liege. —The Tenth German army
corps, reinforced by cavalry attacked
Liege last night. They crossed a zone
which had been mined and the mines
whole battalion of the Germans was
killed while 1,200 wounded were pick
ed up.
Not a single fort has fallen into
hands of the Germans. Several Ger
man Howitzers have been placed in
position near Herve and large Ger
man forces are lying in wait on the
other side of the frontier.
An attack on the village of Cornes
se was repulsed by the Belgians.
Six Germans pretending to be Eng
lish made their way to the govern
or’s office this morning. They were
killed.
“England no doubt is able to organize
her cotton spinning in a very short time.
While there will he a restriction of the*
English market for cotton there is no
occasion for the conclusion that seems
to have entered some minds that there
will be no market for the crop.
“The consumption of American mills
will be greatly Increased if war goes on,
thus reducing the surplus that will have
to be cared for. The war will furnish
an especial opportunity for American
manufacturers to develop South Am
erican markets.
Should Withhold.
“Farmers able to do so owe It to the
well being of the South to withold their
cotton from the market. Bankers must
for the moment mix patriotism with their
business and assist both farm owners
and tenant farmers to hold their cotton
until the situation has had an oppor
tunity to clear.”
Its hundreds of millions of dollars In
commercial value
Gln-Tcnang, educated In Europe, is
organizing in China the largest stand
ing army In the world. ite would
like to know, as to Singapore, which
sends more than $15,000,000 a year to
the United States In. exports, why It
is that in 1908 20,000 vessels entered
and cleared at her port, representing
nearly sixteen million tons register,
and of that vast amount only one
vessel bore the Stars and Stripes,
registering 662 tons?
Some people think we cannot afford
to pay a white man's hire on board
ship and compete with foreign bot
toms. Think of It, foreign steamship
companies collect every y>ar more
than carrying our com
merce and industries and riding our
England’s New War Minister, Who Faces
Grave Problems
London. —Lord Kitchener, the veteran warrior,
has been named as the war minister to head the new
coalition war cabinet which has just been formed.
Seldom has any one man faced problems as grave
as those the new British war minister now faces.
THE DEATH OF MRS. WOODROW WILSON
The heartfelt sympathy of the entire American nation
will go out to the president in this hour of his deepest
grief and bereavement. To those who knew the president
and Mrs. Wilson, in their early life and struggles, when
he as a student, with slender means and with years of
study ahead of him, to secure his degree and to fit him
self for his life work as a teacher and writer, the death
of Mrs. Wilson means the greatest blow that could come
into the life of the president, and his burdens have been
heavy as the head of this nation.
It has been her inspiration, her counsel, her faith and
loyalty, and steady encouragement, her sympathy and
even her share of the work of the student that made
possible the development and the progress of the man
Woodrow Wilson, as a teacher, as a student, as a writer,
as an executive, and as a public man.
She has been a helpmeet as well as a heartmate for
all the best and fruitful years of the president’s life. In
this hour of sadness one cannot help but think of the
earnest, loving, loyal, confident young wife, helping and
cheering and urging on the college student to greater
and greater things.
The world will know her as a most gracious lady, The
First Lady of the Land---the wife of the president- Her
picture will be enshrined in many hearts as the wife of
Woodrow Wilson, college student and teacher---an in
spiration to all who came in contact with her.
passengers, while, we the greatest
and richest nation In tile world with
a pay roll bigger than all the world,
can show only a handTul of boats.
We are In the hands of a gigantic
foreign steamship trust who now can
not even guarantee moving our per
ishable merchandise because war
checks their mammoth fleets. We
need Immediately to rehabilitate our
merchant marine, because 80 per cent
of the money required to build ves
sels goes to labor, because a ton or
wheat shipped from Heattle to Europe
has teen raised from one dollar and
twenty-five rents to six dollars and
nlnetj cents: hut coming the other
wav, the rate has been less than two
dollars, with Instructions to return
to .Europe in ballast rather than
break the foreign steamship trust
rates.
Need Merchant Marine.
We need to rehabilitate our mer
chant marine because our I.atin-
American neighbors (twenty Latln-
American countries), do an annual ex
port and import business of more
THE AUGUSTS HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
than $1,800,000,000, and they would
prefer our ships to carry the trade.
I.ast, but not least, we need o re
habilitate our merchant marine to
grow with the development of our
navy. When we sent our battleships
around the world to impress the for
elgn powers with our naval strength
we did not even have enough, or, In
fact, any boats to carry tnelr coal;
we use 1 foreign bottoms.
Men and Ladies’ Silk Cloth
Tourist Hats, 50c—New lot
Men’s Straws, SI.OO
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First Liner
Flies Stars
and Stripes
e
The St. Paul Sails for Liver
pool With Crowded Cabins,
and With No Fear of Seizure
New York.—The American liner St.
Paul, the first trana-Atlantic vessel
to leave New York without fear of
capture since Great Britain and Ger
many went to war, sailed today with
crowded cabins and steerage for Liv
erpool. The St. Paul flies the Stars
and Stripes and therefore is not sub
ject to seizure by any of the Euro
pean warships believed to bo hovering
near the track of ocean liners.
Had the liner twice her accommo
dations for passengers she could not
have carried all who sought passage.
She sailed with approximately 460 on
board, including the Duchess of Marl
borough; the wives of the American
consuls at Liverpool and Odessa; the
American consul at Gognac, the Neth
erlands; consul nt Cairo, and as many
reservists as could he accommodated,
Servians and Bulgarians predominat
ing.
OHALKER TEMPORARILY
LOANED TO JACKSONVILLE
A little comment was caused yester
day afternoon as to why Catcher
Ohalker of th© Columbia Comers was
doing the receiving for the Jackson
ville Crowderltes.
Chalker Is temporarily k>nned, not
sold, to Manager Crowder by Mana
ger Osteen of the Comers until ar
rangement can he made for another
receiver. Not since Hay Krebs, now
with Columbus, left Jacksonville have
they had a satisfactory catcher.
Th© acquisition of Catcher Stuart
from Charlotte made it advisable for
the loan of Chalker. Correll Is Co
lumbia’s second catcher.
H. E. WINGARD GROCERY
SOLD; TO GO ON ROAD
Yesterday Mr. H. E. Wlnga M sold
out ills entire Interest In the grocery
store at »46 Fifteenth street to Mr.
R. W. Holsenbeck. Mr. Wlngard will
fro on the ’r'oacl."
Before leaving hp wishes to express
his appreciation of the kindness an 1
courtesy shown hy his patrons to him
while In business.
HELD AS PRIZE.
Quebec.—Reports today from R|-
mouskl, Que., on the lower St. Law
rence river, were to the effect that
n (Herman steamer was belnft held at
that place as a prize.
Moratorium In Peru.
Lima, Peru. —The frovernment today
proclaimed a moratorium for 30 days
from Auk. 8.
WAR
Winston Hponeer Churchill,
first lord of the British admiralty,
today declared In the House of
Commons there had been no
fighting or losses other than had
been announced officially. Thin
statement ensued on report* of a
naval battle between German
and British Hhipn but the admir
alty refused Information. It was
regarded hh significant that the
fishing fleets on the east coast
of England were Riven perrnlsi'
slon to ro out to sea.
Complete silence relßns an to
military movement* In both Ger
many and France and It Is as
sumed both armies are concen
tratinß for decisive battles. No
hint as to where they will come
Into contact has been Riven.
Lie, Belgium, was again at
tacked by German troops last
night but was still holding out.
The report of a German reverse
there was denied in a dispatch
from Berlin
The German cruisers Goeben
and Breslau, obliged owing to
Italian neutrality to leave Han
Hrevatclcillty, have gone out to
meet the British fleet. The com
manders are said to have handed
their wills to the German consul
before departure.
A J/ondon newspaper report
says the German crown prince
has been seriously Injured by an
unidentified assailant.
A Finn sea captain at Stock
holm reported the Russian navy
bottled up at Helslnfors and the
Russian ports of Llbau and Reval
burning after an attack by Ger
man vessel*. No confirmation
has been made.
Many German merchant ves
sels were brought Into English
ports today by British cruisers.
The Holland Lloyd steamer Tu
bantla with $2,500,000 from Month
America for the Deutsche Rank
in London, was also brought In.
French warships also captured
several German merchant ships.
The French premier appealed to
the women of France to gather
the wheat and wine crops.
Toklo reports the German
squadron at Tslng-Tau, t’hlna,
hern-med In by Hritlsh war ves
sels
The British tank steamer Han
Wllfredo Is reported destroyed by
a min** off Cuxhaven, Germany,
and the British steamer t’r nlg
forth was beached near Constan
tinople after contact with a mine
Htorles of discourtesy in Ger
many to the Dowager Empress
of Russia are declared false by
the German foreign office.
LAST MINUTE WAR
BULLETINS
DESTROYED BY MINE.
Antwerp (via London)—lt is reported the British
tank steamer San Wilfredo, of 928 tons, which ar
rived at Hamburg from New Orleans July 28th, and
was on her return voyage, had been destroyed by a
mine off Cuxhaven, derm any.
RUSSIAN ASHORE.
Stockholm (via London)—The captains of two
Swedish steamers report a Russian cruiser ashore
near llangoe, Finland.
BEACH STEAMER.
Constantinople (via London)—The British steam
er Craigforth, of 1,842 tons, was beached near here
today after striking a mine.
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CAPTURE GERMAN. ~ <
Plymouth, Eng.— I The British light cruiser YTndio
tive today captured the German steamer Kchlesien of
3,528 tons and brought her into this port. The Sehle
sien was on tho voyage from Brisbane, Australia, to
Bremen. , i ,
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BROUGHT INTO PORT.
Cherbourg (via London)—The French mine layer
Pluton captured and brought here a German mer
chant ship of 5,000 tons.
WITH $2,500,000 GOLD.
Plymouth.—The Holland Lloyd steamer Tubantia
from South America, which has been brought here by
warships has $2,5(f),000 in gold aboard, part of
which is consigned to the German Bank of London.
There are also several German reservists besides a
quantity of grain aboard the Tubantia.
BULGARIAN VOLUNTEERS.
Athens (via London)—A telegram from Nish says
hands of Bulgarian volunteers are forming along the
southwest frontier to replace the Austrian troops,
which have been withdrawn to the Russian line.
AMBASSADOR LEAVES.
St. Petersburg (via London) The Austro-Hun
garian ambassador to Russia, accompanied by his
staff and eighty Austrian subjects who were resi
dent in Nt. Petersburg, left this morning. He is pro
ceeding to Vienna by way of Finland anrl Sweden.
DOWAGER EMPRESS.
Stockholm (via London) —The Dowager Empress
Maria Foedorowna ha.s loft for Russia, taking with
her 600 refugees on a special train.
PRINCE OF WALES.
London.—The Prince of Wales has been given a
commission in the grenadier guards and will go into
active service, probably in England.
SEIZE 3TEAMERB.
London—(s:2o p. m.) —Thn limn burg American liners KronprlMemta
Ceellle and the Prlnss Aliialmrt, lying at the (teaport of Falmouth, Eng
land, have been Hel/.ed by the government.
Ttu; llrltlkh crulHer Ltano today brought the German schooner Else,
from Rio Grande into Falmouth.
Premier Issues Appeal
To “Women of France”
To Aid Crop Gathering
Calls on Their Hardihood and Courage to Take Up Task
Left Unfinished By the Men in Nation’s Call to War
P»ri». The minister of agriculture, In co-operation with the princi
pal miller*, grain merchant* and manufacturer* of agricultural ma
chinery, ha* organized an elaborate *y*tem to a**ure aupplle* for both
the army ami the civil population.
Premier Vlvlani ha* ud<ire**eil an appeal to the "women of Krance 1 ’
a*klng them to complete the work of gathering the crops left unfiniah
ed by the men who have been call ed to arm*.
"The wheat,” *ald the premier, “aland* unreaped and the time of
vintage approaches I appeal to your hardihood and to that of your
children whoae age* alone, not thei r courage, withhold* them from the
fighting line. I a*k you to inainta in the life oT our flelda, to flniah
thl* year'* harvn*t anil prepare for that of next year. You cannot ren
der a greater service to your conn try.”
The mayora In the country diHtricta are drawing lists of men and
machine* which will he concentrat od where moat needed for agricultu
ral opera tlona.
The mlnlater of marine haa placed 20.000 naval reaerviata too old to
fight, at the dgpoH.fi of the farmer a. Meaaure* are al»o being taken to
Bend men from the cltlea wno have been thrown nut of work by the war
Into tile larming diatricta and to import foreign farm laborers.
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