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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 P. F. SHERON & CO. Herald Bargain Page See Page 8 for inspected genuine bargain offers guaran teed by The Herald. 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. - - 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 , \ ■■■■ i ■■ ■ —— ■ ■ >m \ 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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