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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 Bulletins of Europe's War News Seen at a Glance FRANCE Paris. —An official com munication issued last night says: “ German prisoners who have been questioned gave the impression they are broken in spirit and weak from hunger. They seem not to have been informed concerning the reason for the mobilization and one man asked why war had been declared. According to German opinion, ‘Days Ist Nicht Ein Volkskreig, das ist ein Offizierskieg’— ‘This is not a people’s war, but an officers’ war.’ ” PaTis —The first officer to be decorated for gallantry in the war is Second Lieu tenant H. J. Bruvant, of the Fifteenth Dragoons. Gen eral Joffres, the French commander-in-chief, in con ferring the Legion of Honor on Lieutenant Bruvant, said the officer with seven of his men charged forty Uhlans and that Bruvant had killed the officer of the Uhlans with his own hands while the other members of the band were routed. Paris. —The correspond ent of The Times at Con stancebaden, says battal ioYi's of Bosnians, wearing red fezzes passed through the railroad depot at Con stance going westward, ac cording to reliable informa tion given him. Paris —France is swelter ing under a heat wave. Cases of sunstroke were re ported today. Long lines of women throughout the day stood outside the office, where information regard ing soldiers in the field is given, seeking to learn how the heat was affecting their husbands or sons, dressed in their thick uniforms, and carrying heavy war packs. Paris.' Arrangem e nt s havA been completed under which American letters of credit and travelers’ checks may be cashed in all the principal cities of France, Italy and Switzerland. Pa^is.—Three large tech nical commissions have been appointed jointly by ■the ministers of war and marine to study and experi ment w ; th military inven tions. of which hundreds have been offered the gov ernment. The first will pa«s on explosives and chemicals, the second on ba listics, aeronautics and me chanics. and the third, on wireless telegraphy and tel ephony. The commissions will con sist of fifty of the best known scientific men in France. Paris. —The Dutch gov ernment today officially gave the French govern ment renewed assurance of its neutrality in the present conflict and of its firm in tention to make it respect ed. The Dutch army, it was pointed out. was well trained and well officered would strongly resist any attempt to enter its ter ritory. - ENGLAND London.—Walter Hines Page, American ambassa dor, last night authorized | the American transporta tion committee to charter a vessel in England to take l American refugees home. London.—All the heavy German artillery has been 'destroyed by the extraordi narily accurate fire from the Liege forts, which still are intact, according to a dispatch received tonight by The Exchange Tele graph from its Brussels cor respondent. London.—A special dis patch to The Exchange Tel egraph from Paris sa.vs the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau arrived in the Dardanelles following their purchase by Turkey flying the Turkish flag. The dis patch adds that the Geraian fittings of the cruisers had been dismantled. London.—A special dis patch today from Rome says that Emperor William, who, it was reported, in tended making a visit to Aix-La-Chappelle, near the Belgian frontier, has been persuaded not to make the journey. London.—A Vienna dis patch received by way of Amsterdam says the Aus trian troops have advanced into Russian Poland. London.— Steamers with passengers and provisions continue to arrive from vSandinavian North Sea ports. Coastwise traffice is being resumed, and travel ers are going about their le gitimate businesS. Among the passengers from Copen hagen was Jules Combon, former French ambassador at Berlin. London.—Americans de siring to return home are more inconvenienced than other people because the government has comman deered most of the Atlantic liners. The number of Americans waiting for ves sels in which to sail is in creasing for with the com pletion of mobilization they are permitted to move more freely from the continental countries and the bulk of them are coming to London. London—The Hong Kong correspondent of the Ex change Telegraph says it is reported there that the British fleet in the Far East has* cornered the German Far Eastern squadron. Weight is lent the report, the correspondent adds, by the fact that shipping along the coast is resuming its normal basis. London—Earl Kitchener, British secretary of state for war. today notified the press that any newspaper publishing news of naval or military movements except that issued by the official bureau would be iided. Here the battle of life and death is fought to its bitter end. This is the battle without hope. No drams beating, trumpets sounding on this bat tlefield. BELGIUM Brussels (via London). — A Belgian official commu nication today says that a German force proceeding in the direction of Eghezee to the north of Namur, was at tacked and repulsed this morning by the Belgian troops. The Germans suf fered severe casualties. The Belgians captured a num ber of machine guns mount ed on motor cars. Brussels, (via Paris).— A woman who caught a German spy on the train from Antwerp in the act of releasing carrier pigeons seized and held him until other passengers came to her assistance. He was tried by court martial and shot. AMERICA San Francisco—lt is now positive that the flotsam cast up outside the Golden Gate in the last three days was woodwork jettisoned bv the Rainbow when she cleared for action after leaving this port before dawn last Saturday and when she believed herself in danger of going into act ion with German cruisers THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. THE REAL BATTLEFIELD Liepzig and Nurnburg, which are still in these these waters. New York.—The Italian steamer ('aserta sailed at noon for Genoa, Naples and Palermo with passengers of various nationalities aboard but no reservists. Bulletins were posted at the Hoi land-American Line piers in Hoboken today that the Potsdam, which ar rived from Europe yester day will sail on Saturday at 6 p. m. Her scheduled date was Tuesday. ITALY Rome.—The Mlessaggero today says it understands that the Italian ambassador to the United .States,' the Marquis Cusani Confalon ieri, who is returning to Washington has instruc tions to co-operate with President Wilson in regard to the latter’s offer of me diation in the European war. Rome. Vico Admiral Leone Viale was appointed minister of marine today to suer: ed Admiral Enrico Millo, who retired on ac count of ill-health. Rome. Travelers from Bosnia describe the Aus The man is away—sent, he knows not why, to be murdered. The woman find the children are left, to fight against starvation and death. This is the REAL war and millions are enrolled in it. trian forces there, especial ly the Slav, Czech, Italian and Rumanian elements, as unruly and rebellious. They assert that although a number of mutineers have been shot, the regi ments appear to be disinte grating and that this ac counts for the inactivity of the Austrian army on the the Servian frontier during the last eleven days. SWISS Geneva, Switzerland. Eight hundred Americans have left Genoa and other Italian ports, where there already are 2,000 other Americans waiting to take passage for home. The American ambassa dor at Rome, Thomas Nel son Pago, has advised P. A. Stovall, American ambassa dor to Switzerland, that seven steamers are ready to sail, but all room has been taken. Ambassador Page is chartering additional Steamers, lie says there are 8,000 Americans in Italy and they continue to arrive from every frontier. • Geneva, Switzerland. American tourists here are leaving for Paris despite the thirty-hour railroad journey. They hope to ob tain passage at Cherbourg on the steamer France. Geneva, Switzerland. Italy has mobilized between 200,000 and 250,000 troops on the Swiss and Austrian frontiers as a precautionary measure. All the high passes over the Al, is such as the Tlteodule avobe Zer matt are strongly held arid Swiss and Italian patrols meet there and exchange impressions of the war. If You Want War News Phone 2036 And Say SEND ME THE HERALD - *T~ SEVEN HOLLAND Rotterdam.— Sixty thou sand Dutch troops are on the line of the frontier. Large area* of land have been flooded to a depth of three feet as a precaution ary measure. Amsterdam—Fighting in the neighborhood of the Belgian town of Tongres, to the norttfe of Liege, was resumed today, according to the correspondent of The Telegraif at Maestricht, who says that after a quiet night an artillery duel was recommenced this morning. 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