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TWO CLASH TO FOLLOW EXPIRATION OF JAP ULTIMATUM Great Battle Between Germany and the Allied Forces TIE LIT EM ES IB GERMANY FIS TB ANSWER JAP ULTIMATUM, HOSTILITIES ARE NOW IMMINENT Reported That Japanese Fleet in Readiness to Begin Operations at Once—Germany Forts to Resist to the Utmost At Ten O’clock Last Night the Time For Germany’s Answer Expired—The Opinion Was General That Germany Would Ignore Japan’s Note—Early Capture of Kiaochow Seems Assured Washington The time limit for the Japanese ultimatum to Germany, demanding the surrender of Kiaochow, expired at 10 o’clock tonight, without any answer having been made by the German government through the state department. No notification that a reply had been transmitted through any other channel had been received at the German embassy here at that hour. JAPAN READY TO BEGIN OPERATION London, 2:30 a. m.-A Tien Tsin dispatch to the Central News says it is reported that the Japanese fleet, accompanied by a large number of transports conveying troops, is near Kiaehow, in readiness to begin opera tion immediately the ultimatum expires. The German warships and forts are prepared to .offer the utmost resistance. Expired at 10 O'clock, Washington. The tme limit on Ja pan* ultiiuatum to Ocrmtiuy, demand- j mg Hiat the Chinese territory of Klao ehow held ■ (in many he eorreiuternd and that urrmaii crulaere in Far Eastern waters lie disarmed, expired at 10 o'clock tonight, eastern time, or noon Sunday, Toklo time. An that hour approached atate de part merit and diplomat le. offlciale here watched for a poaetble reply from Germany to he transmitted to Toklo through American channel*. Bo fur ae *'•« known no such mes na»c had been forwarded through other channels, and the opinion was general that Germany would Ignore Japan'a note, leaving the Initiative to Japan. Baron Chlnda. Japanese ambaeea dor to tho United States, transmitted through the elate department today a meamige to Mr. Foniknsha, Japanese charge d'affglica at Berlin ordering him U> leave the Gorman capital at 4 a. m tomorrow. If • that time he had received no reply from the Her man government to the ultimatum. The Japanese charge Was Instructed to leave the Internets of Japan In the hands of the American embassy. The next atep on the part of the - Japan government. It was generally anaunird here, would he to attack Klaochow. At the Japanese embassy It was reiterated that Japan would carry out to the letter the terms of her ultimatum. The United States. The United states. In the foie of An Interested hut neutral spectator, was per pa red to tranamlt any com munications from ths two govern ments. • Discussion here today turned on the future of Klaochow. as Its early sur render or capture seems assured. Ja pan Is expected to redeem Its prom ise to her ally. Great Britain, and to the United States* to turn this ter - ritory over to Chine at s reasonably early data The dtecuealcn has been raised In Tokto aa to whether Japan would not he relieved from the execution of this pledge If through Germany's refusal j to meet the terms of the ultimatum,, Japan Is put to the expense and tmu- ] Me of taking Klaochow by force. In- I time lions received In official circles here, however, are that many Japan ese statesmen believe the time has come when efforts must be made tu regain the confidence of the Chinese people In Japan's Intentions. Also it Is deemed necessary for the success ful development of the larger politi cal plane of Japan In the Far East that ahe should retain the good will of the United States Jap Trade with U. 8. It has been shown that, contrary to common belief. Japanese trade with tbg United Btetee I* more than double In volume the entire Chln»-American commerce Last year Japan sent Into the United States markets goods val ued at Ml.tSJ.ooo and received Amer toan goods to the value of IJ?,T41,000. while In the same time Chinee# ex port* to the United Btetee were 18.- 788,000 end American exports to China, ti 1.318.114. In view of these considerations. It Is generally believed here that the Ja pirn government will follow out Its announced program to the letttr and restore Klaochow to China ag early aa poesUisx Kill German Cavalry in Fight London. A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam saya a largo detach ment of German cavalry wero annihi lated In the suburbs of Mallnes. Bel glum, Friday afternoon. They were n et suddenly by a squad of Belgians In motor cars armed with machine guns. Moat of the Germane were killed. A handful surrendered and weremad* prisoners Imperial Chancellor to the Associated Press Now York The Aaoetatod Press has r< et\ cd the following message through the German embassy: "Berlin. The Associated Frees. N • w York: "Germany t* completely cut off from the rest of the world and neither can si ltd out news nor receive it The empire therefore ts unable to defend Itself against the falsehoods propagat ed by the press of hostile countries It only can defend Itself by Its deeds The German people will be profoundly grateful for every effort to disseminate the real truth. "VON B ETH MAVS - H01.1.W KG "Imperial German Chancellor.* "UNCLE CHARLIE'MS IN SOUTH GEORGIA PREACHING Sayg Evangelistic Meeting* in That Section of the State Been Successful. Word received In Augusta hv friend* of "l'ncle Charlie" Wilkinson, the evangelist. Indicate that he has been holding iin%e.saful meetings during the spring and summer In South , Georgia. He Is now at Broxton. Oa.. one hun dred and eighty-six miles from Am* , gust a. and states that he finds that | * h, “ people there are Interesting thern »e)voa a greet deal In his preaching. National Lawn Tennis. Newport. R. |.—With M E. Mc- I lenighlln and K N. Williams second, ! of the American Davis cup team, and A F Wilding and N. E Brooke, of the winning Australasian cup team aa contenders, together with nearly every stats end sectional tltleholder In (he country, the national lawn tennlc championship which begins here cn Monday la expected to prove aa In teresting aa the recent International matches Drawings for the all-comer*' tour nament today disposed an entry list |of 118, or tea leas than last year. Namor and First View ot Belgian Troops Concentrating There l'*L ■- — — NAMUR. The photograph above is the first to he received in the United States of the mobilization of the Belgian troops at Namur to resist the invasion of the Gorman army. Below is s hown a view r of the city of Namur across the River Meuse. How the Belgians defended the city of Liege and how they are still holding the Liege forts is now known and applauded throughout the civilized worl d. The defense of Namur will prove even more stubborn than that ol Liege. At Namur the Belgians will b e reinforced by the French and the English and It Is doubtful if the German army of the Meuse which had planned pushing on to France in shortest possible space of time, will ever get beyond Namur. Bitter Commercial War Starts in England Against Germany and Austria London.—A bitter commercial war Rgainet Germany and Austria has been Inaugurated in England. It has the loyal support of press and public. The London chamber of commerce committee at a private meeting Sat urday discussed this anti-German trade campaign The commercial In telligence branch of the board of trade has a skilled staff working on lists of German Imports and It calls attention of manufacturers to trans fer lines which Germans sell heavily In England: Electrical appliances and apparatus. Iron and steel, wire, stone anil earthenware, chlnaware, cutlery, hollow ware, cotton hosiery, woolen and worsted piece goods, cotton prints, furniture, leather, gloves, and boots and shoes. It Is estimated that 812.000,000 worth of German dynamos and motors are sold annually In British territory. Suspend Patents. The hoaTd of trade hss arranged for the suspension of German and Aus trian patents In England, wherever manufacturers want to make use of them In the public Intereet. The drug manufacturers are preparing to cap ture the great trade which German chemical concerns have enjoyed In England. 2420 Passengers and 6,000 Sacks of Mail Seven Hundred of the One Thousand One Hundred in Steer age Were Americans Who Could Get No Other Accommoda tions—Many Hardships Be fore Taking Steamer New York—The White Star liner Baltic arrived Saturday from Liver pool and Queenstown with s,tso pas sengers and nearly 8,000 sacks of tjtall. The passengers Included more than 1.600 American refugees, who reached either Queenstown or Liverpool from the continent after suffering many hardships. Seven hundred of the 1,100 steerage passengers were Americans, unable to get accommodations In the first and second cabins. One of the passenger* was Mis* Florence Ralph of Buffalo, who at the outbreak of hostilities was studying music in Berlin. Bhe heard the emperor deliver the speech In which he said hie sword had been forced Into hie hands by hi* enemies. A* he said It, Miss Ralph de'lared, he petted the hilt of e heavy sabre hang ing at hi* side and tear* came Into his eye* The Germans cheered ths emperor's speech until he told them to go to tho churches and pray. Tim# te Be Solemn. "The day before 1 left Berlin.'' ene said, "the authorities Issued orders that no parades should be allowed and that any persons found singing patri otic songs would be arrested. The fHE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA. All English chambers of commerce have been advised of this opportunity and urged by the London chamber to interest manufacturers In concerning German business Germany shipped more than $17,000,000 worth of stock ings to England last year, as well *8 much underwear. Furthermore Ger many has enjoyed an extensive Can adian trade in women’s suits and cot ton goods. Capture German Trade. All tUe dally papers and trade Jour nals contain letters, articles and edi torials, setting forth how to capture this German trade. Buyers are urged to boycott German goods after ths present stocks held by English mer chants are exhausted. The treasury has announced that the government will not permit Brit ish firms to deal with German and Austrian firms located In hostile ter ritory; also that contracts entered Into before the war with firms In hos tile territory cannot be carried out. The English papers are making an especial attack on the German tnamt fact---ers of the Christmas cards and toys. All parents are ruged to deny their children playthings made by the enemies of the empire. Idee. I understand, was that the gov ernment wanted to Impress upon the people that 1t was a time to be solemn and not to be over confident." Samuel Untermyer, the lawyer, said that Amerk-an women, who were forced to taka passage In the steer age, sat at tablet sandwiched among foreigner* of the kind usually found In steamship steerages. In the steer age were fifteen Americans who had been arrested In Ormany and Russia as spies Filled With Wounded. Dr. R. Pollock of San Antonio, Tex., was a steerage passenger. He was 'n Liege Aug. Ist and 2nd and said the etreets were filled with wounded men. He eatd there seemed to be few- phy sicians In ths town. He himself dressed the wounds of several men. Miss A. Nelson of Brooklyn, a steerage passenger, rode from Berlin to A '-ge In a freight car. Bhe lost all of her baggage. Jewelry and money. The Baltic was convoyed by the Rrttlah cruiser Essex from the middle of the Atlantic to a short distance outside the three-mll# limit. All the passengers praised the British gov ernment for Its eforts to ease herd ships of stranded Americana. IS SPECIALS FDR CANADIANS War Recruits Begin Their Start For Quebec Camp. Eight Thousand Men Ready Wlnnepeg.—Western Canada troops began entraining today for Valcartier Camp, Quebec. The big movement through and out of Winnipeg begins tomorrow and will continue all day Monday. Fifteen special trains have been ordered to convoy nearly eight thousand men with equipment. De tachments also are coming from Van couver, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton, Moose Jaw, Regina, Saskatoon, Bran don, Portage La Prarles, Kenora, Fort William and Port Arthur. Ac these points they have been drilling for a week. Two thousand are leaving Win nipeg, Including Infantry, cavalry, ar tillery and ambulance men with bands. FRENCH WOUNDED SAY BULLETS DON’T HURT Parle, 12:50 p» m.—French wounded being cared for in Paris hospitals fre quently remark that their bullet wounds are not painful. In a large number of cases men who had been shot are not aware of the fact until af ter the engagement was over. One man declares he did not know he had been hurt until the next morning He then discovered a ball had gone throug his arm. The only outward Indications were two dark spots on the skin euch as might he mode by a lead pen dl, one on earh side of the arm. The men In the hlspitals pass the time gaily and spend many hours listening to ac counts of the progress of the war read aloud by one of their number. B REIURNIIIG; Sill ARE PENNILESS “Campania’’ and “St. Louis" Dock at New York From Liverpool With British and French Ambassadors New York—The Cunard Litter Cam pania and the American Line steamer Ht. Louie arrived tonight from Liver pool, filled to their utmost capacity with returning Americans. The Cam pania brought *45 caoln and S 4& steerage and the St. Louie had 668 cabin and 468 steerage passengers. Many paosengers wero penniless and had only the clothes they wore. Passenger* on the St. Louis includ ed the British ambassador. Sir Cecil Arthur Bprtng-Rlee, and the French ambassador. Jules J. Jusserand. In the Irish Channel the Campania passed about twenty sub-marines, which the passengers at first thought to be whales. Tht# morning about forty mltea -west of Nantucket, a | British cruiser passed her. The 8l I Louis saw the some cruiser. SINGE RUSSIAN WAR, JAPS HATED GERMANS Mikado’s Subjects Have Never Forgiven Them For Part Play ed Nineteen Years Ago in Evacuation of Port Arthur London, 7:46 p. m.—“ From my fair ly intimate knowledge of the Japan ese I felt certain that as soon as war broke out they would Join in driving the Germans out of Kiaochow," said Sir Valentine Chirol, former director of the foreign department of The Times, in a statement Saturday night. Sir Valentine is looked upon as an authority whose words carry weight in all the chancellories of Europe. “The Japanese,” he continued, “probably would have done it even if there had been no Anglo-Japanese treaty, and even if the Japanese gov ernment had tried to hold hack, popu lar feeling would have insisted. The share which Germany took with Rus sia and France in compelling the Jap anese to evacuate Port Arthur in 1895, after their victories over China, never has been forgotten or forgiven. Shall Never Forgive. "T was In Japan then and in the course of a conversation Prince Xto, that great statesman, usually reticent and reserved, brought his fist down on the table and exclaimed: “ 'Germany we shall never forgive; Russia looks upon us as a future rival In the Far EsTst. France is, of course, her ally and has Important possessions and ancient interests in eastern Asia; we can understand their action. Rut for Germany, who always professes such genuine friendship and has no special interests in these regions, to Join hands with them and stab us in the back—her intervention was odious and gratuitous.’ “Moreover, Japan believed, I really think, that Germany instigated Rus sia. Count Okuma, the present pre PROTEST BY BRITAIN ON SU OT GOAL' LADEN ’FRISCO SHIP Clearance Refused By U. S. Authorities For Steamer Mazat lan—Cargo Intended to Replenish Fuel For German Cruiser Leipzig Washington,—The British govern ment will consider It a direct violation of American neutrality If the tramp steamer Mazatlan, denied clearance at San Francisco, Is permitted to sail with coal for the German cruiser Leipzig. Colville Barclay, charge d’affalrs of the British embassy here, took the matter up today with the state de partment. He was Informed that the question was already under consider ation by the department and some phases of it before the department of justice. Mr. Barclay said he felt It unneces sary, In view of this, to lodge a formal protest. The British embassy believes the I,elpz lg la using San Francisco, a neutral port, as a coaling station through the medium of such ships as the Mazatlan and claims It Is as direct a violation of neutrality as though the Leipzig put into port herself for coal. The Leipzig has coaled once at San Francisco and under neutrality laws may not coalat an American port Rgaln for three months. Clearance Refused. Ban Francisco,—Clearance papers OFFICIAL SUMMARY OF NAVAL SITUATION Washington,—The British embassy tonight made public the follow ing official summary of the naval situation received today from the London foreign office: "The floating trade of Germany has been brought to a standstill by the operations of British cruisers in different parts of the world. The German fleet Is unable to Interfere or to set their commerce free, owing to the British main fleet which Is cruising In full strength and prevent ing any interference with the cruisers. Already about seven percent of the total German tonnage Is In Brit Ish hands, another twenty per cent Is sheltering In neutral harbors and the remainder either la In German har bors unable to move or endeavoring to find security. British shipping, with the exception of less than one per cent which was In German har bors at the outbreak of war Is actively pursuing its business on all the great commercial routes. "The German sqifardon In Chin a has been rendered Ineffective by the constant pursuit by the British squadron in Far East. Trade In China, therefore is unaffected. "The Austrian squadron In the before the combined Anglo-French about to send strong detachments adjoining seas in which the naval "Great numbers of the sea-faring population of Great Britain are of fering themselves for service In the fleet." ORIENTAL SEA ROUTES. Tokio.—The chamber of commerce has announced tha* Oriental Eu» ropenn sea route* are safe, except in the neighborhood of German pos sessions. The route from Japan t< Beattie Is declared to be safe, but by way of Honolulu it is advlsuble to steam to the north and to maintain vigilance. The Japanese government U expected to make an important decla ration Sunday. SUNDAY, AUGUST 23. mier, says so in his book, 'Fifty Years of Modern Japan,’ and I have no doubt it is so. A Paraphrase. “Compare, too, the text of Japan’s ultimatum to Germany with the text of the ultimatum addressed by Ger many to Japan in 1895. It is clearly a direct paraphrase-. The curious ex pression that ‘The Japanese govern ment believes it to be its duty to give advice to the imperial German gov ernment’ to withdraw from Kiaochow, is borrowed almost textually from tne 1895 ultimatum which many described as advice given to Japan to ‘renounca possession of Ldao-Tung peninsula as new proof of sincere friendship.’ “The bitter irony with which Japan, after nineteen years, now turns the tables on Germany, speakß for itself. Public Opinion. “All Japan wants Is to ell mina/e from China the root of German influ ence and I am perfectly well i(yrare that any action which would estrknge public opinion in the United States Is Incompatible with the Anglo-Jap anese alliance, which was specially revised only three years ago, so as to exclude suen possibilities and positive assurances have been given all neu tral powers having possessions in the Far East. “Japan, no doubt, wishes to secure her seat in the council of the powers when the war ends and also to in crease her prestige with China. But as far as the people of Japan are con cerned, it is memories of past injuries rather than dreams of future ambi tions which at present fill their minds.” were refused the steamer Mazatlan toi day by order of the Treasury Depart ment at Washington. The Mazatlan Is German-owned and Is laden with coal originally bought by the German con sulate here for delivery aboard the German cruiser Leipzig at sea. Much perplexity has clouded the case of the Mazatlan. While the ves sel was still flying the German flag her attempt to deliver the coal was halted by the port authorities. She was then placed under the Mexican flag and representations were made that the coal had been eold a firm of Mexican commission merchants for livery In Guaymas, Mex. Daniels Won’t Talk. Washington,—Secretary Daniels re ceived a report on the Mazatlan today dined to discuss It. Certain circum stances, not disclosed here were un derstood »o be the hast* of the treas ury department's action in refusing to clear the ship. The steamer Is being held while the state department decides the question of neutrality and law Involved. Adriatic has retired Into the Adrlatlo fleet which ts so superior that It la to any part of the Mediterranean and forces may be required.