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" ?.i-t.'.j .1 . , ; dispatchies from Durazzoi state 'Sife'-r;;r ?S that ' Italy is casting coyetous v eyes on Albania and seizore of . the new country J3expej5te$;X A . - s." , -CohiilitibnsitheT)6re v r ; .. ; ' , ' ateTtalian and 'French 'troons if ,' preserve raer. sac is ,es;psefea Ufe:fueaniath i&.vajjMinaijKiissiaii ? army . has begun invasion of, Austria along the Styr river, Howard r, Laimburg. . ' ,. ' ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 11 It was announced .that six carloads of German prisoners of war are en route through Vilna. Their destination is not known. '..-,-;"' . ' '.. L V PARIS, Aug.' 11. The war ; onice- ; announced that the y French were compelled . to , evacuaMuihause and Al lfiacevt states that the army was operatmg ..against ;Neu Bnsache. but was dnven back by an oyeirwHelming ,. German p?. ;:armySlt'i;elieyed a general t . battle is in progress i , 1 ; ; ' r r LONDON, L Aug. .11. The Belgian legation denies . that the German army is in Liege. saya pny a lew Uermans are ;m ine jsitjv tnat tne;rest are still .'engaged in an unsuccess- i in auempi w reauce tne lortl catibns2;;f? '.'-I mSH,l&;;TlierWar office announced that combined Servian and Montenegrin ar 'mies are rapidly pushing Bqs . nia. Bosnians are reported to be rising m behalf of the in " ' - ' ,V 1 vaders who have : defeated ' ' .V Austrian.Wbps wherever they ;'$:avmet iI Considered c'ertain;Stha .ifce x: J ' German army. is "mpving r 'tb- main ;f army's invasion. This; inform jnation was gained from copies v y.( ' At was aiso ,snownt that the 1 i jy Germans expected,' no opposi- 'C V.'v fitionfrpm Beluni,rAccordmg ;i v1dc' i . . f , . w finus wouv jjuuuv : Ub : lllc v u st-"? i war i officd ' the "trmnna - v u r, juon v waste time or advice on peo tenant and be is Pl h.ai-t U 'ii th DrosecutioVto tended to occupy Brussels on AugusV 3, and .Liege on Au gust fifth.' ' LONDON, Aug. 11. The Austrian, ambassador has been asked to explain, tlie presence bf Austrn troops f?neatfie be"0:riply)yet ,pL-. siisfac iOiiinswejc.is 'ioi!expitcyi , U:gl$'th6iBriti8h ajbassadojr: eiw0ask ' '. - rjt.i-j. -JK-. ,i , 'J. ; It ant be learned. Whether demand an explanation for. a British warship; shelling an Austrian boajt. " "y " NEW YORK, Aug. 11. The Italian liner "Italian" was re ported held up off Nantucket last night by the British cruis er Essex and ordered to raise her flags. ;' . LONDON, Aug. 11. At noon dispatches were received to the effect that Germans Were making" fierce efforts to silencer the forts "of liege, and the defenders:; were gallantly holding bntv'V-'? BRUSSELS, An. Heavy de tachments of French artillery passed here on the way to the front. ' The rivers in the vicinity of liese are stained with blood for miles. - The garrison at Liese made bril liant sorties, attacking German com' niands , operating apart from " the main army. Inflicting severe losses. - The German pontoon bridge over rae Kiver raense at Herstai has been destroyed. They will have to build a new one under heavy Are.. . ; -' ' Heavy siege gnns have keen plac ed In front of liege by Germans. ; The , war , office announces , eight thousand German troops captured are to be held as prisoners of war. v : The allied army moved north from Namur to reinforce. ' The Belgian French army, is operating' against the German army f the Mense. ' VncKXA, Aug.ltThe war office announced that Raaslan advance on Austria was begun without auccess. Russian forces were repeatedly ; re pulsed all along the line. . p : " v ,. ,, .-ypyi "V ") ' . :. , V .1 LONDON, Awr.i 11 The Frenrh embassy declared it has been shown positively that Austrian arm corns advanced Into, Germany close to the rrencn ? ironuer, sucn , acuon being hostile to France, leaving the French government he choice but to declare war.-';, yyni'i'-y,' --w v!v'.:,i 'tv -The Admiralty announced the ac ceptance or Canada's Offer to furnish two sub-marines for use on the Part, flo.coast,:::,' 2;vici ..- i practically t ontfnuttus alonff , the ironuer loaay. ine jfrenca army Is moving northward through Alsace. ' It was admitted that , losses ' on both aides were -heavy, - : v i i V LONDON, Aug. ll.-No great tat 'Botb. combaUnts claim victory ftt Liege, with the Belgians still holding tne, ions and the Germans occupy mg tne city. : : -. -i -.- ,! The situation Is unique.'- There is no confirmation of the Dailv Mail's report that the French have engaged; the Germans and cut off their,, re treat; inflicting a loss of 8,000 men The Belgians claim that they havft taken 8,000 prisoners on Belgian soit rout military men regard all thevesv tlmates of the belligerents as gretl France and Austria Anally are OftV clally at war, the ambassadors hav ing left the respective capitals.' The4 matic reiationB witn Austria on tna grounds that Austrian troops wer reinforcing the Germans. 1 Austria appears to have abandon ea tne advance on Servia for a time and apparently is co-operating .with uermany in tne supposed strategy oi attempting to crush France before Russia can mobilize. , .. i : JjOND - :: t. The' Hamburg-Amefvu beamer ' Cap Ortegal,; with $6,u00.1)00 in spec aboard, has been' captured'ny";,!) fi sritisn, according to the Dally- Mail Tne liner sailed from Buenos Ayres July 10 for SOutbampton. , AMSTERDAM, Aug. ll.-r-Queea Wilhelmiha has published a procla mation calling upon everybody to' as sist those in need. She suggests the formation- of a general benevolent committee with the minister of com- Bierce as rreaiuent. LONDON, Aug. 11. The, corfe spondent of the Daily Telegraph tel ephones a message from Maastricht that there has been heavy firing along the line between Liege and Tongres. The Germans are placing heavy guns before Liege and Namur, A Rome dispatch to the Dafly Mail says t is reported .that the Monte? negrlhs have occunied Scutari, r. - and Canadian tourists numbering ov er 10,000, who are stranded here owing to, a suspension of the sailing or steamers from Glasgow, held meeting last night at .which John N McCunn, American consul, nresided. A committee was appointed to reg ister the names of the refugees and render v them financial assistance when needed. LONDON, Aug. 11. Mrs. George Law, of New York, left London by automobile bound for Havre. It is her intention to join the French Red Cross. ' NISH, Aug. 11. The American consul here has taken over the Ger man interests, the German minister having departed. PARIS, Aug. 1 1. The. Austrian ambassador. Count Szecsen von Te- merln, left Paris last night. LONDON, Aug. 1 1. A Brussels dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph saya among the Germans killed in the assault on Liege were - Prince William of Llppe and his son. TOKIO, JAPAN, Aug. 11 Count Okuma, premier, in an address to newspaper, men , in,,. Japan, urged them to refrain from sensational ru mors and inflammatory articles in such1 critical times, saying they were calculated to. excite the . public un duly and injure Japan's relations with friendly countries. The pre mier Instanced what he termed a false assertion that the United States was sending a fleet to Japan. V America,", concluded, the premier "nas made no demand on Japan, and remains Japan's great friend." U.S. IS HOSTILE, Proclamation to, German People In v tlmates This Country Is Not ' Friendly t London, Aug." 11. London ob. serves that the kaiser, in his procla mation to the German people, Issued in a special edition Of the Berlin Ga zette, has made a threatening ges ture toward the United States in the statement, that there "was 'a latent hostility to the east and to the west, and beyond the x i : . - This statement, which . evidently includes the United States, was prob ably prompted by " the ?' generally friendly attitude of the American press toward Great Britain.; THE KAISER HINTS Body of Mrs. Wilson On Way i- To Georgia President on V Death Watch. il II .' (By United Press.) SENECA, S, C, -Aug. 11. Crowds with bared heads met the Wilson funeral train at every sta von in South Carolina and church bells, tolled, , At the larger towns pommittees presented flowers. President Wilson kept, the .death watcn in 'tne "funeral car until one o'clock this "morning; secret service men took the . Vigil .until daybreak, and then Mrs. Sayre. The President is standing the or deal well. :' , 1 , STILL ELUDING THE Whereabouts of The Alleged Slayer of :E. W. Sarlandt E 10 THIS CITY . A telegram received from A. Sar landt, brother of the man murdered Saturday nignt wnose . body was found near the street car barn Sun day .morning, states that he is leav ing San Francisco at once for his sad journey across the continent. - The telegram requests that the burial of his brother's body be defer red until his arrival. The message was addressed to Mr. William C. Har rison, who was a friend of the mur dered man. The Odd Fellows have taken charge of the remains, and the burial will be under the auspices of the order. Meanwhile, the body will continue to lie in the undertaking parlors of D, G. Smaw. Negro Released. ''fi C. C. Bryant, one of the two ne groes held as witnesses in the case of the murder of E. W. Sarlandt, was released this afternoon from jail under a hundred dollar bond. Ed ward Jones, the other negro held in custody in connection with the af fair, will probably shortly be releas ed on a similar bond. The latter was the hack driver who tells how he was forced against his will by the three white men to convey the body of the murdered man outside the city after his skull had been crushed. : No Clue to Cannady. There has yet been divulged no clue to the whereabouts of Clyde Cannady, to whom the finger of bus picion points. Posses were searching for him last night and the authorities are making use of every resource to locate him. Cannady 's companions, Alex Cur- tlss and Sid Gautier, the other two members of Saturday night's drink ing party that resulted so fatally, are still in jail. They will be given a: preliminary hearing along with Cannady if the man said to have dealth the deadly blow is . cantured 'within the next few days. s ; Chief Defers Vacation. Chief of Police Lupton, who began hit vacation Saturday, is back on the job and has postponed, his vacation until the last of the week. f!i'': Reward Offered. - - One hundred dollars reward Is of fered lor Cannady, to be paid Jointly by the SUte of Nprth Carolina, the County of Craven, and the estate; of the deceased. . .' v. .; Attorney D. , E. Henderson, who was the legal adviser of the murder ed man. was asked to take up the matter by two of Sarlandt's foreign prepared to pusn the limit, y . HE ORDEAL VERY WELL EW BERN POLICE EUROPEANVATERS Secretary Bryan Notified Eng " lish Channel and North ' Sea Mined. F. FE (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 11. Professor Thomas Preston of Prince ton, with his wife, formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, are reported safe at Moritz. Information concerning mining of the North Sea and the English chan nel was given Secretary Bryan through the British embassy. Bryan refused to discuss the mat ter. It is understood that he has issued a warning to save American ships, especially the gold ships Ten nessee and North Carolina. EYE-WITNESS TELLS OF THE TERRIBLE T AT LUCE Heavy Loss of Life Follows German Attack on Belgian -ongoid.-... " New York, Aug. 10. The Tribune publishes the following vivid descrip tion of the early attack on Liege. The dispatch came from the Tribune" London office: The only man who has yet got back to London after witnessing the first attacks of the Germans on Liege is Benjamin Hallet, a member of a Belgian zinc firm, who reached here after traveling 48 hours without food. Mr. Hallet said: "As soon as the citv heard that. the Germans were invading Belgium all the men in the city, and many women too, clamored for rifles. TJie supply was insufficient to go round. Food was Dlentiful. hut. nnhnriv hnth. ered much about eating, or sleeping, eitner. "I heard the sound of heavy firing in the direction of Vise on Tuesday, and finally saw a red glare against the sky. Vise was burning. "A grim determination not to sur render Liege to the Germans until its last defender had been killed in spired every citizen I spoke to. "There were many heartrending scenes in the streets. I heard one old weman say through her tears, 'He's my only son, and it will break my heart to have him killed, but I'll be satisfied if he only kills three Ger mans first.' "The Germans had their big guns far sway across the River Meuse out of sight. A small detachment came in with a white flag. It was Gen. von Emmich, the German comman der, who came to demand the surren der of the- city, saying he merely wanted free passage for his troops and would not hurt a soul, but be friendly with everybody, and pay cash at the people's own prices for everything that was needed. "If ever a man went the wrong way about getting what he wanted, it was that big German genera'. He hadn't any chance of getting any thing when he started, but every word he said only added red-hot fuel to the determination of the Liege men to resist him to the end and then drop him in the Meuse. "When General von Emmich, after talking of Waterloo and how the Germans had practically given the i Belgians their existence, began re ferring threateningly to the power of the German army as known to be ir resistible, the Belgian officers shifted on their feet.' Bui when he started; saying what would happen to every Llegeols if the -city did not at once do as the Kaiser required : General mm nsse rm) "''', ?'-.v yHv.C :w-:y .'. ..vf. "': THOMAS FIGH Opinion Prevails That I Mrs. Hall Was Lucky in Fight For Her Life. GREAT SYMPATHY FOR LOUISA, VA., Aug. 12. Bright patches of yellow sunshine move slowly across the floor of a quiet room In Louisa's little brick jail. The patches are square and there are dark lines between them. This is because the light shines in through a grated window. The room is a cell, and there alone with her conscience sits Mrs. Victor Hall, judged by a jury of twelve Louisa farmers to be guilty of the murder of her husband, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. She was convicted Saturday after noon. The cell is very small. It is white washed, and the whiteness of the walls but makes the iron bars across the windows look more terrible and black. Within the cell there is a cot. Beyond the windows lies the great, broad out-of-doors the lib erty forfeited by the woman who sits on the cot and watches the square patches of sunshine as they crawl across the floor. Mrs. Hall, who seems to have en tirely regained her iron nerve and composure, will remain in the Louisa jail until she is sent to the peniten tiary or a new trial is granted. She will be allowed to see her attorney, Lindsay Gordon, and members of her family will be permitted to visit her, but not too frequently. The majority of the people in the county feel that the sentence is a light one. They do not ask that it be increased, but they think that Mrs. Hall is lucky in that she is not facing a life term or at least eigh teen years' imprisonment. If no new trial is -gran ted-and Mrs. Hall begins fein'-her4tetm'-t-aee,he; will be eligible for parole in five years, and as soon as she Is' paroled she will be permitted to return to Louisa Counsel will appear before Judge Shackleford, sitting on the Louisa bench,. Thursday morning to argue the motion for a new trial. It may be said, however, that the probabil ity of another trial is very remote. Only Mrs. Hall's attorneys know upon what claim they will base their argument. It is understood that they will ask that the verdict be set aside because it convicted the accus ed of second degree murder. Attor ney Gordon has maintained that his client is guilty of first degree mur der or is absolutely innocent. It 1b. therefore, probable that he will con tend that the verdict convicting his client of second degree murder is contrary to the law and evidence. If a new trial is refused by Judge Shackleford, one of the five judges of the Court of Appeals will be asked to grant a writ of error. Any one of the judges can grant this writ even though the other four oppose it. If a writ is granted the case will be reviewed by the Court of Appeals and If sufficient errors are found in Judge Shackleford's rulings, the case will be remanded for a new trial. The record, however, is peculiar ly free from exceptions. Upon al most every point the prosecution yielded to the defense, and the rui- -ings which the judge was forced to make are believed to be based upon undisputed principles of law and long established precedents. If a new trial is ordered it will not lie within the province of the jury to convict Mrs. Hall of murder in the first degree. She has been tried for first degree murder and acquit ted, and she cannot be tried again on the same charge. But it will lie within the province of another jury to send Mrs. Hall to the penitentiary for eighteen years, that being the maximum pen alty for second degree murder. Some are, therefore, inclined to think that no appeal will be taken; that the ten years sentence will not be coo tested; that well enough will be let alone.;.. ,;-y; Mrs. Hall occupies the upper cell in the southwest corner of the jail. Yesterday a maniac was locked In the adjoining cell. This maniac, a young negro woman, screamed for ' hours after she was locked up. Her language was vile and blasphemous, and she made repeated allusions to Mrs. Hall, calling her by name and to the crime of which she has been convicted. ' : ,- v. : '. Mamie Dunkum, Mrs. Hall's young est daughter,, spent Saturday night in Jail with her mother, not to com fort her mother, but that she her self might be comforted by ' her mother. The child waB hysterical . and terror-stricken She .was crying Incoherent words, Bobbing and" 1 (OHtuMi raw Fmm.) : ':y:yy. v v,'"! 'ft -t . ,k''-y I'ii'K .".af - . ;? ,y.- f i, V-V;, : ' ' ! ' ' .' i.:f" -)''' ' t . ' 'y :'tl ,J - s'.. ' y y'"' ',yw: