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.vNEaeN, N,"C WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12, 1914
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VOL. LXII. No. 129
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Te . Japanese Is Believed Near
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Hie Emperor Hurries to fhc Capital
Home and 45,000 Jap Troops are Piaced on Trans
ports and Sent to Tsing Tau, the German Strong
hold in China-The French and German Forces En
gage in Conflict
licr-'--iiege Forts StUl Holding Out
Holland Demands That
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LONpON, Aug.' 11. From
" Toklo comes word that a decla
ration of war on Germany by
the Japs Is expected within the
' course Of the next twenty-four
' hours. . The emperor is hurry-
lng to the capital from his sum
; mer home and is expected to ar-
rive tomorrow. flwy-flve f
thousand Japanese Msoldiers
have been embarked otitrans-
ports, presumably fof ..iTsing
.Tau, the ' German stronghold
in China. " '
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Bif AN MA?NRM Y IS
. INTRENCHING ItSELF.
' BRSSELSAug.' 11. Tket German
-,in.viiVmv In tiilt North 1s reported to
- . i . '. ij intrenching ItBeff oaths rtyerOurrhe
bliirt; .i rhitevtwli divtsJorfxf cavalry.had ad
' ' waaceaW ahf 'hs'Loagrfs yrbl&h Is tit-
, -i ft iUatltHhVNcWofitie'Theie
- 4-'.llv':uTai Iyvanr,wM-r win"i)oi)p()sed
- &rA'- - by ailUuV""" lr France
k.jiB V l ; fR VVlViMwt necessity. There '.fc rcity
dee the ttifka f!o
j a, iitlll holcT.iie out and6
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rAS,BN'-AWI.
md is 6t ut t j niaw iprnlatroy
jaemand on, irWi;toHitharaw4he
krooos from the JbutcV frontiej;.. It i
her
- - - itiBi -y- -y .y 'Stahdarara'ntutary tcc esponaenr ;
v V that the Foreign effice has already
been advised thar the uatcn nave-al
ready demanded .an; explanation and
'tefflror the Kaiser that the retention of
forces there means a declaration of waftl
Hi ; . U 8tate of war was today Jeclarea m tne
iouthern portion oi oitano. .
fHE RUSSIANS HAVE
;.w i ' TWO BIG WOCESSES
ST PETERSBURG,, Aug.: ILTwo
fiiR-daii 'successes are'reported by the
' (General Staff who declare, .that the
? Russians defeated' the Austrian- in.-
Eantry division at Zatotche in .iQalicia
nd occupied Radiziviloff on the Rus-
Xr pan-Austrian frontier .when thebtte
Mras forced to evacuate. ' 5
Wreck ofja SHIF tfv -
Wl3 FOUND AT" PACIFIC PORT
f SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. ll.--Wreck.
age of what appears to have been a
British warship has drifted ashore near
7. Iiere and the belief is that a battle has
een fought in the Pacific of which aotlt
? tjnj-has been heard. r v
IELATIONS BETWEEN 1,1'AL X ,
AND AUSTRIA , - STRAINING,
ROME, Aug' ; ' 11. Relations, be-
:ltalv and Austria are becoming
; Wore strained each day. on account, of
he bombardment , of Antivari, Monte
Inegro and the damage'to the Italian in
terests (there. .(. , -TEr
"IBLE SCENE OF :
BLOOD AROUN: LIEGE.
LONLX)N, Aug.. lL-wDispatches -to
Along French
Germany Withdraw Troops
the Times from the Hague and to the
Telegraph from Maastricht, agree tha1
the struggle for possession of the forts
at Liege was going on continuously and
resulting in terrible scenes of blood-
shed and of heroism.
At noon, the dispatches say, the Ger-
mans were malting nerce enuus iu
silence the forts nearest the uty pro
per and the defenders were galhntly
holding-out against almost constant
bombardment.
A News dispatch from Brussels says
it it officially announced there that the
German loss' in Belgium in- the recent
fighting was Z.000 dead, 23,000 wounded
and 9,700 prisoners. '
RELATIONS BETWEEN ITALY
& AND AUSTRIA STRAINED.
Ji)NDON, Aug. 11. Acqording to
iofresDondent at Rome of the Morn-
aUftftfld hot-wMmfoalv and
Atutria are becoming most11. strained,
tkfifcr has demanded an ? explanation
cf ithe-ombardment of thvStablish
&eSl Of the PugKacompata.i Anti-
vrfe Montenegro, over which the Ital-1
Ufoflag "floats and in which there were ,
f'ajSaas. The economic effaets? of thej
'Already are severely felt in Italy.
MiaVservke has been redyced to savei
'.. m. . . ... ! '-Ji- :
eyrwhere. The Mayr bt Rbjne has
ilsued a list of maximum prices which
may he charged for food. '
THE SITUATION AT LIEGE
Vtelahig the situtftton at' Liege,;L
a4',r ' i I
: "The withdrawal of the Belgian J
mobile defense left .open: all the spaije.'
between the orts,r whereupon, It oe-i
came easy: Jor the? Invaders to get
into ' town ; fcyc taking " advantage Yf;
the woods and hilly ground. 1 r t
. "U W- unlikely - that -any consider-:
able portion of the German army has
entered ' the '. city. A r few r. hundred
men-, wold 'be -sufficient to keep the
civil' - population under control and
it would- be an act of madness fr
the; German commander, to pass hs
entire force - into i what might proy
a trap without an exit.
.. Tf.bt i-hat- t-liA (nrtm havf. not:
molested the invaders may be e-'
I a a . I. . ' f
Lpiainea in two ways; nameiy
nit
It may be that the guns canm
be trained inwards on the town j or
which is more likely, that the Bel
gians are unwilling to risk the - db-i
atructioif of their line - city lor tee
sake, of turning out the enemy f whose
occupation ' matters i littje from tie
point; of view ,of . the Belgian defense.
Liege " is quite ' useless, to the : Ger
mans so long as the f qrts hold out." , t
MARRIAGE LICENSE WERE , 1$
SUED YESTERDAY , f
License-were issued, yesterday, by
H. Fowler. Register of Deeds" for' the
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marriage of Miss Cary Pnce. to A.
Ring-old, both 6 parties; being; residents
- Df New Bern.
. i- - ' 1 . ' il Jht'a rMrin iwrAnil V V iwn
, f U 1 'KdNDON Aug. 1U The London1
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From His Smmer
And Belgian Fron-
WAR BULLETINS
SOFIA, Aug. 11. (Via Lon-
don ). Premier Radoslavoff an-
riOunced in the Sobranje that
Bulgaria had decided to obtain
the strictestn neutrality, but
must take measures to repi
any violation of her frontiei
LONDON, Aug. 11. The
kind i corresnondent of the
Times telegraphs aVfoKowst
"Replying to China's request
of the United States and Japan
to use their influence to protect
China from warlike activities
of other nations, Japan has
stated that her attitude depend-
ed on the result of the British
campaign. The time was not
ripe to consider China's pro-
1 I nroa oolf ' --Th IlnltnH
States avoided CQsjaqilttiag her !i
d coin!tting her' !
-2r- i.it, M
self."
LONDON, Ajnt Uc-The
DaUy Mail's ad'vfcM from Basel,
Swltterland, .Irtate' that the
Swiss an German' troops -art;
... -- . -.ii. i
, close to the ftd-tier and with
. Basel. The Germans have bufrrl
barricades across all the roadaV- I
leading across the frontier bu
fiawi. kMn unt to Tlcino to
rlwj
nniTfiSV.Ifi : A If. ITlnd -
gurrived-here duriHg the
nlglrt from the general head-
quarjfei ' jO, 3 Belgian army
viirrate n ,:e northwest '
l ot Liege. ' Hla majesty passed
several hours iln conference with
.kA' -flalillan. anai.a Jlf . wa(. .
after7 which l a cabinet conucil
was held.'- " "
It Is reported here that all the
civilian hostages held by the
Germans in the town of Liege
have been released on giving
their parole to remain at the
disposal of the German military
authorities.
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. SOFIA, BULGARIA, Aug. 11.
- A state of war' haS been pro-
claimed ; throughout Bulgaria
in order to enable the govern-
ment to prepare to guard the'
frontierrs against violations.
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HENRY GASKTNS DEAD
Passed Away At Early Hour This
. . Morning.
i Henry Gaskins.'One of ,v New Bern's
oldest?titJtens, -died at his home, No.
13H East Trent strreet at an early hour
this morning after a slfOrt illness. tThe
tma morning aner a uprtiune
a ased is a brother of Alonzo
fa fr .
Gaskins'
number of
.ves. 1 he ' hour ot the tunerai
oen set sor 4 oclock Thursday aft e
1 a , - -
DIRECT FROM BERLIN
WIRELESS STATION AT TUCKER.
TON, N. J., TO CATCH
RADIOS.
'NEW YORK, Aug. 11. The radio
station at Tuckerton, N. J., will be ready
in a few days to work several hours
each day receiving war news directly
from Berlin via German stations at
Hanover. Theodore R. Lemke, manager
of the Tuckerton station, said yesterday
that the apparatus had not been com
pleted satisfactorily yet, that all the
arrangements have not been made, but
that the station undoubtedly will be
ready for this traffic before the end of
the week.
Mr. Lemke has not received a reply
from Prof. Rudolph Goldsmidt, a
friend of the Kaiser, to whom a message
wjis sent on Friday night asking that the
war news from the German side be sent
tQ. this country. The message, he said,
wpuld have to be relayed from Hanover
to Berlin, where it would be laid before
the foreign office and then submitted
to the emperor. This process will take
at least three or four days, but Mr.
Lemke expects an answer soon.
The Tuckerton station also had not
received any reply yesterday from Sec
retary Bryan. Mr. Lemke. wired to Mr.
Bryan that communication was open
with Hanover and that the staton of
fered ;its services to the Washington
government which hitherto has been un
afcle to gef i.'toach with Berlin. The
station is now working u nder a United
States naval officer and two naval op
erators, but Mr. Lemke says they do not
disturb the routine of the station. The
cqn6rship was invited, he said, to prove
thati ihe-regular opertaion was in ac-
cBtla4ce"'with the United States neutralfgjjg between two
; mai;cftni company, inrougn i
:epre5ant toward i. Nally, a
Swnieday that ft was "pleas
tec&set relief
TMfakiy of respotUlg Mr. N
I
jNffhH Marcoitfl systeftlforotoeije Napoleonic wars
throliifcCaradaan every Nation
eata- with bustBe.-akhoUgfti;
cammg sniping messages nave botoi.
sbeUse bf tte1r en thi.iM
&'&. kipjSWt tetrsartheir posftfc
toh4sttk.'
C'ThyyiUe.wii
ottteAtlantic Conunu
'!i i.i-i;-5f.?.i. i.'j?sl2it.y
-tWeg(ed;iyefdaythat tht.tr,
W&wfr&o oni bt.the'VlsterlaB.f,
biten herrth, was woni -6s honw
the day and night, but this rumor wi
dented by Captain Bode, in charge ofp
the trlnburg-American line piers, l be
report was to the effect that by using
the Vater land's apparatus messages
barred by the United States neutrality
laws could be sent without any hin
drance. t Captain Howard, of the New York
navy yard, to whose attention this re
port was called yesterday afternoon
said that it was an international rule
that no ship tied to its pier could use
its radio and that if any ship was found
to be .using its radio in the present
circumstances he would have author
ity to. board her and order the thing
stopped.
Hubert Cillius, president of the German-American
chamber of commerce
which' sent a protest to Washington
against the wireless censorship because
it 4 was said, Germany was being dis
criminated against, since England and
France?- could use their cables while
Germany had no means of communi
cation except wireless, said he expected
a reply from Washington this morning.
He had received no word from the
government officials up to last night.
Mr. and Mrs. George Dunn return
ed last evening from Fields where they
have been at the bedside of their father
who has beenseriously ill. .
i Mrs. L. L. Land and tl-tnsile o Wil
Jiaftm Kenneth, left last evening for
Beaufort to visit Mrs. Land's parents.
They were accompanied by Mrs. Land's
mother and sister. -
PRESENT WAR MAY
NOT LAST L
AT LEAST ONE WOULD SO BE
LIEVE AFTER READING
THE FOLLOWING.
The two most recent "central Eu
ropean" wars were settled in an amaz
ingly short time. In 1866 Prussia
and Austria went at each other's throats
over the juicy Schleswig-Holstien bone
to which neither of them, by the way,
has any right. That war lasted only
seven weeks, and it ended in Prussia
giving Austria a terrible and humiliat
ing beating.
France and Sardinia also gave Aus
tria a crushing defeat in 1859 in a
war in which the general fighting lasted
less than a month. This list does not
include Italy's earlier amd feebler
struggles for liberty against Austria, as
in 1848-49. etc.
In July 1910 Prussia and France
went to war. The general fighting
in that war lasted barely a month.
Of course, the siege of Paris and other
manuevers went on much longer
but the actual clash in the field began
earlier in August and ended early in
September.
The Russo-Turkish war, six years
afterward, was longer by a year or
more, but the Turco-Greek war in the
nineties was a matter of one swift
campaign. The Russo-Jap war was
also comparatively brief.
In our own history here is, rough
ly, the duration of the important wars
Revolutionary war, eight years; war
of 1812, two years and eight months
Mexican war, two years, and 11 weeks;
Civil war, four years; Spanish war
ayen and a half months (with the bulk
withe fighting done in two and a half)
raAU but one of the foregoing were
Nations. The last
war was the Cri-
whert .England, France, Turkey
Sardinia" combined against Russia
That war continu-
or about two" years, and resulted in
nH f fir aMhtrfnr Russia.
urofihe battlefield. These
,-cotfiWedwith. breaks of long
tefoUfeiei at Waterloo, whet
W'iiiifwdeil at Waterloo, when
JtM&!ifr:: the ttutaar--
WsmikMmmw NapoitMarf
SiaEiIiaidi; bjr ie wajr, were
'early3!tr!.entiaries; before thsffi
iyed alm'tevery -nation on artll,j
known to hia oryas the 30 yearn
go, with
a very, few exceptions
we see that the more modern the
war the 'shorter it is apt to be, es
pecially when only central Europe is
involved. - For example (in actual
fighting ) Austro-Prussian war of 1866,
seven weeks; Franco-Prussian war of
18170. a month; the present War ??
WILL ADMIT ALIENS.
Germans and Austrians May Come
From Canada to United States.
WASHINGTON, August 11. An
expectation that many Germans and
subjects of Austria-Hungary in Canada
will try to take lip residence in the
United States until European troubles
are settled caused the commissioner o
immigration at Montreal to telegraph
today for instructions. Secretary Wil
son instructed the commissioner to treat
all applicants for admission in the or
dinary way. ' ' '
Secretary Wilson said., today it was
the intention to admit or discharge to
the custody of friends or relatives, un
der proper bond, all aliens aboard the
Kronprinzessin Cecile at Bar Harbor,
Maine, whome it is possible to land un
der the present emergency policy.
Miss Dorothy Lew s, of Beaufort,
who has been spend ng several weeks
hereV s t ne at the home of Mrs. H. Ira
Crum plerV returned home yesterday.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Crumpler.
SOMETHING WRONG WITH
KAISER, SAYSE WEY
BELIEVE HIS MENTAL PROCESS
ES HAVE HAD A RE
VERSAL LONDON, Aug. 11. Former Senator
Chauncey M. Dewey, who has long been
an ardent admorer and personal friend
of the Kaiser, severely censured the
German ruler in an interview today.
"This war is the crime of all cen
turies," said Mr. Dewey with im
pressive earnestness. "It Is a crime
of ambition the dream of a man
who thinks himself another Napo
leon. "Ten million men will die
as a result, directly and indirectly,
of this crime, and for generations
Europe will suffer incalculably."
"It is almost incredible to think,"
continued Mr. Dewey, "that one man
could throw the whole world back into
the sixteenth century. Something is
wrong with the Kaiser. Either
environment is at fault, or there hasti
been a complete reversal of his men
tal processes.
'This war will mean the greatest im
pulse for socialism that history records.
It will mean the end of all kings
with real powers and an end to all
bullying bureaucracies."
It is recalled that on the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Kaisers reign Mr.
Dewey's speech in honor of the Germart
monarch attracted world wide attention
as a model of expression.
"This My Revenge
Eugenie Cries of War
WERE THE EMPEROR ONLY
HERE NOW!" SAYS FORMER "
. , FRENCH EMPRJESSV
LQNDON, August 11 A despatch
from, Rome says, "The aged French)
Empress Eugenie, who.s atBologna.
takes a vivid interest in the war. When
Count Pietri, her faithful companiooj. .
in pjr, long jears oi misioixuue aim bjuw
anqojnced'at fighting had begun, her.
eyes;hoiie;,5aiid she cried 1 ,
''-Thisdsny revenge! . Were thejEmil, ' .
perorjsfjl? herer'n)May. God protect1.,
Sift sisc fh- .-.'s.vjrvj F "" . .
Sjajtea r,Rn8taoftr compfcrisonf, ,
'H-oJho ent itlctf itvofanteers Italy
rjdcjncens.r 'For "courtesy, pa
tieBiaXelfy$lnfei none could bV
eMrrA-lsaunjr'down 'a-
America rtktiyA-be pr0ud lo have such rep. .
tesentativein-Eorope.
A Russian Embassy counsellor, in
terviewed, said "Russia will fight Ger
many for ten years rather than give up
an inch of territory or an iota of pres
tige. Russia can put 10,000,000 more
men in the field, if necessary.
"She has an immense advantage, be
cause her financial life is not complicated.
while Germany's mushroom finances
will be unable to withstand a longcam-
paign. Russia will give her foe s:ich ah
setback as will surprise her and tha
world."
"The Italian Government has waived
the r ,! forbidding banks to pay mora-" "
than 5 per cent of deposits. This is fosV
the beneht of the laboring classes and.
owiiiK .o the fear of consequences oi
in--reused unemployment. The econo
mic condition is lurtner con on eaten
because of the return of 300,000 Ital
ians from France, Switzerland and Aus
tria." UNKNOWN NEGRO IS VICTIM OP
LYNCHERS.
Was Suspected Of Killing Foreman.
-. Of Lumber Camp. ' '
MONROE, La., August 11. Thet
fourth lynching and the eighth violent
death in this vicinity during the
week occured to-day when an unidentifi.
negro was hanged a few miles of here by
a, jnob of White men. .The negro was sus
pected of having killed -a white man''
oajnaed Purvisf foreman of a logging;.
camp.
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