The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-08-25
Hundreds OF Thousands Are
Involved in a Titanic
Grapple.
JAPAN TO WAR
ON GERMANY
Prospects of World Wide
Conflict Frightening
Each Day.

LONDON, Aug. 24-After nearly
51ree weeks of mobilization, the battle
Ci science has begun.
Roughly speaking, the Germans are
t-ying to work around the allies
tank in Belgium, while the French
are attempting to apply the same pro-
cess to the Germans in Alsace.
Almost all the encounters which
have gone before have been mere
r6cOnnoissances. The defeat of
regiment here and there has been
proclaimed as a vietiry, but in this
gTapple of hundreds of thousands
most of these affairs have had no
significance.
The official announcements from
beth sides have been candid so far.
From the standpoint of the allies
each important feature in Saturdays
development is the great battle
Vhich began in the morning on the
Eamur-Charleroi line. This is being
fought on the position chosen by the
allies.
= German official statement says
that troops under the command of the
Crown Prince of Bavaria, fighting be-
tWeen Metz and Vosges, took 10000
prisoners and fifty guns. 1t added
that the French troops opposing the
Germans comprised eight army
corps.
An official British statement calmly
says that nothing resembling a great
battle has been fought as yet, and
warns the people against optimism.
Reports from the Austrian-Servian
line says the Servians have won a
battle on the Drina, which military
sxDerts consider highly probable, as
the Servians have a comparatively
small army but one of which has pass
ed through two years Of actual war
and therefore has the advantage Of
VeCerans fighting against amateurs.
from the Russian bOundry conflict
ing reports come, both sides claim
ING success.
English papers are warning the
people that the war is only beginning
and that they must be prepared for
2 ong struggle which will test the
-osources and manhood of the nation
0 he utmost limit.
UASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-The Brit
1sh government will consider it di-
zect violation of American neutral
-cy if the tramp steamer Mazatlan,
5aried clearance at can Francisco, is
D8rmitted to sail with coal for the
GsEmancruiser, Leipzig. The ship
- held on protest of the British
consul at San Francisco and COlville
3arclay, charge d'affairs of the Brit
5sh embassy here, took the matter up
With the State Department officials.
2EKIN, CHINA, Aug. 22.-The
German authorities of Using Tau
lave been sending non-combatantS
I'm that place according to advices
-aceived here to-day. German women
ard children were the last to depart.
TIey have all gone with the eXcep-
IGa of a few women who remain to
ac1 as nurses, and some boys over Is
years of age who have volunteered
20 act as dispatch bearers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-At the
Saiss legation here the following
statement was made public today:
The Swiss federal council has
y0cbilized, from the beginning, the
hole military force of Switzerland,
ne Elite, the Landwehr and part OF
a-S LdnQSIuTIu, uuluUCll h6 tO6OShNA
bout 100000 men.
The mobilization is not result OF
g menace to Switzerland, but merely
2 precautionary military measure.
LONDON, Aug. pa dispatch to
ne Reuter- Telegram Company from
Gaent says the Germans are march
-cg toward France, by the way OF
Oudenarde,. town fourteen miles
southwest of Client.
I'D WAR;. :. -. ;. ..-.,.
PARIS FRANCE, Aug. 23.-rhe fol-
Il wing official announcement was
issued tonight:
A great battle is now in progress
g 'Dng a vast line extending from
ons to the frontier line OF luNem'
tJrg. Our troops, in conjunction with
e British, have assumed everywhere
offensive We are faced almost
2 whole German army, both actiVe
I'D resrve.
The ground is thickly wooded ano
-ficult to move over. The Dattie Is
.lzely to last several days.
LONDON, England, Aug. 24.--Tel
Graphing from Rozendaal, Holland
ire correspondent of the Central