The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-04
MIGHTY POWER IS STIRRED BY
VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY OF
BELGIUM BY KASER'S TROOPS
Belgium Is Notified by Germany That Force Will Be Used Necessary
and One Rmor States War Has Been Declared on BegnsFnch
Minister Of War Says War Has Been Declared on FranceHead Of
French War Society at Metz Executed and Members Imprisoned

pressed the opinion that England
must at once throw her fleet against
Germany for the one chief purpose of
maintaining her own position as a
world power. For England, he said.
II was a question II she remained out
Of the war of sacrificing her empire in
the next generation to the interest OF
this generation.
Rear Admiral Mahan also holds the
view that Italy must join the war
within a weeks time, not as a partner
of the Triple Alliance, but as an ally
of France and Russia. Italy must take
this step, he said, and hold the AUS
trans in check for the salvation Of the
Balkans, which are already threatened
by Turkey and sure to be the prey OF
the Turks unless the Austrian navy
can be kept from the shores of Greece.
German Mobiiz: tIon Proceeds.
Berlin, Aug 4.-The mobilization OF
the German army proceeds with abso-
lutte calm There are few signs in Ber-
lin that anything extraordinary was
happening. with the exception Of great
! crowds at the railroad stations and
the lack Of taxicabs, which have been
| requisitioned by the army authorities.
An open air religious service attend
ed by many soldiers in marching kit
was held round the Bismarck monu-
ment outside the imperial parliament
house. All Joined in the Lords prayer.
A notice was issued by the police
stating that the emperor's strength and
time were strained by the work inn
posed on him at this serious hour and
that IL was not proper for him to be
disturbed by popular demonstrations.
In accordance with the imperial con-
stitution, the kings OF Bavaria, saxony
and Wuerttemberg have placed their
armies under the command of Emperor
| William.
U. S. Strategists Study War.
Washington, Aug. with a hastily
drawn map Of the theater of probable
war in Eusope before them, army
strategists are eagerly scanning the
news reports OF the stirring events that
were momentarily taking place in Ger
many Russia and France.
| After looking over all available data
of operations the strategists were of
the opinion that the plans of campaign
| had not so far unfolded as to admit
OF a guess as TO the real purposes of
! the great military leaders What has
been done by the German army i'm the
| coast in the invasion OF Belgium is re-
garded as purely precautionary and
calculated rather TO prevent a possible
1,n
the fatherland than with the purpose
of beginning a deliberate and progress
sivc campaiSn toward Paris.
Clashes In Lorraine.
! The slight clashes reported to have
| taken place on the border of Lorraine
are looked upon as insignificant and
as mere feints to develop the French
strength in that quarter. Military
maps here, brought about up To date,
disclose an astonishingly large German
military force i'm that neighborhood.
There appear to be no less than three
| army divisions within striking dis
tance OF the French frontier on line
less than a hundred miles i'm length.
II a general campaign has been ini-
| tiated, there was sufficient German
| force. in the opinion OF the experts
here, to have broken through the
French lines at any point where there
were no great fortresses such as the
| Nancy Strassburg.
or course. according To the same
calculations, this German advance
might be only temporary. as it is
known that the French army is gath
cred i'm great strength in the two for
tifled towns named and Il would be
only question OF time before they
would fall upon the German flanks in
an effort To cut the lines of communi-
cation isolate and destroy or capture
the invading army before it could
bring up its reserves,
So far as can he discerned here, the
| German campaigns i'm the east are on
different basis and at this stage, at
least. are rather defensive than often
sive i'm character.
Contraband Of War Issue.
Washington. II. c., Aug. Am un-
alysis of the effect of a European war
upon American commerce shows that
the old question of what Is contraband
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