Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-25
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
News Paragraphs Cleaned From Dis
patches From the Front.

The British war office has warned
the English people against too great
optimism.
Germany has levied a war tax OF
$40, 100000 on the city of Brussels and
the city treasurer has declared he will
never pay this amount.
A Paris newspaper is authority fol
the statement that mobilization is 60
ing on in Italy. Switzerland has also
mobilized her troops.
The time limit of the Japanese ulti-
matum to Germany expired Saturday
and Japan is now mobiliZing hel
troops in order to try and GUST the
Germans from Kiao Chow.
The English newspapers are warning
the people that the war has only begun
and that it will last long time.
German troops now occupy the his
toric city of Ghent.
dispatch from Amsterdam states
that large detachment of German
cavalry was annihilated by Belgian
troops in the suburbs of Malines last
Friday. The Belgian troops were in
motor cars armed with machine guns
Won Bethman- Hollweg, the German
Press in New York asking that every
effort possible be made to disseminate
the real truth about the war.
The German cruiser Dresden has
sunk the British steamship Hyades.
Gen. Leman, Belgian commander OF
the forts at Liege, has been captured
by the Germans.
The United States ambassador al
Berlin has issued statement in which
he says that Americans enjoy as great
safety in Germany as they do at home
1t is reported in Paris that the
Germans have entered the unfortified
town of Nancy, in France.
Berlin on yesterday reported vic
tories at the French towns of Neuf-
chateau. Luneville, Blamont and Ci-
rey. According to the report the
French defenders of the respective
towns were utterly routed.
At Using Tau, capital of the German
prOtectOrate of Kiao- Chow, China, the
Germans have prepared to resist an
attack by Japanese fleet. According
to report, bombardment of the capi-
tai was begun yesterday.
The French have retreated from AL
SAGE and Lorraine and are preparing
for big battle in French territory.
According to a report from Rotter-
dam, the Germans have evacuated the
city of Brussels. 1t is estimated that
100000 German soldiers marched
through the city last week
An Austrian monitor vessel struck
mine in the Adratic sea yesterday
The vessel was destroyed and the crew
pcriShed.
The official English bureau of infor-
nation in London, gave out the follow
ing yesterday: British forces were
engaged all day Sunday and until af-
ter dark with the enemy in the neigh
bOrhOOd of Mons, Belgium. They held
their ground"
According to estimates the Belgians
have lost 10000 men since hostilities
began. All industries in Belgium are
at a standstll.
The Japanese charge daffaircs in
Berlin. left that city yesterday.
According To reports from Geneva
the Italian army has been raised to
500 900 men
Emperor Nicholas of Russia. has
gone to the Russian army headuuar-
ters. According to dispatches. Russian
troops have taken the offensive on
every side.
Emperor Frances Joseph of Austria
is dying
More than 100 Americans in Paris
have Joined the French army.
Russian troops claim to have been
victorious in great battle which be-
%an in East Prussia last week.
japanese newspapers have express
ed regret over the necessity of hos
tilities with GERMANY and are urging
the public from exhibiting resentment
toward Germans who are in Japan.
Count Won BarnStOff, the German
ambassador to the United States who
arrived in New York yesterday. de-
clared only 5000 or 5000 Germans
were engaged in the assault on Liege