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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
German Soup Cube Adver-
tisements Are Thought to
be Secret Key to
Information.
ORDERED TAKEN DOWN
One Hundred Socialists Said
to Have Been Executed IN
Berlin on Charges
of Treason

rI7nitad Press Leased Wire Service.l
PARIS, Aug. 7.-BelieVing that ad-
vertisements cf German firms placed
upon bill boards throughout France
are a part of a secret spying system
Of the kaiser's government, ORDERS
were Issued today for their destruc-
ton. The French declare that these
signs giving secret information 10
German troops who might invade the
republic were put up even before war
was declared.
Experts declare that the signs OF
German bouilon cube company were
so designed as to furnish the kaisers
+roops with information as to every
town they might enter The MESSAGE
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Will Rush to the Aid Of the
Americans Who Are Strand
ed on Other Side With
out Money.
1900 ARE IN LONDON
Refugees Suffer Many Hard
ships and Are Frantic for
Some Way to Get
Back Home.


United Press Leased Wire service.l
NEW YORK, Aua. carrying SIX
zen tons Of gold, or nearly $1,000 600,
me United States cruiser Tennessee
ss'ed today on its mission OF rellef
.or the Americans strapped In the
european war zone.
The gold, $2,75o,ooo of which was
appropriated by congress, was packed
~ ninety kegs, carried aboard the
.enaessee late yesterday. OF the S5,-
"o,coo found raised by New York
eankers, only s3,coo,oco was taken be-
.suse the insurance men were reluc-
ant to take risks on such vast
smount.
he Tennessee also carried vast
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RELIEF SHIP SAILED TO-DAY
FOR EUROPEAN WAR ZONE WITH
EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS COLI

sums furnished by individuals for
relatives in Europe and great guam
tity Of supplies.
POURING INTO LONDON.
LONDON, Aug. 7-Upwards Of 15,'
600 Americans are expected to sai'
fo- home within the next week or ten
DAYS. They continued to pour INTO
| ondon today from the continent.
More than 1000 have arrived within
the last twenty-four hours and otners
are on the way.
II was estimated today that there
ar. $500 Americans in London at the
nresent time. All are suffering the
Greatest Inconvenience due to loss OF
tbeir baocaoe and lack of funds, but
their immediate needs nave oee"
cared for by the American RELIEF com
,,,t.ee Women have suffered the
r,ost of those who have reached Lon
don safely. They were CROWDED INTO
Grains under the worst possible condi-
.,,,e No one was permitted to carry
,rvsbino more than hand luggage ana
IN +runks were left behind. Those
.-rivina from France told OF passing
ICONS eyerywhere, moving toward
+h. front. All business in france IS
suspended, they declared. SHOPS
stores and fields are deserted, save
e. women endeavoring to dc tno
,.ork left behind by their husoanos
.nd sons who are at the tront.
The liner Celtic was scneou'ea
.,u TODAY. Every cabin was taken
th. steerage was packed. Inc
c.,.;c will carry $500 passengers.
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ODD BITS OF WAR NEWS
PICKED OFF The WIRE AS
THEY CLICK OFF 7ODAY'S STORY

was conveyed, experts declare, by an
arrangement Of cubes In the sign
which to any one having a key to the
code. would represent letters and fig
ures. Evidence of German spies hav-
ing obtained information as to tho
French aeropIane corps and conmunl-
Gated it to Berlin has also been found.
A half dozen arrests have been made.
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JAPAN is PREPARING.

CHICAGO, Aug. IA private dis
patch to Logan and Bryan, leading
Chicago grain house, today from Port
land, Ore, says that Japan's probable
entrance into the European war is
indicated by the fact that It Is known
In grain circles that Japanese repre-
sentatives have quietly been buying
up all available grain in sight, par
ticuIarIy wheat, and paying good
prices for IL
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EXECUTE SOCIALISTS.

NEW YORK, Aug. IA Berlin
cable received by the correspondents
here Of La Prcnsa of suenos Ayres,
the biggest newspaper In South Amer
lea states: "sy order Of the emperor,
100 socialist deputies have been shof
in Berlin, among them the socialist
leader. Herr Liebknecht.'
There Is no confirmation of the re-
port from other sources.
The New York Call commenting on
the dispatch today says:
at is believed that the charge Of
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ADMIT 25, 900 KILLED.

aorAIeS eIIM pssesI sssId pslIu01
BRUSSELS, Aug. THE Belgian
war office, in an official statement Is
sued today, says that the Germans az
Lieae admit their losses total $4,000.
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BLOWING THEM UP.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 7.-Three times
durinu last night the German attack
inn column was hurled against the
lieoe Notifications. With magnificent
COURAGE the Germans charged, but
they could not gain the slightest ad-
vantage. The ground had been mined
but it was not until last night that
the mines were exploded. The car
naae was appalling. The Germans
r1sssed in close order formation were
blown to pieces, the dead and wound
ed running far into the hundreds. AT
one point alone an entire brigade OF
Germans was decimited and left sew
eraI hundred wounded when 1t retreat
ed. The Gazette has the following
dispatch: "Tenth army corps with
cavalry reinforcement while crossing
In front Of forts, mines exploded,
mines denotated when troops entirely
over it and whole battaIions- Of Ger
mans wounded"
Several German howitzers have
been placed in position at Huy and
larue German force is rassina on the
other side of the frontier. An attack
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
GERMANS BEG FOR ARMlSTICE
TODAY'S
SEUATION

rBy J. F. .TfS son, former Europ pean
Mar United Press.]
NEW 8 JRK, Aug. Bel
gums .ddenly revealed Ca
paciv : or skilled defensive
tactics indicates that the Ger
mans, in their passion for the
science Of warfare have over
looked the human element IN
battles. The disarrangement
Of Germany's campaign for
moving through Belgium is
due to the fact that on paper
Belgium in a negligible mill
tary quantity. But as the
Beers and the American colon
lists and many other people
have proven, the human ele-
ment. is capable of reversing
the most exact scientific pre-
dictions.
Germany did not allow fo'
the human element when q
twelve hour ultimatum was
sent to the czar nor did it en-
ter into Germany's reckoning
when Italy was invited to-
stand by Austria, Italy's an
cient foe; nor was it present in
the Berlin general staff esti-
mate of Belgium's military
powers. The war, thus far,
from the beginning Of the Aus
trian-Servian crisis has shown
that a nation may be over
scientific.
Absence of news from other
Germans in Europe is due
probably to the check in Bel
gium. At least two other col
uras should have made their
presence known by this time,
one emerging through Luxem-
burg and the other either by
the Swiss border or further
north toward the Epival Toul
gap in the French Alsace-Lor-
raine defenses. The purpose
of the three simultaneous
movements as believed to have
been planned by the German
general staff, is to keep France
occurred with false advances
while the real concentrated ad-
vance strikes.
What was to have been a
gallop through Belgium has
developed into a serious cam
paign of its own and it is rea-
sanable to suppose a general
halt has been ordered until
Berlin can find it's bearings In
Belgium. This must make
known to the French general
staff that the true German
movement had been planned
through Belgium.
Reports Of a naval engage
ment between England and
Germany in the North sea un-
doubtedly mean no more than
skirmishes. The German navy
being inferior to the British,
the rules of strategy demand
that Germany shall keep her
together under cover,
hoping England by some blum
der, may divide her own bat
tie fleet. If German scouts
get wind of this, the kaiser's
dreadnoughts may be expect
ed to dart out and try to equal
ize matters by an overwhelm-
ing attack on inferior num-
bers. Of course, British STRAIT
egy requires the Germans to
be enticed out by false surmise
that the British home fleets
are isolating themselves.
ADMIT $4,000 KILLED.
n
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CONFLICTING STORIES.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-The Exchange
Telegraph company carries what it
terms an official report that the Ger
mans have abandoned the siege of
Lfeee. The Daily News has des-
patch stating that the Belgian field
force has fallen back to the main
army. following the most sanguinary
encounter of the Liege campaign.
Neither despatch was timed and it
is not clear here what is correct. 1t
is believed the Daily News dispatch
arises in the ruse of evacuation by
which the ReIgians slaughtered so
many Germans today and the conse-
quent driving back of the kaisers
troops may have been responsible for
the abandonment.
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GERMANY BEGS FOR A FEW HOURS PEACE
IN ORDER To CATCH HER BREATH

II nm DKE-AltI
drew and the artillery duel
was renewed.
For a time this morning, the
Germans remained at their
base, under cover Of their ar
tillery, waiting. Finally when
the siege guns had demolished
many of the buildings at Liege
another assault in force was
attempted. Like the others it
failed and the German soldiers
were again driven back, COM
pletely crushed. There were
thousands of wounded lying in
the open space between the
forts and the army. The means
of the sufferers could be heard
by the Belgians in the forts,
as well as by their own COM
rades in the German positions.
But nothing could be done for
them while the artillery fire
was kept up.
At last the German CON-
manding general, realizing
that the sight of the dead and
wounded must have a depress-
ing effect on his forces, got in
touch with the Belgian COM
|mander. He asked for a TWEEN
|ty-four-hour armistice. He
wanted to gather up his
wounded and bury his dead.
The request was sent to
King Albert who will decide
whether it is to be granted. In
this connection, the king will
be compelled to decide wheth-
er Germany will take advan-
tage Of this lull to get other
reinforcements to the army be-
fore Liege. It was stated Off
cially, that the German off
GERS who asked for the armis-
tice made the admission that
their dead and wounded total
ed $4,000.
ENGLIsHMEN ARRESTED.
BERLIN, Aug. Forty
British citizens were today ar
rested and imprisoned in the
famous Spandau fortress, nine
miles west of Berlin.
1.-THE Spandau fortress is
one of the most famous in Ger
many. It is the financial war
center Of the empire. In the
Julius tower at Spandau, Ger
many has stored $60,O0O,O0O
in gold for use in the war in
which she is now engaged.]
ESCAPED FROM BERLIN.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. T.
The British ambassador to
Berlin, accompanied by all the
members of the embassy staff
and by the English CORES
pondents of the London news
papers, reached Holland to-
day. They had a thrilling
story to tell of their expert
ences in the last few days be-
fore the declaration of war
and Immediately afterward.
The English correspondents
were mobbed by crowds in
Berlin hotels and several OF
them narrowly escaped serious
or even death. All OF
the English correspondents
were arrested by Germans as
spies, but their release was Sc
cured 5y fne ambassador.
They stated that Karl Won
Wiegand, the Berlin manager
Of the United Press had been
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Strict Neutrality of the United
States is to be Main
tanned During the
War.
WILL WATCH ALL SHIPS
Replies Received From Some Of tho
Countries to Which Mediation
Was Offered by the
President.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, Aug. r. Active
steps looking to the maintenance Of
strict neutrality by the United States
and it's citizens In answer to the proc
Iamation by the president were taken
at a conference Of officials Of tho
navy and treasury department. with
Secretary McAdoo.
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
Roosevelt, Captain commandant Bor-
thof Of the revenue cutter service,
Supervising Special Agent Wheatiy OF
the customs division, CHIEF Flynn OF
the secret service, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury Newton and Assistant
Secretary HamIln perfected plans, Il
IL understood for rigid patrol and
Inspection OF the entire American
coast line.
This patrol will be maintained by
the revenue cutter fleet and The Unit
ed States navy. All out going ships
will be watched by the governments
secret agents and customs officers and
the coast fine wdiijbs closely watched.
Il is probable that a coast patrol to
cover the shore line Of the eastern
seaboard will be Instituted If neces-
sary. The light house and life saw
ina services were represented at tho
conference as we'll as the bureau Of
navigation Of tho department. Of COM
merce. Practically the entire fleet OF
revenue cutters In Atlantic waters Is
available for patrol duty within tho
three mile limit, and for seaport sup
ervlsion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Two Battleships Ordered Out
of Italy, Steam Out to
Probably Certain
Destruction.
BRITISH ARE ON WATCH
Part Of the Two Fleets Have Been In
Action and Germans Have
Been Chased From
Channel.

United Press Leased Wire Serivce.J
ROME, Aug. lin pursuance Of Its
proclamation Of neutrality, Italy has
ordered all German ships from It's
ports. The British squadron, with
headquarters In Malta, Is reported
waiting for the German cruisers In the
harbor of Messina. Officers Of these
Warshps realizing that they are 60
ing to certain destruction, have made
their Wills and left them in possession
Of the German consul of that port.
WILL MAKE A DASH.
MESINA, italy, Aug. 7.-With decks
cleared for action and every gunner at
his post, the German battle cruiser
and the cruiser Bresfau steamed at
full speed out of the harbor here to-
day. AS the vessels passed out to
sea, the battle standards were flying
proudly at the stern and the Goeben's
band played the German national an
them.
ii Il 10 known that the British Med
Eiterrsneafi feet which pursued the
two war craft after they escaped from
the French squadron, Is cruising off
the port and the Germans will have
to fight. They were given the choice
by the italian government Of remain
ing in port until the end of the war
or of putting to sea and taking their
chances. The German commander
chose the latter. It Is expected they
will try to make a dash for the Aus
trisn coast where they can effect a
juncture with the Austria navy.
PART IN ACTION.
LONDON, Aug. 7.-Part of the Brit
ish and German fleets have been in
action. The Germans fought run
ming fight according to the admiralty,
which advises that all of the news may
not be favorable. The only real dis
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REPLIES RECEIVED.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7--Replies OF
scne Of the foreign governments to
whom United States mediation was of.
fered, were received today by Sec
retary of State Bryan. While he
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Pretended Evacuation of Fort
Results in Large Force Of
Kaiser S Men Being
Annihilated.
STILL FIGHT FIERcELY
Germans Now Have the Range on
Brussels and Are Smelling
the City and Starting
Fires.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
BRUSSELS, Aug. 7-FIerce fight
Ing at LIege continues, the Germans
hurting enormous forces against the
Notifications. An all-night artillery
bombardment from the mortar batter
les was kept up, Inficting much dam
age to the forts. The entire frontier
is covered with German dead and
wounded but accurate estimates of
the German losses are as yet imPos-
sibIe. After retiring to the left bank
Of the Muese, the Germans renewed
the assault at daybreak.
Early today the BeIgians slaughter
another large force Of Germans. This
defenders Of the town made show Of
evacuatIng the outer forts. Germans
accepted the retirement as genuine
and largo force pressed forward.
Immediately they entered the circle
Of the Notifications however, the Bel
ulans whose maneuver had been an
artifice, poured a deadly artillery fire
on the invaders. Caught In trap,
the asrnans fought fierceIy butr r.
most the entire force was annihiiated.
The Beigians captured twenty-sevcn
field pieces In the rout of the Ger
mans. The invading force lost the
temporary advantage of position they
had gained In two days fighting.
The German armen were active
today. One Of them managed to fly
over the city and dropped bombs
both in the city itself and on the forts.
Three bombs landed In a corwd in the
square d'Avorey killing seventeen per-
sons and wounding at least that num-
Der. Belgian airmen arose from Fort
FIeon and went in pursuit but the
aviator reached the German lines In
safety.
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RANGE OF THE CITY.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 7.-German artIl-
Iery now has the range of the city
with the result that many fires have
started. The department. of justice
and magnificent cathedral are among
the buildings badly damaged.
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PART IN ACTION.

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THE WEATHER.

Probably Showers. Warm
er. Local temp p. m. 81;
z a. m. 73.
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subscribers Of The Daily Gate City
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
WELLESTEEMED
WOMAN PASSES
Mrs. John DUDE Answers Final
Summons at Sage Street
Home.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Mrs. John DUDE, a we'll esteemed
resident of Virginia, died about mid
night last night at her home, 2O7
Sage street, following an extended
illness. For the past two years she
has not been in good health and while
her condition has been such for some
time that her family and friends knew
the end was not far distant, news of
her death will bring sincere regret to
many Virginia friends. Funeral ar
engagements had not been completed
this morning. Mrs. DUDE was a de-
vout Catholic and a communicate of
the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Mrs. DUDE was 81 years old, and
was of sturdy old French Canadian
stock. She is survived by her hus-
band and a family of six children,
Louise, Caroline, George, William,
Agnes and Charles and by seven
brothers and two sisters, all of whom
reside in Quebec with the exception
of one brother at Ontonagom, Mich,
and two at Sault Ste. Marie.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
WILLIAM SHEA
DIES IN WEST
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
William H. Shea, Jr., city attorney
in Virginia under Mayor William
Eaton, died yesterday from the eff
fects of Bright's disease, at his home
at Toppenish, WASH, according to
word received in Virginia last night.
Mr.. Shea sold his practice in Vir-
ginia to Attorney George F. Shea and
went west in 1907. He was married
in the fall of the same year to Miss
Jessie Clark, daughter of former Dep
uty Register of Deeds Clark of Du-
luth, who held office for a number
of years.
He is survived by his parents at
Eveleth, his wife and two children,
one four years old and the other, three
years old. His father is at West
Baden, Ind. His mother was advised
of his death last night.
Mr.. Shea was about 81 years Of
age. While in Virginia he was promi-
nent in social, political and business
affairs and had many friends here
who will regret keenly the news of
his death. H.
The body may be brought to Du-
luth for burial. -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
THIS MAN WE GALL THE FOREIGNER.

Margaret Antin, Russian Jew, author @The Promised
Land writing series of articles the last Of which publish
ed in the current number of the American Magazine the
era subject of immigration that intensely interesting
Mesaba Margaret Ann saying things to the
immigration resconists that place this whole matter
light she backing her statements with facts that be
easily verified community where the foreign element
large.
How little we know the Mesaba range of this
call the foreigner how little of his hopes his ambitions his
and the conditions which brought him Miss says
if would know the foreigner better should schools
public libraries and social settlements where will
things OF him that will In the experience of bra
ans says Miss Antn it is the verest commonplace the
classics have the greatest circulation in the immigrant quarters
Of the Cities Vgnias public librarian said yesterday the
thing right here at home and the records the Virginia
library will show it. They who read the classics will
bad citizens Indifferent fathers mothers of American
One Of the most interesting things about Miss Antns article
hey Who Knock at Our Gates comparison Of types of the
immigrants of today with the Pilgrim fathers She says the
predominant spirit of the Pilgrims ideas The things of
the spirit to them than the things of the es yet of
the 820 foreigners landed shores between the years
dred times much seadfsess and endurance for Russian
Jew of today Jew took for English Protestant
the seventeenth century to defy the Established church, and
she cites the anSemitc laws of Russia and the Kshneff
Beostock and Mohief to it, Is she right?
We should say she is We nowhere doing much for
alien friends as public Of their children
making women worthy of citizenship We cannot af
ford harbor prejudice against the alien within gates We
afford to judge him by his lowest types than
Judge ourselves by lowest types Let know
these people BETTER let help them let aid them the
fullest realization of those hopes and ambitions which brought
them Let not forget that day the majority of
the Atlantic them the steerage with
similar hopes and ambitions and that the liberties and the enight
eminent today the this they call the for
egner hopes his children and his chlens children
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
VENTIATING AGAINST GARLIC.

Superintendent S. Newton of the Meaba Electric railway
replies of the ventng and sanitary conditions Of
the the passenger service the trolley with the
statement that "You can't ventae against garlic Mr. New
right Neither you disinect against it. There is
way know of to successfully combat the dscomforng
effects full of garlic, and if Mr. Newton the Virginia
commercial club other individual will discover
the of the Mesaba will rise and call
him blessed Chloride of lime suggests of hope that's ALL
Garlic is AS such it is very in this section.
It dainty in which good of alien friends nstnted
y indulge themselves Lmburger cheese beside garlic
glass of milk beside bottle of obasco there copari
The odor of garlic would to shame and dwarf to insight
the teemng odors of glue factory And garlic is to
large what the matter with the of the electric rail-
way It gives them faint that scrubbng with and water
quite dspel anything there added zes and
treated
Therefore, this whole question resolves itself into OF
be done about garlic Let put garlic from Let
us touch taste handle garlic Let
the rights of citizenship free country and make it
crmegarc And in the meantime let give the Mesaba rail-
way another chance yet free itself of this monstrous
garlic. It may yet assert it's rights carrier and so
construe afflicted with the garlic habit be
against just if he the original package
were bottled bond something like that Better days
coming, sure.
you disinfect against it. And there you are.
this community doomed to garlic Let us make
the best of it.