Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-08
WAR BULLETINS

Amsterdam, Aug. S.-The Telegraaf
reports the receipt of a wireless mes
sage announcing that a German cruis-
er Is enroute to Ymuiden bringing ten
men who were wounded in a naval
battle.
st. Petersburg, Aug. S.-The Aus
tftan merchant steamer Stella has
been captured by the Russian war;
ships.
London. Aug. SIS a. m.-News dis
patches from Brussels states that
heavy rains are swelling the Meuse and
its tributaries and so retarding the
German advance.
Lisbon, Portugal, via London, Aug.
S.-12.2O p. m.-Portugal's decision
to support Great Britain in the general
European war was announced to-day
after Germany had demanded infor-
nation of her intentions.
Stockholm, Aug. S.-The captain of
schooner which has arrived here
from Libau, having sailed August 4.
reports heavy bombardment of Libau
by the German fleet and the fortresses
badly damaged, but still holding out
All the stores and the wharves at
Hango, Finland, were burned, having
been blown up by Films and Russian
troops.
Paris, Aug. S.-The great improve
ment to-day in the general train SER
vice In France is taken as q reliable
indication that the mobilization and
concentration of the French armies
are nearly completed. No fewer than
$500 passengers left Paris to-day for
the south of France.
Brussels, Aug. S.-Via London Aug.
S.-11.SO a. ma force of French
cavalry arrived to the east of Liege
to-day, according to an official an
nouncement here. The French troop
ers were said to be advancing.
London, Aug. S.-WaIter Runci-
man, secretary of agriculture introduce
ed a bill in the House of Commons to-
day giving the British government
power to seize all foodstuffs. The bill
passed through all its stages.
Paris, Aug. s.-The experiences of
Jules Cambon, the French ambassador
to Berlin on his trip from the German
capital are related in detail in a re-
port to the minister of foreign acairs.
1t appears that he was subjected to
numerous inconvenience and even to
i'll treatment when passing the canal
at kiel.
Lima, Peru, Aug. s.-Au the banks
were opened here to-day and paid out
balances which did not exceed S25,
while those in excess of that amount
were paid in proportion, according to
the terms of a government decree.
London, Aug. 8. - The Board of
Trade returns for the month of July
showed that the imports into the
while the exports decreased $685.
900.
London, Aug. S.-Francis Dyke As
land, parliamentary secretary for for
eign affairs to-day in the House of
Commons promised to consider q sug-
gestion proposing the exchange Of
Germans in England for British sub
jects in Germany.
Berlin, Aug. 8, via Amsterdam
Prince Buelow, former Imperial cham
cellor, in patriotic appeal to the Ger
man nation made in the columns of
the Hamburger Nachrichten to-day
concluded with the striking phrase:
even If the world be filed with
devils, the German people will defend
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st. Petersburg, via London, Aug. 8.
The German fleet in the Baltic sea
consists of at least twelve battleships
of an old type, several cruisers and
twenty-five torpedo boats and has its
base at Koenigsberg and Danig. Up
to the present none of the vessels has
come northward to Libau. An i'm
perial ukase issued to-day extends the
moratorium to two months.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 8, via London.
Austrian troops crossed the Russian
frontier near the Rumanian border to-
day and burned some vilIates.
London, Aug. S.--A British force on
the Gold coast of West Africa has sefz-
ed Port LONE. German Togoland.
The seizure of Port LONE was made
on the instructions of the British colo
NAL office. No resistance was offered
by the Germans who simultaneously
surrendered Southern Togoland up to