The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-11
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scrutiny and many are under surveil.
lance.
The chief aim of the French govern.
ment in exercising this drastic scheme
of vigilance is to prevent information
from leaking from the country. Not
only Is strict censorship maintained,
but military patriots are watching all
the important telephone and telegraph
lines to prevent them from being tap.
ped.
| Every conversation is noted by the
censors. This rule was adopted after
the military authorities had learned
that suspected German spies were
| talking in English to their confeder
ates in the suburbs. This rule has i'm
posed a severe hardship upon English
and American tourists marooned in
the city, many of whom have only a
limited knowledge of the French Ian
! guage.
| Herrick Feels Censorship.
| In an instance of extreme of the
vigilance of the military telephone
censors was shown last night when
| Myron T. Herrick, the United States
ambassador, attempted to communi
cate with friends by the telephone In
the middle of the conversation the
communication was suddenly cut of
| by the telephone exchange.
| But l am Ambassador Herrick," ex
! postulated the diplomat.
Very sorry replied the police cen
r h~ - i g
continued
Mr. Herrick showed himself to be
more amused than annoyed by the &C
ton Of the censor.
Anti-Austrian Feeling Grows.
The severance of diplomatic rela
tons between France and Austria was
generally taken as an indication thai
formal declaration of war would fol
low. There were number of anti
Austrian demonstrations in the streets
of this city, but the hostility shown
against the Austrians is not so mark
ed as that directed against the Ger.
mans.
In some quarters the belief prevails
that the French cabinet had decided
to declare war against Austria, but
was pOstpOning action until troops on
the northern border of Switzerland
could be marshalled into positions of
increased strategic Importance. Those
who profess to believe that France
will formally declare war upon Aus
tria expect that the French war office
will send an army into Southern Al
SAGE to prevent junction of Austrian
and German forces.
Reveals German Strength.
The first encounter of French and
German forces on French soil, near
the western border of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg proved unimport-
ant as an engagement, but it did de-
rive Importance from the fact that it
revealed the presence of a stronger
German army than was known to be
in that district.
A special dispatch to the Matin says
that battalion of French chasseurs
came upon German column north
east of Longuy, which is in direct line
with Nerun and the frontier line of
Luxembourg The French were out
numbered and were compelled to fall
back
Another dispatch dated Charleroi,
Belgium, shows that the German army
in Southern Belgium. which has borne
the brunt of the fighting since the bat
tie of Liege opened, is undergoing ex-
treme hardships. Officers and men
alike are suffering from the strain of
prolonged fighting, exposure and hun
ger. Two German officers of high
rank, who We're captured near the
French frontier. said they had had
nothing to eat for three days. When
given bread, they fell upon it like hun
CRY wolves.
Uhlans Tired Out.
The same dispatch told of detach-
ments of a dozen, Uhlans, who had
been captured near Charleroi, while
doing scout duty. The Crime Of tho
first days fighting was still upon them
hands and faces, and they were weak
from hunger Many such detac hments
of German Uhlans have been daily
taken into the Belgian barracks at
CharlerOi
The French war office reports that
the French are meeting with uniform
| successes wherever operations are I'M
der way These announcements have
the effect of cheering the French. and
today the crepe which, for forty years
has decorated the Strassburg monu-
ment, was torn down and was replaced
with flowers and branches of palm
| The French tri-cOlOr was draped over
| the monument The bands of mourn
! ing which had previously decorated
the statuary, were symbolic Of the loss
! of AlsaceLorraine to Germany in the
war of 1870.
Embraces Statue.
| The ceremony around the Strass
! burg monument was conducted by the
| Alsatian societies in Paris. Joseph
Sansbeouf mayor of the Eighth ar
reimbursement of the French capital
embraced the statue in the fervor OF
his emotions and then. as he stood be
side the lofty pedestal, addressed the
| crowds as follows:
The hour of revenge for which we
have prayed INCREASINGLY for forty-foul
years has at last struck. The French
army is in Alsace. The red trousers
of our soldiers against are seen on the
plains and mountains of Alsace The
gay bugles of France have again
sounded the charge at Altkirch and
Muelhausen."
These words were greeted with
cheers. Caught in the stress of pa
triotic fervor many men wept. The
strains of the Marsellaise, burst from
thousands Of throats. AS the crowds
dispersed there were ringing cheers
for France. for Belgium, for Russia