The Forrest City times., 1914-08-14
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

The war in Europe-the greatest in all the worlds history in point of the number of men involved and in mone- tary cost-is now in full progress, and several minor battles have been waged. Germany and Anstro- Hungary are on one side, and arrayed against them are the armies and fleets of England, France, Russia and Seryia. It is es- timated that if the several nations throw their full war strength into the field, fully ten million men will be en- gagged in thesavage business Of slaugh- tering each other. The carnage is certain to be terrible. And when the frightful struggle is ended, when all the wasted wealth and wasted lives and broken hopes and hearts, bleed- ing in desolate homes, and fevered cries of mangled myriads, have been summed up; when the common people, groaning under insupportabe burdens of taxation, are called upon to pay the appalling price of all this, they will wonder what it was about. For noth. ing will have been proven except that savagery was in the ascendancy and civilization in obeyance.
 The United States will suffer jndi. rectly. Already the price of provi- sions has gone soaring, and the end is not yet. We believe the right thing for the Washington government to do is to immediately place an embrrgo upon the shipment of all feedstuffs from this country, so that phi ,es could be kept within reasonable bounds. This action on our part would also tend to hasten the end of hostilities. for the United States practically feeds all the warning nations except Russia and Servia, and soldiers cannot march and fight with empty stomachs.
 It is difficult to reconcile the differ. ent stories which come from the scenes of action. All news is censored. 1t is said S0000 Germans soldiers were edgaged in the battles in Belgium. A Times man has been keeping tab on these battles, and according to his figures, compiled from newspaper re ports from day to day, s, ,00O Germans have been killed, which goes to prove that the Belgiums are some fighters. But just how they managed to kill 5000 more men than the Germans had Tn their army around Lieee was not explained. An alleged German report claims that the latter lost 9s men in these battles. Probably one report is as far from the truth as the other All ot which shows that some bright, young lie "spaper men in the back rooms of certain New York newspa- pers or news agencies are mighty handy with tiggers"
 The truth is that none ofthe news" purporting 10 deal with the war is re. liable. All channels Of information have been closed tight by the military authorities of the several nations in- Volved in the titanic struggle. a meas ure necessary to protect the secrecy oi the movements Of their armies and fleets, and no messages of any kind are permitted to be handled until they been rigidly censored and all refer ences to military operations elimi. hated
 Yesterdays dispatches reported , great battle between the Belgians and Germans, in which the latter suffered the loss of three-tifths of their men This seems hardly probable. and if should be remembered that all news of these battles comes from Belgian sources. No information whatever is permitted to leak out from the Ger. man side. The great, decisive battle IS yet to be fought, and the result is sure to send a shudder around the world