The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-08
Kaiser Wants TO Know Cars
Purpose in MObiIIzing
His Troops.
NIGHT CABINET MEETING
AT POTSDAM TO LAY PLANS
st. Petersburg Residents Fired With
Enthusiasm for War-ExPect I'm
mediate Declaration From Aus
tria-EngIand Is Ready.
LATE WAR NEWS AT A GLANCE

Germany gives Russia tV"enty-four
hours to say that mobilization of
troops will stop; Russia's reply is
that it is now too late to stop ac-
tiVities.
troops after sharp battle; invaders
are reported to be pushing into the
interior of SerVia.
Opinion of Europe is that Austria's
aggressive action is certain to i'm
voIve Russia and pr>cipitate a gen.
eraI European eonfIasration.
German troops are mobilizing the
frontiers and nearly a million re-
servists have been called out.
France has not yet modified troops,
but declares action will be prompt
unless Germany ceases hostile prep
arations.
British navy ready for instant service
and army is being rapidly put into
condition to take the field, if con-
ditions warrant North sea and Chi
nese ports are watched particularly
closely.
Canada prepares to raise troops to aid
mother country in case of need and
ST. Lawrence and Bay of Funday
ports are to be fortified.
London.-A dispatch from ST. Pc
tersburg to Reuters Telegraph Com
pany says it is believed there that
Austria will declare war against Rus
STA at once. The dispatch adds that
if this should be the case, it is I'm.
derstood that Emperor Nicholas will
go to Moscow to deliver pronounce
ment in the Uspensky cathedral.
The streets of St Petersburg were
overlooking again with enthusiastic
subjects and patriotic demonstrations
continued without cessation. The
British and French embassies and the
Servian legation were surrounded by
crowds of cheering Russians, who
apparently had been stirreo to high
degree of patriotism by the war spirit
which prevails everywhere in Rus
STA, and the report that the emperor
in case of hostilities, is to take com
mand.
Germany Calls Russia.
BerIn.-In note dispatched to St
Petersburg the German government
gives Russia twenty-four hours to ex
plain her intentions with regard tC
mobilization.
In diplomatic quarters here it was
stated that the note to Russia aske
three questions Object of the
mobilization, whether it was directed
against Austria Hungary and wheth
er Russia was willing to order a stop
page of the mobilization.
dispatch from st. Petersburg
says that Sergius Sazonoff, Russian
foreign minister, replied to the Ger
man note, stating that the mobiliza
ton of the Russian army was onl!
partial and could not be stopped.
Germany Modifying.
London-News comes that the Ger
man cabinet, presided over by the EN-
peror, sat at Potsdam until midnigh
and that a censorship over the tele
graph lines is being imposed at BeT
lin.
This is interpreted here as imply
ing preparation for German mobiliza
ton, and few hours probably viii
MASIuSI Is W D6 III
volved in universal warfare.
1t is FULLY expected both at Londol
and Berlin that the Russian. foreigl
minister, Sergius Sazanoff, will repl
to Germany's demand for an explana
ton to the effect that Russian mobiI
zation already has been ordered an
cannot be Cancelled.
England Preparing.
London.-The British navy is pre-
pared for war at a moments notice
and the British army is quietly an
swiftly preparing
The war Office throws cold waite
on the word mobilization" and ha
issued another carefully framed motto
to the newspapers that only eth
usual precautions are being take
and has sent a request to all paper
to refrain from publishing news G
British military and naval move
ments.
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