The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-08-05
EUROPE INVOLVED IN CONFLICT
Although Scant Word is Being Re-
ceived From the Seat of Trouble
Trouble is in the Air.

general European war, long
deemed an eventuality by keen OBJ
servers of the trend of world events,
because of the tremendous efforts di-
rected towards national ornaments
by the leading countries of Europe,
has actually come to pass and no
military leader or strategist seems
able to prophesy the outcome. Opin-
ion is general, however, that when
the smoke of battle has cleared away
European Twentieth Century su-
premacy will have been settled and
our present geography will be use-
less.
The actual declaration of war up
to the present time concerns Aus
tria and Servia and Germany and
that England, France and Italy will
be drawn into the conflict, in which
event the world may expect bat
tie array of hitherto unknown
proportions with consequences so ap-
pallingly great that they are beyond
the Ken of human apprehension.
AS result of the existence of a
state of actual warfare European
business conditions are paralyzed
and insofar as European invest
ments, trade and shipping are diff
fused, the disturbed conditions are
worldwide. General military mo-
bilization orders placing their re-
spective armies upon strictly a war
footing have been issued by Russia,
Austria, Germany, England, France.
Servia, Holland and Belgium, while
/ preparedness is the watchwork in
every other European country. For
the first time in the worlds history
20,000,000 thoroughly equipped
soldiery will soon be fighting from
one end of Europe to the other,
which must convince that mans hu-
manitarianism and social polish is
veneer and that his savagery has not
been disturbed by the so called ad-
vances of civilization. Indeed, his
intellectual advances have seemed
merely to have increased his de-
stuctive powers, for while wonder
full advances have been made in the
manufacture of death dealing in
struments, the inclinations of man
kind have been in no wise changed
and he is the same blood-lust crea-
, ture as the forebear who fought with
primitive hand welded weapons.
The board adjourned Monday
evening to meet again next Monday
at which time road matters will be
considered, among which is the
awarding of the contract to do cer-
tain work in the vicinity of the G.
Budd Williams ranch.
Actual news is scarce regarding
the progress of events in Europe, for
a strict censorship is being main
tanned and so far as elucidation is
concerned, the telegraph might as
we'll not exist. Germany has at
tempted and probably has closed
communication from Russia to the
outside world by cable and telegraph
wire cutting, while intercourse be-
tween France and Germany is at a
standstill. Beyond brief announce
ments of victory in preliminary
skimishes for one branch of arms or
another and the chronicling of ac-
tivity in war preparations by all
belligerents, little news is reaching
the outside world. One dispatch an
nounces that the German fleet has
achieved victory over the Russian;
another that French and German
aeroplanes dirigibles are being in
voked in this twentieth century war,
which promises to eclipse in methods
and results the forecasts of the most
imaginative novelists.
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