The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-10


  (2:25 D. m.)-Gen. Radko Dimitrieff commander in chief of the Bulgarian army during the war against Turkey, now Bulgarian minister at St. Peters, burg, today telegraphed his resignation that he might serve as a volunteer in the Russian army.
 Washington, August 9-Expectation that many Germans and subjects of Austria-Hungary in Canada will try to take up residence in the United States until European troubles are settled caused the commissioner of immigra- | ton at Montreal to telegraph today for instructions. Secretary Wilson in structed the commissioner to treat all applicants for admission in the ordi- nary way. 1 Secretary Wilson said today it was 1 the intention to admit or discharge to the custody of friends or relatives, un- der proper bond, all aliens, aboard the Kronprinzessin Cecelie at Bar Harbor, Me, whom it is possible to land under the present emergency policy. 1 Paris, August 9.-(650 D. m)-It was 1 reported today that Austria was sending her Fifteenth army corps across Germany to the French frontier. This corps is composed principally of Slav subjects which, il was thought, might not be de- pendabe in an action against Russia. 1 When the report reached the foreign of l flee here the Austrian ambassador was requested to make a declaration of Aus | tria s intentions toward France. | Paris, August 9.-G:20 D. m.)-An off, l fical statement issued tongth says the Germans apparently are waiting before | Liege for endorsements with which to flank the Belgian position. probably to- ward Hny, southeast of Liege, on the route to Namur. Huy is defended by a | single well armed fort, situated on a spur of rock detached from Mount Picard on the right bank of the River Mouse. The fort dominates the town of Huy and the bridge and the roads to Namur and Liege.
 Paris August 9-(Via London, S:3O D. m.)-It is reported that German troops in Belgium are without provisions. Iso- lated patrols are said to be surrendering to obtain food.
 | Berlin, August 9.-(Va London, S:30 D. m.)-Two Russian infantry companies with machine guns, today attacked Ger man territorials three miles from Tilsit in eastern Prussia. The Russians re- treated.
 Rome, via London, August s.-It is re.
 ported here that cholera has broken out among both Austrian and Servian troops The German cruisers Goeben and Bres- lau, which recently were forced to leave
 Messina, Sicily, are reported to have passed through the straits of Otranto into the Adriatic sea.
 | Forty-eight train loads of Austrian fs.nD tI.. I l Leopoldshoehe in Baden, northwest of Basel, Switzerland. They were on their | way to Alsace to assist the Germans.
 London. August 9-Q055 D. m.)-A Brussels dispatch to the Exchange Tele- graph company says Prince George Of 1 Prussia, a nephew of Emperor William is among the German prisoners who have arrived at Bruges. l San Francisco, August 9.-Two re- ports of firing off San Francisco bay yes terday after departure of the Canadian cruiser Rainbow stirred the populace here, but today belief was general that blasing in quarries was responsible for both.
 1 The whereabouts of the Rainbow oth- CT than that she turned south when 1 first leaving port and of the German cruisers Vurnberg and Leipzig are not known here.
 Paris, August 9.--Americans are be- | ing allowed to keep their automobiles, which were requisitioned at the begin ming of mobilization. So many machines have been proffered by French people that the war office cannot use them all.
 | Liverpool August 9.--A steamer which arrived here today brought into port four Germans found in a small boat in St. Georges channel They had | taken to the boat to avoid coast guards. and were nearly starved.
 Sofia, Bulgaria, via London, August l9.-d0:45 p. m)-Communication be- l tween Bulgaria and Turkey will be in terrupted tomorrow owing to mobilza- tion of the Turks. according to a semi official statement today.
 | Paris, August 9.-G:59 D. m.)--The mili- tary critic of the Journal Des Debats con sidered that the report from Rome that l Emperor William has left Berlin to join the general staff of the German army on the Alsatian frontier indicates the Ger mans are ready to engage the French in great force, and that general engage ment is impending
 New York. August 9.-Portable in- cinerators for the cremation of dead on the battlefield will be used by the German army in the present war, according to ad- vices received by Dr. Hugo Erichsen of Detroit, president of the Cremation So- ciety of America, it became known here today.
 "Cremation, as practiced in the con. icts of the past has been of the crud-
 est possible description" said Dr. Erich.