The Daily Missoulian., 1914-07-26
GERMANS SING
MILITANT
SONGS
TEuToNs ARE STIRRED AND
CHEER FOR WAR IN TuRBU-
LENT DEMoNsT RATION.
FOR AUSTRIA AND WAR

Berlin. July 25.-rhe center of Ber-
lin is filled With cheering, tumutuous
crowds tonight, engaged In enthusiasts
tic demonstrations over the outbreak
Of Austrian Servian hostilites.
The strains Of German and Austrian
anthems are heard from time to time
above the cheers OF the crowd, aud the
ofchestras in the cafes and restau-
rants are playing patriotic airs to
crowded tables.
Newspaper extras sent out in rapid
succession are torn from the hands oil
the distributors and the streets are
carpeted with discarded sheets.
The enthusiasm could hardly have
been greater if it were Gcrmany's own
war which was about to begin.
In the last two days the newspapers
have been preparing the public for
this contingency, and most Of the
demonstrators apparently realize that
hostilites along the Danube might be
preliminary to Russian and German
notifications. $780,
About 1000 persons gathered before
the Austrian embassy when news OF
Servia's refusal to accept the terms
laid down by Austria became known.
They cheered Austro- Hungary and
sang patriotic songs. The Austrian
ambassador appeared On the balcony
and warmly thanked those gathered
bciow.
Another spontaneous demonstration
occurred i'll Wilhelmstrasse, through
Which some thousand men marched
singing die Wacht Am Rhein."
The crowds in the center of the city
steadily increased as the news pene-
trated the residential districts and sub
urbs, Which sent their quotas of men
and women, collegians and high school
youths to join the throng in Unter den
Linden and t'riederichstrasse. Pa
rades We're constantly organized and
proceeded to the Austrian embassy. the
foreign office and other points of in
terest.
About 10 o'clock at night the Va
rious detachments conVerging III Unter
den Linden, near the palace, and a
great procession, a half mile long and
Ii or Is abreast, marched through the
| avenues across the Tiergarten to the
Austrian embassay, stopped a moment
for ironical cheers before the Rus
| sian and French embassies, in front of
which bodies of police had gathered,
gave lusty hurrahs while passing the
statutes of Bismarck, Moltke and Room
in front of the reichstag, and assem-
blcd around the Austrian embassy,
cheering for Emperor Francis Joseph
aud Emperor William and singing the
| German and Austrian anthems.
| Later an angry crowd assembled
| outside the Russian embassy with
continuous shouts of "DoWn with Rus
! sia; down with Servia; hurrah for
War"
The imperial chancellor, DIR. Won
Bethmann- HolWeg, returned TO Bcrz
| lin tonight The lighted windows OF
the chaneellor5s palace, tho foreign
minister and the officers of the gen
eral staff showed that preparations
We're going OH for all eventualities.
The impression in diplomatic circles
here was that the European situation
/ is the graYeSt event since 1870 All
eyes are turned to st. Petersburg, and
even among the most optimistic there
is no confidence that war will be
averted French residents who are in
close touch with the embassy are
making preparations to return te
Franco for possible service. Reports
from IIamberg tell the same story OF
patriotic demonstrations.
Information received late tonight
| from a quarter in the confidence ol
| the German embassy at st. Peters
burg declares that the first desire Il
settle the controversy through diplo-
matte means is giving place To de-
cided war spirit and insistenee thai
SerVia be supported in every way.