White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-16
GERMANS PILE DEAD
SOLDIERS IN HEAPS
AND BURN BODIES

A dispatch to the Standard from
Masstricht describes the wholesale
cremation of bodies killed at Liege
as told by fugitives arriving there.
During three successive nights af-
ter the fighting at Liege the Ger
mans collected their dead in heaps
of thirty. Funeral services were held
and military salutes were fired over
each heap. which was then burned.
The officers explained to the men
that this was necessary to prevent
the bodies from becoming a menace
to the living. Many other bodies
were thrown into the Meuse. to float
seward.
In the mass of telegraphic matter
daily received from the European
mix-up. and %purported to be war
news, 1t is difficult to form any defi-
mite conclusion of events. owing to
the many conflicting reports. Mel
vile E. Stone, general manager of .
the Associated Press. has issued a
statement that advices to his news
gathering organization from London
that an increasingly rigid censorship
is being imposed on all matter from
Brussels. This increases the delay
on such dispatches as are allowed to
come through.
The French Cable Company, which,
except those with terminals in the
British Isles, is the only direct line
to Europe now in operation. has CIV
en- notice that the congestion on its
lines is such that all messages are
subject TO a minimum delay of for
ty-eight hours. There is absolutely
no direct communication with Ger
many or Austria by any routing. A
few censored dispatches are coming
through via London and these are
re-eensored for transmission out of
England. Inability to secure wire
less communication with Germany
since the cutting of the direct Ger
man cable at the outbreak of the
war and the increasing rigor of Lon
don censorship still further obscures
what has actually transpired within
the military zone.
Two salient points emerge from
the latest news of the great war.
The first and most striking is what
Is described at London as the ST.
tent victory"
This applies 10 the fact that the
North sea over which almost abso-
lutte silence has brooded so long, is
now open to shipping without serious
danger. The steamship services from
Denmark 10 London and from New
castle to Norway are being resumed.
while the steamship services between
the Hook of Holland and Harwich
have suffered no interruption. These
facts. in the opinion of the authori-
ties here. that imply that the German
fleet for the tins being is safely
held in check.
The second point is that the French
have been obliged to %evacuate Muel-
hansen and occupy new positions
outside the town. According TO
German reports, this was the first
important battle of the campaign
and the French. who had > 5000 men.
suffered a serious check
The new admiralty and war office
bureau of Information established by
the British government at London
began work, Tuesday. and sent out
the following:
There is good reason to believe
the German cruisers Breslau and
Goeben have taken refuge in the
Dardanelles and will be dealt with
according to International usage.
There is also good reason to be-
live that the mass of German troops
on the western German frontier are
distributed between Thionville a
fortified town in Lorraine. seventeen
miles north of Metz and Liege, and
that Lorraine is held comparatively
lightly farther south.
There is every indication that the
Austrians have entered Alsace. 1t is
believed the forts at Liege have not
been taken.
The mobilization OF the territorial
force Is at the point of completion.
| Some of the units of the force have
accepted liability to serve our seas.
Volunteers are being asked to follow
their example.
Kitchener's army, for which 5000
| recruits have been enrolled in the
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