The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-08-14
H0RR|D WAR
STILL REARS
GRIM FRONT.
England Declares War
Against Austria on
Wednesday.
TITANIC ARMY
is IN FIELD.
The Preliminaries of a Great
Battle are Now
Starting.

Starting.
BOSTON, August ia desperate
sea fight, presumably between a
German cruiser and British cruiser,
was reported by officers of the United
Fruit steamer, Loveland, which came
in this afternoon from Banos, Cuba
The Loveland was so close to the
big war craft, they said, that every
shot that was fired shocked the Bos-
ton-bound vessel from bow to stern
and caused CONSERVATION among the
crew.
WASHINGTON, August Ire
ports that Great Britain has forbidden
the landing of all foreigners on her
shores caused Secretary Bryan to-
night to cable Ambassador Page in
structions to investigate, and, if he
finds the reports true, to lodge an ur-
gent protest with the British Foreign
Office.
COLOGNE, (By Courier To Ant
werp) Aug 1.-THE spire of the Co.
1ogne Cathedral ano. other cathedrals
in Germany have been transformed
into well-equipped aeroplane defense
stations. The newest form of aero
plane guns have been mounted in the
belfries.
LONDON, Aug. pa st. Peters
burg dispatch to the Post says the
Russian feet is actively securing the
Baltic Sea. Twenty captured mer-
chant vessels have been taken to
Cronstadt and their crews will be re-
moved to the interior as PRISONS of
war.
PARIS, Aug. 12.-The lombard
ment by the Germans of Pont-a-
Mousson, in the department of Muer
the and Moselle, about twenty miles
northwest of Nancy, commenced yes
terd2y morning. A hundred shells of
large calibre fell in the town, killing
or wOunding a number of inhabitants
and demolishing buildings.
BERLIN, Aug. Is. (via~London)
The German troops near Muelhau-
sen have captured ten French officers,
many Tiues.
According to the report, German
territory has been cleared of the
French. 1t is also stated that at Lag
arde the German troops took more
than a thousand prisoners, about one
sixth Of the two defeated French reg
iments.
i A
nese steamer Shikoku Maru was seri-
ouSly damaged to-day and one of her
crew killed by a cannon shot fired
from the British fort at Honkong
while the vessel was entering the
harbor. The Shikoku Maru paid no
attention to the harbor regulations.
Two warning shots were fired over
her bows but she did not stop and a
third shell then struck her amidship
The government tug afterwards as
sisted the steamer to her berth.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-J. P. Nor
gan & Company have inquired of the
State Department what the United
States governments attitude would
be toward a French war loan of sew
eral hundred millions to be boated
IN this country.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-The ques-
Ton OF ways and means for raising
about 100000, 900 to offset the loss to
the United States in import duties eX-
pected to result from the European
War was up for discussion at con-
terence here to-day between Secre-
tary McAdoo and Chairman Under
wood, of the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Treasury experts had prepared a
statement showing imports from the
warning countries and figures indicat-
ed taxes on liquors and by adding to
the income tax. The experts infor-
mally admit that the probable loss in
revenues may be nearly $10o,O0O,OOO
Tor the year.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-The Ameri-
Can liner Philadelphia with the first
great crowd, of Americans, who rush.
ed from Europe when the various ma
uons declared war, arrived in New
York tonight There were 7O3 per-
sons IN the cabin and 800 in the steer
age. Virtually all of them were With
out baggage, many of them without
money, and all had stories OF hard
ships to tell.