Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-26
WAR BULLETINS

Berlin. via Copenhagen and Lon
don, Aug. 26, I.52 a. m. - Express
Augusta Victoria learned of the Ger
man capture of Namur by accident
while making visit. She was greatly
moved and claimed: Thank God,
we may all be content. I have three
of my sons with the army"
London, Aug. 26, 4.0S a. ma dis
patch to Reuters Telegram Company
from Ghent says: "A violent combat
ragged at Tournai on Monday. the can
nonade lasting from 1 O'Clock in the
afternoon until 10 the next morning.
Nofkmen relate that the Germans
were driven back and that the French
flag was flying at Orroir, in East
Flanders"
London. Aug. 26, @ a. m.-The mill
tary correspondent of the Times to-
day says: I'VE and the Dutch need
have no doubt that the annexation of
all the North Sea ports from the
Straits of Dover to Emdcn will follow
German success In the waT-a sue
cess which would only be preliminary
to the concentration of all German
effort upon the subjIgation of Eng
land"
London. Aug. 26, 2.4O p. m.-Ac-
cording to n dispatch from ST. Peters
burg to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany, German troops reJreaTing in the
direction of Ostcrode, East Prussia,
left behind about 100 pieces of artil-
lcry.
New York, Aug. 26.-Count Johann
Won BernstOrff, German Ambassador
to the United States. issued u state
ment to-day in which he announced
that neither himself nor any one con-
nected with the German Embassy was
making predictions as to the future
or discussing peace or mediation in
any manner whatever.
Paris. Aug. 26, 5.55 a. m. 1t is
officially announced that German
prince has been killed in battle and
the Ministry of War says II presumes
that il was Prince Albert of SchIeswig-
Holstein- -Sonderburg- -Glucksburg. An
earlier announcement had given the
name, General Prince Adalbert. who
was described as the Emperor's uncle.
Washington, ID. c., Aug. 26.-Hea-
ton Harris, American Consul at
Main, to-day cables the
State Department that his district
was entirely outside of the military
zone and that the few cases of distress
among Americans I'm Frankfort could
be cared for by the resources of the
consulate.
Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Aug.
25, via Paris, Aug. 26, Ills II. m.-
-Four Americans made their way OH
foot across the German frontier at
Basel yesterday. They were without
money and had been without food for
some time. Fragmentary information
reporting Americans here by letter
from Germany indicates that there
are still many American tourists
stranded i'm hotels and boardinghouses
I'm German cities.
London, Aug. 20. $50 a. ma dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from St. Petersburg says
the Russian chief of staff announces
that since Sunday the Russian invasion
of GaIicia and PTussian continued un-
interruptedly along a wide front.
London, Aug. 26, $40 q. m.-The st.
Petersburg correspondent of the
Times says: military circles are
much impressed by an order dismiss
ing the German and Austrian soVeF-
eigns and princes from honorary col
onelships In Russian regiments and
depriving them of Russian decoration.
This has never been done I'm any war.
The Emperor has positively forbid
den Russian officers to wear German
or Austrian decorations"
New York, Aug. 20. - With every
cabin occupied by homing Americans
and with siXty-seven weary American
tourists i'm the steerage, the Italian
steamer Taormina reached port to-day
from Genoa, Palermo and Naples,
after an eventful voyage. Seven hum
dred and sixty-eight passengers were
aboard. nearly all with tales of hard
ships endured I'm Europe.
London. Aug. 20, f.47 p. m.-Judge
McCants Stewart. of the Supreme
Court of Liberia, called at the Amer
lean Embassy to-day I'm an effort to
interest Americans in saving Liberia
from distress through the destruction
of the republics trade with Germany.