The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-14
Declaration Is For
nldIIy Made.
FRENCH GET SETBACK
British Capture German Liner
With S5,OOO,OOO.
BATTLE CJ.ITIEUES AT LIEGE

IN - OOsb saSSAO M 6sA~E
Britain Hints It Rules Seas-Austrans
Shoot C.es Members-German Sol
diers concentrating Near Russian
BorGer-Cerks Invade Austria-Ger,
man Spies Shot by BeIgians-Aus-
TRANS Withdraw From Belgrade.
NEW YORK The Cunarder
Lusitania, which left here last Wed
nesday for a dash across the Atlantic,
reached Fastnet, about 800 miles from
Liverpool.
SOFIA A state of war has
been proclaimed throughout Bulgaria
prepare to guard the frontier against
violations.
LONDON A dispatch to the
Standard from st. Petersburg says
small German airship was riddled with
shot and brought to the ground near
CzenstOchOwa, Russia Poland. It's oc-
cupants, four German officers, were
killed.
LONDON - A C entral News
dispatch from Berlin says the Russian
funds seized by the German govern
ment in Berlin banks are said to total
$25,OOO,OOO.
LONDON = The war office press
bureau confirmed the report that
the Russian invasion of Austria is in
progress. 1t says Russian army of
$50, 900 is advancing through the Styr
River Valley toward Lemburg.
LONDON - Dispatches to the
Times from The Hague and to the
Telegraph from Maastricht agree that
the struggle for possession of the forts
al Liege is going on continuously and
giving rise to terrible scenes of blood.
shed and of heroism. The Germans
are making fierce efforts to silence the
forts nearest the city proper and the
defenders are CALAMITY holding out
against almost constant bombardment.
LONDON, ENG.-A news dispatch
from Brussels says it is officially an
Eounced there that the German loss in
Belgium in the recent fighting was
1000 dead, 10000 wounded and $500
prisoners.
LONDON = The Hamburg Amer.
lean line steamship Cap Ortegal,
with 100000 in specie aboard, has
been captured by the British, accord
ing to the Daily Mail. The liner de-
parted from Buenos Aires on July 16
for Southampton.
LONDON = The English admiralty
announces permission may now be OBJ
tanned for shipment of coal from Eng
land to Norway and Italy. This is
taken to indicate there is no danger
from foreign warships.
PARIS = Leading Serbo-Croatian
members of the Vienna parlia-
n;eut and diet at Seapa have been
shot by Austrian military authorities.
ST. PETERSBURG Germany's
troops are concentrating near the Dor.
der il brigades. German aeroplanes
are flying toward Kovno.
NISH - Montenegro troops have
occupied 'Spizza, Pachtrovitz and
Budua, on the Dalmatian coast They
carried Netalka and Sienokos, sur
rounding heights, by assault.
BARI Austrian cruisers that
bombarded Antivari, Montenegro's
sole port, shelled also crowds of Mon
tenegrins who had taken refuge il
adjacent hills The port was severely
damaged.
PARIS France has formally
declared war on Austria. The declar
alton followed the failure of the Aus
TRAN government to make satisfactory
explanations of the movements of Aus.
trian troops from the Austrian Tyroi
through Switzerland to the Alsatiaf
border
The declaration of war had been ex
pected for the last three days, but
France was determined that it would
not act until something definite had
taken place on which a declaration
could be based This was in order tc
prevent Italy being forced into the
conflict as an ally of Austria.
When the announcement was re