The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-07-31
FRANCE PREPARES FOR WAR
Very respectfully,
l.. l.. BOW MAN

Paris, July 29.-lrance continues
| quietly to prepare for war. The
troops of the active army are gradu-
ally concentrating near the frontier
A military guard has tccn placed
in the great -four mills at Corbell,
near Paris, which in the event of
war would be taken over by the army.
The bakers in Paris are laying large
stocks Of flour, and the city authori-
ties, to prevent all possibility of
famine in the capital, started forming
today "a reserve store of $1,000 tons
of flour.
The Police department is cXer-
cising general surveillance over
Austrians and Germans in Paris,
where many thousands of them re-
side
The Government made on appeal
to the press to keep calm and care
fully to verify it, news concerning
the crisis before publishing it.
Adolphc Mcssimy, Minister of War
today visited the military wireless
station on the Eincl Tower and
ordered the staff to he doubled, the
officer, T." remain ON duty night ana
d,,.
Long lines of d"poStors waited out
side the savings banks today to with
draw their money. as all payments
will be suspended in case of war.
At the French Foreign Office, Il
pcssimistic view of the general situa-
tion prevailed this evening. Officials
there think the only hope of averting
war is that Austria Hungary rccog-
nzc the determination and unity of
views of Russia, Great Britain and
France and that she modify her atti-
tudc toward Scrvia
Military precautions taken include
the recall Of all the artillery regi-
mcnts now at the Nancy mancuvcrs,
Many regiments which had left for
ChalOnS have returned to their gar
risons, and officers and soldiers on
leave in Tunis have been recalled.
Troops have been withdrawn from
Morocco, leaving only the minimum
necessary in that country.
Great activity prevails mt Toulon
and all naval officers away have
been recalled The cruisers and re-
serve squadrons at Brest are being
fully equipped on war footing and
the torpedo hotlla maneuvering at
sea has been ordered back.
Blenvue Martin, Acting Premier
and Foreign Minister during Premier
! Niviani's absence, was clOscted for
over an hour with Baron Schoen,
the German Ambassador. 1t was
noticed that the latter looked very
pale and was apparently trying to
conceal his emotion when he left
the ministry, The Cabinet met at
4 o'clock and had long session.
, The Temps last night issued what
it calls last note Of warning.
saying:
an all sincerity and with full
knowledge of what we are talking
about, we affirm that inductions
founded on the past can only lead
Austria and her allies into disastrous
errors. Russia will not allow the
independence of Scrvia to be crushed
and France and Great Britain will
not desert Russia
"Servia has granted all that has
been askcd--mOrc than any other
country ever yielded under pressure
1t is, therefore, false to pretend that
Austria was Inundated when she
was aksed to negotiate. Nothing
prevents settlement but dcsir,
for war at any price
Miss Gertrude McGhcc of Chicago
arrived in the city last night anG
will spend few days visiting hcr
aunt, Mrs. |. ID. Ramsey
Mrs. Anna Fischer of CI.g,r r.u
in the city yesterday on >roppn,
trip.
An automobile party COMPOSED ID
b. D. Gather &. NJ. Ns'.n am,
Mr. and Mrs, T. r. fu1i,r ,am
up from Commerce last uials. IN,