The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-03
GERMANY
lNvADES RUSSIA

| InvADES RUSSIA
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ments between cavalry outposts until
I6 o'clock last evening, but an attack
was then made by the Russian inveo.
ers on Johannesburg, which II occupied
BY q squadron OF tho Eleventh Fome-
rantan dragons.
The railroad from Johannesburg to
Lyck on the Russian frontier has been
cut and also the light railroad running
to Dlottowe !.
The losses Of the Russian troops are
believed to have numbered about TWEEN
ty men, while the Germans have not
lost any killed. although several have
been slightly wounded.
Invasion Of France.
London. Aug. Alderman forces be-
gan the invasion of France. without.
20 far as known, q declaration OF war
having been made.
Two German detachments entered
French territory. moving in the di-
One German force crossed the French
frontier near the village Of Grey, between
Nancy and Strassburg. and another Ger
infantry, invaded the Grand Duchy Of
Luxembourg. neutral territory between
Belgium and Germany. and continued its
m8TCn
Longwy. A dispatch from Brussels said
there was good reason to believe this
force later entered France.
France near Grey. forty miles from
Nancy, 10 reported repulsed win heavy
| losses. but this has not been confirmed.
catinx the first movement Of the Franco
Prussian war: August 2. 1870; foSty-four
years ago. the French ana s.e Germans sns 3,
Saarbrucken, where the prince imperial:
under the orders of the emperor. received
his famous baptism Of fire.. Germany
of her supposed superiority over France
in rapid mobilization.
Gcrmany's Declaration Of War.
London, Aug. Sat 1880 o'clock Sat
urday night night the German am0as-
sador at st. Petersburg. Count Won
Pourtales, delivered q declaration OF
war In the name Of his government to
the Russian government and the entire
staff Of the embassy Immediately lett
st Petersburg. Although after the
warlike speeches delivered by the Ger
man emperor and the Imperial cnan-
cellor at Berlin on Friday no other re-
suit could be expected, hopes that the
dread event might be averted had been
raised by the Intervention OF King
George in st. Petersburg and the fact
| that the German reichstag was not TO
| be convened until Tuesday. Hence the
3Ctu8l QcCAAEdtlOH VI WdH AAdA AAOs OSN~~
expected for another day or two.
Americans to Help France.
Paris. Aug. SAN appeal to the press
issued today asks the newspapers to
use caution in publishing news about
the war which might help the enemy.
It recalls the imprudent revelations
made in 1870 and the great aid afford
| ed in this way to Germany at that time
and declares any news published with
out tho consent OF the military au-
thorities renders the offender liable to
q charge of treason.
The fact that France intends to
mobilize her forces to the last man il
parliament. tomorrow permitting men
who have failed to present themselves
| for their term Of compulsory military
service to Join the army now without
| liability to punishment.
: Deputies from the French colonies
issued an appeal today to colonial
residents in Paris to offer their serv-
ices to the government.
Some Americans here have Offered
to fight for France and a suggestion
has been made that a corps OF Ameri-
cans should be organized here.
The mobilization has not passed OFF
without an occasionally humorous in
cident. Today a captain who was car
rying his equipment along the street
stopped q horse cab and asked the
I driver to take him to the eastern rail-
way terminus. The cabman refused
whereupOn 4 crowd OF bystanders
picked up the captain, placed him In
the vehicle, pulled the driver from his
seat and rolled him in the street while
q man from the crowd jumped up and
drove the officer off to the station.
All kilograms were refused at the
postoffices in Paris for q period today
and it is assumed that the difficulties
in the transmission Of news and pri-
vate dispatches will rapidly increase.
The concentration of the French
troops in strategic positions along the
military train service have been car
rfed out to the complete satisfaction
OF the military authorities.
The pillage of a German jewelry
store in Paris and other incidents of a
more or less grave nature, particularly
raids against the stores Of those mer.
| chants who have raised the prices OF
necessaries caused the project of po-
lice today to placard an appeal to Pa
| risians to maintain order. Vigorous
measures are to be taken against
dealers raising their prices to exor.
bitant rates.
| Brussels. Aug. 3.-The first battle
in the air was fought today neal
Nancy, between a French aeroplane
and a German dirigible. Every man
engaged in the fight was killed.
According to the reports received
here Roland Garros. the French flyel
sighted the German dirfgible shortly
after it has crossed the border from
Alsace-Lorraine. The dirigible wal
an enormous affair Of the Zeppelin
type and was manned by Is German
soldiers. 1t il supposed to have beer
sent up for scout duty from tho Ger
man column which crossed tn,
French frontier at Grey.
Garros, who had been scouting about
the territory for some time after new
Of the German invasion was received
sighted the dirigible at a height Of mor<
than LOCO feet. He drove his neet mon
oplane straight at the dirigible.
Insta ntly the huge gas bag exploded
with a terrific defamation, followed b,
q burst Of flame. The nionoplane hope
lessly entangled in the wreck OF tn
dirigible, crashed with It to the cart
erxulfed in flames and without q posi-