The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-19
War Bulletins

Washington, August 1S.-Japan has asked the United States to take over her embassy in Berlin case of an emergency"
 1 Washington, August 1s.-Charge Barclay of the British embassy for mally presented to Secretary Bryan today England's declaration that Ja- pans action would be limited to the German possessions in eastern Africa. Paris. August 1S.-t5,15 p. m.)-A German monopinnc, which had hoisted the French flag, today dropped three bombs on LuncvilIc, 16 miles cnst of Nancy, from a height of 450O feet, ac- cording to m official announcement issued this evening. The missiles ex- ploded In a public garden. No one was hurt.
 l Paris, August 1S.-t2,40 D. m.)-Imre Oehlecker, an American, of New York, hns been sentenced by cOurt-martial to Imprisonment for four years for obtaining &sO from a German woman i on false pretenses. The woman gave OehIecker notes to change; he did not return them.
 The case came to the attention of the American embassy, at whose in- stance Oehlecker was arrested. ] Paris, August 1S.-(5;2S D. m.)-The Paris bourse was somewhat more an- fmated today. The list of transactions l included 100 varieties of shares hnd .e<.y. I yesterday also took wider range to- day.
 l Washington, August 1s.-Mail for Europe is being dispatched several times n week, the postoffice depnrt- ment announced today. Mail for Ger many and Austria Hungary is sent by steamers landing at ports in Italy, Norway, Holland and Denmark.
 The American line steamer Philndel- phia, scheduled to sail tomorrow, will take mail for nli parts of Europe ex- cept Germany and Austria Hungary. Paris, August 1S-(2s39 p. m.)-R. l NenIe Smith of Baltimore, an airman who was with Hubert Latham in his American flights, has volunteered for l service with the French military avia- tion corps. His offer has been accept ed and he will leave for the front next week.
 AdoIphe HeIwig, m American civil engineer of New York. who is in France finishing the Rouen railroad | terminus, has volunteered and been ac- | cepted as a French military engineer. He will be commissioned ns an officer.
 Montreal August 1s-Eight hundred | rcfc xxi1l sail from Montreal tomorrow according to announcement at the French consulate today. Washington, August 1s.-Haniei von Haimhausen, charge of the German em- bassy here. commenting tonight on the 1 Presidents s appeal to Americans for ap- solute neutrality toward the European conflict, said:
 q suppose one of the Presidents req sons was the anti-German feeling which has been shown in some of the papers, 1 I think it is very good expression and right one.'
 The Japanese ambassador and Charge Barclay of the British embassy declined to comment.
 No officials are at the Austrian, Rus sian or French embassies now.
 London August 19.-Q a m.)-A dis patch to the Reuter- Telegram company from Berlin, Dy way Ol <AihSecfoah'f soy
 "Saltin Pasha, British inspector gen eral in the Sudan. and an honorary major general in the British army, has resigned his Sudan post in consequence of Great Britains declaration of war against Aus tria in which country he was born in 1857. and in which he was created baron in 1906 He has returned to Vienna and will place himself at the disposal of the war minister.
 Paris. August 1s.-0:22 D. m.)-The name of the first French soldier killed in the war was announced today, but neither his residence nor the place he was killed was mentioned, following tue military ad- ministrations rule for absolute secrecy It was through the publication of the lists of the dead and wounded in the Franco-Prussian war that the Germans | learned the location of the fighting units of the French armies and determined the positions of the various regiments of artii- lery, infantry and cavalry.
 London, August 19.-Q2:20 a. m.)--An of ficial message received in Rome from l Vienna says the Austrian cruiser Zenta | was sunk in a naval battle off Antivari last Sunday, according to dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph.
 The cruiser Zenta was built at Pola | in 1897 and was 303 feet in length and displaced 2264 tons.
 
 Negroes Hold Institute Anniston August 18.-(Special )-The ne- gro teachers institute for Calhoun county will be held at the Seventeenth Street .cl,ool in ttis citv beeinning at noon next