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The Penn's Grove record., 1914-08-21
LATEST WAR FLASHES

1t is announced in London that the Liese forts have been captured
by the Germans.
1t is asserted at Rotterdam that the forts at Aiege were dynamited
by the Begians after they had been evacuated, the action OF lie e
sians being due to the arrival Of Germanye heavy motor batteries
The capital of Belgium has been moved from Brussels to Ant
werp. This action a taken, it is said, because of the advance toward
Brussels of German cavalry. Measures have been taken for the
defense of Brussels.
The Austrian fleet was defeated by a French squadron off the
port of Budua, DaImatia. Several of Franz Josefs warshfps were
sunk and the rest fled north to the Austrian naval base at Poia. The
French sustained 10 loss in ships and but few casualties.
China is not willing to allow the Japanese to expel Germany from
Kiaochow, according to the British War Office. China is determined
to recover leased lands through her own initiative.
That the United States Government is satisfied With assurance
respecting the territorial integrity of China contained in the Japanese
ultimatum to Germany wal made known a the White House.
Japan sends ar uiimatum to Germany demanding the Withdrawal
of her armed ships from Far Eastern waters and the turning over to
Japan of kiauchau, the German concession in China, which japan
promises to restore to China.
Victories on the AustroServian and AustroRussian frontiers ar
claimed by both sides.
French and German forces IRE in touch near Dinant in the valley
of the Meuse. Here the French claim victory over the German in
vaders
The French force again takes the offensive along the line from
Lunevile to Saarburg o m the road to Strassburg, capturing several
small towns.
Washington realizes the deIcacy of the situation created by ia
pans entrance into the arena and is planning to try to keep ut OF
the crisis. 1t is understood the Japanese plans in their various stages
have been known to the American Government at all times.
~n "a ~ ID n an m -
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SALIENT POINTS IN REPORTS
FROM THE THEATRES OF WAR

Paris.-The War Office reports con-
tinued successes along Alsace-Lor-
raine frontier, and says that French
cavalry have penetrated 10 a place
which is only fourteen miles from
the strongly fortified city of Strass
burg. Parisians believe the French
casualty lists to be heavier than the
this belief arising from the numbers
Of wounded known to be in and
around Paris.
st. Petersburg.-It is reported that
the Car will DON issue a proclama-
ton giving Jews civil and political
rights equal to those of his other
subjects.
Athens.-The government has re-
ceived reports that Turkish troops
are crossing Bulgarian territory,
marching toward Greece. Turkey
has been warned that if these reports
prove true Greece will feel it neces-
sary to take at once proper steps to
meet the situation.
Peking.-China is gathering troops.
1t is understood she will herself re-
take possession Of the German terri
tory Kiao-chau.
London.-A despatch to the Express
from st. Petersburg says the Gar
has decided to join his army in the
field and will remain with his troops
throughout the campaign.
Athens.-The Hellenic Government
has received reports that Turkish
troops are moving toward Greece.
The Greek army and navy have been
modified.
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KAISER, BY WIRELESS,
APPEALS TO AMERICA
Believes Opinion Here VIII Not Lie
With "Hah Asiatic
Barbarlsm."

London.-The London newspapers
print a despatch from Berlin which
was issued by the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Company, as having been
officially circulated through all the
German wireless stations. 1t Is in the
form of an interview with Chancellor
Won Bethman-Hollweg who makes an
appeal for American sympathy by re-
citing the negotiations preliminary to
war between Great Britain and Ger
many. He says:
"The present war is a life and death
struggle between the German and the
Muscovite races of Russia. 1t is due
to the recent royal murders at Sara
e1vo. We warned Russia against kind
ling this war. She demanded the hui
initiation of Austria, and while the
German Emperor continued his work
in the cause of peace and the Car
wa t~elegraphing words Of friendship
to him Russia was preparing for war.
Then highly civilized France, bound
by an unnatural alliance with Russia,
was compelled to prepare by strength
of arms for an attack on it's flank, on
the Franco-Belgian frontier in case we
proceeded against the French frontier
works.
England, bound to France by obli-
cations disowned long ago, stood in
the way of the German attack on the
northern coast of France.
'eThis, therefore, forced us to vio-
late the neutrality of Belgium, but we
had promised emphatically to compen-
safe that country for all damage in
ficted.
Now England avails herself of the
long awaited opportunity to COM
mence war for the destruction of the
commercially prosperous Germany.
We enter into that war with our trust
in God. Our entire race has risen in
a fight for liberty, as 1t did in 1873.
1T is with a heavy heart that we
see England ranged among u OPP
ponents Notwithstanding the blood re-
lationship and close relationship in
spiritual and cultural work between
the two countries. England has placed
herself on the side of Russia, whose in
| suitability and whose barbaric inso-
lence have helped this war, the origin
of which was murder and the purpose
of which was the humiliation by Rus
sian Pan-slavism.
THE sympathy Of the American
nation will then lie with German cul-
ture and civilization fighting against
a half Asiatic and slightly cultured
barbarism."
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JAPAN'S ULTIMATUM DEMAND
ING THAT GERMANY QUIT
THE FAR EAST AND SUR
RENDER KIAU-CHAU.

Tokio.-This is the ultimatum sent
to Germany by Japan:
Eve consider it highly important
and necessary in the present situa-
ton to take measures to remove the
causes of all disturbances Of the
peace in the Far East, and to safe
guard the general interests as con-
templated by the agreement Of ALI
ance between Japan and Great Brit
ain.
I'm order to ecure a firm and en-
during peace in Eastern Asia, the
establishment of which is the aim of
the said agreement, the Imperial
Japanese Government sincerely be-
lieyes it to be its duty TO give the
advice to the Imperial German Gov
eminent to carry out the following
two propositions:
Thistle withdraw Immediately
from Japanese and Chinese waters
German men-of-war and armed vessels
Of all kinds, and to disarm at once
those which cannot be SO withdrawn.
"Second-To deliver on a date not
later than Sept. Is to the Imperial
Japanese authorities, without condi-
ton or compensation, the entire leas-
ed territory Of Kiau-chau, with a view
to the eventual restoration Of the
same to China.
"The Imperial Japanese Govern
ment at the same time that
in the event of it not receiving by
noon on Aug. 23, 1914, an answer from
the Imperial German Government,
signifying its unconditional accept
ance of the above advice offered by
the Imperial Japanese Government
japan will be compelled to take such
action as she may deem necessary
to meet the situation"
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Bishop Indorses Protest.

Aroused by what they declare is
the poor quality Of the gas served
by the Public Service Gas Company,
Bishop James A. McFaul, of the do
cese Of Trenton. and the Rev. Father
Thaddeus Hogan, pastor Of the Church
Of the Sacred Heart, have instituted
a mighty protest which will take the
form of a great public mass-meeting
to condemn the practices of the com
pany and seek ways and means of OBJ
tanning relief. The principal com.
plainant is Father Hogan, and he has
the Endorsement of the Bishop. Fa-
Their Hogan says that for years the
gas bills of his parish have risen so
that they are exorbftant. In 1908 cleo
trio light was put in the church, but
the bills for the chapel and rectory
were just as high and now they are
higher than they were when he was
paying 81 for gas instead Of 80 cents
as at present. The enormous bills are
said to result from the fact that where
in the old days it took one light To IL
illuminate a room now 1t takes three
The charge also is made that the gas
Is pumped from Camden with the
result that great air pressure is need
ed, and this is said to force the meters
to register enormously.
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London.-In spite of the veil OF cen
sorship which so far as lies within the
power Of the war departments OF all
the contending nations, is complete,
two important facts stand out in the
news.
The first is that the tactical scheme
of the German War Office has been
made plain. That tactical scheme is,
as has been suspected, the j%uncture
of the armies of the Moselle and the
Meuse to pierce the centre and sep
arate the French from the English
and Belgians.
Secondly, in pursuance of this
scheme Germany, it now is certain,
has in spite Of vagrant reports here
and there of reverses gained ground
slowly, painfully but continuously
until now the main body of her com
bined armies Of the Mouse and
Moselle, are across the River Mouse.
The two battle lines, which now
face each other, stretch from Louvain,
the Belgian army headquarters, fifteen
miles east of Brussels, to Ottignies,
on the Dyle, twenty miles to the
south of L~ouvain, and on to Namur,
twenty miles further to the southeast.
Emperor William left an Imperial
decree with Adolph Wermuth, Mayor
of Berlin, before leaving the capital,
in which he said he wished to thank
warmly the people of Berlin for the
demonstrations of love and devotion
which they had given in the present
sorrowful days, and added: II am
firmly confident that, with the help
of God, the bravery Of the German
army and navy, and the unquench.
able unanimity of the German people
during these hours of danger, victory
will crown u cause"
The London Times said that a
party of Americans who left Berlin
were each presented at the railway
station with packet containing a dozen
copies of the "Lokl Anzeiger." To
each packet a handful was affixed
and addressed to 1.-THE returning cit1
zens of the friendly United States
The handful stated that the enclosed
newspapers nuSC serve W uSSIIOy
'the web of lies which a hostile press
has spread over the United States and
give to truth its place of honor"
Patriotic fervor is sweeping Sweden
according to cable dispatches from
Stockholm, uniting all parties in
demand for neutrality in the present
crisis. The extension of obligatory
military service to two years and in
creased ornaments r demanded
Mobilization is proceeding perfectly
National feeling has not run so high
before in a hundred years. There is
a strong belief in Sweden that ar
opportunity may come with the ter
ritorial readjustment after the wal
for Sweden to regain her former
Finnish provinces.
There is great stagnation in bust
ness in Sweden. Exports and imports
have virtually ceased. Prices Of foo(
have risen considerably and credit OF
such goods is not extended to any
body.
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JAPAN SENDS WAR
ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY

Holland is taking elaborate precau.
tons to enforce her neutrality. De
tachments of cavalry constantly pa.
troll the frontier, and large forces
of infantry guard the roads, which
are blocked at frequent intervals with
barbed-wire entanglements and barri
cades. In towns near the frontier
large bodies of troops are assembled,
and the possible lines of invasion are
commanded by powerful forts, which
are strong and modern. Arrange
ments r complete for flooding the
country of the frontier at a moments
notice.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
the i~nundation districts and the mill
tary authorities are destroying trees
shubbery, copses, hedge rows and all
the buildings near the firing line OF
the forts. At Nearden and the will
ages Of Bussum and Zeist, where
many residents of Amsterdam have
summer residences the country is be-
ing shorn of trees and everything
that might afford shelter to an ad
vancing enemy.
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CAR KILLS MoToRcYcLIsT.
Victims Wife Seriously Injured
While Six Escape Unhurt.

While Six Escape Unhurt.
When a h~igh-powered seven-passen-
ger touring a and a tandem motor
cycle collided on the road between
RobbinsviHe and Allentown, John
Czarnecki, of this city, was instantly
killed and his wife was hurt, perhaps
fatally. They were on the motorcycle.
The big automobile overturned after
the collision, but all six of its occu-
pants escaped unhurt. The car was
owned and driven by George Doerler,
Jr., and with him were George Doerf-
Ter, Sr., his father, the .atter's sister,
Miss Barbara Doerfler, her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Barbara Pullen; William
Pullen, z years old, and Mrs. Hattie
Doerfler.
Doerfler Immediately went to POI
lice headquarters and gave himself up,
and was held pending an investigation.
He blamed the mo%torcyclist for the ac-
cident, while others who were in the
vicinity said that the automobile turn
ed out from behind another machine
and a into the motorcycle, which
was going in the opposite direction.
Mrs. Czarnecki, who was on the rear
seat of the motorcycle. was uncon-
scious when picked up, and she was
rushed to st. Francis Hospital. where
little hope is held out for her rscov-
cry. She is suffering from conclusion
Of the brain, a fractured collar-bons
and scalp wounds.
When the two machines colIided the
motorcycle caught in the front wheels
Of the automobile, which sweryed in
to a ditch and turned over. In some
miraculous way, it fell SO as to allow
room for the occupants to crawl from
under it, with no more injuries than
a few bruises.
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General Mosquito Raid.

The mosquito raids along the shore
were general and exceptionally tor
menting. The villains were little black
chaps which seemed able to go through
any screen and had no respect of the
other ordinary means Of defense. The
best mean Of solution was to permit
no lights. They are said to come from
Barnegat, on the the southwest winds
which have been prevailing Of late,
but Barnegat gets blamed for many
things of which it is innocent. The
mosquitoes merely added one more
sorrow to the shore this season. With
the humid weather, heat, wal and a
disposition to economic, there have
not been the usual joys in the sea
shore business. Yet some of the most
expensive places are doing well, and
the number of new cottages shows the
firm confidence felt in seashore prop
erty.
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School Building Code.

This States school building code
is in effect and replaces the set Of
rules which were adopted in 1912 by
the State Board of Education to meet
the objections of the county school
districts. In order to meet the objec-
tons the new code provides for the
erection Of frame two-story buildings,
but the halls, doors, etc., must be
fireproof material. Under the regula-
tons three-story buildings that are
erected in the future must retain the
freproof features. Basement heights
have been increased in the new code
from six to seven feet, and the code
is also amended so as to permit frame
buildings two stories in height hav-
ing as many as eight rooms, provid-
ing stairs and corridors are ~hreproof.
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ThankfuIness.

A grateful heart is the mark Of q
truly religious man. We unconscious
ly become selfish II we r always ask
ing for blessings without giving ex-
preston to sincere gratitude for those
we have already received. God has
declared his willingness. yea. his de-
light. to give US his mercies and bless
ings, but he desires to e gratitude
growing within u hearts. None of
the sacred writer's exhorted more fire.
quently to giving of thanks than did
the Apostle Paul. The rule OF his life
was, Giving thanks always for all
things unto God"
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ANTWERP, BELGIUM's CAPITAL.

London. A significant despatch
comes from Belgium to the effect
that the French and Russian Min
listers have removed their Offices and
archives to Antwerp, turning over
their business to the Spanish Min
lister. Belgian scouts from the out
posts report that the Germans are
planning a general advance upon
Brussels and have already begun a
movement from Huy and Jodoigne.
Earlier in the German advan e
through Belgium cavalry and infantry
attempted to turn the wing of the
allied armies and raid Brussels and
a cavalry regiment was driven back
by the Belgians after forcing their
way to within ten miles of the capital.
The French troops, according to
cable dispatches from Paris, are
pushing steadily forward in Alsace
from the Lorraine to the Swiss from
tier. The army, after its capture of
the Bonhomme and Ste. Marie passes.
is now in possession of the Saales
pass and has reached Schirmeck,
about twenty-five miles from Strass-
burg. The French cavalry has push
ed on to Muhlbach. This places 1t
within twenty miles of Strassburg and
in position to make an attack upon
the important railroad junction of
Molsheim.
Russia's insistence upon taking her
Black Sea fleet through the OAR
danelles ~revives one of the most i'm
portant questions of the Near East.
Turkey, at the beginning Of the war,
declared the neutrality Of this strait,
but Russia insists that the action of
the Ottoman Government regarding
the two German ships, the Goeben and
the Breslau, practically v~itiates this
neutrality. Russia says she will take
her fleet through whether or not she
has Turkish consent.
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RoMBARDMENT RISKS.

LIoyds Begins a New Class of insur-
ance in Seaports of England.
London.-Lloyds is doing a big bust
ness in househoiders' bombardment
risks. Generally speaking the pre-
MUM now charged to insure against
damage to private houses and shops
by bombardment is 10 l. per 910o
per annum, but premises in London
can be insured as low as I'd. or even
Cd. per cent. At Felixtowe, close tc
Harwich, private h~ouseholders had K
pay a premium Of 10d. per cent.
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MEusE THICK WITH DEAD.
Bodies of the Fallen Now Coming to
Surface of River.

Brussels.-The Bodies of German
and Belgian soldiers that either fell
or were thrown into the River Mouse
during the early stages of the fighting
around the Liege forts are now coming
to the surface in large numbers below
Fort Pontain, about five miles north
west of Liege.
It was around Fort Pointain and
the adjacent Belgian works that the
Germans concentrated their attack.
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GERMANY HAS YEARS FOOD.
Kaiser Gives 100000 to Red Cross
Society.

London.-A special commission ap-
pointed by the Government in Ger
many reports that the country has a
sufficient stock of food to last for a
year. Emperor William has given
500, 900 to the German Red Cross and
a similar sum for the relief of the
families Of soldiers killed or wounded
In the fghting. Russian funds seized
by the German Government In Ber-
lin banks are said to total SIS. oOO, goo.
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FAvoRs BUYING MAIL SHIPS.

Admiral Blue Opposes Use of War
ships in Traffic During War.
Washington.-Rear Admiral Blue
told a House committee it would be
cheaper for the United States to buy
ships now laid up because Of the Euro
pean war than to use warships for
a naval mail and passenger line to
South America and Europe as provided
in the Weeks bill.
The Weeks bill has passed the Sen.
ate and now is awaiting consideration
in the H9paA
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4 NC OoLC6 uoA Y
Misunderstanding forward by sheer
weight of numbers the, German ad-
vance across Belgium slowly but stea-
Oily fought it's way.
Germany started her great hanking
movement. north and west of Liege,
to advance her army of 100000 men
into Belgium. The advance guards
headed for Tongres, st. Frond and
Hasselt, with Brussels as the goal.
Terrific bombardment of the Liege
forts on the west side of the Mouse
River served to cover the German
1anking movement.
For a time the allies held back the
Kaiser's heavy advance guard on a
| quartersfront Of 20 miles, extending
from Diest, through Hasselt and st.
Trond to Tongres, but as the main
Army OF the Mouse, numbering at
least 400,0 900 men, was pushed forward
the defenders realized the expediency
of a retreat to a stronger position.
Reinforcements were then rushed
to the allies from both England and
France and it is estimated that when
the final clash comes the allies will
be as strong in numbers as the Ger
mans, which means a clash between
800, 900 men.
The French wal office announces
that large body of French troops, the
exact figures, in conformity with the
policy of the var Office not to reveal
the strength of the various French
armies, are not given, has crossed
into Belgium, and is now on its way
from Charleroi, west of Namur, to
Gembloux, 10 miles northwest of Ma
muir. Gembloux is almost directly
south of Louvain, the headquarters Of
the main Belgian army. A line drawn
from Gembloux to Louvain is direct
ly across the path of the German ad
vance toward Brussels.
An official statement by the British
War and Admiralty bureau says:
1t is now confirmed that the Bel
gian troops were successful in theil
engagement with six regiments Of
German cavalry supported by $500 in
fantry with machine guns and artil
lery. The Germans were completely
disorganized. The six cavalry regi
ments suffered great loss, and the Bel
gian troops pursued the infantry which
gave way.
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limited GERMAN ARMIES ADVANCE
TO PIERCE ALLIES CENTRE, FRENCH
INVADERS IN ALSACE PRESS FORWARD
KAISER AT MAINZ
WITH THE CROWN PRINCE

London.-An Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Mainz says that the Ger
man Emperor, accompanied by three
of his sons, including Crown Prince
Frederick William, has arrived.
A Reuter- dispatch from Berlin says
that the Emperor's departure for the
front has occasioned patriotic out
bursts by the newspapers of all par
ties.
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Commissioner Of Motor Vehicles
Job NJ. Lippincott revoked the drivers
license of Kenneth Hardy. of Newark,
convicted of driving an automobile
while in an intoxicated condition.
Judge Hahn, sentenced Hard to sixty
days in the Essex county Jail.
? Fred Paskoway, OF Newark, was
reprimanded by the department for
speeding. Robert Dodge. of Pater-
son. lost his license for driving
while intoxicated. Ernest Salm, OF
Red Bank had his revoked for speed
ing.
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Eternity will be one glorious morn
ing, with the sun V e climbing high
er and higher; one blessed spring
time, and yet richer in summer
every plant in full flower, but every
flower the bud Of a lovelier.-Macduff.
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Appeals for Slayer in Vain.

The last possible attempt in the
Court Of the State to save the life of
John Dolan, under sentence to die in
the electric chair for wife murder,
to grant a writ of habeas corpus ap-
failed when Chancellor Walker refused
piled for by Frank McDermott, Of
Newark, Dolan's counsel. Previous
to making the application Il the Chan
cellor, Attorney McDermott had APP
piled to Governor Fielder for a re-
prieve for the murderer. but the ex-
e~cutive, who considered the matter
at his home In Sea Girt, refused it
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No Service Too Small.

Many a trusting child is cast down
because the little ~love-service, which
may be required. seems too small to
be counted for aught In the great
harvest field; forgetting that the dear
Lord asks of his children only so
much as he gives them ability to per.
form.-Augustus c. Thompson.
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BOY SCOUTS USED AS SPIES.
Belgians Report Capture of German
Youth With Fortress Plans.

Youth With Fortress Plans.
.Brusseis.-Belgian military officials
reported that German troops were US
ing boy scouts as spies, stating that
one had been captured on the frontier
after he had solicited assistance from
the Belgian Red Cross. The youths
evasive answer to questions put to
him excited suspicion and he was
searched. Upon him were found com
plete plans of the Dutch fortresses at
Maestricht.