Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-30

When the actual mobilization began
the newspapers of England were ask
ed not to publish anything concerning
military movements. They complied
and the entire mobilization was con-
Quoted with the utmost secrecy. Two
hundred and fifty thousand British
troops were concentrated at sea ports,
loaded on transports and sent to the
continent, and the world knew nothing
about II until they were on French
soil and on their march to the front
When mobilization began the British
government took possession of all
railroads of the United Kingdom and
for days regular traffic was inter-
rupted. There were no passenger
trains from London to the seaports
while the troops were being embark
ed. Then men put to sea from Ports
mouth, Falmouth, Liverpool and Dub
lin, Ireland, and during the process
there was no regular traffic to or from
those ports. In little more than a
week after the movement began, the
British expeditionary force was in
conjunction with the French and Bel
gians.
In France the mobilization was con-
Quoted with the greatest dispatch and
smoothness To facilitate the cOncen-
traction and avoid confusian at the
point of assembly, the reservists were
ordered to join the colors and separate
days. Each man liable for mobiliza-
ton had received an individual notice
commanding him to report at a desig-
mated place on certain day. Tnus
the French army was concentrated in
a remarkably short time and without
congestion.
In Russia the mobilization was a
gigantic task. The cZar, in the first
stages of the war, was reported to
have massed two million men on the
German and Australian frontiers. Mil
itary experts were amazed In contem-
plation of this -herculean undertaking
Everything but the business of war
was at standstill. The troops had
to be transported, some Of them for
hundreds of miles, to the points of
concentration. More than forty long
trains daily arrived at the various
! camps Trains ran continuously
crawling along one on the heels of
the other Every railroad engine in
Russia was used to haul cars of
troops, vast flat-cars loaded with ar
tillery, long trains of ammunition and
provisions.
From the cities, villages and farms
poured the Russian hordes. The stores
were closed, the schools discontinued
Day and night, along every road, and
by-path there marcher along streams
of men, young and middle-aged, hur-
rying to the nearest railway station.
whence train would carry them to
the designated camp, where they
would receive uniforms. arms and am
munition and be transformed into His
Imperial Majesty's soldiers.
In Ausrtia-Hungary the matter of
mobilization was not so difficult. be-
cause for months that nation had been
ready for war. At the end of the
long Balkan struggle, it will be re-
membered, sAusrtia- Hungary was on
the verge of war with Servia, and lat
err got into difficulty with Monteno-
gro. At that time the Austrian reserv-
lists modified and they were all
ready to take up arms again.
Less is known of the mobilization in
Germany than in the other countries.
Immediately on the declaration OF
war by the kaiser, rigid censorship
was established and practically no
news has come out of that country
since. Returning tourists have told