The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-14

army corps which were halted by our
principal lines.
sour s~trategical situation remains
as before, excellent"
Boston, Aug. 14s-The British steam
er Sycamore of the Warren has left
for Liverpool with six cabin passengers
and $4,000 bushels of grain. Previous
to sailing her captain was notified off,
cially that the North Atlantic shipping
was safe from attack by German war
ships.
Brussels, Aug. IA. The German
army has moved north of Liege and is
advancing into the heart of Belgium.
1t is difficult to determine it's objective.
There is a screen of cavalry In extra
ordinary force along the whole front
of the allied armies.
A new army corps is investing Liege.
The French cavalry is engaged in
sharp fighting. Both the German and
allied armies are feeling their way.
Paris, Aug. 14.-Americans at Havre
waiting for the French line steamers
France and Chicago to sail for the
United States are deserving the vessels
and returning to Paris or going to
England. Upward OF 1000 Americans
have been living aboard the steamers
at the company's expense, expecting
daily that they would sail. The COM
pany now offers to repay the fares of
the Americans, less $1.20 a day dating
from Aug. IL. Several hundred Of the
passengers have accepted these terms.
Geneva, via Paris, Aug. 14.-Secre-
tary of State Bryan has advised
Pleasant A. Stovall, the American
minister, that he had deposited 5000 300
in a New York bank to help Ameri-
cans. The Swiss International bank,
accordingly, credited MT. Stovall with
that sum and Americans now will be
sent to Italian ports. where ships are
being chartered to take them home.
Chicago, Aug. 14.-Charges that a
body of Austrians has organized in
MilwaukesvIWis., and is drilling in vio-
lation or the United States neutrality
laws, are being investigated by James
L. Bruff, chief of the bureau oG inves-
tigation of the department of justice.
Mr.. Bruff said he had received In
formation that reservists of half a
dozen nationalities have been drilling
in numerous cities, but that in all
cases when notified that the. were
violating a federal statute they had
ceased.
San Francisco, Aug. 14.-As the Gus
toms house closed at 6 p. m. last night,
formal application for coal needed
cannot be made by the German consul,
Franz Bopp, until today. The Leipzig
is expected to arrive in the harbor
about s p. m. n will lay at anchor
through the might,
Seoul, Aug. 14.-Germans arriving
here from Vladivostok report that
several Russian cruisers, ten torpedo
boats and eight submarines are en-
gagged in mining the harbor of Vladi-
vostok. They a also that $50 Ger
man reservists and 100 non-combat-
ants have left the city. hut that $50
other Germans, mostly women and
children, still remain there by permits
sion of the authorities.
London, Aug. 14.-Post Wheeler, re-
Gently appointed secretary of the
American embassy at Tokyo, and Mrs.
Wheeler, who were compelled to turn
back at Berlin while on their way to
Jaran, arrived at Hull from Copenha-
gen, accompanied by thirty stranded
Americans.
Loans made by the American relief
committee to refugee Americans now
average about $4,000 daily. These
loans are made on security being Civ
en-. Herbert g. Hoover of California,
one of the relief committee, says APP
plicants for relief who really are des-
titute, do not now average more than
ten or fifteen daily, but that he expects
when the refugees arrive from Ger
many a much larger number win re-
quire assistance.
London, Aug. 1.-THE admiralty
has sent out cruisers which will ply
the Atlantic to protect trade routes.
The French government also has sent
out warships to search for German
cruisers known to be in the Atlantic,
s'The enemy's ships" the official al
miralty report says will be hunted
continually, and although some time
may elapse before they are run down.
they will be kept too busy TO do much
mischief.
Al number Of fast merchant vessels,
fitted and armed at British arsenals,