New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-29
1000 FOOTBALLERS
TO FORM BRIGADE
British Players Want to
Join ScrimmageS in
Battlefield.
OFFER TO MAKE
SPECIAL CORPS
Child of Eight, Dressed as
Nurse. Wins Hearts and
Coins in Bond ST.

To-son. Aug. oS.-The incorporation
%. brigade Of football players into
80 Kitchener'S new army is tie lat
-. PROPOSAL made IN England. me
a. OHce and che Football Association
lsvs received IL with enthusiasm.
Tbe Football Association has mem
A,.,s.r Of 1000 trained athletes, who.
= s suggested, might be better Gu
,'oved p charging the Germans on the
t,..lfseic than cash other on the foot
I,c council o. the association rs 70
,,i5 & meeting or Monday 20 decide 4
.L,,e 1000 men snail be released from
,he.r present engagements ana ne
.oa.bsl. fields turned into "f.ll
gro-rcs.
Casualty Lists DelaH Cd.
the oF..al bures5 -:G.ed to-day that
M Iitchene. had received 8 telegram
;~s- Sr loru. French stating that ne
ly.,sr feels strongly the necessity Of
giving fuil details Of the casualties as
40, as possible He hopes 10 tcle-
r-ph some % them Immediately. Il
"a been impossible in the clrcuu-
..,rcfs 20 send them up &c the present.
Virtually all the wounded men
brought back 10 England from the front
all be disembGrked 81 the Southamp-
,or docks. and from there sent 20 the
VARIOUS hospitals iu the country. Near
Il al she Big London hoSI itslS appear
OF ne Official list OF hospitals which
have made arrangements Tor the re-
ctptior O. wounded men. In the Lon
dor ares there will be established also
Queer AleXandra's war hospital and
four other military hospitals.
Child Wins Donations.
50 lar IS possible the suggestion Of
Queen Mary that all wounded should
be sen, 20 hospitals IN the local area
Of the patient Is being adopted. For
instance 4 man from Kent would be
sent 20 q kentish hospital
Substantial aid is being secured IN
answer 90 Queen AleNandra's appeal
for Red Cross funds by means Of col
lection boxes taken out upon the streets
by women workers. One Of the most
successful Of these IS little girl eight
wears old. who. dressed as a Red Cross
nurse. obtained TWO boXfuls Of coins
N the short space Of two hours IN
BEND street.
Answering question in the House
~ I NILNNNlN tN-Aass ga Inv o. " VI q
the British Foreign Secretary. declared
he had seen an incomplete publication
ty the German government purport-
irs % contain certain proposals alleged
- have been made with the idea Of
securing French and British neutrality
curing me war.
GREY Corrects LichnoWsky.
The Circumstances. Sir Edward said,
were o. follows;
l. was reported 90 MIN one DAY that
m. German Ambassador IN London had
suggested that Germany might remain
neutral IN war between Russia and
Austris-H Hungary. 4 Great Britain
would remain neutral and secure the
neutrality q France. The Foreign Sec
REAR replied that this seemed pos
sihle. Il tranSpired. however. that the
German Ambassadors proposal was
thGt Gres. Britain should remain neu-
trtl and secure the neutrality OF France
= Germany went % war with Russ a.
THIS wss quite a different proposition.
the Foreign Secretary continued, and,
n view o. Frances alliance with Rus
sis, one which cou not be entertained.
As soon as the Misunderstanding was
ol,srsd OF the German Ambassador
sent an explanatory message 20 Berlin.
but that telegram had not been pub
lished. although one based on the
initial misunderstanding had been CIV
en- out