Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1914, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free press thursday personal and social Trosa Patterson. Accompanied Molur left Kelowna last in Winnipeg. A helming sur Saab at Winnipeg where he i sirhed to miss Patterson a. _4f tar a Short Honey couple will make their Home where or. Hamning is a b. C., record. Or mrs. J. G. Washington. Of n announce the engagement Nga e to Victor word mrs. S. J. Stone 11 announce the engagement of incest daughter Greta to or. 2es or Bunn. Son of or. And. Mrs. J Bunn the wedding will Placo to september. Almers of grand jew. Man. E will take place in August. Or and mrs m h. Upkes left tues i Leht for Lake mine Tanka and Var Asfor via Duluth and Minneapolis their two younger sons Maurice arid Cecil. To Walker member of the Council of Public instruction of the province of Quebec is visiting his in. J e Walker. Jod Grosvenor ave. German guns hurling tons steel against fortifications continued from Page Ono Reginald m. Lawrence of Eiting is parents at 33 he will be in the Lor a week or ten Days. I mrs Frank Bauslaugh of Orri Ontario Are the guests of i or and mrs. Allen Bauslaugh 2 St. I Mary s place. Mrs Walter f. Langrill. Of Hamilton ont and daughter. Miss Frances Are a a fests of mrs. H. P. Grundy Root place or an flt. W. Hamilton. 453 Avenue left last week for Toronto Anil other Points East. Miss Ridler who has been the guest of miss Doris Brenton has re turned Home to St. Paul. ?.tlss mired Brenton left on tues Triy Tor Souris to spend a couple of weeks visiting friends. Mrs. E. J. Mackay of chill Wack b. A. Is the guest of mrs. John Erz Inger Yale Avenue. Rev. Or. Eraser of the first Presby its Lan Church Vancouver. Is in the City. Miss Vera Mcgibbon left tuesday for the Lake of the Woods. Rich strike of Gold fort George b.c., aug. 12. Wild i excitement prevails Here Over a Rich i strike of free milling Gold on the Ben Ign claim four Miles Southwest. Nug. Jets brought in last night leave no Toub to of the existence of Gold in Large i wan titles. Hundreds Are seeking to i be on ground in the Vicinity. Foam Lake harvesting. Foam Lake sask., aug. Is now general in this District Anc Farmers have about finished harvesting. One party reports the heaviest crop he has Ever had while others Are to believe that there will be Little More than half a yield however the majority Are quite Hope Ful about getting Good prices for their Grain. In every line in the department in fashions that Are to the minute cloth soils cloth Coats dresses and blouses fancy cloth suits in Light weight woollens. And ?95.00 values for Scilk suits in moire wis Teria Champagne Copen Nagott and Taupe. Regular to for Black and coloured silk Coats flounce and flare meets. To values for afternoon Coats in fancy Bedford Cord and Serge Kimono sleeves and Zulu backs. Values cloth dresses in Serges checks and fancy materials. Values up to for a Good assortment of Cor sets. Regular values up to 14.00 for 297-299 Portage ave., Winnipeg Toronto Montreal South of the River Ourthe and towards the upper Meuse in France. Fight at forts renewed. London aug. 12 7 struggle Between the belgians and the germans for the Liege forts recommenced today. The forts Are being fired upon and Are returning the fire of the germans with vigor. The Ger Man troops Are in movement with the evident intention the River Meuse. Convoys have been sighted proceeding to the Southwest of Liege forts hold Paris aug. Official statement issued by the War department states that the news from Liege and its Vicinity is Good. The forts ing out. Not one of them has fallen into the hands of the Bel Gian troops have resumed the Offen Sive. Landen which was occupied by the germans has been recaptured after a hard fight. Displayed wonderful control. London aug. Exchange Telegraph s Brussels Corre telegraphing on wednesday says belgians have routed tha germans in a fierce encounter Between the belgian left Wing and massed ctr Man cavalry infantry and artillery. The belgians displayed wonderful control under the fierce fire and their Vic tory has aroused the liveliest enthuse the whole line Allied troops. Germans accumulate flour. Brussels via London aug. Let Ter received Here from Liege says the German general staff is installed there in the Convent of the sacred heart which is j strongly barricaded. The germans it Are accumulating quantities of flour in Case they should find themselves invested instead Oil being the besiegers. Two Milia ii soldiers ready to clash on Battle front Hundred Miles Long continued from Page one Fields and captured a considerable heir commanding officer. Prince Wil Liam of fell mortally wounded and immediately afterwards his son killed. The germans retreated and shortly afterwards the bodies of the two princes were demanded _. Of the foe. A ring which the Prince number of invaders. One belgian Lancer named Bogaerts deserves Especial mention. His habit is to Sally , Lance in poise and go Forward against a Uhlan whom he generally kills or wounds where upon the remainder of the Uhland i his Finger and his daintily a rough following in single them selves up. In this Way he has taken fourteen wounded several Uhland and killed three without suf Fering the slightest injury. Airships much in evidence. Already air ships of different combatants float gracefully into visual Range of the Brussels population but at such height that one can Only guess at the nationality of each. The authorities forewarning the Public neither to fear nor at Taok Uhland. Anxiety respecting Holland s neutrality in not yet wholly dispelled. Nobody doubts the find resolve of the dutch government to maintain its right to hold aloof from War but cer Tain misgivings Are entertained As to the adequacy troops stationed in the District where the violation of territory by Germany is most Proba death of Prince William. A belgian journalist narrates the death of the reigning Prince William of Lippe and his son As in one of the streets of seraph a about. 100. German soldiers. Threw themselves with terrific fury upon a company of belgians but suddenly sword were handed Over to the police of serving by a scout. Spy masquerades As woman. This morn ing when leaving the american legation i saw two municipal guards arresting a lady whom they politely conducted to the police station. The chauffeur cried. Is no lady. He is a German spy two men hearing this rushed up an d at tempted to maltreat the prisoner but the guards protected their charge effectually. At the station the prisoner who looked quite collected was found to be a male German agent possessed of apparatus for cutting Telegraph he also carried compromising documents. The american minister who has. Been charged with the task of protecting germans was astonished by the Many touches of Good nature nay tenderness displayed by the belgian soldiers police and people to Ward the subjects of a state which is raging War against their country. Special trains Are conducting Ger Man civilians to Holland and. Special motor cars convey them to the Amer ican Consul or to centres where they axe housed and fed until they Are ready to Start. Philadelph sailed after War up by French torpedo boats till identity established. Frontier so far As Germany is concerned is comparatively lightly guarded unless by War office tells Why Muhlhan Tysen was deserted by troops new York aug. American liner Philadelphia with the first great crowd of we rushed from Europe when the various nations de dared War arrived in new York to night. There were 704 persons in the Cabin and 4-09 in the Steerage. Virtu ally All of them were without baggage Many of them without Money and All had stories of hardship to Tell. The Philadelphia sailed from Southampton a few hours after eng land declared War on Germany. The first Cay out a Fleet of several French torpedo boats and three submarines were sighted. One of the torpedo boats hurried after the american liner the rest of Fleet following slowly. Finally the torpedo came up alongside and ordered the Philadelphia to Stop. The War vessel circled the liner several times its officers looking closely at. The faces of the passengers crowded on the decks. When the French naval officers were sure that the Philadelphia really was an american vessel and Pas sengers were americans one of them shouted in excellent English that the Philadelphia might proceed. The Pas sengers cheered the French ships. The cheer was returned and the tiny War vessel steamed away. The refugees in the Steerage were the Freedom of the ship. The men were separated from the women however and in same cases husbands were. Separated from their wives by this regulation. Rather than sleep in the Steerage scores of these Pas sengers slept in the smoking room on the boat deck under the boats and Ifera its and in Steamer chairs. Four persons in very Cabin. Hundreds of the passengers on Board had rushed from the Interior of. France and Germany. Travellers from Paris old of mobs swarming through the streets breaking windows and looting shops., of germans. Others told of ermans caught in the French capital being beaten by. Gendarmes and the excited citizens. The streets near the railr9ad stations were with Lagg age Toten abandoned. So great was the Rush americans from trance to England that Small steamers n the English Channel constructed to accommodate from 600 to 900 persons carried women and children on their every trip. Eastern Frontier lightly guarded Paris aug. Following offic Ial announcement has been issued by the French War department up to the present hour no import ant encounters Between Tho. German and French except those of out posts have taken place. Great novelist on Gravity of situation St. John .n.b., aug. Most solemn warning As to the Gravity of the situation in which the British Empire stat ads at this hour was uttered tonight h. Rider hag Gard at a dinner Given to the Mem Bers of the Dominion Royal com Mission by for the City at Union club. Sir rider referred to such preparations for War As he had casually , and said it seemed to be carried on in. As Ort of holi Day spirit. He then asked All pres ent if they understood the situation if Germany and Austria won that would be the end of the Empire of Canada of civilization As we it for a Long came. In a few tense sentences which held the dinner party breath less he indicated the mag Nituda and crucial the conflict arid Canada s vital interest7 in it. No risk of defeat could toe no matter what. Sacrifices was the lesson emphasized. 9 the Gerry Karl Battle Cruiser the the occupation of Muehlhausen was effected by a Trench brigade of infantry in order to destroy the Ger Man intelligence Centre in operation in that town. That being accomplished the brigade was withdraw the Gen eral Iii command considering the Posi Tion too perilous. The French brigade was followed by the entire fourteenth German army corps and a division of the fourteenth army corps which were halted by our principal lines. Our strategical situation seems As before is impenetrable veil of mystery London aug. Daily mail s Paris correspondent com ments on the rigor of the censorship prevailing in _ France which has thrown an impenetrable veil of mys Tery Over the operations on the French Frontier with the result that the French Public is More ignorant of what is happening than it was when Napoleon was fighting a Century ago when the soldiers now depart for the front says the correspondent they Leao o to Trace their relatives have no Means of knowing they Are in. The fight ing line or Are obliged to entrust let ters for. Them to the ministry of War and the statement from the minister of War your son has fallen on the Field of engagements on German Feon Tiee Only skirmishes Paris aug. 12. French minister of War explains tha the Franco German engagements on the German Frontier Are no m6re than outpost skirmishes. The Best denial that. Can Given to the report that the. French lost 20.-000 says Tho ministry is that the total effective French troops did not reach that it is further explained and Vance of the French infantry on Muhl Hausen Cut the Centre Ger Man communication and it is added that successfully carried out the communication concludes we Are placing in. Upper Alsace a Sid Erable number of save no. 170 Housel old Economy is simplified Tulien there is a growing Bank account to justify it. Head office Corner King and Bay streets. Toronto general manager a. H. Walker Winnipeg Branch. Corner Portage and Smith. Chas. O. Hodgkins London aug. Official press Bureau of the War office says today of the 26 German army corps the bulk has been it is Evi Dent that the mass of. German troops s concentrated Between Liege and Luxem Burg. Number of German troops mown to be the Western Side of hat country proves that in the Eastern theatre of the Russ German . President offers Hospital ship Montreal aug. 12. Announce ment was made today that sir Thos. Shari Genessy president of the Canadian Pacific will give a hos Pital ship for use of the Imperial Navy. Montreal aug. Thomas Shaughnessy sent the following official message from St. Andrew s regarding his reported offer of an Hospital ship to the admiralty on behalf of the ., offered ship if suitable one available to be equipped and operated As Hospital by cil Mours has All the Well known invigorating proper ties of Ordinary Stout combined with the vitalizing elements of pure Dairy ask. In every pint of Gilmo Tir s milk Stout you. Get t h e energizing a Garbo hydrates of 10 of. Of pure milk. The medical times in its preparation lactose pure milk is used to replace the Ordinary brewing sugars which being Unfer Rentable overcomes the serious defect of sugar de composing into alcohol and carbonic acid. Gas. It de serves to rank High As a Bever age for invalids As Well As for Ordinary dietetic Gilmour s milk Stout is invaluable As a tonic and the Alt food in these Days of break Down Over work and worry. Bottled by the Brewers in England. Each pint contains the energizing Carbo hydrates of 10 c of g dry milk. Reber go., Montreal can. This Isia picture of the famous Ger Man Battle Cru Iser far has eluded capture in the Mediterranean and by latest report has sought re Fuge in the where unless to a she must be dismantled and tied up until the end of the in the Bohm and Voss Yards in Hamburg she was launched i1 late last year arid Only commissioned this Spring. She has a displacement of tons with length 610 feet beam 06 feet and draught 27 feet. Horse Power applied Voth turbines gives her a Speed of 2-8.6" knots under forced draught and she has the heels of every British Cruiser except the the Princess and the Queen Mary which have1 a Speed of 28.5" knots. The Goebels Mata armament consists of ton 11-Inch, 5.9-Inch, and twelve 3.4-Tach guns and she carries four torpedo tubes. Her protective Arnitor. Of Krupp steel extends the e whole her length ranging from four inches to eight inches at the main gun positions. She carries a Crew of of flyers and men. She is named after the Prus Sian general of infantry August Karl von Goeben who greatly distinguished himself in War of War summary Fruim one and Are prepared i to Check the Ger Man Advance. I the British and French cruisers in the Atlantic and the e Pacific outnumber the German vessels and outclass them in the matter of armament. The Ger mans Are speedier however and it is believed their will be to de stroy shipping Andl elude pursuers. The. Canadian banking scheme effected by the inf Perial government whereby Gold will 3e held at Ottawa is said to be of it will ease England facilitate business reduce the High rates of Exchange and solve the problem of marketing the Canadian crop. That no important engagement has occurred Between the French and germans is indic sited by an official announcement issued by the Branch department of. Up to wednesday afternoon there had been no encounters be Twelin the respective forces except those of outposts Par s reported the let the bombardment by the germans of the important town of port a Cusson in the department of Murthe it Moselle had co m fenced. This town in Twenty Miles from Nancy and sixteen Jmiles South Southwest of Metz. An important develop Orji in the situation is the preparations which the austrian ambassador is snaking for his immediate departure i from Lon Don. London official statement says that War Between great Britain and Austria has been from Berlin German successes Are announced at Muhlhauser and la Grade with the taking of Sinany French prisoners and the Clearing of German territory of the French. Fighting around Tirle Mont and other belgian towns and the struggle for the Possession of the Liege forts has recommenced. The British War office information Bureau says that the majority of 26 German army corps have been located and that the mass of the German troops Are concentrated Between Liege a cd Luxemburg. In their Endeavor to the steam ship route Clear on the Atlantis the British admiralty and ithe French government have sent and Balmoral Castle offered As Hospital London aug. 13 2.55 George Ihas offered Baj Noral Castle As a Hospital for . Armed merchant vessels to Learoh for Carman Craft. The combined montenegrin and ser Vian invasion of Bosnia has begun under the Servian general Jankovitsch who was commander of the Servian army corps priz rend in. The Balkan War. Pol Plancon dead. Plancon Fri Fri if Day. He had been. Ill since june. He was about 55 years or age. 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