NEWPORT, ARKANSAS TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1914
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Germans Move
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Allied Army Expected to Assume 0f=
tensive lm mediately=== Invaders
Entrench Positions Along
River Ourthe===German
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Losses At Liege Now
31,000.
LIEGE FORTS STAND FIRM
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In Germans’ Last Attack Sunday Night On Fort Serang, 800
Dead Were Left Upon Field Where Barbed Wire Held
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Invaders at Mercy of Machine Guns.
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United 1'ress Dispatch.
Brussels, August 11.— The German invading army is mov
ing toward Waterloo and Brussels but has so far failed to pene
trate the Belgian territory west of Tongres, where two divisions
of cavalry with supporting infantry and artillery are operating.
It is considered certain here that this is the main army of
invasion and confirms the opinion that the Germans expected
no opposition. It is believed that the French-British-Belgian ar
my will assume the offensive almost immediately.
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The war offices state that the German losses before Liege
including the Sunday night attack, total 2,000 dead, 20,000
wounded and 9,000 prisoners
The war office announces that the Germans are entrench
ing along the River Ourthe, indicating that for the present they
will remain on the defensive, while they probably seek another
route of invasion. Skirmishing at various points north of the
river Meuse, with minor casualties is reported..
V Campaign plans discovered on German officers indicate that
Germany had intended reaching Paris via Brussels and Lille, but
| that the check at Liege upset all plans.
The fighting continues today north of the Meuse river, but
all. details are carefully .suppressed. The Liege forts hold out
and the allied army has moved north from Namur to reinforce
y. the Belgian-French army operating against the German army of
Meuse.
Delayed dispatches tell of another fierce attack on Fort
f Serang Sunday night where after three hours of repeated
charges the Germans fell back, leaving eight hundred dead.
Despite the heavy fire of the forts, which tore great gaps in
their lines, the Germans charged to the entanglements of barb
ed wire, where the machine guns slaughtered them, held by
an impenetrable mass of wires.
The French artillery passed tin ug sels to reinforce
the French-Belgian column assife d t< ent the German in
fantry movement toward Waterloo an . Brussels.
BELGIAN REPORT FROM LIEGE.
United Press Dispatch.
London, August 11—The Belgian legation here has denied
stating that only a few thousand Germans are in the city and
that the remainder of the army is engaged in an unsuccessful
attempt to reduce the forts.
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FRENCH ARMY
DRIVEN RACK
From Mulhausen Before Super
iior German Forces—Half Mil
lion Germans At Strasbourg.
%nitfcd Press Dispatch,
ft Paris, ‘August 11.—The war
office announces that the French
have been compelled to evacu
1' ate Mulhausen, their army oper
ating against Neu Breisach be
. in^driven back by an overwhel
iTmilg German army, which beat
Mhem back upon Mulhausen. The
French are retiring and the out
skirts are now making a stand.
A general battle is believed to be
in progress.
Whether Colmar has been e
vacuated by the French troops,
who took possession of that city
Sunday, is unknown, for the
censorship is absolute. The
Germans attacking army com
prises nearly a half million men
massed at Strasbourg, which
was originally designed to lead
the invasion of France from the
Swiss border
All details of the fighting are
withheld but an official bulletin
adds that the German attack
has been checked on the out
skirts of Mulhausen. An admis
sion was made that reinforce
ments have been rushed to -the
French army invading Alsace,
which indicates that the at
tack was expected
The result of the battle will
determine whether the French
maintain their hold upon Al
sace or are forced back across
the border to protect the home
fortifications.
Continual fighting is reported
along the Luvemburg French
frontier, where the war office
claims the French have been suc
cessful
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DECLARE WAR
Upon Austria Unless Latter
Explains Presence of H«r
Troops on French Border.
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j United Press Dispatch
London, August 11.— The
Austrian ambassador has been
asked for an explanation of the
presence of Austrian troops
near the French border and an
unsatisfactory reply is expect
ed. The British ambassador at
Vienna will probably demand
his passports.
15K1HOX1 IVlllN Hi tUAOi VVAJL
ERS
United Press Dispatch.
Washington, D. C-, August 11.
—Secretary of State Bryan has
been informed by the British
ambassador of the mining of
parts of the North Sea and the
English channel. The informa
tion is given as a warning to
save American ships.
SERVIANS TAKE
AUSTRIAN TOWNS
Bosnians Are Reported To Be
Supporting Slav Invasion.
United Press Dispatch
Nish, Servia, August 11. —
The war office announces that
the Servian-Montenegrin arm
ies are advancing rapidly
through Bosnia, defeating the
Austrians with heavy losses.
The Serbs have taken several
towns and the Bosnians are re
ported to be supporting the in
jvaueio.
Moving Pictures
ithe Opera House
THE HELPFUL SISTERHOOD
The foolish actions of the
High School Club lead a young
girl into temptation. She was
saved by one who knew the evil
of their ways. Norma Tal
madge, Marie Weirman and
Van Dyke Brooks—a special 2
reel feature.
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LITTLE MISS BOUNTIFUL
iEasy Money. Kate Emmett and
| little Ruth Hazelette.
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ADMISSION 5 and 10 CENTS.
FOURTEEN WEEKS’
DROUTH ENDED
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General Rains Will Improve Cot
ton, Late Corn, Hay Crop
And Pastures.
The summer of 1914 will go
down in the weather records of
this section of Arkansas as ex
periencing the greatest drouth
|in the past forty years, no rain
having fallen outside of a few
scattered and inconsequential
showers from May 4 until Au
gust 10, exactly 14 weeks- But
the drouth is broken now and
the country is rejoicing and
thankful for the splendid gener
al rains received Monday and
Tuesday, which up to 7 o’clock
Tuesday morning had registered
almost 2 inches or to -4j6 exact
1.88 inches on the government
gauge.
Whether cotton has yet time
to put on a new growth that
would produce a top crop all de
pends on the lateness of frost,
| but the mosture received will at
least develop the small bolls and
! present crop. The slow showres
'and cloudy weather will also
'prevent much shedding say the
best posted farmers and cotton
men.
The bottom lands have'as a
rule very poor cotton, while the
sandy lands are going to yield
better than anticipated. The
early corn crop was and is a
failure, but the present general
rains will bring out the late
crop, put meadows to growing
and pasturage to new life. It is
too late for the pea crop to
raise peas, but the vines will af
ford hay and many farmers in
tend to plant corn broadcast in
fields that have no crop, which
should grow to waist height and
prove a valuable help in furnish
ing feed for the stock.
BARNUM & BAILEY
TO COME HERE
I Greatest Circus of Them All Will
Close Season at Newport Wed
nesday, November 11th.
Barnum & Bailey’s mammoth
| circus will close the season in
i Newport Wednesday, November
11. This being their last en
i gagement, the big show company
twill t>av off all employes here,
who will scatter to the fore
corners of the earth, for the
people with Barnum & Bailey
embrace representatives of ev
ery nation and all climes.
Mr. N. J. Petit, advance man
for the world’s famous shows,
spent Tuesday in the city and
Mayor Hubly took him in hand
and convinced hinj that New
port was the best town in North
ern Arkansas and secured the
final date over the invitations of
Paragould and Jonesboro.
The event will be one of the
biggest in our history. Barnum
& Bailey are heavy advertisers
and the people know what they
ar*\ The crowd will be drawn
the Missouri line, soutli almost
to Little Rock, from Cotter on
: the Northwest to Brinkley on
.the South, Wynne and Jones
jboro on the East.
Mayor Hubly deserves great
I
credit for landing this big at
traction, which Mr. Petit as
sures us will give two complete
performances the same as in
the large cities
Japan Is Constantly At War In
Formosa.
United Press Service.
San Francisco, August 10. —
Japan is having desperate troub
les in its attempts to pacify
Formosa, according to arrivals
here from the Far East. At the
time the Mikado acquired the
[island, great hopes were enter
tained, because of the fertliity
land natural resources of the
[country, of making it support a
considerable portion of the home
country’s surplus population- It
i might be doing this already,
say those who have been there
recently, were it not for the in
[ tractibility of the natives. Af
ter years of efforts to conquer
[them with small bodies of
j troops, many of which were cut
to pieces, in the remote inter
ior, it is stated that an extensive
campaign has been launched in
the hope of more speedily ending
the constant warfare between
natives and Japanese authori
ties.
Mrs. Weltchell and pretty lit
tle daughter, Mary Ellen, of
Paragould, who have been visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. W. R. O’Neal,
left this morning for her home
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SIX CARLOADS
GERMAN^
Reported Captured By
—Austrians Report
sians Repulsed.
United Press Dispatch.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 11.
is announced here that six c
loads of German prisoners a ^
en route through Vilna, but it it', •
not stated where they were tar
RUSSIAN ADVANCE BEGU1& y
United Press Dispatch.
Vienna, Aug. 11.—The war
office announced today that tfcg.il
Russian advance upon Austria'
had begun but without success, *, Jj
the Russians having repeatedly§|||
been repulsed.
CONFIRMS REPORT OF RUS
SIAN invasion.
United Press Dispatch. ■ /
London, Aug. 11.—The war
office has confirmed the report^
of the Russian invasion of' Ana*■ j
tria in progress through the 11
Styr River valley toward Lem
Excursion Called Off.
Captain F. L. Inman has call
ed off the excursion for tonight Jig
aboard the City of Muskogee,
owing to the bad weather,
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