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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1914
Page
18
Three Harvard faculty members prepare to serve in the French army with Professor Eugene Duquesne and Assistant Professor Louis Allard among them. Duquesne, a renowned architect, vows to return to defend France as Pan Germanism and Kaiser aggression push Europe toward war.
Professor Hugo Munsterburg of Harvard Psychology declares he will not go back to Germany to serve in the army. He cites age and personal reasons, noting he is 61 and has never served. The report follows news that three French professors are returning to military duty.
Secretary Bryan said the United States now communicates with all European embassies and legations to aid Americans abroad. He noted Americans reported arrested in Berlin and discussed mining of German ports and the English Channel. The State Department sent funds to Switzerland and continued liaison with London censors while President Wilson was briefed.
Perry Tiffany, cousin of August Belmont, reports hundreds of Americans stranded in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The American citizens' advisory committee urged diplomatic action and relief, noting 300 Americans in Bergen and 500 in Christiania with little chance of escape and no funds.
Paris reports the French army near Colmar pursuing fleeing Germans for distance northward. Since Friday they have carried German trenches in rapid bayonet charges, the legendary French furor rising. French cavalry shines at Altkirch and Mulhausen.
Mr and Mrs Charles F Parker of Winthrop received a cable from their daughter Helen E Parker saying she was safe in Paris. The message read Safe in Paris and implied the past week had brought hardship for her party.
General Radko Dimitriev, former commander-in-chief of Bulgaria during the War against Turkey and now minister at St. Petersburg, telegraphed his resignation to serve as a volunteer in the Russian army.
At mobilization start many machines were offered by French citizens but the War Office cannot use them all and is declining the offers.
Two reports of firing off San Francisco Bay yesterday stirred the populace after the Canadian cruiser Rainbow departed. Belief shifted to quarry blasting as the cause. Rainbow’s exact whereabouts after leaving port and the German cruisers Nurnberg and Leipzig remain unknown.
A catalog listing offers summer dresses wash skirts kimonos linen suits silk wraps cloth coats Mackintoshes sweaters and spring and fall weight cloth suits.
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