European Nations Prepare Armies as War Declared
European powers marshal forces in response to a broad war threat. Trains across the continent transport troops toward Servia as mobilization intensifies amid the declared conflict.
31 Jul 1914
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Newspaper
Monmouth Herald
Location
Monmouth, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1914
Page
1
European powers marshal forces in response to a broad war threat. Trains across the continent transport troops toward Servia as mobilization intensifies amid the declared conflict.
War notices flood Europe with Vienna declaring war on Servia after rejecting mediation. Austria-Hungary seizes Servian ships at Orsova and hoists its flag, while Berlin reports troop moves toward the Russian border and hints at a growing crisis.
The article catalogs the military power of great powers in the Sarvian crisis, listing Germany with 316 ships and about 4,000,000 land troops, Russia with 166 ships and about 4,500,000, Austria with 114 ships and about 2,000,000, France with 408 ships and about 3,000,000, and Servia with 195,000 land troops. It also covers industrial and agricultural notes from Oregon, including stockyards expansion, a Libby cannery project, homestead openings, a new dairy barn in Sydney Polk County, and local public notices from Monmouth council.
New York July 28 The latest gold movement to Europe rises with a Kronprinzessin Cecilie shipment of 10.6 million dollars atop an initial 2 million sent to Paris. Today six million goes to London and 4.6 million to Paris with 2.25 million in bars awaiting Carmania. Total exports since Friday exceed 20 million. expectations of further engagements push the Carmania total higher.
Senator Chamberlain said the Panama Canal Commission informed him the canal will open for commercial traffic on August 15 for all vessels with less than 30 feet of water depth.
Corvallis Or July 28 C S Davis merchant and president of the Corvallis Independent Telephone Company shot himself yesterday noon in his dry goods store. He died later in the afternoon from two bullets fired from a 22 caliber rifle into his mouth, the bullets passing through the top of his head.
Douglas B. Parkes was taken to a Dallas hospital last Friday morning for an appendicitis operation and is reported to be getting along nicely.
Two rival lumber camps combined to battle a forest blaze at Black Rock threatening the Falls City railroad trestle. About $1000 in damage occurred, and A G Holt of Spaulding Logging credited his camp’s timely help with preventing the loss of 1000 feet of trestle.
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