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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1914
Page
1
Von Luelow warns that Italy would ruin its unity and independence by abandoning its long standing alliance if Germany weakens. He calls such a shift an unparalleled violation of international law and a tremendous mistake as well as a crime.
International News Service reports the buy a bale of cotton slogan spreading through the South to finance the cotton crop. The plan aims to unlock liquidity, aid Southern communities, and conserve gold reserves while supporting exports and stabilizing markets. E K Cone of the New York Cotton Exchange expresses strong approval and expects easier access to emergency currency facilities after bankers' discussions.
Governor O Neal will not appoint new members to the Birmingham excise commission before next week. Chairman W C Agee and Associate E Williamson are serving over their terms pending reappointment or replacement as applications circulate.
Paris dispatch reports German troops retreating from near Paris after a long front battle. Allied lines stretch from Nantueil le Haudoin to Verdun with Meaux and the Marne, while British forces advance. Germans suffer heavy losses with prisoners and matériel left behind as they pull back.
Telegrams from Berlin report the Crown Prince’s army has occupied a fortress southeast of Verdun and the German general staff hopes to quickly capture Ve in an ongoing Verdun operation.
A Belgian family flees with few possessions in a dog cart while Belgian troops, outnumbered, watch thousands of homes deserted. The scene highlights the collapse of civilian protection as the invasion pressures mount.
Montgomery Sept 12 Thirty six cases will be heard at the state railroad commission September session beginning Monday in the capitol building. Seventeen cases are petitions by Louisville and Nashville Railroad to change rates including a request to raise the special coal rate for industries in the Gadsden Anniston Talladega area from fifty to seventy cents per ton.
Police chase a man calling himself J C Barr who passed bogus checks totaling over 1000 dollars in New Orleans Biloxi and possibly other towns. He worked as a salesman for Son Custom Apparel at 124 Carondelet street and fled after a theft suspicion. Authorities traced him from New Orleans to Hattiesburg and Meridian with plainclothes teams on his trail.Barr remains at large as of report and is expected to be arrested soon.
A statement by Senator Theodore Burton and Arthur Deering Call urges all Americans to promote peace. They call for October 4 national prayer, sermons and lectures against war, and sustained discussion and effort toward universal rights and world peace.
Rome dispatch reports Cardinal Farley suffered a severe stroke of heart disease after lunch Friday in Amalfi while traveling from Sorrento. No immediate fears for his welfare were entertained.
Local forecasts call for thundershowers in Alabama Sunday and likely Monday while Mississippi also expects thundershowers. The brief weather update notes no severe storm details.
Ghent reports the German field army in Belgium attempting to mask Antwerp has been cut off at Cortenberg between Louvain and Brussels. Belgian forces took many prisoners as Antwerp and Limburg provinces, and eastern Flanders, are said to be free of Germans. Ter Monde occupied. Germans retreat after heavy losses. Belg ians advance with artillery and methodical operations.
Lionel Adams a famed Southern criminal lawyer lies at his Esplanade Avenue home after a stroke of apoplexy and is not expected to survive the night. The 63 year old, who recently returned from Covington, is under care of Dr. Howard King with his sisters and law partner Joseph E. generally present. He has suffered multiple strokes over the past year and was once district attorney of Orleans Parish.
Washington reports the State Department denied any plan to recall or discipline Ambassador Sharp over alleged remarks in Paris. No confirmation of friction with the French government was issued. The denial came after circulation of claims that Sharp had offended officials since his arrival.
Paris dispatch from a war office report details rapid German withdrawal after allied offensives. German left wing pulls back from Argonne while French advance threatens Verdun and approaches the Aisne and Marne fronts. Engagements at Revigny Aux-Vaches Sermaize reveal heavy material losses and strategic gains for the Allies.
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