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Show Wrd Direct! . 1 ; 1. -, 'II" FroiBiliege I - " i Mormon 'Missionary Writes, Horns nd Tells of Condition of Affairs In BelBlum "'h t- Tbo following interesting letter has Jub been recolvod by J. ,Wy Hendricks Hen-dricks of Richmond from 'his son Mariner, who has been serving as a missionary iu Llego for the past seven sev-en months: '' Liege, Belgium, July &, 1914. Mr. J. W. Hendricks, i,l, Doar Fathor: Your welcome lettor canio a day or two ago and I was glad to got It, and to learn that everything every-thing wns all right at homg, I was qutto badly in need ot tho nio'ioy and I am certainly grateful forhe rumlt-'tance. rumlt-'tance. ffl Undoubtedly you have heard" of the war hero by now. EveryDiTng Is In a state- of mobilization. Tbero Is a money panic on. Tho paport money is decreased In value and gold Is unobtainable. un-obtainable. Food stuffs have raised and are still going up. Belgium is as I understand it, Independent, but It is much sought after bjj Germany and Franco. Also Germany ,proposes to march through hero to Franco rind Belgium Is preparing to stop Jt If she can. Every man who can arry a gun Is called to arms. All factories (Continued on pago four) ' WORD DIRECT FROM LIEGE (Continued from page one) . ' 'f't i ),' ' und shops ureciosediSMMi tuo onug- es which crosslthdVMeuso Rlver hre mined and uro ribw bolng carctully guarded by soldiers. Railroads &ra Ml put to tho ubo of carrying soldiers, sol-diers, and powder, and things tu preparation pre-paration for Uio war. An oitlcer und tuo.pollcemcli wro hero at our quarters quar-ters this morning to lng to enlist us! fortunately our passports prevented them from doing so. There arc four of us hero at this tlrao. This morning morn-ing we succeeded in getting a twenty twen-ty franc 'piece changed. This will last us for u day or two. We went down -to the bank and tho nearest we could get to theibank door was two blocks. "i'ney said that there was over three thousand people lined up trying to get ln and casliisome paper money. However, there is still some hope of averting wa!, and every effort is being putjforth to do It. As it is they must cither go to "war or do away with these preparations. It is costing each nation too much money to remain re-main too long u tfme under this' stale of affairs. So long as England stays out -we can send and receive letters, but If England goes to warmore than Hkt-Jy Hkt-Jy all correspondence "llLbe discontinued discon-tinued between here and, the United States due to the blockado'whlch VtlT take effect at the opening ot the war This last Information 'waS"glven us this morning by the American con' sul labeled with the return address. There will be"ho "need to worry abb'ut ua. There are thousands who arl) not aa' well Ox'eda Vre are.. .They can not' pftki'f'us- ikto service and ouV lives are nj txin danger whateter. If war does come we perhaps will be un'ablo' to hear' from you, but that, so far as I can see, will be the only discomfort we will have to contend with. Wo can not tract now and nil wo can do is to mako our visits. Our ball will bo taken to lodge soldiers perhaps this afternoon. I wilt write as often as possible and if my letters fall to appear you will know that It 1b because of the blockade. Give my best regards to all and may God bless and protect you. As ever your son, Marriner. |