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Show GERMAN ARMY AWAITSJRDERS I Mliitary Element Quiet Pending Pend-ing Outcome of International Internation-al Crisis in Europe. ALL EYES ON RUSSIA T H ! Hundreds of Servants and Laboring Women Storm Berlin Savings Banks. Berlin, July 27 The military ele ment In Germany calmly awaits the outcome of the international crisis It ,s stated that no orders have been Issued to the army In this connection and that the customary furloughs to a proportion of the soldiers In order that they might help In the field work , at their homes during the harvest l have not been Interrupted. 1 One of the newspapers prints the statement that the German high sea fleet had been ordered to concentrate In home waters, but the German ad-mtralty ad-mtralty says no such Instructions have been Issued. The general public In Berlin takeB a somewhat calmer view of the situa ; tion as time passes without the occasion oc-casion of the dreaded catastrophe of armed conflict and on reports of the proposed mediation of the powers between be-tween Austria-Hungary and Servia. Officials declare no word haB come from St. Petersburg regarding the Russian attitude, but hopes are still expressed that Russia will abstain from taking any steps which might precipitate a general conflict in Eu-rope Eu-rope Hundreds Storm Banks. l Hundreds of servants aud women of tho laboring classes stormed the mu-nlclpal mu-nlclpal savings banks in Berlin. At OPe of these Institutions In the com ter of the city, there was a line of 1600 people at 11 o'clock The offi-CialS offi-CialS refrained from enforcing the usual time limit for larger amounts and this gave some reassurance to thp public Similar runs on savings banks were reported today from oth er cities. An enthusiastic demonstration was m made bv large crowds who gathered j at the Potsdam station when the em- I peror arrived there this evening. oo- VISITED IN GARLAND. Mr ond Mrs Judge Howell, Mrs. Reese Howell and Mrs. Roberta and daughter Phebe were Garland visit org last week, the guests of Mrs. J., 1 C. VVheolon, |