BRITAIN AT WAR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2221, 6 August 1914, Page 5

BRITAIN AT WAR

\ »- PUBLIC STATEMENT BY LORD LIVERPOOL '' , iffIORABLE SCENE-OOTSP ' . PARIiAMiENT ;' : • GERMAN HIGH SEA FLEET NAM BATTLE OFF THE ENGLISH.COAST ■ . • •••.-. \ ' ', '■ ■ v- v"V- ' - "<V ' ■ J • RUSSIAN TROOPS IN GERMANY Britain is at'war. The last elements of uncertainty were dispelled • < by yesterday's cablegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and,by the.momentous public announcement vvhich was made by His Excellency tho v Governor (Lord Liverpool), outside Parliament House at 3 o'clock in the afternoon to an : assemblage visibly moved by ' 'the gravijiy of the occasion. News'from the theatres of war is meagre, but the indications givein of the movements of the fleets and armies of the combatant nations is .significant of momentous events. Thei German High Sea Flept has left the Kiel Canal and headed westward. A naval battle is •to be: raging off Flamborough ! Head, but pre- N cise information is lacking." . Belgium has been invaded by the oer- : mans, and preparations are being made' by ; the people of the Low , Countries to!determinedly resist this violation of their territory. ■ Austria, alarmed'lt the development of events on her other frontiers, . ■ has abandoned' for the present her campaign in Servia.'The announcement of Britain's participation' in the war has stirred tho Empire from J-■ sea to sea, and.in New Zealan3 and" Australia a great wave of patri- ■ otic ardour has animated public ; sentiment and evoked popular demonstrations. Partial mobilisation has been ordered, and from every centre of the Dominion offers to servs have inundated the capital. • ' '-' v / /