GERMAN HIGH SEA FLEET
REPORTED NAVAL ENGAGEMENT
OFF ENGLISH COAST (Reo. August 5, 11.35 p.m.) ■ ' • (Delayed in Transmission.) •• ' London, August 8. There is diplomatic authority for the announcement that the' German High Sea Meet passed through the' Kiel Canal steaming westward. London, August 5. Ships arriving in the Tyne declare that a battle is proceeding off Flamborougli Heads, Yorkshire Promontory, oil the East Coast of. England, between French and German,fleets. ' ■ < (Uec. August 5, 11.85 p.m.) (Dokyed in Transmission.) Nish, August 8. An engagement is reported to have oeourred at-Vnljevo, fifty miles south of Belgrade. It is reported that the Montenegrins are bombarding Cattaro, in Herzegovina, at the head, of the Gulf of Cattaro, in tho Adriatic Sea. (Bee. August 6, 0.10 n.in.) - i St. Petersburg, August i. Russia officially contradicts the reported dostruction of'-the cruiser Lilian (? Lieutenant llyin). It is stated that only a few shots were fired, and no casualties are reported. [No Russian cruiser named Lilian is shown in the published lists. It ia possible the vessel referred to is the torpedo gunboat llyin, a small craft of 711 tons, built nearly thirty, years ago.] v
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2221, 6 August 1914, Page 5
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188GERMAN HIGH SEA FLEET Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2221, 6 August 1914, Page 5
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