STIRRING NEWS OF GREAT EVENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2222, 7 August 1914, Page 5

STIRRING NEWS OF GREAT EVENTS.

—♦ . ■ -- BATTLES ON SEA AND LAND. GERMANS BEATEN, BACK 1 -, / — BELGIANS' GALLANT STAMi. WARSHIPS CAPTURED. HAMBURG-AMERICA LINER . TORPEDOED. The strict censorship which shrouds in'mystery the events of the Titanio-conflict now raging bet-neon the great nations" in Europe, has parted sufficiently to reveal occasional glimpses of tho theatres' of war. Germany appears to havo rcccivod a sharp reverse on the Belgian frontier, where the men whose territory has been so ruthlessly violated have offered a stubborn and effective resist-' an'ce. The Belgian War Department states that the German . losses are heavy, hundreds -of mounded ■ are _ coming into - tho hospitals. 'Pressed hard also on the Russian frontier, tile German troops havo retired somo miles into their own territouy, laying waste their villages and fields en route. From the Mediterancan comes the news of the capture of the German battleship Goeben and another cruiser by the Fiench fleet, while off the Thames, the- Hamburg-America liner Konigin Louise,'detected in a treacherous attempt to lay mines in our waters, was torpedoed, and sunk with all hands. Gorman cruisers are reported to be busy off the Canadian coast, in attempts to destroy the wireless stations. Lord has been appointed Secretary of State for War, while General Sir lan Hamilton is to command tho Home defences. , t "