ON THE CONTINENT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2227, 13 August 1914, Page 5

ON THE CONTINENT

MAN HUNTS IN BERLIN. RISE IN FOOD PRICES (Kec. August 13, 1 a.m.) Copenhagen, August 12. Travellers from Berlin report that serious riote arc ot .daily occurrence owing to the rise in the prico of foodstuffs. Many Iriidesmen and dealers havo been arrested, and the police, have closed many shops.' purer money is to be found everywhere, and is beins; refused. The Official Tress Agency announced that private people wef» cutltUtl to iimitt Misptcioiis cu-intc-.t«rs, lad a. tjmbla, mu4uat.[.«ulUd. .

WHAT THE GERMANS ARE TOLD. LIEGE TAKEN AND BELGIUM OVER-HUN. (Rec. August 12, 8.35 p.m.) Paris, August 11. M. Netou, the French Consul-General at Dusseldorf, who was at Cologne on Friday, states that the German people there mo being informed that Liege was taken at the point of the bayonet, that Brussels was in. flames, that Antwerp was blown up, and that the Kaiser, at the head of the army, expects to reach Paris in a week. FRANCE. NO CASUALTY LISTS. BUEEAU FOE INDIVIDUAL INQUIRIES. ' • (Eec. August 12, 8.35 p.m.) Paris, August 11. The French Government has forbidden the publication of the numbers of the casualties and the mines of the killed find wounded, and has opened a bureau where relatives are merely told whether the soldier inquired for is killed or (rounded, without giving the place or the day ho fell. GATHERING THE HARVESTS. FRENCH RESERVISTS DETAILED. (Rec. August 12, 9.40 p.m.) Paris, August 11. The War Minister, M. Delcasse, nas detailed twenty thousand naval conscripts to save the cereal and grape harvests. BELCIUM. KING GEORGE'S CONGRATULATIONS A GALLANT AEMT. Brussels, August 10. King George of England has telegraphed to King Albert, paying a tribute to Belgium's gallant army. A SIGNIFICANT INCIDENT. Brussels, August 10. A German princess's ciistle in Belgium was cleared of its valuable contents six weeks ago, and they were sent to Germany. . PANIC IN A CHURCH. FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED. (Rec. August 12, 9.40 p.m.) ■ Brussels, August 11. A slight fire broke out in the.Churoh of Saint Antoine at La Lonviere, near Charleroi, in the south of Belgium, while a mass for the Belgian ariny was being celebrated. A panic followed, and fourteen women were killed and fifty 'injured. ■■ -■•_.. RUSSIA. AUSTRO-GERMAN PROVOCATION. ST. PETERSBURG DISCLOSURES. St, Petersburg, August 10. Official dispatches precedent to the war disclose the provocative aggression of Austria and Germany to fix the responsibility of war upon Russia. The dispatches prove that the Tsar did his uttermost to. avert war.—"Times" and* Sydney "Sun" Services. BULGARIA. GENERAL DIMITRIEFF. DISMISSED. Sofia, August 11. The Bulgarian Government has dismissed General Dimitrieff, Ambassador at St. Petersburg,. i'or entering the Russian army.' ' ".,