BRITISH CRUISERS SCOUR THE ATLANTIC

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2228, 14 August 1914, Page 5

BRITISH CRUISERS SCOUR THE ATLANTIC

ENEMY'S SHIPS HDNTED DOWN

■ LIEGE BESIEGED v ■ -

GERMANS' SUPREME EFFORT ,

FRENCH TOWN BOMBARDED

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I Mygtery stall envelopes- the evemtfe in tie Belgian-Franco-Pruesian -theatre of war. So dense is the fog of war over that grira region that even the Belgian Legation in JUmdon had heard nothing since TucsV day. From Paris craws an official announcement 'that Font-a-Mous- \ son, some 15 miles south of Met? (almost in a lino with Nancy) and about five miles on the French side of tlie frontier, has been bom'barded from a indicating a movement from the German side. , The* latest accounts of the French victory at Altkirch show that the GermaH artillery was vastly inferior' to tho French, and , that their marale~-*th.e odds nere four to one , in their favour—was ' correspondingly low. The French attack was doljvered with great dash,, end the -subsequent advance and occupation of Jlulhfiusen was appar. N ently a, tactical move to destroy the enemy's observation post. The sound of heavy gun firing around Liege has been heard, but of jts • i import nothing is known save what may be deduced from the state meet that tho Gormans have settled down to '9, deliberate sjege of that great ring fortress. * The Russians are reported to have repulsed the Germans on the frontior, an indication that the Muscovite war machine has begun to move in a definite advance into -the enemy's I country. Rumours of-plots and conspiracies in the Balkans to accomplish distracting diversions on tho Austro-Balkan and RuasoBalkan frontiers, suspected overtuies 'to Turkey, and negotiations , with Rome, point ,it is suggested, to • considerable discomfort of the Gorman mind at Berlin.' \Vheu to these' rumours are added tho sta'te- • , ments that tho British Admirality lias sanctioned the export of coal to Scandinavian waters,-thaia fleet of British cruisers are hunting donn , f tUq Germw warahips in tho Atlanta and the enemy's ' commerce, that the British commercial community is directly invited ' to ship its trans-Atlantic consignments with boldness and confidence" and that Gennany'a. only avenue cf food supplies from tho sea. is Holland, there is. presented an,accumulation of evidon.ee- that Germany's , ( external resourwa ere-boiifg seriously crippled. '-" ' , 1 , v ■V