GERMANY ORDERED TO QUIT KIAU-CHOU.

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GERMANY ORDERED TO QUIT KIAU-CHOU.

SENSATION AT. WASHINGTON.

sharp Engagement in

BELGIUM.'

GERMANS ROUTED BY THE FRENCH 4RTHXERY.

SEA FIGHT IN ADRIATIC.

TWO WARSHIPS SUNK.

• The attention of both participants, and spectators In the great) Burppean-conflict has been suddenly directed from the Belgian theatre of war to the Far East, where Britain's ally, Japan, lias thrown down the'gauntlet to Germany, and peremptorily ordered the bully of : • Europe to quit Kiac-Ghow by August 23 or take the consequences. This ultimatum hae'visibly .startled the State Secretary's Office at / Washington,' where some concern is evinced at the possibility of a Japanese occupation' of Samoay with its attendant menace ' to the great canal. Reverting to the European centre of operations, the impenetrable screen of the'covering lines of 'the combatant armies still, obscures the march of the momentous issues which, if is believed, . , ' . are.being determined—the fog of ,w£r is 1 as dense a« ever. Accounts of minor operations which have -filtered through cast'an interesting and/significant sidelight on the methods of the opposing forces. It is i being more clearly demonstrated every day that the French artillery is superbly efßoient, far superior tot.t'he German, and crushihgly de- : structive iri its fire effect. The Germans are reported to be seriously inconvenienped by,the los 3of so, many of their horses, while the ' characteristic mass formation of the Germans in attack is involving such'appalling sacrifice of rajuk and file that even' their, officers are exercised as to the wisdom of pursuing such tactical methods in the face of the-.terrible effectiveness of the enemy's artillery < ■' The action at Dinant, where the Germans were subjected to a>demoralising de'feat, mainly: by the accuracy of the French artillery), and the sub- - eequent'.dash .of 'the'tayalry, adds another item 'to'-.- th"e"-gfow ( ing''Est' l .-V" of reverses. , From Rome comes news that'the.ltalian troops are be- ', ing'hurriedly concentrated at mobilisation centres, and that' other: preparations of a significant kind are. in. full swing. "Will Rear- """' Admiral Mahan's prophecy that Italy will turh on'her allies, Austria and Germany, be fulfilled? From the sea there is little beyond a semiofficial statement that four Austrian warships were beaten by the French ships., The North Sea is silent. Turkey's behaviour to the ships of the Entente Powers is causing considerable annoyance, and is giving ground for distrust of her bona : fides with respect to her ' neutrality. ,: ; '•;.,''