FIGHTING EXTENDS OVER 40 MILES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 5

FIGHTING EXTENDS OVER 40 MILES.

BRILLIANT FORCED MARCH BY ; - /FRENCH CAVALRY ' ' CARNAGE IN BOHEMIA.

MUTINOUS CZECHS SHOT DOWN BY AUSTRIANS

BATTERED GERMAN CRUISERS. \T^;fCATtDI^HONGKONG'" - Judging from the events recorded in to-day's news from the. theatres of war,' the German armies must, ere this, have been engaged with the allied troops of Britain, France, and Belgium. The' advanced divisions of the allied armies, by a'great sweeping move- ' went, have made contact with the Gennan advanced lines Tight along the enemy's front. Covering great stretches by wonderful forced ' marches, the French troops have worked round to Tumhout, on the .railway line, north-east of Antwerp, almost on the Dutch frontier, where conflicts have occurred, and. 1 the French cavalry has also sighted German patrols 6ome distance south of ■ that point. Diest and 'lirlemont are Teported to have been captured by the Germans. The enemy's front is now represented by a Vertical line—north to' south—from Gheel, 60uth of Tumhout, to Ramillies, just north of . Namur. South of Namur the line defieots south-east from Dinant, - where, the German advance, we are told, has been sharply repulsed, \vith heavy loss. The have also entered Luxemburg, eastward of Dinant. The only other news of importance is the arrival at Hong-Kong, in the Far East, of two battered German cruisers, an i : event cf no small significance.' The Russians are steadily advancing, and have inflicted a sharp defeat upon the Aiistrians, while at •various points of contact with thhe Germans, only a feeble resist-' ' . anoe haa been offered. In Bohemia, the Czechs have turned against . their Austrian masters, who, reinforced, have inflicted terrible \ • slaughter. Minor sea engagements are reported from the North Sea \ and the Adriatic.