HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLES

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

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLES

ncnlEi rlunlllui HOW THE AMPHION WAS LOST The following cablegrams were received yesterday by the-Prime Minister from the New Zealand High Commissioner:— ' •.•■'■ ; - Official (August 19, 4.40 p.m.)— Admiralty report sinking -Amphion fifth. Struck mine; flames enveldped'bridgo; impossible flood fore magazine;' ship's back broken-, men .muster-without confusion ; leave' ship; : twenty- ~ minutes Within few, minutes "another s niihe explodes forepart. Fifteen minutes ship disappeared. lleliablo (August 20, 12.5 a.m.).Fierce fighting along extended frontier Also near Antwerp.; Russians, after several hours' fighting, seriously damaged Austrian forcos along Gorpdok Euzmim lino. Austrians retired, pursued by Russian cavalry, Men joining British, Army at rate of''9ooo'dailj, ,

;■;:■ f; '■;' SIR GEORGE SEED'S BUDGET; '■■'•'::,"...••j—■•■•■■;'•:■:■;.■-■".•. Mallipurne,'August 20. . .':?■ war'bulletin received fironl the - ; High Commissioner (Sir George Roid) says that tb&pa'pers arefull of encount- ■■■■:■:' ers., between!the,, Belgiau and German f- • . armjes. • .Tho news has been taken.from {■:■ ■■'-.Belgian- and French newspapers.,- .AH p-,. ';■■■;■ the sucoesses are greatly, magnified., It jji;■"■:,■'' is;believed that ; the British troops will .;;■'', arrive/in time to participate in the great j ; ■.;. engagement.;- V- ( .-. '• ; [;,. ''.. The' bulletin adds'that it is hoped that J•• - tho /French attack; on.tho- left, wing of I--;' the Germans in South Alsace will neces- ;'.:.■'.-. sitato the of largo masses of '■';. '..-. troops'from'tlio.German right wing, and ;'..•■• -:.' so; qripplo • the; encircling "movement ■:, which the Germans are obviously makj:i; :.,jiig .against tho Allios' left. '". ,