OFFICIAL NEWS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2238, 26 August 1914, Page 5

OFFICIAL NEWS

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES CONFIRMED, The Prime Minister yesterday: received the following; official telegrams from tho,'High Commissioner:— , London, August 24, 4 p.m. ; Official.—The British'forces •■ were ■en- ' gaged all Sunday and Sunday night in. . the i neighbourhood of Mons. "They held •'■; their ground. The Germans have-taken the first-line of defence at Namur, necessitating tho withdrawal of n portion of tho allied troops from tho line of tho Sambro to the original defensive position on the French: frontier London, August 24, 4.40 p.m. / Germans take Namur. ,_/ London, August 24, 7.40 p.m. The enemy continue their movement!, south from Brussels.- Their chief strength is massed l between Mons and Namur. The Germans aro neglecting Antwerp. Ghent is unoccupied. The French reverse at Louvain is! confirmed. '

!>:;;■.-:;> v-lhe Russians fought their first imv'.portaht battle near Giimbinnen, and if.'"■;(■".; routed the enemy ■ ■ ; ; ., ' ; -The Russians hold Insterburg, and are j,. ■ approaching Kontesb'erg, .. V ." ; ,The. Russian, advance in Austria is >J : , ; >;satisfactory. -.'. .' ■ ,■ \■ ■ ■ - f;?:';; ■■vThe Austrian attack. on Servia is {':.'■•'. ydimihißhing.'";'■-■■ ■.'■' r-:0;';: ; : ; , V London, August 24. I': ;; Official.—The Russian Conimander-in-!.';-/'Chief confirms the news of the battle h Mai- Gumbinnen. The Russians drove [T;: hack three German Army Corps at the f .'■'.; end of a two days', engagement. A i largo number of guns were captured. i.:;. The Russians are pursuing the retreat|/;V:;ing Germans.; '-..'-•..-, -' '-. i;,... The Fronch War Office states that }-}-.'' the huge extent of the.front renders it r,if. impossible to follow-the : movements-of !k."; "each army.. It is .necessary to await iS , 'the termination of the first.phase of the t. ; ;- struggle before giving•.definite intellit:;;.;,; r ./jence. : ' '.':." ■'-.'''.■;' • ■ '■"'■;' * j ■ . ; :':The Liegeforts still hold out. '■