INHABITANTS FLEEING TO BERLIN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 699, 29 August 1914, Page 5

INHABITANTS FLEEING TO BERLIN.

By Telegraphic- Press' Association.—Oopyrigiu Torday's cables give interesting details of the big battle- fought at Charleroi and Mons, in which the: Allies-inflicted severe losses on the Germans; before changing their position. / v,.v . : The-British army forcp was again in action on Wednesday, and it's ■ ' behaviour, in the face of heavy odds, was again in -accord with the traditions of the race. Sir John French considers the position for the great battle which is impending is satisfactory. The Germans have suffered severe naval losses in the sinking by the British cruiser Highflyer of the Auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. The cruiser Madgeburg went ashore in the Baltic and was blown up. ' * -It is reported that the war plan of the Germans is to crush the Allies' armies and reach Pfiris before the .Russians can get through. At the present rate of progress it is not unlikely that the Russians will ; ? be in Berlin before the Germans reach their goat The Czar's soldiers , - are moving steadily, if slowly, westward, andithey have captured Tilsit, Sensburg, Nordenburg, and Bischofsburg • • The inhabitants of Prussia are fleeing before the advancing Russians to