NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE BALTIC.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2220, 5 August 1914, Page 7

NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE BALTIC.

TWO FRENCH ARMY CORPS TO INVADE GERMANY. CAUGHT INFECTING. WELLS WITH CHOLERA MICROBES. ; ' London, August 3. "The Times" military correspondent predicts' that the first decisive operations will .probably be on the Franco-German frontier. Sydney, August 4. A .message by the Independent Cable Service says a battulion of German infantry with machine guns occupied Kalasz, in Russian Polaud. France hae dispatched two army corps, each fifty thousand strong, with heavy arfiHe'ry, to invade Germany near Lascheuchfc.' News comes from Stockholm of an engagement between Russian and German warships off Aaland Island. The.Russians were driven back and refuged in the Gulf of Finland. Hie Germans seized the 'whole of the islands belonging to Finland in the Baltic Sea. „.. ..,.,,,.; \ ■'.\ ' • ' •■• Vienna, August 3. . lhe paper "Militansche Rundschau" states that a severe battle took place on the 3>rina River, the Austriaus resisting a Servian attempt to cross. T ■ ~, ■ ~-,.. ~1 . Belgrade, August 3. . ,*" ™» v °? of Russian.attack, Austria has temporarily ceased hostilities against Servia. ' . . ; The Austrian troops at Semlin hav o been recalled, and the rombaidment li ß e d,^ 01 ™. OT . ei 'j sniping continues. ■ .; Many public buildings Sverß wrecked by the bombardment. !•* ■•b. 'x. ■ '- i! j. • i , ~ ■ Berlin, Atigust3. ~ A.■"Teiic'i party tried to blow up the large tunnel .near Kochem-sur-.JMosolle-. All were shot. ■ -'" - (Ree. August-4, 10.55 p.m.)' to rirt fJ?H Si, t T P.«»tect»n of-oenjoee and of «hiw, and he promised .srß*?n fttee! 9 " m>^W^ h - IVOUId aho deal the