OFFICIAL NEWS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 2

OFFICIAL NEWS

The following messages have been received by the Prime Minister : — LONDON, sth Sept., 6.30 p.m. Official. — Following declaration issued this afternoon by British Foreign Office : "The undersigned, duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, declare as follows: The British, French, and Russian Governments mutually engage not to conclude peace separately during the present war. These three Governments agree that when terms of peace are discussed no one of the Allies will demand the conditions of peace without the previous agreement of each of the others of the Allies.— (Signed) Grey (Britain), Cambon (France), Benckendorn (Russia)." LONDON, sth Sept., 6.50 p.m. Official. — Admiralty announces that a German squadron, consisting of two cruisers, four destroyers, succeeded in sinking fifteen British fishing boats in tbe North Sea. A quantity of fish was captured, and the fishermen taken to Wilhelmshaven as prisoners of war. LONDON, sth Sept., 0.15 a.m. Official. — The situation in the French theatre of war has not undergone any substantial change. The position of the Allies is well maintained. There are indications of a German movement developing in eastward and south-eastward directions. Mr. Asquith at a monster meeting in the Guildhall said that there was abundant ground for pride and confidence. Mr. Churchill said that we may look with quiet confidence upon tho strength and efficiency of our naval defence. We have only to endure and conquer. LONDON, 6th September, 0.20 a.m. Official. — The cruiser Pathfinder struck a mine on Saturday, 20 miles off tho East Coast, and foundered rapidly. Loss of life is probably heavy. LONDON, 6th September, 4.35 p.m. The Admiralty announce that all aids to navigation on the East Coast of England and Scotland, both by day and night, may be removed at any time without warning. Prominent lights in the City of London have been extinguished. The War Ministry, Bordeaux, states : On our left wing the enemy is apparently neglecting Paris in an attempt to execute an outflanking movement. Germans have reached La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre, 40 miles east of Paris, and have passed Reims, and now proceeding along and to the west of Argonne ridge. In Lorraine and the Vosges fighting continues with varying success. Maubeuge has been bombarded but strenuously resisted. Owing to the Russians' victory on the 200 miles Austro-Galician front, and the fall of Lemberg, it is estimated that ton Russian Army Corps can now adequately occupy the Austrians, thus freeing 20 Army Corps to launch against Germany. Lemberg controls the junction of light railways, and a new route is thus opened to the Russians to Budapest.