OFFICIAL NEWS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 7

OFFICIAL NEWS

MESSAGES TO THE PRIME MINISTER. The following messages have been re« ceived by the Prime Minister (Mr. W, F. Massey) : — LONDON, 6th Sept., 8.50 p.m. The Ambassadors of the Triple En» tente are making the last efforts to keep peace with Turkey. Russian successes continue. The Austrian army in opera' tion in Russian Poland, which met with success at Lublin, was caught by the Russians on Saturday at Thomaszow, between Lublin and Kohltn. The Aus^ trian Tenth Army Corps was defeated, and five thousand prisoners taken. Two Russian Army Corps were caught between Soldau and Allenstein, and driven back with loss by an overwhelming force of Germans, who reoccupy Allenstein. It is anticipated that Central Germany will be, invaded at three points— East Prussia, Posen. and Silesia. There is no sourd confirmation of the withdrawal of the enemy's forces from west to east. The Belgians inflicted losses on the Germans at Termondes, south-west of Ant* v/erp. The Belgians have cut the dykes. The Wilson liner Rnno was mined an* sunk on Saturday, twenty miles east or the coast. Tho crew and passengers were saved, with the exception of twenty Russian emigrants. LONDON, 6th Sept., 9.55 p.m. The Netley Hospital is occupied by 800 patients from the front. Shrapnel I bullets account for nearly all the wounded. and the greot i majority of those are not dangerously injured. The loss of limbs so far is very uncommon. The fact that there are so few rifle bullet wounds seems to confirm *ho statement that the German infantry aim badly. LOXDOX. 7lh Sept.. 12.60 a.m. The Admiralty announces the casual' ties attending the loss of the Pathfinder —Dead, I officer ; missing, 8 ofikei'3 } wounded, 2 officers. The War Office has issued a third te» turn of casualties—Killed, 9 ofiiccre, 33

men ; wounded, 27 officers, 120 men ; missing. 49 officers, 4550 men. The owners of 100 foreign-built merchant vessels have made application for Ameiican registry under the new Emergency Shipping Bill. LONDON, 6th Sept., 8.40 p.m. The following incidents have been mentioned: — During the action at Le Cateau on 26th August, all the officers and men of one British battery were filled or wounded, with the exception of one subaltern and two gunners, who continued to serve one gun, and kept up a sound rate of fire and came unhurt from the battlefield. On another occasion portion of a supply column was cut off by a detachment of German cavalry. The officer in charge was summoned to surrender, but he refused, and starting the motors at full speed, dashed safely through, losing only two lorries. During a rearguard action of the Guards i Brigade on Ist September, Germans were seen giving assistance to our wounded.