GREAT BATTLE IMMINENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 17 August 1914, Page 5

GREAT BATTLE IMMINENT

OFFICIAL INTIMATION AT PARIS. PARIS, 16 ,5 a.m.) An ofßcial communique has been issued to prepare the public for the reception of news of a. great 'battle which is -imminent. Deserters state that General Deimling was wounded tby a bullet in the tongue, and is in hospital. - The deserters were almost dying of hunger, having subsisted on a morsel of sausage and two spoonsful of peas. _The German troops were informed that President Poincare had. been assassinated, and that Paris had declared a commune.

REPORTED DEATH OF GERMAN COMMANDER. SUICIDE ALLEGED. ■ ' S' LONDON, Aug. 15 (morning). Mr Menzies, an. English stockbroker, who visited his home at Liege on Sunday, states that 40,000 Germans are accupyrog the town. The. bulk of them, arj bivouacked at Mont St. Martin. The boulevards are lined with maxims. He learnt that Fort do Pontisse twenty: times destroyed the German Ibridge at Vise. , It «s persistently rumoured at Liege that the German Crown Prince was wounded while leading the Death's Head Hussars. There have 'been rumours -for several days that General von Emmich, the n German Commander-in-Chief, was killed. J he Exchange Telegraph Company <-on-r-»«s H> rep ° rt ' and also state « that ral Barwj* succeeds him. The p r e SS Bureau warns the public not to place the slightest reliance upon rumours current regarding alleged victories and defeats and the am vail of wounded men and disabled ships. The public may rest confident that news of successes and reverses of British arms dela com,mini cated officially without , BRUSSELS. August 6. A Belgian company surprised nv o companies of German cyclists at Vessenacl\Z\% 7 a^p0 " vaiTl - , Germans retreated, fifty beine killed It is reported -Ceneral von Emmich committed suicide. He wrote to his wife that he new Liel|e would he his 'hind" rr °terred to die by his own • S . e u' e x a J soldi . ei :? also committed suicide in-the Meuse Vallev.