THE WAR

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13146, 29 August 1914, Page 6

THE WAR

YESTERDAY S NEWS , :

;(l'or Calilo.—Press Asldoißtlou,—Copytighl) GERMANY'S DEPT. 1 LONDON, August 37. The, Financial Times says llmt. at. th<! lowest estimate the amount oC.bills for acceptance circulated in,Lpndou nian • banks at the outbreak: or tlio war 'was- eighteen millions sterling dpi;-, •.many:-deliberately and systematically exploided London for. her oivir boueht and England's injury. She had been, unloading on London and New York for months -previous to the Aval', awl,every : manufacturing city iji the kingdom had' • .been landed with Goring bills i'or. largo ipurciiases of goods. Bradford's sharo was £8,000,000. :

, NON-COMBATANTS SUFFER,

LONDON, August 27. A Norwegian steamer was blown up by a mine in the North Sea and oiglit of the crew were killed. , i A niine siuik the Norwcgian/istcairiei' Bottfried, bound from Blytii ;r(Eng-' jlund) to the North Sea: Eight .of- tlio' crew were killed. ' : . -J.,v,'. Other explosions have been heard in ,'tk vicinity. ~ : A mine sank a Danish trawlqi\ near iGrimsby, and four of the crew, were Julled.

GERMAN LINER SUNK,

LONDON) August 27. 'A-British cruiser sank the North Ger-, inaii Lloyd liner Kaiser Wiliiclin tier Grosse off West Africa. The Higlilliersank the Kaisev AVil : helm tier Gros?i>, an armoured merchant-; man. '■ , . ..During the exchange of shots otid' inni\ was .killed and live were wounded 011 the Highflier. • • (The llighllier, s(ioi) tons, launched' in '.1898, carries eleven li-iii guns).

GERMAN CRUISER WREbkED.

. MANY OF THE CREW MISSING. . : AMSTERDAM, August 27.,' i An ollicial German statement announces that the cruiser Magdeburg went ashore 011 Odensholni Island, in, the Gulf of Finland, during a fog, and could not be refloated. ? A torpedo boat rescued the crew under fire from the Russian fleet. Seventeen of the 'crew were killed and S3 are missing. '• The Germans blew up the Madgeburg. THE BRITISH' TROOPS. ' FOUGHT SPLENDIDLY. • , LONDON, August,27. y Mr Asquith .told, .the House of Com-' inons that General French reports that' the British yesterday were engaged' Against a superior force and fought 'splendidly. • Mr Churchill, in the Houseof Commons, said a strong forco of marines had been lauded at Ostend; and Lad occupied the town and surrounding districts, ; The British resistance against tlie' 'Germans lias had a great moral effect 011 the whole of the French'line. • If the Allies' left had been turned, the retreat'might easily have been turned' into a rout,

I It is difficult to hold the "Tommies" buck Mil pursuing the retiring Germans, but the commanders have decided' :,timt a forward 'Move would be highly dangerous. The order for a general-withdrawal intensely irritated the British, but tlicy showed inloasc coolness and steadiness .in the retreat.

The Tnrcos (from Algeria) were next .the British in the firing line. Mr Asquith added that General French had reported that the.prospects of the British in'the impending, battle ■were satisfactory.

NAMUR TORTS HOLD OUT,

;... GERMANS IN THE TOWN, .... OSTEND, August 27. An officer from Namur' states that the forts are still holding out, with the exception of Marcliovelctte and Cogiiclee. The Belgians ioiight"'with j i out assistance for two days previous to the arrival of the French reinforceincuts. There is a large force of Ger:niaiis before Namur, and the Belgians jhavc reached southwards. V'h'c'Germans 'occupy the town. A large number of 'the inhabitants have been killed, v..

I PAPER OFFICE WRECKED. ! FOB BLAMING THE KAISER. / . | ~.* COPENHAGEN, August--27. i. Tiio liiiliturista. wrecked .tlio- offices of jthe Yonvaerts, Berlin, which published ;iirticlcs : making the Kaiser responsible 'for. the events ivlitL-li have resulted; so 'disastrously to the unity of Germany. ■ [ A TRIBUTE TO THE BELGIANS.- • | "AN INSPIRING CHAPTER.", j /LONDON, August*27. | (.Morning). | Mr Asquith, in moving the .Address to ;Kiiig Albert, said the 'Belgians:had iiiliindiingly faiied the horrors of • ir■iujitioii,. spoliation, ; and outrage against incalculable odtls, ; and stub•bornly. resisted tlie onrush - of -wave '■after wave of gigantic and overwhelmaiig force. The defence of Liege would •joinaiii, an inspiring chapter in history filml: Britain was proud of their,alliance. jrMr.Bflitai' Lew ptiicl a similar .ti-i-

■ SV'-JIV RedinoJiil said -there<; was: no sat rilicc Imhmen: would not, nialcoi to ijsbisl tin: Belgians. g Tlie niotioA was. unanimously., car-' L'ail Cieive, m,the House of lords, moved tl)j? ut(|drcss oi!-sympatliy 'with SWgium similar to .Uiat House of Commons.

[■ READY FOR AfOPULAR WAE^ : : Si; i E6ieivod August 28, Jit 9 a,in. > ( LONDON, August 27. N . The''Times' Rome ■.corrcspondout-. says j that Italy, is l apparently calni and uumo'vodiby events, but the Adriatic coast ■, is filled with troops; mid the Austrian frontier is well guarded. Everything is rcndy; iuul.tlio most po pular war sinco the unity/of the king-, (loin cannot long be postponed, Popular luitml against Austria is intense. The Tunes, in a loader, discussing the position, says: "Those who know aid love Italy best avo eonfidont that she will lake her light stand at tlio light time." ■ •

„ THE. AMBITION OF WILLIAM,

LONDON, August 27. It is stated that tlio Gerinon Soldiers scratched all over, iho walls of T/iegc, Wilhelin 11., Emperor of Europe;" AMMICA'S NEUTRALITY. W WASIIINGTON, August '?!). Jii ,view of the Japanese operations; president. Wilsoii lias rigned a proclamation afliiining America's neutrality. '

: -'AMHitICANS^VAN'i' TO EIGHT. OTTAWA, August 27, - Hundreds of Americans' are volunteering to join the Canadian'Expollitiiinary Force, including expert airmen and submarine engineers. Mr Hiighcli is- obliged to decline the oll'ei's owing to the United States'neutrality.

■ : l\ THE NEAR EAST. A Kragojcrntz (Ser'via) messago' states-. .that the Aiistro-Ilungarian troops have evacuated, the Sunjak of Novibazai' (whicli is Servian territory). ; ST. J'KTERtSJ3URCi. August 27. It is oflieially announced .that the Ilijasiaiis have occupied Tilsit, in the' north-east of Prussia. . .Lieutenant Skalon, who was shot in the check at. Gumbinnen rode to the rear, had the wound dressed,'returned to receive a Indict -wound in the arm, got a brother ollicer to dress the wound, and remained in the ranks until a fragment of shrapnel shattered his .shoulder, llauy similar instances of heroism arc told.

FATHER AND SON. LONDON, August' 2(i. !Jn IS7O German troops plundered the farm of a German named ITauff, living in Alsace. 1 Tan If, enraged, shot a couple of maurauders, and the Germans placed him agaiiist a wall and shot him, His little son weeping over the body of his father said to his mother that when lie grew up he would shoot the Genua us who shot his father, . The widow emigrated to Belgium and settled in Vise. The son married and two sons were boiil. 'When the .Germans reached Vise last week, liaulii's hatred rekindled at the sight of the German atrocities. He shot one of the invaders, who thereupon placed him and his two sons against the wall of his. own house and shot them. MORE GERMAN BRUTALITY. LONDON, August 2G. An American, returned from Germany, states -that the Germans, on reaching Battice compelled the cure to stand bareheaded in front of the' church while the rmy passed, threatening that ho would bo shot if the; slightest provocation was given by the townspeople. ' After a few, thousand had passed the priest heard his woman servant cry out, and rushing into the house found her struggling with a German soldier, lie. i struck the soldier, six of whose comrades then marched the priest in front' of 5 the church and shot him dead.'

" VARIOUS ITEMS. LONDON, Augusa 27. Forty-eight English tourists, who were detained on the coast, liavo now .been sent to ail inland fortress, and are 'occupied in light duties. . There arc other cases of tourists being similarly treated. - PARIS, August 27. Two thousand live hundred Belgian refugees, mostly women and children, have arrived here in a deplorable con;, dition. The Government ds sending them'to assist in the harvesting 'iii .the provinces. LONDON; August.27.. The" Bourbon Princes Louis and Aiitoino of Orleans and Bragahza afe leaving the Austrian army and joining tl'i'o "British. : Maliy Wealthy' Berlin families are leaving for Sweden and Norway. ' 1 ANTWERP, August 20. The Queen and her children refused to leave, iiiid "the G'crmiins required' them to" report themselves every three hours. 1 NAIROBI, August 27..--

A patrol captured two Germans who were attempting to Ijlow up the "railway near Vol station, on tli'o line from Mombiissa 'to Nairobi. ■... ■ - OTTAAYA, August 27. ;

''Ontario Province lias given a-f|ua|'ter, of 'a million .bags of lloiif to suppleintil't '• t)i(i .Dominion's gift. t Most "of Giinada's contributions arc iijrcady • en'route' to England. . ,• Tho-Uovprnniciit 'lias 'established a ciisorship of all- letters i'l ojn - Gcriuauy and Austria,-'' ' CAPETOWN, August\2B. ; , General Botha's son, 17 years' of -iljje/'lia's'Jo'fJ, school ami-enlisted.,/ ' " ' SYJjjSEI" Uu|}is£ 88". ; '-•In a letter, Mr Mark Poy, the Sydney !iiei\'haiit,'-r'eliitcs that; lie left Sydiicy. o.'v the German steamer Goblctix on July 25l;livlor iloiijj-lr.onu:. Wlicn the' vcssel reached German A'c.v (Juiiiea thfi ciijltaiu : Jic;iril^.that war had besii ijfieiared, so the Coblfti/, lauded her passeng' ers-,aM(l loft a iieiitralpori;; J'lie pi'-senjroi'), stumicd, I'lmtcied a nittei m oidci io nvuh a poit wheie they could get a steamei lo China, but the intteuniW \w coked ou'the icek 1 J'lie oecupauts'-wete picked up and taken' to "Yap,.. Caioline -Isl'lifds, 1 tyliiirei low axe. - , , > „ *