The Sun Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 98, 15 August 1914, Page 5

The Sun Cables

GERMANS' FATAL ERROR. Berne, August 14. Tt is reported that the Germans iired on their own troops at Liege, destroying a whole battalion. TURKEY AND THE COEBEN. (Received 8 a.m.) Constantinople, August 14. With reference to the purchase of the Goeben, Turkey explains that this was done to repair the loss sufferer! through Britain taking over the two warships building in England. Assurances have been given that the German crew are leaving the vessel. WORK OF THE ALLIES. (Received 8 a.m.) Brussels, August 14. An official statement says: "twelve hundred Belgians were engaged in a pitched battle. At the commencement of a great fight, they strongly withstood the attack. Though the position remains unchanged, the Belgian success was due to the advantage secured through the Allies giving them time for a concerted plan of advancement. GERMAN LOSSES AT MULHAUSEN (Received 8 a.m.) Paris, August 14. Latest estimates place German losses at Muihausen at 10,000. The hospital facilities were utterly inadequate to house an incredible number of wounded. WATCHING FOR AEROPLANES. (Received 8 a.m.) Berlin, August 14. In Antwerp, Cologne, and other large cities the church towers have been fitted as guard stations to watch for aeroplanes. Light guns point to the sky side by side with the steeples. In the evening Cologne is plunged into darkness and the sky illuminated with search lights in fear of French airmen. This has filled the populace with nervous dread.

THE STRANDED BRITISHERS. (Received 8 a.in.) Rome, August 14. The British Embassy is chartering Italian ships for the convenience of British subjects who wish to return to England and the Dominions.- j 1 THE BALKAN ALLIANCE. (Received 8 a.m.) . Rome, August 14. The press asserts that the Balkan States propose to reconstitute the Balkan alliance, and support Russia. AUSTRJANS IN AN AMBUSH. . , (Received 8 a.m.) London, August 14. The Servians and Austrians are taking the offensive at all points. Austrian detachments crossed the rivei Sava by boats near Ovrenovatz and foil into ah ambush, the majority being massacred or captured. JAPAN'S ATTITUDE. (Received 8 a.m.) London, August 14. The Times' correspondent says that as the result of conferences between the Japanese Ambassador and Count Sazanoff, a declaration of war by Japan is believed to be imminent. SOME SUN ITEMS. London, August 14. The Austrian steamer Mediterrano, with a cargo of barley, has arrived at Plymouth in charge of a naval crew. Crowds of Americans are still arriving in London from the Continent. Mrs Otto Kahn was in Paris when war was declared. Her luggage filled sixty-live trucks. She chartered three fast, motors, reached Calais, and brought her baggage to London. Reginald Yanderbilt, the millionaire, was compelled to borrow a sovereign from a Hotel clerk in the Strand upon his anival. \ Fifty-ivo thousand nurses have been onr.-)ii(\l in the Red Cross Society. The police have arrested all (Jorrrians serving in hotels at Dublin. THE IMPERIAL FORCE. London, August 13. Lord Roberts has been appointed Oblonel-in-Chief of the Imperial 'Force. Major-General Bethune, of the Horse Guards, inspected the colonial corps of five hundred men for war service*. The men's expenses are being defrayed by Lords Lonsdale, Murray and others. THE FINANCIAL STRINGENCY. (Received 8.30 a.m.) .Yew York, August 14. A special committee of linaeiors has recommended a scheme whereby twenty million in gold would he placed in the Canadian treasury in trust for the Hank of England. Bankers feel that it would help the deadlock on the Anglo-American exchange, and would enable Kngland to make payment for everything she may require in cash. It is advisable to export to Canada such gold as England needs in settlement of America's debt.