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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 August 1914, Page 3

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CERMAN CSJISES SUM TWO CAPTURED ( SIR lAN HAMILTON TO COMMAND NOME FORGES. KITCHENER SECRETARY FOR WAR.

AMERICA MOBILISES. TO PROTECT NEUTRALITY (From our own Correspondent.) Auckland, this day. The French fleet at Algiers captured the German cruisers Goben and Breslan, and sank the Panther. General Sir lan Hamilton has been appointed commander of the Home forces.

I Lord Kitchener has accepted the position of Secretary for War. ( It is officially announced that th'e British destroyer Amphion yesterday sank the Hamburg Company's Koenigan Louise, utilised by Germany for laying mines at the mouth of the Thames. A detachment of German cavalry crossed the French border at Nancy. A sharp engagement followed, the French killing 50 and taking 15 prisoners. The Russian troops established a contact with the enemy on the greater portion of the RussoGerman frontiers.

The Germans, according to a St. Petersburg message, are falling back and are burning villages over an immense stretch of country. The Germans have crossed the French frontier, and have also entered Switzerland violating the treaty. Germans shot 17 Alsatians endeavouring too cross the frontier. The _ German Ambassador, PrincelLilchnowsky and his staff, have received their passports, and will leave on Thursday aboard a British cruiser.

It is reported a German fleet of 19 vessels has been sighted in the Baltic Sea. The Russian warships in the Black Sea have captured many German merchantmen. An official announcement stales Mr C. P. Trevelvan, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, resigned. Earl Beauehamp succeeds Viscount Morlcy as Lord President of the Council, Mr Walter Runcima'n succeeds Mr John Burns as President of the Board of Trade. The Quebec Government has granted the mail steamer Niagara clearances, and she is expected to sail in twelve hours with passengers on board.

It has been definitely disclosed the German cruiser Leipsig is oft' the Californian coast, but it is not thought the Niagara will in be any danger on account of her superior speed. The Admiralty has informed by the port authorities that two German cruisers were operating in the North Pacific unaware that war conditions existed, and attempted to pass the examining control. Shots were fired across their bows, whereupon they both submitted to the regulations.

British cruisers reported to the Canadian Government having captured a German steamer. The Canadian Government has purchased two submarines being built at Seattle for the Chilian Government.

It is reported that German warships are shelling the wireless station at Glace. Nova Scotia. President Wilson has signed an order mobilising the land and sea forces of the United States to enforce American neutrality and protect the Panama Canal, President Wilson has offered to act as mediator between all nation') now at war. Heavy firing has been heard off the coast of Maine, It is believed a naval engagement; is in progress, but no particulars are available.

The steamer Tol'ua reports at Sydney that the German Pacific fleet of six ships was expected at Fiji on July 31. Scores of merchantmen have taken refuge at Gibraltar. The German vessels Emir Adolf has been seized. The Straits of the Dardanelles have been closed with the pbject of preserving their neutrality,