WAS IT A CANARD?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11148, 5 August 1914, Page 6

WAS IT A CANARD?

EXCITEMENT IN LONDON. GERMANS IN ATLANTIC. TWENTY RUSSIANS KILLED. (Received August 5, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, August -4. . The Admiralty urges that British ships bound for Continental ports north of Calais should be diverted to United Kingdom ports. Details of military and naval operations are meagre and misleading o«"iug to the censorship. A private telegram fro"i Stockholm treats the Aland Island battle as a canard. There is excitement in London owing to a rumour that German cruisers liavo been seen in the Atlantic. If true the" ships will be tlie Goehcn and Brezla.. The Fronch troops are keeping well off the frontier line, refusing to play Germany's game by exciting themselves. Gorman raiding parties are only small. In cavalry skirmishes on Germany's eastern frontier twenty Russians were killed. The Russians attacked Johannisberg at sis o'clock, also the railway between Johannisberg and Lyek, near Gutten, and the railway to Dlottowen. It is believed they have abandoned an active campaign in Servia and are attending to pressing matters in Galacia.