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ial | place, and it is © b lice, and de oa he | ; rs on the Mauretania. The} : Son 0 on spec rwich, Grimsby and DP Dover, bo i ae 'conveyed A iginm, ac- passengers Every precaution was taken by nglish and Russian military an-| rities, persons on the Maure- said, to keep the fact that the north coast of a into "he North Sea, instead of from one of 'the much more convenient ports of the Baltic, is explained by the fact reign soldiers were being trans- | that ships from Baltic ports have. to orted to England from becoming own, and the service on the East C railway lines 'was suspended uring the seventeen hours the! $roop trains were on their journey. pass through the narrow Cattegat in order to reach the North Bea. The Cattegat is understood to Pern aded by a considerable rman eet. Appalling German Casualitics, A despatch from the Hague says: = a casualty lists which' 'have eached here are appalling. They are published under the authority of the German general staff "and oeeuns six full pages in the official Reichs Anzeiger.. No attempt has been made to gloss over the terrible details of the disasters whioh have fallen the German arms. There no comment on the fact that the men reported killed and missing 'outnumber enormously those listed as wounded. Travelers from Berlin inform me that half the city already in draped in black. A conspicuous figure among the mourners is 'Prince Bernhard von Buelow, formerly the Princess are stopping at the Hotel Adlon. The great millinery = and dress- making establishments in the Ger- man capital are now wholly given over to the manufacture and sale of mourning. They are macked all day by weeping women and child- ren, and queues of mourners are in front, every one clad in sombre shades. The shadow = of the calamitous losses is over the entire city. Prin- cess von Lippe, at the Hotel Cum- berland, received a telegram at dinner one evening informing her that her two sons had fallen at Liege. Forgetting she was a prin- cess in a public dining-room, she sobbed aloud. Only one word pass- ed her lips, "Dead!" = Later the This {s the splendid we hat New: d present: British Admiralty. She went on a tour of the world last year, 1 po which she visited Pedumalt BC. where this Pioture was Lh eight great 12-inch guns. DISASTER I RETIREMENT Germans Must: Continue. Even Though Annihilas tion Awaits Them | FOODS. | then advanced toward the principal forts." "After a battle on Tiesday; which was fiercely contested, the|. Austrians were 'obliged to retreat in disorder, abandoning heavy and light ti parks or artillery, and field kitohe: hong % "Our advance oad and 'cav ry pursued the enemy, who suffered enormous losses in killed, wounded and prisoners. : "The Austrian army operating = the neighbothond of Lembe ber atncunts' to 1 & "An earlier official atinotmoe gave the number of Austrian dead in the previous' fighting around Len befg, who were buried on the tlefield by. the Russians, as 14,800: The commander of 'the Austrian division, the commander of a b gade, Be the Chief of Staff of the division were among the killed 4,000 prisoners were taken. Three Russian Generals, Sam? Imperial Chancellor. whose bro-| Princess was informed that her two they, Gen. von Buelow, was killed | younger brothers had been killed during the siege of Liege. He and | at Charleroi. A despatch from London says: A Referring to the a tomposed of the. third, slever and Soni; Martos pid Pestiteh, are \ppalling losses twelfth corps and part of the sev-| ported to'be among the killed correspondent of the Daily Chroni- of the Kaiser's traops, the corres eutteenun Te 5 : -- | cle telegraphs: Fondant sontinuet: A few more onth and fe carpe, ;: This} Lembe coy such delays a fourth German: { HOT AERIAL BATTLE. he. Germans undoubtedly are | ru invading Northern France will G Aeroplanes Engaged by |Said to Be a Violation of China's at an unsste distance from. helt [have defiroved ett somplotely, lerman Aeroplanes Engaged by | Sa to Be a Violation of na's | base, 'They have been unable to|No army that ever existed A ; French Over Paris. = Neutrality. avail themselves of the Belgian endure oh eI re d woud Brith Cra er Beni ee ways and there is an insufficiency of | losses sustained by the Germans. ger Shmérs iy JAPAN LANDS TROOPS. A despatch from Paris says: A] A despatch from Pekin, China, fight in the air over Paris took place on Thursday evening. Three German aeroplafies hovered over the capital, and immediately two French machines were sént up to engage them. Meanwhile machine guns mounted on public buildings and rifles kept up a constant fire. By this means one of the German machines became separated from the others, and the French aviators flew swiftly in its direction. The Germans opened fire, to which the Frenchmen replied strenuously. The engagement seemed to turn to the disadvantage of the Germans, who mounted speedily to a higher level, and, holding this position, ' was saved from further attack. He finally disappeared in a northwest direction over, Fort Romainville, alter a vain pursuit. The "other German 'aeroplane also escaped the " fire of fhe guns, and after circling about. for a considerable time, dis- appeared from view. : mrt = 2 Prisoners Attempt to Escape. A despatch from London says: A .. moore of German prisoners: taken during the naval engagements off Heljgaland, headed by a son of Ad=|: von "Tirpitz, "+ German Minister of Marine, vane to escape "#rom the prisoners' 'camp near Edin- burgh. Their attempt put the camp "in temporary confusion. If seemed for a while as if the attempt would succeed, but all the prisoners were captured. Young Tirpitz was, grab- bed as he was" ing over the boundaries of bhe camp. ~All the men who attempted to es- Ge" ae NOW, epnfipeg do Fdfnburgh says: Japan has landed between 10,000 and 15,000 troops from eigh- teefi transports: 'at Luung-Kow, a newly-opened port about 100 miles north of Tsing-Tan. This is de- clared to. have been done in: viola- tion of China's neutrality. The German Legation has protested to the Foreign Office against an in- fringement of China's neutrality by Japan. The protest followed the landing 'of a Japanese division ab the newly-opened Chinese port of animal and: motor transportation. Every day's delay of their fors German chances of 'ultimate sic; cess and to" render more precarious! the position of the invaders. They cannot attempt to retire without the risk of an irretrievable disaster. Therefore they are almost certain to continue to seek to crush the allies' line, even though annihila- tion subsequently await them under the walls of Paris." Lung-Kow, 100 miles north of | Tsing-Tau. A despatch from Washington says: Chinese officials have called the attention of American Consular officers at Chee-Foo to the landing of several thousand troops by Ja- pan on Chinese territory at Lung- Kow, near Tuang-Haien. This, Chinese officials claim, is a distinct violation of neutrality. o rem Mee BORDEAUX THE I NEW CAPITAL Message to Citizens Issued by the © French Ministry, A despatch from Paris says seat of the French Government, it. is' announced, 'will be transterred from Paris to Bordeaux. The Gov- ernment issued at midnight, Thurs day, through the Ministry of the Interior, a proclamation bringing this to. the knowledge of the people of Paris and giving their reasons for the change. The significant fea- gure of the proclamation; ig that| Paris is soon to become a pivot in Whole divisions of infantry have rd | heen blotted out of existence by the movement serves to -diminis! o | deadly fire of the British. "he enemy still clings to the formation of attacking 'en' masse. 1t is little wonder if demoralization | is beginning to appear in thie slinky y tered German ranks. has lost its elan. Tt no. longer dis- plays dash in pushing home its at- The fearful punishment to which it has been subjected 18 be- ginning to tell.'" A despatoh from New. York says: The. hawk-like watch which: British cruisers 'have maintained on New |: York harbor was continued on Wednesday. ery yess] entering port within the past 48 hours has sighted : the low-lying; grey figure of 'one of 'the British cruisers, White Star liner 'Olympic sailed | Wednesday morning bound for Liv- erpool, and the American liner St. | Paul and the Red Star liner Vader: land were due to said later in the "lday. The Olyngie and St. Paul booked: less passengers be- First Casualty List to Hand, A despatch from London says: France last week were made public on Wednésday night.. The list con tains the names of . men familiar, 'throughout the United Kingdom both Ee 'their military 'pr i divisicus their social sta tually ne the "crack regiments affected Among the killed are" Rober "Cornwallis Maude, sikth: Viscount, 'Hawarden, a lieutenant in Coldstream Guards, 'and Maj Victor Reginald Brooke, military secretary of the Viceroy of Indi KILLED-36 officers - and' men. "XR "WOUNDED. officers and the manoeuvres between the allied | armies and the Germans. For thi "The percentage o 1 The names of British officers killed | the fiers 1 is high. { i ul or wounded in the fighting into their heroism, Tis carefully ex- lained that 'this is only a partial eport and: that it does' not. deal Hoa 1 rther sonny 28 in : 2 Wil | Belgian. reservists, but' the reser- vists apparently were slow, in re- mine EW eepin ra North Sea, struck 'a nesday moming and 6 bottom in three minutes. Bix mem bers of the crew are missing ;. five | were 'saved, CLAUDE GR re 1% to the call. She. will now | A 20 to. Liverpool instead of: Antwerp, | to bring back American refugees. GERMAN: STEAMER CALURED