Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1914 — WAR IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

WAR IN PARAGRAPHS.

British fleet has engaged the Gerfuses information. British Cruiser Amphion has been sunk by contact with a mine, with the loss of more than a hundred Emperor William of Germany in an order to the army and navy, calls upon all German# capable of bearing arms, to fight for the Fathertand. Vr/Ww r-src-. In Belgium Germans and Belgians are fighting around Liege, ■where upward of 100,000 men are engaged. According to official reports from Brussel# the two days’ fighting ha# cost the Germans thousands of men. The British prime minister in the House of Common# asked tor an additional appropriation of 0500,000,000 and an army increase of 500,000 men, both of which requests were granted. ~v „ _ The British torpedo boat destroyer Lance Was the hero of the first naval engagement, sinking the Koenigin Luise alter tour shots. TheLutee was caught laying mines. seized by the British authorities Russian cavalry which attempted to break through the German frontier were repulsed with great loss by the Kaiser’s troop#. The House of Commons has passed the war credit bill of $500,-* 000,000 for the increase of the British army. on Russia. A dispatch from the Canary Island# states that the British squadron has sunk one German cruiser, the neroe of which is not given. The battleship Florida has been ordered to watch the Liner Vaterland to see that it doe# not leave port with a cargo of contraband goods. x >■.- A slight skirmish is reported between French and German troops at Norrey-Lefiac. The German consul at Sutherland, England, has been arrested ■by the British authorities on a charge not divulged. - - -.- -