Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1914 — BRITISH SINK FIVE OF THE GERMAN SHIPS [ARTICLE]

BRITISH SINK FIVE OF THE GERMAN SHIPS

Russian Army Sweeps On Eastern Germany and German Attack Slackens Through Exhaustion.

London dispatches claim that five German vessels have been sunk by the British and that the latter escaped practically unscathed. Dispatches from the same city also claim that the Russians are sweeping on into eastern Germany, occupying many cities and towns. All the dispatches bear the London date lines and may not be confirmed later, but they show a decided advantage to the allies in the Friday fighting. A Paris dispatch which came through London says that the situation along the FrenchGerman border remains almost unchanged, except that through exr haustion the Germans have been forced to slacken their speed. The losses to both armies are appalling. The following resume of the late news gives the most important occurrences: In a battle off the Island of Heligoland, in the North Sea, the Germans lost two cruisers and two torpedo boats sunk, while another of their cruisers and many of their destroyers were badly battered by the British warships. German forts at Tsing-Tau fired upon by two Japanese cruisers reconnoitering off the fortress. One of the cruisers is said to have been damaged. Louvain, a Belgian town of 45,000 inhabitants, is reported to have been burned by the Germans as an act of reprisal. Because of the nonpayment of a war levy of $40,000,000, the Germans, it is said, threaten to seize the famous pictures and objects of art in the museums of Brussels. Advices from Chinese coastal cities report the sinking of the German torpedo boat destroyer 5.90 by the British torpedo destroyer Welland and the seizure by the allies of various German merchantmen. A series of reversals to British arms on the French frontier is officially announced in Berlin. After nine days’ fighting the Germans claim to have put the western line

of the allies to flight. Belgian attacks from Nancy and Antwerp were repulsed, it is declared. Dispatch from Bologne reports that the Germans broke through the French lines near Arras in the province of Pas De Calais, but that the French have the situations well in hand. British marines are in toree at Ostend.