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Show 11 War Bulletins BELGIANS FORCED TO RETIRE nn Mff51 y L01 1 W p m Aug l"Th German cavalry which on Monday and Tuesday spiead ttselt out over a front extending from St. TMrimn.;. ,? nnut it BRn Ume sendi ig dotachments to the direction of "o "fferde and Jodolgne has taUcn back except at one point, whore it is keeping in conta will the Belglai s. r.-.w.y 4 ?l)tortnc 0 red today near Tlrlemont, where 100O Oerman .Ti paring guns mouited on horses attacked a regiment of , 9 latter Urad owln t0 Inferiority numerlcaUy wounded. l08t tW fflCerS 8mU nunber 01 men ln kmed kai J1?1!,0111 ns are erecUae fortlflcatlous ln the streets of Liege with a view to resisting possible Belgian attack on the right flank Belgian aviators made flights today as far as the German frontier Belgian peasants accuse the Germans of giving no quarter Baronf yon Zuilate de Ivyelt was shot by a Bontry today while riding ln an automobile along the Namur-Llege road ..nJ! 2uilen-t d ivyalt dfed later from his wounds The soldiers who accompanied him were shot and killed SERVIAN SOLDIERS ACTIVE NlSlf Serrta, Aug 18 The Servian and Montenegrin armies, which had VL? 3uncUoa on to1"181 of Heriegovina, cow are operating together Servian artillery ls engaged in the bombardment of Gerashda on the river Drina twenty nine miles southeast of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. Servian troops already had captured the Bosnian town of VardisMa at the Junction of the rivers Drina and Lira Some unimportant outpost encounters are reported on the Servian frontier at different points on the rivers Save and Danube The bombardment of Belgrade, the Servian capital by the Austrian artillery continued today and heavy damage was inflicted on the city ' Beports reaching here from Sofia Btate that the Bulgarian government is preparing for eventualities, but it ls not known what it has ln view FRENCH DENY HEAVY LOSSES PiKIS, via London, Aug 12, 8 07 p m The French minister of war ex plains that the engagements on the Franco-German frontier are no more than outpost skirmishes. The best denial that can be given to the report that the French lost 20,000 men at Altkirch says the minister is that the total effective French troops did not reach that number It is further explained that the advance of the French Infantry on Mul hausen was to cut the center of German communication, and it ls added that this was successfully carried out. The communication continues We are placing in upper Alsace a con siderable number of troops. GERMAN REGIMENTS ANNIHILATED LONDON Aug 12, 5 45 p m. A Borne dispatch to the Central News says the Messaggero publishes a message from Basel, Switzerland, stating that two German infantry regiments were annihilated during the battle with the French troops at Mulhausen. The German regiments mentioned are the Eighth Baden infantry regiment, number 169 which was stationed at Lahr ln Baden, and the Fourth Prince William s Baden Infantry regiment, number 112, stationed at Mulhausen. The commander of the Twenty ninth division attached to the Fourteenth army corps, whose headquarters were at Freiburg is said to have been killed. AUSTRIAN BRIGADE EXTERMINATED LONDON Aug 12, 5 45 p m. Another dispatch from Borne to the Central News says the Corriere d Italia publishes a telegram from the frontier stating that an Austrian cavalry brigade has been exterminated on the Austro-Busslan frontier The Austrian cavalrymen are said to have attacked the Cossacks, who were accompanied by artillery They were unable to hold their own and tried to get back across the frontier but rain had fallen and men and horses were caught in the marshy ground and shot down until not a man remained alive. MONK OFFERS TO FIGHT ST PETERSBURG via London, Aug 12, 4 p m. Application for the restoration re-storation of bis commission ln the Russian army has been made by Father Bulatovltch, a former officer of the guards, who ls now superior of a monastery on Mount Athos ln the peninsula of Salon fkl on Father Bulatovitcli purposes remaining in religious orders and, ln imitation of crusading monks at the time of the Tartar invasion of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, will head his troops In his uniform covered with his cowl. DESTROYER SUNK BY MINE LONDON Aug 12, 9 30 a. m. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Mail says. It ls ascertained that the German torpedo-boat destroyer which was reported re-ported to have been sunk by the explosion of one of her boilers off South Gedzer on August 5 really was destroyed by a mine laid by a German warship The Danish and Swedish steamers, it is reported, ceased running as a result of ln formation that the Germans had laid contact mines in the North sea. FRESH PHASE OF THE WAR BRUSSELS, Aug 12, via London, 8 30 p tn. The Germans appear to be commencing a fresh phase of the war Their attack through central Belgium having failed, they are intrenching along their Maestricht-Liege front and are employing a number of peasants on the road soutli through the provinces of Liege and Luxemburg foreshadowing an attempt to force their way to the south of the river Ourthe and toward the upper Meuse ln France. GERMANS ARE DRIVEN BACK BEUSSEXS, Aug V 12 40 p m. via London. A regiment of dragoons coming from the direction of Liege and who attempted to surprise the Belgians at Aifeffe in the province of Liege were driven off leaving 153 dead and 102 prisoners Uhlans have taken upward of $400 000 ftom the bank at Hasselt, capital of the province of Limburg GERMAN ARMY MOVING NORTH ' BRUSSELS Aug 12, 5 55 p m. via Paris. The German army has moved north of Liege and is advancing into the heart of Belgium. It is difficult to determine its objective. There is a screen of cavalry in extraordinary force along the whole front of the allied armies. The new army corps Is investing Liege The French cavalry is engaged ln sharp fighting Both, the German and allied armies are feeling their way WAR SEVERS FRIENDSHIPS LONDON Aug 12, 12 45 p m Arrangements have been made for the departure tomorrow of the Austro Hungarian embassador Count A. Mensdorff Pouffly Dietrichstein, who has been in England for eighteen years as secretary minister and embassador respectively' and who ls one of the most Intimate friends of the British royal family SEVERE CHECK TO AUSTRIANS PAEIS Aug. 12 11 P m. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Matin 8178 The Austrians have suffered a check on the Dneiper river Four regi ments of Austrian infantry and eight regiments of Uhlans were routed. The approaching big battle will probably be a decisive one BELGIANS ASSUME OFFENSIVE PABIS, Aug 12, 11 55 p m. It is stated that the forts around Liege are still holding out against the Germans and that the troops which defended the city have re-formed to the west and resumed the offensive It is said that the Belgians have blown up bridges and destroyed the railroad in the rear of the German forces, cutting off their supplies. GERMANS BOMBARD FRENCH TOWN PABIS Aug 12, 11 50 P m. The bombardment by the Germans of Pont-a-Mousson. in the department of Muerthe and Moselle about twenty miles north west of Nancy commenced yesterday morning A hundred shells of large caliber fell ln the town, killing or wounding a number of the inhabitants and demolishing buildings. SAYS GERMANS KILL WOUNDED PARIS Ang 12, 11 58 p m The following statement was issued tonight a urnrmdnii French cavalryman at Mezieres declares he saw a German cavalrnS oot fwouided Frenchman. He says he heard five or six other shltsnd aaved himself by feigning death. The Germans are wearing uniforms taken from Belgians killed in battle. GERMAN STAFF ADMITS LOSSES Tn-MDON An 13 2 a. m. A Berlin dispatch to the Dally Telegraph sayseernian sUff admits heavy losses on the Russian frontier RUSSIANS REPULSE GERMANS qt PETERSBURG v a London Aug 12 11 45 p m An attempt by ti e Germans to occupy Eydtkuhnen east Prussia one of the points to which Rus |