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Show ADMIRALTY GIVES WARIiOIATI British Government Issues Bulletins Touhcing on the Progress of Hostilities LONDON Aug 11 The new admiral ty and war office Information bureau es tablished by the British government be gan work this morning Today s an nouncements were as folows Tl ere is good reason to believe the German cruisers Breslau and Goeben 1 ave taken refuge I the Dardanel es and (U be dealth with according to international usage There also Is good reason to believe that the mass of German troops on the western German frontier are d s trlbuted between Thlonvil e (a fortl fled town in Lorraine sev enteen miles north of Mets) and Liege and that Lorraine is held comparatively lightly farther south There Is e ery indication that the Austrian ha e entered Alsace It Is belle ed the forts at Liege hae not been taken The mobilization of the territorial force is at the point of completion. Some of the units of the force have accepted liability to serve our seas Volunteers are being asked to follow their example. K tchener's army for which 5000 recruits ha e been enrolled In the past twelve hours wi I consist of six di visions Scottish Irish northern, east em western and light brigades. About two German cavalry divl slons are in the neighborhood of Tongres to the nortl of Liege Three German army corps still are opposite Liege and other German troops are reported to be intrenching along the 1 ne of the nver Alsoe The large German fores Is moving through the duchy of Luxemburg and its advance troops are now at tl e Belgian frontier German ca airy patrols have been reported near Marohtenne and Ar on. Several Individual soldiers belonging to German patrols have been cap lured both In France and Belg um In a 1 cases they were reported to be short of food for both men and horses and to ha e made no res st ance. The British consul general at Shanghai China reports that no British vessels 1 ave been pursued or molested A report from The Hague Holland states that public ner outness In that country has been aliased since the Publication of Great Br a n s attl tude respecting the neutral ty of the Netherlands It is stated that tl e Germans lost 8000 kt led before Llegc but this Is unconfirmed A eport states that the principal Liege forts are s 1 I holding out al tl oufab. so e of the sma er forts 1 ave been captured b e Germans The bombardment of the fort fi cations by the Germans s pro eed ug nit) out Interna ssion On one o cas on a fort apparentl 1 ad been sllen ed but w hen German infantr men advanced to atta k It a 1 ail of bullets was Foured into tl em so sudden a d ef ect ely that thej rc ired v, t 1 ea v loss The German at ackers t o a e be Ing re n forced d splaed great cour age t )s stated that 1 0 000 men of t e German arra are enBeged n the at tack of L ege Refugees from that ci y describe the cond tions as ter rib e Manv houses have been dam aged or bu ned The Austro Hungar an ad an e rom C -a ow In Austran Cia cla tow d K eloo n Rubs an Po and s epor ed to be In pro ets At the same t me the Russian t oops are sa d to be a vane ng f om Rovno up the al ey of the r er fa jr tova d Len berg the Gal a cap ta T e Bu ga an aovernment has de nanded a cred t of $10 000 000 for mob 1 zat on expenses j add t on to ' ape ous cred t of 530 000 000 for ! a name s ! o d ng to nterna ora custon In e of wa f t e C oeben an Bret, a a e take fuge c D rdanel e te v e onpeed o coa wit n ven fo o r a d pu o sea or e se h n e ned t e e d of he ?ar T ese to e s we e epo ed f om ; At e as ou d ng t e sou hern ex ! I em of he o ea d ee e at fu I peec" s no n g I what d ect on e we c ea ed was no s ated |