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Show TERRIBLE WAS TOLL WHEN GERMANS AND BELGIANS CLASHED London, Aug. 40. The Dally Telegraph's Tel-egraph's Rotterdam correspondent in a dispatch filed Sundtiy says: "How dodly was tho task tho Ger- mans undertook in rebuilding the PJ bridge over the River Mouses is I tihown by the Rotterdam Courant's correspondent at Maastricht. A. poit H toon bridge, built by tho Germain, ho H said, was shot awny so that further Jj troops could not cross it. Tho Twtn-BJ Twtn-BJ ty-fifth and Nineteenth German icgl- J inents, which supported tho bildeo M builders were mowed down by the qulckflrlng guns. A wounded Belgian H -was asked how tho Germans had H fared and replied in ono word, 'Annihilated.' H "Tho wounded 'who can ho trans- J ported by rail aro to bo brought from HJ tho hospitals at Maastricht to All: HJ maar." HJ Anotlier correspondent, who visited HJ the battlefields at Vise' and Llfgo, HJ writes: H "Not far from the' little Dutch tron- HJ tier village of Mesch, I passed the to- Hj mains of it big German camp. Dead HJ soldiers, civilians and horse and Hi wagons, carts, automobiles and blev-Hi blev-Hi cles lay In confusion. Germans and HI Belgians lay side by side evidence HJ that there was fighting man to man. HI Houses had been sacked becauso the HJ soldiers wished to avenge themselves rHk en civilians who fired upon tl.cra 3V" from windows. "Civilians who did not light wore J allowed to pass, but German guards refuse to allow this courtesy tc tho Belgian civilians who wero cngage.1 In the battle. Poor wretches, they must wait where they Ho, not daring to movo for they dcclaro they will bo shot at. "I met a party of German officers in an automobile. Thoy held tbolr revolvers re-volvers in their hands and scrutinized scrutiniz-ed mo closely. Thoy appeared to bp dispirited because of tho taut that twice during the last two days tncro had been a panic and GorniMi soldiers sol-diers had fired on comrades by mistake. mis-take. They asked me not .'o speak In tbo presence of the wounded. "After the constant fighting tbc soldiers woro exhausted, but they liy beside their horses clothed roady to. be roused at a moment's notice." BRITISH FLEET SINK8 GERMAN 8UBMARINE London, Aug. 10. The admiralty has announced that ono of tho cruiser cruis-er squadrons of tho main fleet was nttacked yesterday by Gorman submarines. sub-marines. Mono of tho British ships wero damaged. Ono Gorman submarine submar-ine was sunk. No detullB wero given giv-en as to the place at which tho fight occurred. AUSTRIAN CRUISERS DOMBARD MONTENEGRIN PORT The submarine sunk by tho British. tS feet was the U-1G which wos built In ??5Ti!W2 and displaced 300 tons. Sho M carried a crew of twelve men. BRITISH FLEET PROCEEDS TOWARD CHINESE PORT Shanghai, Aug. 0, A British fleet proceeding towards Tslng Tau passe Shanghai today. Cannonading was reported by nn incoming ship. It I? believed tho Gorman warships tiro bottled up In Tslng Tau harbor. British met chant steamers will ro- sume their voyages along tho Chinese seaboard on Tuesday. French reservists left Hongkong for Franco Saturday on tho Peninsular Peninsu-lar & Orient steamer Syria. . MILLION GERMANS TO INVADE FRANCE Loudon, Aug. 10. A dispatch to the Dally Telegraph from Brussels says that Germany la mobilizing another an-other million men who include those of tho Laudslrum for the Invasion ol France. ITALIANS ARE AROUSED OVER BOMBARDMENT Paris, Aug. 10. A special dispatch from. Rome declares that public, opinion th.'re considers Uie bombardment bombard-ment of Antlvarl, tho sole port of Montenegro, as an offense by Austria against the interests and rights of Italians because of tho damage done to the property of tho ftaltan company com-pany at that port. KAISER REACHE8. AIX LA CHAPELLE London, Aug. 10. A dispatch to the Exchango Telegraph company from Rome says that Emperor William Willi-am has arrived nt Alx la Chappello to Join his army. The Brussels correspondent of tho Dally Mall says that ho has confirmed confirm-ed tho report of French success at Marbehan In Belgian Luxemburg on the railway between Ostend and Basel. Ba-sel. Ho says It is reported' that the French are pursuing tbo Germans, who aro retiring. AMERICANS GO TO GENOA Modena, Italy, Aug. 9. Many Americans en route for Genoa, aro arriving hero in nutoraoblles. Travel by railway train is prohibited. American consul genoral at Genoa, Dr. John Edward Jones, has announced an-nounced the sailing of a steamer for America next week. AUSTRIANS IN SWITZERLAND London, Aug. 10. The Rome cor-respondent cor-respondent of tho Exchango Tclo graph company forwards ;a dispatch from Base. Switzerland", saying that the Austrian troops have arrived there, coming by way of Constance Thoy comprise 30,000 men of tho Fourteenth corps, under command of tho Grand Duke of Tuscany, which were withdrawn from Tyrol t opro-were opro-were withdrawn from Tyrol to pre-Vlans. pre-Vlans. Thoy will relnturco tho German troops encamped at Isteln, where tho Gcrraana nre massing on tho hllln and in tho fortifications following tho, French success .In Alsaco. |