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Show LONDON HEARS OF BIOBATHE London, Aug 20, 2:30 a in Regarding Re-garding the situation at Louvain, the Brussels correspondent of the Central News says" "When the Germans brought their heavy artillery Into play In front of Louvain the Belgian troops decided to evacuate the place in order to save the beautiful and historic city from destruction Therefore they took' up strong positions on the road to Brussels Brus-sels "The Herman losses around Louvain Lou-vain were terrible. The Germans still persist In adancing in close formation, forma-tion, whereupon the Belgian machine guns sweep them down like nine pins." lxndon. Aug 20 The greatest battle in the world's history is raging with big guns booming from N'amur to Diest and even on the bloody field of Waterloo Obeying orders thre of the grim war lord, half a million men of the great German army have hacked their wav to and probably were in Louain last night. This is the last gateway to Antwerp and Brussels The Belgians Bel-gians are retreating to save the his torlc town, but the roads are blocked with German dead. It Is no use blinking facts that, al-I al-I though the kaiser's scnemes were bad I ly disarranged bj the determined and courageous resistance or the Belgians, his officers und men are moving for-; ward to victory or to death For the order to advance was ac conipanied by the sancuinarv threat, "Defeat means death in or exile from j Germany " At 1 o'clock this morning a dispatch from Brussels, dated Tuesday at 7 o'clock in the evening, announces Ger-j mans are advancing all along the line. I w hich would seem to confirm a dis- patch that Louvain has been taken I The capital of Belgium, If not captured, cap-tured, as rumored last night, soon will i j be occupied by the Kaiser's legions. A dispatch from Brussels received at 2:18 this morning says it is practl-cally practl-cally impossible to get news away ; from Brussels However, It Is cer-1 tain a tremendous battle is In pro-j res In another zone, lsace-Iyorralne, the French army seems to be sweeping unreslstedly onward and the paucity Of news from there tonight indicates j that a general engagement may hare begun there, too There Is no doubt, I I that Italy is straining at the leash and Is ready to be In at the death, fori here this morning the belief is un-! un-! shakable that even If the kaiser s mag-I mag-I nlflcent troops should win the big ! battle now on in Belgium, In the end Germany w ill be beaten and bowed , in the dust. First List of British D?ad The first list of British dead and wounded came trickling In tonight. Three officers killed and two wounded as tbe result of accidents in the sum- j mary, Colncldently with the publication of the list of victims came a stirring appeal ap-peal from the board of trade to fol-'. low up the battles on land and sea i by an industrial war, as a result of which the trade mark "Made in Ger-; many" or "Made in Austria'' will never nev-er be seen again on goods in any Liu-lish Liu-lish warehouse or shop. This boycott is Indorsed by the Whole press, which calls upon the j British merchants and manufacturers to organize a movement which will end forever Germany's supremacy in any branch of trade |
