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Show GREAT BATTLE IS N E A RAJ HAND London, Aug 13, 11 IT. p m The hour of the great battle which will have much to do with settling the fu ture of Furone is aonreciublv nearer. Reports of engagements which, when the main armies meet, will be considered insignificant, have been coming in all day, showing that the I cavalry screens, sometimes accompanied accom-panied by Infant rv whose duty It Is to find out what is goinq on behind, have come into contact in northern Belgium near Haelen, and on the French frontier fron-tier near Otliain. The meeting of these reconnoltering parties in force has resulted In some prettj severe fighting, in which, according ac-cording to the French and Belgian of f icial accounts, the allies scored further fur-ther successes. The other side of the story Is still told, for Berlin remains silent In fact the German war office has bad little to say since it reported the cap- ture of the city of Liege. The posl-; posl-; tlon anund that fortress Is veiled in something of mystery. The Germans I have resumed their attacks on the ; forts, but how they are progressing has not been communicated to the I outside world. Naval Battle In Orient Shanghai, Aug 14. Two warships, each having four funnels, badly damaged dam-aged and carrying many wounded, entered en-tered the barbor at Hongkong yester-i yester-i day Their Identity has not been learned here hut the vessels are believed to j h either the British armored cruisers j Minotaur and Hampshire or the ; French armored cruisers Duplex and 1 Montcalm. They are reported to have had an engagement with the German cruisers of the same type, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. 3nnn n,ri -a wmmHri Brussels, via Parla. Aug. 14, 12.25 a. m. The German casualties in the engagement at Haelen Wednesday were 3000 dead and wounded The Germans apparently sacrificed their men without any scruples. During the fighting the Germans were obliged to pass two bridges over the Getthe and Velpe rivers, where they were exposed ex-posed to a heavy fire. The retiring Germans left piles of dead and wound ed at these bridges. |