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Show BRITISH LAI CLli TO SILENT VlCTDRlf ANNOUNCE THAT NORTH SEA NOW OPEN. TO SHIPPNG W 'S OUT SERIOUS DANGER, Steamship Service From Denmark London and From Newcastle to'' Norway, Which Was Wt' rupted, Has Been Resumed. London. Two salient points ?mer from the latest news of the great -bl The first and most striking is l described here as "the silent victory This applies to t..e fact that ih North sea, over which almost absoln silence has brooded so lone i ' i ... fa Ia DOIT open to shipping without serion-danger. serion-danger. The steamship services fro' Denmark to London and from castle to Norway are being while the steamship seivices betweei the Hook of Holland and Harwich hav suffered no interruption. These fact in the opinion of the authorities here imply that the German fleet for the time being is safely held in cheek The second point is that the French have been obliged to evacuate m. hausen and occupy new po-iticns outside out-side the town. According to German reporis, this was the first important battle of the campign and the French who had 55,000 men, suffered a strict check. In Belgium, the position shows Ii;tle change. A great battle is expected somewhere on the line between Thion. ville and Liege between the Germans the French and Belgians, and it js thought probable it will occur within a few days. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the Post says the Russian fleet is actively scouring the Baltic sea. Twenty captured cap-tured . merchant vessels have been taken to Cronstadt and their crews will be removed to the interior as prisoners pris-oners of war. |