Imperial Valley press., 1914-08-22
Last Nights News.
TcoNTINuEp FROM PAGE ONE

lotHef perfectly anu CouhI WIN WI
fdence on support from the English
when the right time comes for des !
perate and aggressive stand.
Brussels was surrendered to tho
Germans because it was felt that
otherwise that unfortifed city with its
beautiful homes and superb public
buildings would be shelled and possi-
lily destroyed Having no defensive
works. it could not have been defended
successfully against large attacking
force"
Antwerp, however, is being placed
in state of siege. All foreigners
will he asked to leave as soon as pos
sible. King Albert and the general
staff are now there. The forts are all
manned and the civil guard has been
directed to act under orders from the
military.
Fast channel steamers have been
requisitioned to carry the non-com-
batants to places of safety, either in
England or France.
Russians Capture Lyck.
1t is officially announced in st. Pc
tersb1rg that Russians have captured
the city of Lyck, fifty-five miles south
of Gumbinnen, in east Prussia, after
two days of desperate fighting, in
which many Russians were killed
The Germans are said to have lost
several field guns and large quantities
of supplies.
German troops were defeated in a
battle at Tirlemont, Belgium, the Brit
ish war press bureau officially an
nounces. The announcement adds that
the allied troops inflicted heavy losses
on the enemy. The Germans were
forced to abandon Tirlemont.
French. Report Victory.
Military experts see great signif-
canoe in the announcement of the CON
ffict at Tirlemont, east of Brussels, as
indicating a movement by the allies
to separate the Germans operating in
northern Belgium from their main
army on the Meuse, near Namur
A dispatch from Paris says that
French forces in an engagement near
Basel, defeated q detachment of Ger
man cavalry coming from Leopold
shoehe and Hueningen. The Germans
left 800 dead and wounded on the field.
Women and children perished when
q Gel man squadron bombarded Ii
bau, Russia's Baltic port, according to
Stockholm dispatches. One shell killed
fifteen women, Enormous damage was
done in the city by the accurate Ger
man fire.
Austria tolav- by imperial decree
called for every male between nineteen
and sixty to enter the army immedi-
ately. Austria has 100000 men not
heretofore called to the front.
Austrian Forts Bombarded.
British and French warships bonn
barded the Austrian Notifications at
Cattaro, inflicting great damage.
Montenegrin artillery on Mount
Lovchen joined in the attack. Mon
tenegro reports victory over the
Austrians in Bosnia with an Austrian
loss Of 200.
The official communioue of the
French war ministry, issued this af-
ternoon, says that German troops con-
tlnue to pass the River Meuse in large
numbers, near Huy, and that great
numbers of the enemy are being con-
centrated in Belgium.
1t is worthy of note that a small
body of German troops has occupied
Augum Leroman, which up to this
morning was the only French territory
invested by the Germans. The COM
munique continues:
"Thus on the twentieth day of our
mobilization, despite all German as
suraHces and the predictions of their
best-known military students, as well
as of their general staff, they have
not only been unable to obtain a deci-
sIve advantage which they had count
ed upon, but have even been unable
to carry the war into our territory.
"This advantage, however, for us.
should not be exaggerated, although
1t has distinct moral value for our
troops.
Last night one of our dirigibles
dropped several bombs on a German
cavalry company in Belgium. The
Germans were greatly agitated and
the camp fires were put out immedi-
Iately. Several shots were fired at the
dirigible which, however, returned
safely to our lines"