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has ordered all residents of the zone
within action of the city's defending
forts to evacuate and destroy their
houses within four days from today,
August 80.
Paris, Aug. 30.-The decrees issued
by the military governor ordering all
residents of the district within action
oil the City's defending forts to evacu-
ate and destroy their houses within
four days from today, was formal
notice to inhabitants of the military
zone although army engineers recent
ly made tour of the environs of the
forts and explained that tenats might
be called on to destroy property that
was deemed an obstruction. Many
houses in the line of fire are occupied
by poor people. Many of these fam
lies lack resources and will be with
out refuge. Nevertheless they took
the situation without complaint,
London, August 80 A Times dis
| patch from Amiens, France, says that
since Monday morning last the Ger
mans never giving the retreating
British a moments rest.
Amsterdam, August 3O.-A dispatch
from TURNOUT, Belgium, says the
| Germans have blown UP the railway
bridges on the line between Moll, a
/, village 81 miles east of Antwerp and
Munchen-Gladbac Rhenish Prussia.
London, Aug. SO.-F1eld Marshall
Lord Roberts, addressing a meeting
last night for the purpose of obtain
| ing recruits for the army, declared
the country was in great danger.
/ There was no use in mincing words,
he said: defeat would mean ruin;
shame and slavery.
| "Our soldiers are fighting bravely,"
said Lord Roberts, ~but they are Ia
mentally few and it is the duty of
every able bodied man to see that the
army is maintained at its full strength.
| Women must not stand in the light
| of their sons and husbands duty.
London, August 29.-One hundred
and sixty trains loaded with German
| troops have passed through Belgium
from the southwest toward the north
east. according to an Antwerp dis
| match to the Reuter- Telegram COM
i nany. This, it is added, indicates that
| Germans are sending troops back on
account of the Russian advance. The
| German force at Brussels have been
| reduced to a minimum.
| London. August ga Reiter dis
] patch from Paris, which says 1eppe-
/ lin airship which bombarded the rail-
road station at Mlawa, just over the
boundary of Russian Poland, was
brought by Russian troops. The car
carried eight soldiers, quick hrers
and explosives.
London, August ga Central News
dispatch says that Boulogne has been
! evacuated by the allied troops
London, August 29.-An official dis
| match to the Reuters Telegraph COM
pany say sthat the Russians have
completely invested Koenigshurg IN
eastern Prussia.
Paris. Aug. 31.-An official state
ment issued this evening summarizes
the situation to date as follows:
"On our right, after partial checks
we have taken the offensive and the
enemy is retiring before US.
"In the center we have had alter
native checks and successes, put
general action is now being fought
con our left, by series of circum-
stances, which turned in favor OF the
Germans, and despite plucky counter
attacks, the Anglo-French forces
we're obliged to give way. AS YET
our armies, Notwithstanding few IN
contestabIe checks, remain intact.
! London, Aug. 31.-An official tele-
gram received in London declares