The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-08-14
WAR NEWS.
Tuesday.
First German Victory.

First German Victory
Paris.-ThIS ID the first news re-
ceived OF a German victory. When
Mulhausen was taken by the French
| ii was claimed by the Germans that
they had retired because ,the city
was not fortified. Today dispatch
\ from Rome was received telling OF
the situation in Germany. It IN
nounced that the retirement was in
pursuance Of prearranged plans OF
the German General Staff ana indicat-
"a that another forward movement
was about to commence
The admission in Paris that the
French evacuated Mulhausen Indicate
that this movement was successful.
England Captures S1,O00y000 Gold
NJ London.-The Daily Mail prints
special dispatch today announcing
the capture by British warships OF
the Hamburg-American liner Cap
Ortegal, with $1,000,090 i'm gold and
specie aboard. The vessel left
Buenos Aires On July 26 for South
ampton.
BeIgians $ay LfeEe Still Holds Out
London.-The Belgian Legation in
an official statement issued today
denied that the entire German Army
OF the Meuse ID in Iiege- The state
ment said:
Reports that the entire German
Army or the Meuse To number 10000
\ have entered Liege IRE absolutely
false.
Only few thousand Germans are
in the city The remainder OF the
German invading army Is still en-
gagged In an unsuccessful effort to re
duce the Liege fortitications, which
are still unchanged by the German
artillery bombardment."
Russia Has German Prisoners.
N St Petersburg.-It IL announced
that six carloads Of German prison
ers OF war are In route through
Wilma The War Office makes no e
PLANTATION or where they were taken.
Wilma is 100 miles east OF the Ger
man frontier in Poland, on the direct
st. Petersburg
German Dead Put AIT 1000.
hTuES%1S.-IHS WdT OIAGG Ill dA
official bulletin issued today said that
the German losses In the fighting
before Lege, up to and including
" Sunday nights attack on the forts,
total 1000 dead, 10000 wounded and
\ 81 900 prisoners.
Russians Drive Back Austrians
St Petersburg. PASS ~ censor
Successful % far in all the skir-
mishing along the Austro-Russ1an
border, the Cars troops have forced
the Austrians to eyacuate the Russian
town OF Radziwillow. The town had
been occupied by the invaders several
days ago. The Russian forces out
numbered them and forced a quick
retirement across the border.
\ Radziwillow j. only few miles
from the border. 1T is an unfortified
town. All the fighting in this section
has heretofore been reported as mere
skirmishing. 1T l. now assumed,
however, that the Russian army, in
force, has been strung along the
border.
German cavalry are reported driven
back by the French after N engage
ment at Spincourt, in the Department
OF M6uEe.
IA state or war has been proclaimed
throughout Bulgaria
Russians have concentrated con
siderable army in Finland.
England now has between 100000
and 100000 men under arms, not
counting the reservists.
Great Britain has given notice that
her seaports will Be mined.
Wreckage from a British Warship
washed ashore near San Francisco II
thought to indicate that battle oc-
CURED Off the coast
| The Hamburg-American liner Cap
Ortegal, with $5,O00,O00 in specie
aboard, j. reported captured BY the
British.
May Fight Big Battle Beyond Liege
-Hostilities began Monday
between German cavalry and the
Belgian cavalry outposts in the He's
baye district.
Two hundred German cavalry with