The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-08-07

ported to be engaged and fighting.
The French are reported to have ef-
fected a union with the Belgians.
1t seems certain that the fortifica-
tions cannot stop the German ad-
vance, which can only be delayed by
the determined stand Of the Belgians.
A French army of more than $4,000
is hurrying forward to join the Bel
gians at Namur and other French
forces OF considerably larger size are
believed to be moving forward in the
same general direction.
The Belgian air men have perform
Cd prodigies of valor. During this
afternoons fighting Germany lost one
OF her biggest Zeppelin dirigibles. In
an attempt to pass over the fortlh-
cations on the Herve Plateau Belgian
gunners quickly got the range with
a gun designed to fight aircraft. An
explosive shell tore through the en-
velope and the gas bag exploded, the
machine falling amid the assembled
Belgian troops i'm crumpled mass.
The entire crew, numbering 26, were
killed.
Immediately afterward an aero
plane rose from the German lines and
attempted a fight over the Herve
Notifications in the direction Of the
main fortress of Liege. 1t also was
wrecked by the airgun from the fort.
A third encounter between airmen
occurred during the day. Belgian
and German aviators doing scout duty
met 500 feet above the earth and en-
gagged in a pistol duel. Endeavoring
to get into closer range the two air.
men brought their machines into col
lision and both were wrecked. 1t is
understood the Belgian escaped un-
injured.
Whole batallions of the Tenth Army
Corps or the German invading force
were wiped out OF existence, and LOO
wounded Germans were picked up on
the field as a result of the explosion
of a field of mines over which the
Germans were crossing in their at
tack on Liege. The annihilated force
was mostly infantry and artillerymen.
The attacking infantry crept up un-
der the cover of a heavy artillery fire,
but the Belgian defenders reserved
their fire until the Germans had come
to close quarters, when at given sig
nal the Belgians opened with per-
feet hail Of bullets from rifles and
machine guns, which wreaked havoc
among the Germans. The attackers
soon lay in heaps of dead and wound
ed around the fort.
At the same time, Fort Chaudfon-
talne to the southeast or Liege, kept
up a hot fire on another body Of Ger
mans who had seized a neighboring
Dol Din orsfi1
duced the building to mass Of smok-
ing ruins The Germans finally re-
tired all along the line.
One newspaper says the German
losses amounted to between 1000 and
5000 men, while they abandoned AZ
machine guns.
London, August 6.-News reached
here tonight that the British fleet he's
encountered the German fleet in the
North Sea in the vicinity OF Heligo-
land, and is driving 1t in the direction
of the Dutch coast.
| An Admiralty report says that the
British cruiser Amphion was sunk
this morning by striking a mine
Paymaster ]. Il. Gedge and 13O men
were lost The captain, 16 officers
and 135 men were saved.
| A previous report said that the
| German mine layer Koenigin Luise
probably had placed some mines be-
fore she was sunk by the British tor
pedo boat Lance.
| The hospital authorities at Hull to-
day received orders to prepare to re-
ceive $50 men wounded in the North
Sea engagement.
| A battle between a German cruiser
and a British scout cruiser sixty-fve
miles off the English Coast was re-
ported by the captain Of trawler
which arrived at Lowestoff today. The
German cruiser was plainly afire ac-
lcordfng to the captain of the trawler
A British destroyer in the channel
this afternoon captured the German
steamship Tubanria laden with gold
and reservists from South Africa for
Hamburg.
There are no illusions i'm England
that the war is certain to be swift
and decisive one. The people are
steeled for a long and exhaustive
struggle.
The torpedo boat destroyer Lance,
which sent the Hamburg-Amerlcan
steamer Koenigin Luise to the bot
tom with four shots, only came out of
the ship yards last Saturday hardly
dry.
Londolers had the first realization
of war brought home to them tonight,
when hundreds of commuters who
were taking their trains at the Vic
toria Station were surprised to see
IS German prisoners guarded by
West Kent regiment with fixed bayo-
nets.
London, August 6.-The British tor
pedo-boat destroyer Lance was the
hero or the first naval engagement In
the present war, sinking the Ham
burg-American Line steamer Koenigin
Luise, which had been fitted out as a
mine layer.
London, August GA dispatch to
the London Daily Mail from Tien-
Tsin says that the Russian cruiser
Askold and the German cruiser En-
den both have been sunk after IN en-
gagement off Wei Hal Wei, China.
Madrid, August ga dispatch from
the Canary Islands says a British
squadron has sunk one German cruis-
er, the name OF which is not given,
and has captured another, which Is
being conveyed to Gibralter.
WY MR