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FirstNaVaI Battle in North Sea
Results in Victory For
English.
KAISER CLAIMS GREAT
VICTORY OVER ALLIES
Official Report Says Franco-7ritish
Forces Are In Full Retreat-Rus-
sian Armies Move Rapidly
Towards Berlin.
--latest Dispatches.


LOndOn.-It is announced that the
British feet has sunk two German
cruisers and two German torpedo boat
destroyers on Helgoland. A third
cruiser was set afire and was left
sinking. No British ships were lost
in the battle, it was added, and the
British loss of life was not heavy. In
addition to the two torpedo boat de-
stroyers and three cruisers, many of
the German torpedo boat destroyers
were damaged.
One Drifted Away, Afire-
Rear Admiral Sir David Beatty COM
manded the British forces and, with
strong array of torpedo boat destroy
ers, battle cruisers and light cruisers
and submarines, attacked the Ger
mans in Helgoland Blight The pro-
tected cruiser Mainz was sent to the
bottom in an engagement with the
light cruiser squadron, while the bat
tleship squadron sank another cruiser
of the Koln class. In the general
fighting two of the German destroy
ers were riddled and sunk, while
many others were badly damaged.
One cruiser, battle SCARED and on
fire, drifted away in the mist and was
lost to sight. :
Attacked by Submarines.
The British cruiser squadron, &C
cording to the semi-officiaI report of
the battle, although attacked by sub
marine boats and menaced by floating
mines and the guns from the German
warships, suffered no serious losses.
The cruiser Amethyst and the torpe-
do boat destroyer Laertes both we're
damaged, but all the ships in the Brit
fsh fleet were af1oat at the end of the
engagement. The British loss Of life
was not great
Germans Claim Great Victory.
Northumberland has issued
an official report declaring that the
western enemy has everywhere been
defeated and is in full retreat. After
nine days of fighting, General Vim
Kldck defeated the English army at
Maubeuge. He renewed the attack
later and threatened to surround the
town. Generals Won Buelow and Won
cO-Belgian forces, about eight corps,
OOLHSCn Inc OdulOIO anu NAHUM anu
the Mouse in a several days battle,
and are now pursuing them to the
eastward of Maubeuge.
The Armies Exhausted.
Paris.-An official communication,
issued by the war department, says:
THE situation on our front from the
Department of Somme (Northwest
France) to the Vosges remains the
same. The German forces appear to
have slackened their march" The
apparent inaction of the armies as in
dictated in the official statement is
explained by the frightful exhaustion
of both sides, who for days have been
fighting furiousIy. The losses of both
armies are appalling, particularly
those of the Germans.
Russians Rapidly Advancing.
LOndon.-"The Russians are ad-
vancing rapidly on Lemberg, Austria,
their cavalry overcoming all Austrian
opposition" says a dispatch from the
st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Exchange Telegraph Company. The
message continues: The Russian
troops are marching on Koenigs burg
and already have repulsed the ad-
vance guard of the garrison The
Russians now occupy important posi-
tions on the River Ale Between the
Rivers VistuIa and Dneister, the Rus
SLAMS are in close touch with the Aus
TRANS, whom they already have de-
feated decisively at Temaschoff and
MOnasterzyska'
AIIenstein Occupied.
LondOn.-The Russian embassy here
received advices from St Petersburg
to the effect that the Russians had oc-
cupied Allenstein, East Prussia, sixty
five miles south OF Koenigsberg, after
repulsing the Germans, who had
brought reinforcements. In Galicia,
the advices said, the Russian advance
continued and an Austrian regiment
had been decimated