Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21
GERMAN ADVANCE CAUSES OFF,
GALS TO TRANSFER SEAT OF
GOVERNMENT TO ANTWERP
FOR SAFETY.
BIG BATTLE BELIEVED TO
BE IN PROGRESS NOW
Indicated by Dispatches Received in
London That Allies and kaiser's
Army Are Engaged in Fierce
Strugqle-Emperor and Prin-
ces Arrive at Mainz.

London, Aug. 19.-That the Germans
are forcing their way through Belgium
is indicated by the Brussels report
that German cavalry is approaching
the Belgium capital; that measures
for the defense Of Brussels are being
fastened and that the seat of gov
eminent has been removed to Antwerp.
Leave for Antwerp.
The Belgian ministers OF war, fin
ance and foreign affairs and the Rus
sian minister to Belgium have left
Brussels for Antwerp, according to
dispatch received here by the Elk
change Telegraph. The affairs of
Russia were left in the hands of the
Spanish legation, the dispatch adds.
A Havas dispatch from Brussels
says
ut is expected that the legations
will follow the government to Antwerp
but the French minister will remain
here, sending the counselor to Ant
werp to keep in touch with the Bel
gian governor"
Germans Are RepuIsed.
The SOir says that according to
news confirmed by the war office, the
Belgian infantry, in conjunction with
the French cavalry, have brilliantly
repulsed a German attack The loca-
tiOn of the engagement is not men
toned"
The Daily Express says: There is
little doubt that a great battle is now
occurring in Belgium between the Ger
mans and the Belgian and French al
lies.
Events of Importance.
"Our correspondent. in a cryptic dis
patch from Client, indicates that the
Germans are advancing on the historic
battle ground of Waterloo and that
events of the greatest importance are
in progress"
The British official press bureau an
nounces that any action which Japan
may take against Germany will not
extend beyond the China sea, except
for the protection of Japanese ship
ping.
War Correspondents Barred.
The British war council has decided
to exclude correspondents from the
forces in the field, and it is announced
that the French war department in
tends to take the same action and that
probably war correspondents in Bel
GUM will be ordered out of that
state.
The German emperor, the crown
prince, and two other imperial princes
are now at the great fortress of
Mainz. The emperors departure from
Berlin for the front has evoked en-
thusiasm in the German capital.
The Brazilian government has in
structed its minister at Berlin to ask
for explanations and the punishment
of those guilty of the alleged attack
by German soldiers on Bernardino
CampOs, former president of the state
of Sac Paulo, and his wife, who are
reported to have been beaten and
forced across the Swiss frontier
Austrians Check Russians.
Several Austrian army corps, ac-
cording to advices from Vienna, have
invaded Russia and the Russian ad-
vance in Galicia has been checked
Brussels admits that the French cas-
ualties in the fighting between Namur
and Dinant were heavy, as the Ger
mans were strongly entrenched and
their artillery played great havoc.
The British official news. bureau
says that the French fleet in the Medi-
terranean has made a sweep up the
Adriatic as far as Cattaro Four Aus
trian war ships are reported to have
been sunk.