The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-07
FISHERS TELL
 lE VESSELS IN COM LICT AT SEA

London. Aug 7A-s:4o a. ID. des- patch to the Daily Newe from New castle timed a. I1. today, says thai a wireless message received at South shields shortly before midnigat states that the British feet engHEed the German High Seas feet In heavy. battle off the South Dpgger tanks E
 After a general engagement along tlae battle line which ex tend ed for many miles and in which many ships on both sides took part the German feet was beaten back and rloved in the direction of the coast of Holland.
 It is now believed that the German f1eet is comp Iste5y hemmed in in the eastern side Of the North Sea The sea is in the control of the British Heets. Support for this contention is found in the ofIfcia19 permission given ports those of the Humber and other east coast Ashins centers for the fsh-. ina grounds today. This has been for ssidden for two sd avs.
 The surgeon in charge of the Souxn Shields hospital reeeiVeda q wireless message last nj ght asking what ae-. cemrnodatfons he had for the wound ! cd He replied that he could take care of one thousand persons.
 A despatch to the D,aAly News from " 1a3tby says that ship owner Is re- spensible for the statennent that@1s German ships were S1I K or ca Efl11 e<t in the battle in Ehe NeFtP sea and that several British and F'rea ach ves- seIs were sunk.
 Reports from various ports say that heavy firing has been heard In the
 North Sea for the past 24 hours.
 The admiral a1ty announces tfaatIsrlt-s fsn coastwzise shipping 6m the east coast is now safe because the British dee1 has engaged the Germans on the gh seas ana the German deef is now being chased toward the coast Of Holland.
 The admiralty has Issued the rot- low ing In the course of reconn ter Ing after the man mine I'd yer. the Koeul gen Luise, was sunk this morn ing the cruiser Arnphion struck mine and foundered. The fore part 6f the British ship was shateered by the explosion and praet ticadI all of the loss to the crew easred from this cause. All not killed by the explo- sion were taken off by the ooats of the destroyers before the ArlpazioI went down ls E
 ty. German prisoners of war who were condned In the fore part of the ship were killad <The line of mInes was probably Iaid by the E-oenleen Izsllse before she was sunk. They ex- tend from A1debuTg Ride to latitude $40 nordh, longituds 226- z
 O1dAnzaa1 Ne1her1anuS, via l1o1- don Aug :10 a u 1he cor respondent in Berlin of Reuters TeIe- gram Company of London. ~ lao with other British subjects was ezpeHed from the German pital arrt5ed here with eev efaI other n ewspaf3e1 corres- pondents on the train which conveyed the British anbassad d or Sir William Esdwa ard Eosrhss
 The corresp ondeht says the Brdkistl declaration of war on Gernaslziy was followed by an attack on the British ezabassy- A crowd bessieged the build ing for hours, sraashIng all the win do1vss
 The same night two Am era can and two English eorresp ondent were ar rnsted on suspicion of being spi4s but were released few hours later tIr ough the efforts Of the American ambassador. All British subjects In Cer1na ,accordin gsto the ccrrespond- erts are being rounded up by the DO lice and about Q Of them have been kept as prisoners in the fortress of Spandu but the American CIT baszy in BerIin hopes to be able to secure their release.
 Among those held is Captain HoraceH H. Ho1Iands of the British navy who had been 1ent to the Turkish govern 111eat as naval instructor