By Taking the Belgian Advanced Position . v ch YEAR 817°NO, 192 i ---------- A ------ THE GERMANS GAIN INITIAL ADVANTAGE gan Ad d Louvain --- The Armies Are Battling Desperately in Belgium. The British Forces Are Not Engaged Along the Belgian-- French Position---German Cavalry Advanced Close to Antwerp to Scout, But Retreat- ed Before a Belgian force. Yaris, Aug. 20.--The Belgian and French army is battling desperately in Belgium. The Germans have gained the initial advantage. They have taken the Bel- gian 'advanced position at Louvain. Rumors that are persistently circulated here and at the [Hague say the Germans now hold the Belgian capital. The war office elaims to have no information. ah German Cavalry -Near Antwerp. London, Aug. 20.--Antwerp to-day réports that Ger- man cavalry advanced up to the very defense of the city. A scouting foree of Uhlans, which had penetrated. to the advanced line of forts, was attacked by Belgians and re- treated after agsharp clash. Antwerp is reported quiet. British Forces Not Engaged. London, Aug. 20.--The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the British ¢xpeditionary forces was fur- ther increased when the war office press bureau issued an official statement denying that the British Yorces were engaged along the Belgian-Frgueh position now being attacked by Germans. ih it had been believed that the British troops were in Belgium. Hints of Traps For Germans. Yaris, Aug. 20.--For the first time the German artil- lery is said to be proving cffective. Under cover of it the German infantry is slowly and steadily pushing for- ward, entrenching as it comes. The slaughter is admit- ted to be terrible. But because of the fear that the enemy might gain some knowledge of the forces confronting them, all details ave withheld. In Alsace-Lorraine the French position is described as "excellent." Mulhausen is declared to have been onee again re-occupied by the French after a long battle, in which both sides lost heavily. The French columns are moving against Strassburg. Other French are nea the great fortress of Metz. The war office insists that the backward movements in Belginm are "in pursuance of excellent strategy." Hints of traps for Germans are made, but no definite knowledge of a general plan of campaign is made. Britannia Rules the Waves. London, Aug. 20.--While fierce fighting rages along the extended Belgian-German front, every one ls asking what the German tactics are to be in the North Sea. The whole Giérman marine force is practically bottled, thanks to the British sea power. Germany's main waterways the Elbe and the Weiser, her channels and seaboard trade are closed: her manufacturing industries are largely idle and the North Sea seems so completely in the hands of Admiral Jellicoe that German ships cannot emerge. * (lermany must be suffering an industrial loss of at least five million dollars daily, while England is losing next to nothing that way. The impression grows that these combined factors must compel the German Admir- al Von Tippitz to order Admiral Von Ingenohl to put to sea and make a desperate effort to overcome the superior force awaiting him. ~ Talking of Secret Treaty. New York, Aug. 20.--Have the British-French allies made a secret treatment with Holland and already landed in that country a great army-to_ operate on the Holland: Belgium frontier, and trap| between two fires the invad- ing Gernian armies that ard being' permitted to press for: 'ward towards Brussels and Antwerp? This is the proposition being put forward here by military erities, to-day, on the receipt of the British wa office denial that the British army is operating with the Belgians in the defence of Namur, Brussels and inter vening points. : This would be a great coup on the part of the allies and Holland is admittedly more friendly to the allies than to Germany. Should the attempt fail, however Queen Wilhelmina's people would Hkely suffer terrible enge at the hands of the German troops. | Tm KINGSTON ONTARIO. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1914 A view of the peaceful Meuse valley, along which the armies are moving. Namur is shown in the picture; Liege and Dinant are also on this river. HEATED CRITICISM LIEUT..COL. W. 8. HUGHES Brother of Hon. Sam to Command | Regiment at Front. | OF CANADIAN WOMEN -- s { re Hughes, brother of the: minister o Col. Morrison Declares They SHOW | miticie: paced through here bound vesterda He is hurrying home | Remarkable * Lack of Fe ig uring Bos sa: Wales regiment at Kingston, Patriotism. ¢ the 20 Winnipeg, Aug. 20 part of front under his which is going to Ottawa, use of Aug The too liberal | comm and married women olf Can tol ada of the power to prevent their | penitentiaries has husbands from going to the war on | official inspect the overseas conti nt drew from {ol. Morrison, director of artillery Oo r i% in use on the worst v spirited protest this morning. convicts, taking the place of the cat Col. Morrison said that when per- | o'-hing.. tails, the brutal Hug he who is inspector of | Just linished the All the condi the ion in the west wre in splendid mst rument partment to married women to ob- | ject to their husbands going to war | t was never expected that it would be so generally invoked He poin ted out that in one instance nearly fifty per cent. of the volunteers pese protested by their wives The colonel said that many of the unpatriotic women were wives of officers. | Col,. Morrison remarked that it was all right for a woman to pro-| test if she thought that her husband | was trying to desert her and her | shildren, but in the present war the | families would be cared for He | said that Canadian women should take a leaf out of the books of Euro- nean women Much of the trouble, he thought might due to the gnorance of the terrors of war of Canadian women He ° said that 'anada must be protected, and mar- ried men had to play their part in his work The women thought the danger was too remote, but he | [erent 'ould care for thig country to be! nvaded, and perhaps invaded by |: t i nen of another color. d Taith, and German Ships Are Liable 'To Capture Paris, Aug. 20. L'Information, a financial newspaper, commenting on the proposed purchase of the Ham yurg-American ships. by ays French point of view ships of a hostile nation | in time of war There From the the sale of be abso are s for th view, nota 1 of the prize courts : 1 Crimean war genuine and m is irrevocable de and | abandoning al eventual interest ----p-- 4 sellers Form A Chapter. 20 decided 10 Port The w the chapter of ters of the Col. Arthur Williams Chapter, ur or of their late esteemed fellow-t¢ man, the hero of Batoche, for whom a magnificent monument was erected in the town hail square Hope, Aug town recently wshaper w hips capture on § if the capture is made b t French the vessels will be con fiscated, while if made by England buyers must be able to estab + sincerity of the sales arns the their prospes latter. ar first form Daugh the the Imperial Order that to Ix voy Empire, called hon- | wns the lizh t |THE MAN ARRESTED Clavton, giving 1 Syracuse, | local officials, mg | he claimed | 23rd and Started orth in work He statéy that he jssion was given by the militia de- | that fiits the flesh in eight places each | at and No. Selkirk, near mond e disposed of the boat man I'oint Upon examination here by H. D. Cole he gave a good the route over which from | story Americans, | here The anced the boxes of others owing innouncing the natches, »bliged to advance l.ondon Health is vendors in .the same a HAS BEEN RELEASED Prisoner Said He Left Syracuse in Search of Work in the _ North Country. N.Y Aug. 20.--A his name as J. J, N.Y Bennett, of » who was detgined by was released last even His mother was with him and he left Syracuse on July search of had lived 1521 South Salina 503 Orange street, In Nyra Pulaski, he small pur a boat, dia ring as .security A giving a few days 10 a Mile named Bates, af Three Justice he had Syracuse corroborated He hopes to get work his near EVEN MATCHES RISE. | High Cost of Lighting Sabject of Statement. Aug. 260 Matches retailer has the old parlor" some are ad five and cas small prices of "silent six cents and in 'n cents E. B to Eddy company state to cables from Europe a difficulty in despatch chemicals for the heads of the company has been the wholesale License Butchers, Aug London Board of considering having all 'heat take licenses vendors May 20 city the out milk THE PRESENT STATE OF FIELD OPERATIC London. Aug. 20. allies' armies are now disengaged. south. them. but on the north, on the contrary, they have had oa Germans Waste Fifteen Days Owns. 'al dispositions. ng the operations.' " Fighting o Diest, Belgium, Jeet to "In ope ragements of the last few sirenmspeet. The de seneral plat of ope tp onl have been able to make considerable disturbance and extend "On the south the allied Belgian and French armics have heen {rec/field. and could penetrate in small bodies far into the country. - be tinable to discover it, owing to the necessarily vagne particul proach each other and the nearer come the deciding battles, the hear of an advantage on this side and of yielding on that. ations so vast and with those engaged using modern arms too gre ention must not he paid to the operations in our immediate vicinity. Evolutions or- leret} in a particular previously degdrmined aim is not yecessarily a retreat. The en-/, - Wikia aise a "The German troops on the north Pank of the Meuse comprise sections of differ- ant army corps, whose efforts have been' directéd toward the capture of Liege, and who There are also bodies of cavalry, thanks to which the Germans themselves north and able to repulse | J is proceeding on the whole front extending from Basle, Switzerland, and in these numerous contacts the more the opposing armies ap-| more one must ex-| this man is not worth sending for, but of the en mys advance had the greatest _advantage for our Baily British LIES ARE ABLE T0 CRUSH GERMANS Both Sides Lost Heavily in Dreadful Fighting at Dinant, Where There Was Terrible Carnage. ; the | events transpipfig in Belgium are man i between | troops show street | LD account | symptom nor unexpected. of himseli and several persons along | fansive organization of Belgium, comet ponceived By (ieperdl Brialmol { NS IN BELGIUM A Havas despatch from Brussels gives am official eommuni- cation congerning the prident state of the field operations in Belgium: "* After having lost much time and a great number of men, and, besides, import- ant war material,"' the communication says, "the Prussian right wing has succeeded in gaining on hoth banks of the Meuse the ground to bring them into contact with the "In a word. the Germans have taken a number of our positions, but have wasted ' ifteen davs in arriving at this result, which is greatly to the honor.of our army. It is not a question of single battle evolutions or capture of certain parts of the country or, These matters are secondary in regard to tiie object assigned our troops in the | This aim cannot be revealed, and the mnost penetrating minds will | ars furnished concern- | week ago to the police as a deserter | from a regiment at Kingston. | meautime the Toronto police has got at at- the front," , » . . Li avihaye had the result of rendering our adversaries VETY Thursday, | British bakers will 'bread sll Usnada's gilt of Hour. Teutons in-Larg? Nims Coossiny thy Mus: Biwi Liege and Namur---Situation in Alsac2 Report- ed by Paris as Unchanged---French Hus- sar Captured by Germans Wha Cut His Throat. Paris, Aug Careful study of | TE®dddbbdd ddd ddd dddb ddd bbe military situation the north ern frontier leads French military ob- servers to the gonclusion that the the mm 20 an : PREFERS NAVAL HOSPITAL. 3 London, Aug. 20--Unofficial- ly it is learned that the admir- alty is suggesting to the Cana- dian government that the pro- vision of a 100-bed naval hos pital would meet its needs bet. ter than the hospital ship gen- erously offered by the Canadian Council of Women: beginning of operations op an mense scale. ¥ Germany, it a fresh is making to break compara is declared, and mightier effort into France through the tively open Belgian country Government however, is conlident that will be able to meet cessfully ahd reply to France, allies sue opinion mn the +* * * J * * -* +> > \ +* * PEEP read this shock it erushingly Terrible Carnage at Dinant DetfNs of the fighting at Dinah the French German that the carnage was terrible. The first French company, although decimated, held a position until another company came up with artillery which destroyed a bridge The French cav alry then .ad vanced and pushdd the German at tackers back into the Meuse. An official announcement ing savs the troops not CANADIANS ACCEPTED Doctors Have Been Givem Commis- sions in Medical Corps. London, Aug 20.--Two young Canadian doctors, H. H. Hepburn, Montreal and A, L. Lockwood, West- port, Ont., whose escape from Ber- lin was reported Monday, were yes. | terday accepted by the war office and gazetted lieutenants in the the Royal Army Medical Corps. { They eave for the f{ront fighting lines immediately. They both speak German and French fluently. and this morn retirement ot Antwerp confirmed, Commenting on this report, in as | officially explained that even were it true it would neither 'a grave de- as Belgian toward 1 rumored, but Statement Unconfirmed, Ottawa, Aug. 20.-- The report that the Duke of Connaught leaves Cans ada permanently in October, is not confirmed Here. No plans are made for his departure. be The presented in technical words, pro- vides that Antwerp be considered as a last defence. It been fortified with care and is to-day a vast in trenched camp upon the flank of the ha wAILY MEMORANDA | I. OF. urgent 1.20 pm, | "riday | Ses top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities meeting enemy French Army Nearing Metz. I'he given out iast "Latest that the French army has Morhange (Morchingen) in Alsace-Lor raine, nineteen. miles south-east ot Metz thir advance was very | Clarke, J. W. & Co... .... the aiternoon bevond the River Seille, | Collexe Book Store especially the central part of our line. | Coulter's Grocery At the end of the day we reached Delo | Cullen's Grocery, Cor, Princess & Alfred on one side, and Morhange on the | Frostenae Hotel . * | Gibgon's Drug Store .. | MeAuley's Hook Siore .... | MeGalls Cigar Store Cor, Prin. & Kiss | Meleod"s Grocery ....51 Union Se. W. | Mediey's Drug Store 260 University Ave | Pauls Clgar Store | Prouse's Drag Store .... | Valleau's Grecesy | Lawe's Grocery .... THEDAILY BRITISH WHIG © ofiect {18 ON SALE AT THE FOLLOW ING CITY SI'ORES { 2 | Buckneil's News Depot ..208 King B following ofhcial statement was night advices are to the rapid in me, other little Alsace Vosges change in the We continue The Germans have retaken the village of Ville,where e had an outpost Our troops, de Seille, have occupied and Dieuze, but face strongly held posi first "There i situa tion in upper to advance in on the Chateau Salins well fortified Uhr slow bhouching and tions progress at WAS ne | - cessarily { a | BALDWIN--To Mr. and Mrs. R. BaM- Operations In Belgium. Ja, oh Monty; Aug Aan ad, successful Flor Very large German is announced, are crossing the Meuse between Liege and Namur. "One of the French brigadiers has MARRIED has had a 1 | | asked the commander-in-chief to make KENT--SMITH--On August 10th, 1914, { | | i | with the Germans at "Our cavalry encounter enville, Belgium forces, it Le JESS --In Kingston, on Aug. 18th, » Mr. and Mrs. James Law. 217 Montreal street, a daugh- 2 public the following fact : A French by the Rev. Mr. luihe, Hetberl Hussar, made prisoner," was dragged 9 tonsa »'boh of Late by German soldiers into an Alsatian village and his throat was cut before the villagers, who testify to the deed." Kent imer VAN "ORDER--MeCRACKEN---A$ Princess street, < 600 ngston, on the 18th August, by Rev. W. K. Shortt, M.A, John R. Van Order, of Glen- vale, to Pearl Agnes MoCracken, of t ne piace Notes Of The War. Rotwithitauding German official de nials, Italian emigrants returning to! ATT RON tu Rome confirm the report that er " ON BAL Bam, Salus. Ihb, were deliberately fired upon by Ger son of fC and Louise Coulson, man soldiers at Magdeburg. They |. O'tY. axed 23 years Hare that abont 6,000 BS at mera) from 43 King S¢_West, Friday, taken on cattle trucks to Cologne. being thirty-eight hours without food A German monoplane was brought down by riflemen at Sterrebeek, only a few miles fo the east of Brussels. Th, pilot, an officer, had in his pos sefsion three revolvers, bombs = and intecesting military notes. His legs were broken by the fall. but notwith standing his injuries he endeavored to discharge hig weapons. Four Gefman girls were arrested at Brussels on thé charge of spying Three spies, one.a woman, apprehend ed at Louvain, have been shot. DIED. At on ROBERT J, REID. the 'Phone 8577 Not Worth Sending For, A Toronto despaich says William Knight gave himself up =» In the into touch with the regiment, and, on Thursday. it was stated in court : "I'he commanding officer says that 'they will take him if he comes down." "1 am losing my chance to get to said Knight. "Let me go," and he was let go. Among the men who left with the Regiment for Valcartier, on was Pte. Thomas Longboat, the famous Indian runner bake free into ?