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Great Battle Impending. 'HUR1UED REINFORCEMENTS. ¡"OR THB GERMANS. A v-ery violent general action .;has be- ■tjun in the region below St. Q,.mnt' n. The Frenen Bureau have issued a biiet, but signiiicaut, sentence stating that the battle on tne left was "de- eloping." A communication to-day shed im- portant light on this word. Shortly, it is. patent that the Germans1.,ave awaken- ed to the tremendous peril -of their right 1 wing. They have rushed ax-my corps to tills side from the cent.re" and even from Lorraine and ihe Vosges. The latter -are the troops which vwere previously reported to be passing -through Liege. Their number was piit ja-t 200,000. They have been conveyed by train to Cam- brai, via Liege and Valenciennes. I The description of the "fighting suggests an action of the natuii? of a pitched I battle- If the alh-ed trcops .engaged really be- long to the left wing, and are not the new army which it .has been suggested Las been in waiting .for ibe psychological moment to strike a sledge-hammer blow on the rear of the German right, then a glance at the map shows that the Allies' hDe curls round the German right far beyond previous belief. More may not be said now. But all points to the imminence of great hap- penings and €he decisive stage of the battle. The Frendi. communication alw sug-, gosts feat the Allies are forcing & pass- age on either side of the Germans on the heights before Rheims. An advance of "the Germans G1:I. line between Veridiin and Toul is saaen- aoed by the advance of the French r' rht to Beaumont. It"is believed the enemy'si activity lere is intended to relieve 'the, pressure on their centre and enaMe it* to retire nct-tllwnfds. The massing of 40,000 Germans m; i Waterloo and the bringing up of siege' guns lend-s eoloiir'to a recent report £ hat General von XInek had withdraln: Ihisj headquarters to TMcns. t '1 Sinking of the Cruisers. SPLENDID HEROISM OF THE CREWS. The Admiralty la.it night issued ports of the surviving senior officers Q$ the three British -cruisers sunk in the North Set, and in a covering statement ¡.ay the natural promptings of humanity have in till is caste led to heavy losses j which would have been avoided by a ■ strict adherence to -military eoaeidera- tions. Modern naval "WaT presents so many iii-w and -strange iiiatio&s that an error' of judgment of this charactor. is pardon-' able, but it 'has been necessary to point out for the future guidance of his Majesty's ships that the conditions TIre-' Utiiing when one vessel of a squadron is • inj ured in a minefield or exposed to sab- marine attack are analogous to those oe- furring in a general action, and that the rule of leaving disabled vessels to their ¡ own resources is applicable, so far, at i any rate, as large vessels are concerned. The reports refer in glowing terms to Ilie conduct of the crews. The loss of life is given as r.early sixty oncers and 1J00 men. There is no indicatiwi of the •it tacking submarines, and althcragh the '< Yessy's gunner positively asserts he ,tik a hostile erqff,, --)n officer who stood alongside the gunner believes the Iseiter's nbell struck only floating .timber. ——— a  Premier in Da?m. I .ANNOUNCEMENT RE INDIAN TROOPS. J last night addressed a ttr,ge recruiting meeting at the Majision blouse, Dublin. The meeting evoked £ *.rcat popular interest, applications for ■! mission to the hall, which accommo- dates nearly 3000. exceeding many times ? .?a number of ti?ets that could be ("h.d. 3 right hon. gentleman was accom- ^by T.-ord Aberdeen, Lord Crewe, Mckenna, Sir John Mr. John Pedmond, and other ,1<J<-vbla figures in politied life. n making a- f^vecinl appeal to Ireland, %ill;"tse sons had already shared in the Vich the British Army had ^aiiied, the Premier said from all of the Empire its best manhood comir-s forward in defence of our Common interests. The first Indian cost- tigcjt had, he believKI, landed in Mar- seilles that day. This important pronouncement "was received with loud and prolonged cheer- ing, as was also a further declaration by the right hon. gentleman, that in so far as Ireland was concerned old animosities were dead, and we were a united nation. i,jt r German New Guinea. ANOTHER SLICE OF CDLONY SEIZED. The Secretary to the Admiralty an- nounces -that a telegram has been re- ceived from Vice-Admiral Sir George Patey stating that the town and har- bour of Friedrich Wilhelm,, the srat of Government, of Kaiser WiJhelm Land, German New Guinea, has been orcupied j by the -Australian forces without opposi- I fcion. Arwyd forces of the eiwmy appear tc' have .been concentrated ;at He??erthohe,. w'here they were -aMahilatec!. The?f BrUa?h flag has been lioisted :at Fried-\i rich 'Wilhelm and ? gaTrison rstablisheJ, j riel-i '-?N-ilhelm an d a -gi3-rrison rstablishi-0, ?? ) T? ISjt Kaiser's Paris PIns. 1 A LITTLE GERMAN PROGRAM TUT I HAS NOT BEEN PERFORMED. I An account is given in Paris of the jpro- n which the Em peror Willi aim kad -irranged for his fituy in .iris, whera- he expected to arrive 'between. August "loth ;sunid'20th. The program includ&d the cap! in? of M. Poincare and the Ministry, di the -British and Russian Ambassadors, and -of the Directors of Banks and the TPresi- Ldents of the Chamber and Senate, an embargo on the Bank m France, illie de- tention of numerous political and 1inan- -cial personalities and of writers iiostile to Germany, of whom the German Em- bassy had prepared a list before ■-mobili- sation The confiscation bf the Public Debt "Tegister was also provided for, so as to 'compel French Government stockholders to accede to all tactions and to Remand peace. "Once Paris had Tieen occupied, -an army of 600,000 reservists-would, in the Ger- man estimation, liaw. sufficed to main- tain order south and north, while "25 first line German corps would have ■ marched against the Russians.

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