Front Brussels and Ghent in Bel
gium and from Paris came report!
that the hostile armies were battlinf
at Waterloo, at Dinant, at Gemblout
and at Louvain. The Waterloo en
gagement was later discovered to b(
untrue, and there is doubt about tht
encounter at Louvain, but confirms
tion was received of clashes at Dinan
and Gembloux.
The additional news that Germai
Uhlans were sweeping through th
countryside both north and south o
Antwerp acids to the belief that i
buttle is already in progress.
Shanghai—Two German cruiser
have been disabled and brought inti
Hong Kong. Confirmation of tlii:
fact was received here today. The
deck works, the turrets and the bar
hettes of tlie two cruisers were lie
molished and their masts and funnel:
had been shot away. Their sides were
stained with blood, which had rir
through the scuppers.
Owing to the rigid censorship os
tahlishod by the British authorltie:
at liong Kong it is Impossible ns ye
to obtain the names of the two Get
man cruisers. Many German met
chant vessels are lying in the harbo
at Hong Kong.
Two warships, badly damaged, am
c arrying many wounded, were report
ed to have entered Hong Kong hai
bor on August 13. Their identity wa
not made publie, hut at the time i
was believed they were either th
British cruisers Minotaur and Ham]
shire or the French cruisers Tfuplei:
and Montcalm, which were reporte:
to have had an engagement with th:
German cruisers Scharnhorst am
Onoisenau.
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF
A statement i: med from the head
cpiarters of General Stein at Berlli
claims that the German artillery t!r<
has forces! the forts at Liege to sin
render or cpiickly demolished ihen:
burying the garrisons in the ruins.
Official.
