CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10] — Page 521

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Extracts from the China Press dated Tuesday,

18th

August, 1914,

German Invasion of Finland.

Ostasiatische Lloyd.

Shanghai, August 15.- We learn from trustworthy Japanese

sources that the battle fought the last few days in Belgium was

a success for the German troops.

400,000 German soldiers have been landed under the protect-

ion of German battleships at Ekenas on the southern coast of

Finland. They are advancing against Helsingfors. 400,000

Austrians, with several hunde d thousand German troops, are

assembling near Basle, to jointly enter Prance via Southern

Alsace.

The losses in the attack by the German torpedo-boat

squadron against the Britësh battleship fleat were four Dread- noughts sunk, six seriously damaged and four German torpedo-boats

lost.

PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

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Router's telegrama are so obviously one-sided that allow-

ance for this fact must be made in intepreting them.

not attaching blame to Router's for this circumstance.

We are

No

doubt the Agency would send news more fully and impartially if it could, but it can send only what is passed by a censorship hostile to Germany and Austria, and the censorship apparently

will not pass news, if any such percolates to London and Paris,

about successes of the enemy or the favourable progress of the

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