The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-08-15
L0NCWY FIGHT
MOST SEVERE
Germans Pierce French Linz
But Are Driven Back
STATEMENT BY WAR OFFICE

German Army of the MoseIIe Pene
trated French Line Near Lonqwy
and Montmedy, But Were Finally
Driven Back and Lost Ground Recov
cred - Another Attempt Will Be
Made Near Verdun.
Paris, Aug. 13.-The nearest ap
proach 10 a real battle in which the
French army has been engaged oc
CURED at Longwy, when the Germans
forming portion of the army of the
Moselle attempted to pierce the lin,
OF the French defense. Thy gained 6
temporary advantage, but were latel
driven back with great loss. Th1
French also admit severe losses.
a regimsnt Of dragoQns coming
from the direction Of Liege and Who
attempted to Surprise the Belgians al
Annette, in the province of Liege
were driven off, leaving 153 dead ana
102 prisoners. .,,~ ~->-~,
Uhlans have taken upwards of $400,
900 from the bank at Hasselt, capital
of the province of Limburg, Belgium
1t was officially stated that all the
German soldiers who penetrated
France in the departments of the
Meuse and Meurth- -Moselle have
been driven back across the border.
1t is evident that the real battle
which will decide the fate of this lat
est ATTEMPT of the kaiser to invade
France is yet to come and in the mean
time the strict censorship absolutely
masks all movements of tither army
1t is believed that the object of the
German advance is the gap in the first
line of French defenses north of Yer
dun.
A Rome dispatch says the Messag
gero publishes a message from Basel
Switzerland, stating that the German
infantry regiments were annihilated
during the battle with the French
troops at Mulhausen.
The German regiments mentioned
are the Eighth Baden infantry reg:
ment No 16, which was stationed nj
Lahr in Baden, and the Fourth Prince
Williams Baden infantry regiment No
112, stationed at Mulhausen.
The commander of the Twenty ynintl
division attached to the Fourteenth
army corps, whose headquarters wer
at Freiburg, is said to have been slain
Another dispatch from Rome says
the Corriere dItalia publishes teie
gram from The frontier stating that an
Austrian cavalry brigade has been ey-
terminated on the Austro-Russiau
frontier
The Austrian cavalrymen are said
to have attacked the Cossacks, who
We're accompanied by artillery. They
were unable to hold their own an3
tried to get back across the frontier
but rain had fallen and men and
horses were caught in the marsny
ground and shot down until not ma
remained alive. H
The newspaper Corriere Della Sera
at Rome states that the Montenegrin
troops have captured Scutari.
The Exchange Telegraph's CORE
spondent at Nish, Servia, says com
bined Servian and Montenegrin inva-
sion Of Bosnia from Plevlje, northwest
of Novibazar, has begun in three col
umns General Radomir Patnik, chief
of the Servian general staff, being i'll,
General Yankovitch of the Servian
army has taken supreme command OF
the forces. 1-'s
A Central News dispatch from Nish,
Servia, says Prince George of Servia
was wounded while watching the Aus
trian bombardment of Belgrade. The
prince was standing on the walls OF
the fortress when a fragment of shell
struck him on the head and rendered
him unconscious. The wound is said
not to be dangerous.
Germans Organize League.