The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-08-26
BRUSSELS TAKEN
GERMANS have LITTLE TROUBLE
TAKING CAPITAL
NO REPORT OF fight
Information of Warfare is Still De-
tached and Observation-Disclosures
Are Oyerrunning Northern Part of
Belgium Presumably Making for
Port Of Antwerp.

oSiS1um fFSSuuaDly tNah1uS IOE
Port of Antwerp.
The German cavalry on Thursday
occupied Brussels. Strong columns
are following up this movement. The
Belgian army is retiring on Antwerp,
without having been engaged by the
Germans.
An entire change in the plan Of
campaign may be brought about by
the finding of an opening to the
north by the German armies in Bel
GUM. This was admitted in an Off
cial communication. from Brussels
which said the Germans had gained
ground on both fanks Of the Meuse
and are in contact with the ailies."
It adds that the Belgians, having
done all that could be expected by
holding the invaders in check for Is
days, "their strategy will now be
merged into the general plan OF the
allied armies"
Antwerp apparently is the tenn
porary goal of the German troops in
Gelgium. They are reported moving
slowly, but steadily in the direction
fthe great fortified port on the
river Scheldt. The German soldiers
have occupied the town of Tirlemont
and their masses pushing in from the
frontier are believed to have come
into contact with the allies front.
Reports in Brussels asserted a bat
tie had occurred near Chareroi in
which the Germans were supposed to
have suffered a loss of 5000 killed.
This was not confirmed.
Complete silence is maintained as
to the fortune of war in the big fight
understood to be in progress some
where along a line extending through
Belgium and Luxemburg. Dispatches
give evidence of the presence OF
masses of German troops pushing
their way to the front behind an i'm
penetrable screen of cavalry, whose
dashes in search Of information as
to the whereabouts of the allied
troops have resulted in sharp clashes
and heavy casualties,
The commanders OF the allied
forces of French, British and Bel
gians will not permit anything about
their positions to become public and
since the official note made known
the presence of large British expe-
dictionary force on the continent its
movements have been hidden from
the outside world.
In Alsace-Lorraine the French
turning movement through southern
Alsace appears from French reports
to be progressing faTorably for the
French and this seems to receive con-
firmation in dispatch sent out oy
the Wolff bureau, the German news
agency, saying two batteries OF guns
were taken by the French, who con-
tinued their march forward.
On the Observation-Disclosures
frontier fights of small Importance
are recorded. German troops occu-
MED Mlawa, Russian Poland, close
to the German frontier, and Russian
reports relate a repulse with heavy
casualties Of Austrian troops who
had attacked Vladimir in the prov
ince of volhynia.
A strong force of German troops
is said to have attacked Eydakuh-
men, a German town on the Russian
frontier, which was occupied by the
Russians soon after the outbreak OF
hosti1ities.
4 French official note confirms re-
ports Of Servian victory at Shaoats
over an Austrian force of $4,000
men. The Austrians are said to nave
lost 5000 killed and 5000 wounded
A Montenegrin army is reported
within two hours march OF the for
tilted Austrian seaport of Ragusa,
in Dalmatia. The Montenegrins mao
already captured a number OF towns
in the vicinity.
Adolphe Pegoud, a noted French
aviator, has returned to Parls lrom
the war zone to get new aeroplane.
According to Paris dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company, the
wings OF Pegoud's old machine were
riddled by 81 bullets and two shelis
when with military observer ne
made fight of 1856 miles into Ger
man territory. Pegoud could not say
inst where he had been except that
he recrossed the Rhine and with
ho,ohe hlew no two Germany conveys.