The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-15
MANIFESTO is ISSUED
General Staff Will Eventually
Publish All the News in
Correct Version

OpcillidSell, VIA hOiluOii
Aug. l5.-The Berliner Tage-
blatt, of Aug. y, which reach
ed here today, contains a mani
festo to the German nation by
General Won Stein of the Ger
man general staff, in which the
public is cautioned against be-
lieving any statements except
those given out by the general
staff. 1t says:
I'm England and France
falsehoods are being spread
broadcast. You Germans have
too much faith in your govern
ment to accept rumors too cas-
lily. You Germans are also
spreading rumors of victories
and defeats, such as the Ger
man occupation of Belfort and
the destruction OF French regi-
ments by the wholesale. Ev.
eiything will be published in
proper time. We have given
our word nothing will be exag-
gerated and nothing minimiz-
ed. Few except those expert
enced in warfare can know or
show with what difficulties vic
tories are won"
Another Berlin paper de-
clares Great Britain is paralyz-
ing American diplomatic rela-
tons by preventing American
ambassadors from sending dis
patches in cipher.
Germans Advancing Steadily.
London, August 10. - Pushing
forward by mere weight of
numbers, the German advance across
Belgium is slowly but steadily pro-
ceeding and soon must come i'm con-
tact with the allied armies. of France,
England and Belgium. which accord
ing to an official communication from
Brussels last night, are in battle or
der at some point unnamed.
The Belgians in the outpost skir-
mishing are said to have inflicted Sc
we're checks on the German forces;
but on the whole the German wing
has kept on its way and has reached
line from north of Namur to Haelen,
which suggests that the first big bat
tie will be fought somewhere between
Louvain and Diest, where the allies
probably will try to block the roads to
Brussels and Antwerp and prevent the
German attempt to render north Bel
gium untenable.
Delay May Prove Fatal.
Military stragists are of the opinion
that the Germans are meeting with
delay which they did not count upon
and that every day the Belgians Keep
them fighting means an increase ot
Russian forces on their eastern from
tier. They express the belief that un-
less Germany soon disposes or Bel
gium and France she will have TO
choose between withdrawing great
part Of her army from the west or
leaving the road to Berlin open to the
iorces of the emperor of Russia.
Already hordes of Russians are re-
ported to be marching toward Prus-
sia on the one side and to Austrian
Galiacia on the other In the latter
country they are said to be in the
vicinity of the Styr river which is on
The route to Lemberg.
German Version Of Situation.
San Francisco. Cal, Aug. 15-The
German consul here has received the
following telegram from the German
ambassador at Washington:
Poland has been evacuated by the
Russian troops, which are now mass
ing their forces farther back. The Ger
man north army, after having taken
possession OF the greater part OF bege'
advanced its outposts as far as Tirle-
mont and Namur, where decisive
battle is expected. 1t is only ques-
ton Of short time before the forts
will fall.
The outer forts of Longwy are ST.
lenced.
The French army corps at Belfort,
which pressed our advance guards, was
thrown back to the vosges with heavy
losses by the IL Baden corps, whose
lett wing. assisted by the Fourteenth
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