The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-08-27
GERMANS FORCE
IALL|ES TO RETREAT;
!. WINS BIG BATTLES
Namur and Nancy Reported
Captured.
FRENCH ABANDON ALsAcE
Paris War Office Admits Capture Of
Three Towns-Thousands Killed
and Wounded In Clash At
Chartered.


placed their main dependence to hold
In check the advancing hordes Of the
German main strength after they had
swept past Liege has given away be-
fore the advance of the enemy.
The news came as a surprise, but
was officially confirmed. The war Of
fee in giving out the tidings added
this significant note:
This necessitates the withdrawal
of portion of the allied troops from
the line Of the Sambre to their original
defensive position on the French
frontier"
Namur is at the junction of the
Mouse and Sambre rivers. Its fall
without a word of warning Of any
such prolonged siege Of guns as was
deemed necessary to reduce 1t to sub
mission before the German advance
indicates that the attack must have
been sudden, sharp and terrific, and
that the main strength of the German
field forces must have been centered
for the time being on this cone OBJ
jective.
London, Aug. 25.-Germany has won
her great three days battle at Charlie
roi, Belgium, against the French and
English army.
The press bureau Of the war Office
announces that the Germans have
taken the first line and that the
French and English have been forced
to fall back inside the French frontier.
The battle has been by far the
bloodiest the modern world has ever
known. No one will undertake to esti
mate the losses. The war office merely
says:
The killed and wounded already
outnumber those of any battle Of mod
ern times. The figures are so stupen-
dous as to mean very little"
Pressing steadily after the retreat
ing allies, the gigantic invading force
of the kaiser, estimated at 100000
men, now has firm footing on French
soil
Three Other German Victories.
At the moment of this victory on
the Sambre comes the claim from Ber
llin--which is not contradicted-that
three other great victories have
crowned the German arms.
The German army under Grand
Duke Albrecht of Wurtemberg over
whelmingly defeated the French forces
at Nefchateau, Belgian Luxembourg,
with the capture of seven French gen.
erals and many men and guns. This
is asserted in an official dispatch sent
out by wireless from Nauen, Germany.
simultaneously comes the wireless
announcement, also official, that Crown
Prince Frederick Wilhelm's army
northwest of Diedenhofen (thionville)
has completely routed the French
army of five corps, driving them across
the Meuse river and chasing them be-
yond Longwy. Advancing toward Mau-
beuge, the Germans met and defeated
brigade of British cavalry. The
French, the report says, no longer dare
face the terrible German infantry.
French viii Abandon AIsace.
Farther south, in the department Of
Meurthe-etM oselle, German army
under Rupprecht captured Luneville,
Blamont and Grey taking 100 guns.
1t Is admitted at Paris that Luneville
has fallen. The German official dis
patch says
THE retreat of the southern French
wing on Verdun has been cut off,"
The French war Office makes this
announcement:
"The general situation has deter
mined US to bring back our troops"
This means the abandonment of AL
sace-Lorrane and the concentration of
the French armies-if their retreat be
not in fact cut off-on the fortifica-
tons inside the frontier.
All along the Vosges mountains, a
fierce battle is now raging and the
Germans are evidently bent on driving
the French out Of the department at
once, though Paris dispatches declare
the French are acting on the offensive.
MueIhausen and Nancy Taken.
One dispatch from Paris declares
that the battle in the Vosges Is a ter
rife affair and may last for days.
1T will be impossible to follow the
movements Of each of our armies"
says the report. "The campaign Is be-
ing carried out methodically and, with |
the cooperation of the English and
Belgian troops. In several places the |
French have fallen back, but that was |
because the positions they held were
no longer of strategic Importance"
A dispatch from Basel, Switzerland.
says that the Germans have again ia
ken Muelhausen, anu there is an uncon-
filmed rumor in Paris that Nancy has |
fallen.
But the point of breathless interest
to ell is In southern Belgium, where |
the British and French have for three
days been In a terrible struggle TO |
stem the tide of the German advance. !
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, the noted Ger
man Socialist leader. is not dead. Sec
rotary OF State Bryan made inquiries |
as to the truth Of Lebknecht's death
and Berlin reported there was no
truth in the report that he was shot |
to death.
General Carranza, leader OF the con.
stitutionalists, entered Mexico City,