The Green Forest tribune., 1914-08-14
HALF MILLION MEN
 INVADE GERMANY
RUSSIA EXECUTES SURPRISING MANEUVER IN ATTACK
 ON TEUTON.
PRUSSlANS ENTER FINLAND
Kaiser, Planning First to Crush the French, Then Engage Russia,
 Seems to Have Seen Outwitted.
Western Newspaper Union News service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
 London.--Germany and Russia each launched an army across the border Saturday.
 A full army corps of 10000 of the kaiser's fighting army invaded Finland, landing at Ekelaes, and is marching toward Helsingfors. 100 miles away.
 Helsingfors, on the Gulf of Finland, was reported shelled and captured by the German fleet.
 From Helsingfors it is but 250 miles to St. Petersburg, and there is a direct railway line.
 Russias blow at Germany, if the re- port be true, is one of vastly greater weight The St. Petersburg corre- spondent of the London Standard ca bles his paper that 100000 Russian sol dlers with 700 heavy guns crossed the border Friday at some point unnamed, and are now marching into the kaiser's domains.
 To back up this great array, the mob- ilization orders of Russia include pretty nearly every fighting man in the empire and six million are called to arms. The war is intensely popular with all classes.
 If the size of tho Russian invading army is correctly reported, it makes the situation grave for the kaiser.
 There is no doubt that he has count ed on the proverbial slowness of the Russians in getting under way, and had confidently expected by brilliant stroke to strike his adversaries one by one.
 By ignoring the hA,utrality of Bel. gium he meant to 1t ag an immense I, foreseutslto ;seuts unprote France, crush 2theS = f~e-..l tdn Dws9e. oppose him, i, march into Paris and dictate the terms of peace before Russla could get under way.
 Then, with troops flushed with vic tory, he could rush them back across Germany and meet the Russians at the border, or, perhaps, even anticipate their slow saovements and strike at them on their grounds before they were ready to invade his empire.
 The mobilization of the Russians has been a revelation to the world. Enthusiastic for war against tEe Ger mans, the men have rushed to their posts and taken trains for the front at rate not thought possible, and they are ready to strike.
 On the other hand, the hornets nest in Belgium was just as little expect ed by the kaiser, and instead of mak ing quick work of France his army sent to the west now has to face the com bined French, British and Belgian armies, and will rather need heln than be able to give it.
 The suggestion that comes from Go penhagen with the dispatch telling of the German invasion of Finland is that the Germans are actually setting out for St. Petersburg.
 Unless this force of 10000 is merely an advance guard of an immense army, the suggestion is not to be taken seri- ously. In that land of vast distances a single army corps would never dare go so far from its base without a strong force to keep open com.nunica- tions. But if the kaiser is prepared to back up this advance corps with sev- eral more, the invasion might become a serious menace.
 A third event along the Russian frontier was the reported invasion of Russia by the Austrian troops St Petersburg announces that Austro- Hungarian troops have crossed the bor- der from Galicia, in northeastern Hun This is almost equidistant from the Russian city of Kiev and the Russian Poland city of Warsaw, reported evac, uated by the Russians. The force may be intended to move on either place.
 The Austrian force along the Rus sian border now consists of 100000 troops, of which 44000 are cavalry Austria is assembling another 250000 men with which to menace the Podo- Han frontier, but it is not expected that they will be in position to offer battle for ten days at least. The Austrians have blown up the bridge over the boundary river, Zbrutch, near yolotschisk, which is about seven miles south of the Russian border
 Chief among the minor clashees along the Russo-German border an at tack by Russian cavalry brigade on the Germans at Soluda, in East Prus-