Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-08-26

successfully hammered the German
line of communication so that the
enemy's position on the River Mouse
is menaced"
The main shock of the conflict is oc-
curing at Charleroi, on the Sabre
river, above Namur.
Both armies are using their full
strength of cavalry, infantry and art1l-
lery, and the whole south of Belgium
is shaking as in an earthquake with
the shock of armies.
The allies have taken advantage of
a chain of forts across this vast bat
tlefeld, and the Germans are Smelling
the forts at the same time they are
battering at the mighty mass OF the
allies united armies.
The war Office at Paris no longer
tries to conceal the fact that the decid-
ing battle is on, but the war office it
self knows little as yet of what has
been won or lost, and moy not know
definitely for days.
1t is officially announced from Paris
that the allies are striking at the Ger
French took last week after an all-day
fight.
Our troops have met with success, >
says the bulletin, but it gave no details
except the statement that the German
position on the Meuse is menaced.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Paris announces that the great battle
began early Saturday.
The French minister of the interior,
NJ Malvy admits that the greatest bat
tie of the war thus far is now in prog
ress
From Ostend comes a dispatch to
the Daily Mail declaring that for two
days there has been a great battle in
progress about Charleroi.
Wounded Pouring Into Paris.
La Liberte, in Paris, is publishing
the announcement that the great bat
tie in Belgian began and still is raging,
and that the attack is being pressed
by the allies with great violence. From
the front, says its story, comes the
news that the sound of terrific can
nonading has not diminished since the
battle opened. Wounded French and
German soldiers are pouring into
Paris, the article says, and German
prisoners are also arriving. England
is organizing an auxiliary corps to
care for the wounded of the allies.
A dispatch to the Havas News
agency says that a bloody battle is
being fought at Luttre, small town
on the Sambre to the westward of
Charleroi.
The French and English had the OPP
portunity to hold their very strong po-
sition at the French frontier and wait
until the Germans were forced to at
tack, but they have not done this.
Their savage attack at this time has a
two-fold purpose-to break the adj
vance Of the center of the Germans on
Dinant, and to cut off the German
right wing which had marched through
Brussels, Client, Bruges and Ostend
and now threatens to flank Lille in
France. A great victory now would
place the Germans in a critical posi-
ton.
Charleroi, which seems to be the
center of the French line of battle, is
the chief of the great Belgian iron and
steel industry, and is a great railway
center making it important strategic
ally. 1t is % miles east of Mons.
The Belgian forts with which the
country is dotted will be a great aid
tO the allies as thew are a constant
menace to the Germans, and take the
attention of much of the German artil
| lery.
France and England have agreed to
share equally the burden of advancing
| $100,OO0,0OO to Belgium in recognition
of her services in holding back the
| Germans for three weeks.