Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28
MANY, WHICH is BUT PRELiM-
MARY CONFLICT, is
APPALLING.
OTHER VICTORIES ARE ALSO
CLAIMED BY KAISER'S MEN
Namur Has Fallen to Teutons and Al
Least Three Other Great Conflicts
Have Gone to the Teutons-
France and England Now
Seek to Save Paris.

London, Aug. 25.--Germany has won
her great three days battle at Charlie
roi, Belgium, against the French and
English army.
Allies Fall Back.
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 forces.
The official press bureau also an
nounces that Namur has fallen.
The battle Of Charleroi has been by
far the bloodiest the modern world
has ever known. No one will under
take to estimate the losses. The war
Office merely says:
Killed and Wounded.
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.
Would Save Paris.
Between them and Paris the allies
are throwing a force of 100000 men
TO stop the invaders progress.
At the moment of this victory on
the Sambre comes the claim from Ber-
lin-which has not been contradicted
that three other great victories have
crowned the German arms.
Three Other Victories.
The German army under Grand
Duke Albrecht Of Wurtemberg over
whelmingly defeated the French
forces at Neufchanteau, Belgian Lux
emburg with the capture of seven
French generals 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, thai
Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm's
army, northwest of Diedenhofen
(Thionyille), has completely routed
the French army of five corps, driving
them across the Meuse river and
chasing them beyond Longwy
Advancing toward Maubeuge the
Germans met and defeated a brigade
Of British cavalry. The French, the
report says, no longer dare face the
terrible German Infantry.
LuneVille Has Fallen.
Farther south, in the department of
Meurthe-eth-M oselle, German army
under Rupprecht captured Luneville
Blamont and Circey. taking 100 guns
1t is admitted at Paris that Lunevlle
has fallen. The German official dis
patch says
The retreat Of the Southern French
wing on Verdum has been cut off,
The French war office makes this
announcement:
"The general situation has deter
mined us to bring back our troops"
To Abandon Aisace-L Lorraine.
This means the abandonment of AL
sace-Lorraine and the concentration Of
The French armies--if their retreat be
rot, in fact, cut off-on the fOrtifica-
fions inside the frontier.
All along the Vosges mountains a
fierce battle is now raging and the
Germans are evidently bent on driv-
ing the French out OF the department
at once, though Paris dispatches de.
clare the French are acting on the Of
fensive.
dispatch from Basel, Switzerland,
says that the Germans have again TAX
en- Muelhausen, and there is an uncon-
firmed rumor in Paris that Nancy has
fallen.
Nancy is the capital of Meurthe-et.
MOselle. IS miles south of Metz, on the
left bank of the River Meurthe, about
10 miles from the German frontier. 1t
is one OF the most prosperous towns of
France and has population Of mere
than 10000.