The Arvada enterprise., 1914-08-20
REPORT ARMY ROUTED BY MA.
TIVE TROOPS AND FOURTEEN
CANNON CAPTURED NEAR
BELGRADE.
.LIEGE FORTS BATTERED
KAISER HURLS ARMY ACROSS
BORDER AND cRuSHEs FLEM.
IsH rRoNeHoLDs.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
London, Aug. ia dispatch from
Brussels to Reuters agency says that
according to an official announcement
by the Belgian war office all the Ger
man troops recently fronting the Bel
gians have taken up strictly defensive
intrenched positions.
Paris. Aug. 19.-The Austrians have
been completely defeated near Sabac,
twenty-seven miles west of Belgrade.
according to government sources.
They fled toward LeZnitza pursued
by Servians, who cut up three regi-
ments and captured fourteen guns.
Servian cavalry pursued them
The Belgium minister, according to
Brussels dispatch to the Daily Mail
announces that the report OF the fall
Of the Liege forts appears to be faise
as nothing has been heard of it by the
ministry"
The Servian legation has received
the following from the Servian pre-
mier. N. p. Pachitch:
The Austrians were completely
routed In the mountains near Sabac,
and $4,000 annihilated. Austrians are
fleeing in great disorder to recross
the rivers Save and Drina. hotly pur
sued by our troops"
A telegram from General Joffre,
French commandsr-in-chief, to the
Paris war office says:
"All day Monday we continued to
progress in upper Alsace. The enc
mys retreat from this side was In dis
order. They abandoned everywhere
their wounded and their stores.
I'm all the actions OF the past few
days the Germans have sustained seri
ous losses, our artillery having de-
moralizing and frightful effect on the
enemy.
I'VE have conquered the majority Of
the valleys OF the Vosges upon the
slope Of Alsace, from where We will
soon attain the plain.
ITO the south of Saarburg. in Lor-
rxine. forty miles east of Nancy. the
enemy had organized In front of us
strongly fortified position held by
heavy artillery. The Germans retreat
ed precipitately and our cavalry pur-
sued them.
"The French troops have occupied
all the region to the west OF Fene-
TRANCE. thirty-two miles inside the
German frontier in Lorraine"
THE troops poured through from
the valley OF the river Seille. of which
number of passes have been evacu-
ated by the Germans. Their cavalry
is at Chateau Salins."
A dispatch from Brussels CORE.
spondent says:
THE German movement toward the
Belgian center seems to have been
checked at Landen and Gemblouy. No
further movements OF the enemy's
troops have been observed. The Ger
man prisoners In Belgium will be sent
to England"
The Germans, according to another
dispatch made another attempt to
cross the Meuse by a bridge aot far
from Dinant. where cannonadng was
resumed. The French artillery re.
PEELED the attack with considerable
loss.
A Paris dispatch says:
Paul Doumcr, former French min
lister OF finances, who has lust re
turned from the fighting line in Bel
GUM. says that three Zeppelin dirig
ibles. which were reconroitering ever
the war zone. were destroyed. An.
other fell into u forest and was
wrecked The spirit of the French
soldiers. according to NJ. Doumer, is
strengthened by the feeling that their
artillery IS superior to that OF the
Germans"