The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-08-28
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European War News
The official press bureau of the war
Office In London announced that
Namur had fallen to the Germans,
who have been assaulting its forts for
days with heavy siege guns.
Germany has won her great three
days battle at Charleroi, Belgium.
against the French and English army.
The press bureau of the London 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.
lest the modern world has ever
known. The war office says: 'The
killed and wounded already Outnum-
Der those of any battle of modern
times. The figures are so stupendous
as to mean very little
The French army has been defeated
at Neufchateau in Belgian Luxem-
bourg by the Germans under Grand
Duke Albrecht of Wurtemberg. Prince
.Ruprecht of Bavaria and his forces
have captured $50 guns at Luneville,
Blamont. and Grey, with an accom-
panying French British rout. At
Diedenhofen, near Metz, Crown Prince
Friedrich Wilhelm has defeated five
French army corps.
The japanese battleship Settsu has
begun the bombardment of Using Tao.
with French, British and Russian men
OF war assisting In the blockade OF
'Germany's ceded port in China.
Great Britain's official epitome of
the correspondence and negotiations
OF the powers previous to the wars
outbreak tends to show that from the
iServian establishment to the Haps-
burg demands until the invasion of
Belgium. Germany was averse to me-
diation.
Twelve British men of war arrived
in the channel off Ostend. presumably
to lombard the city in case the Ger
mans occupy it.
1t is officially announced at Paris,
France, that a great battle is now In
progress between the French and
British allies and the Germans on a
vast line extending from Mons to the
frontier of Luxembourg. The allies
have assumed the offensive and 1t is
expected that the battle will last sew.
eral days.
1t is officially announced that the
French have occupied Muelhausen
after severe battle, in which French
troops captured one of the suburbs at
the point of the bayonet.
The German embassy at Washington
issued statement declaring that the
French attempt to invade upper AL.
SAGE had been frustrated. In Lorraine
the note says, the French are retiring
while the army north of Metz, advanc
ing on both sides Of Longwy, has
forced back the French army.
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The reoccupation Of Muelhausen by
the French was a great success. The
move was carried out with dash
which threw the Germans back from
Thanh IN Dannenmarie
Namur is partly invested. Heavy
artillery fire opened at noon and the
westward movement of the Germans
continues on both banks of the Meuse
1t is officially announced that Ger
man cavalry forces, followed by an
army corps, passed westward through
Brussels. The retreat Of the Belgians
continues.
German cavalry have occupied Brus
sells and the Belgian army is retiring
on Antwerp. Large German forces
continue to cross the Mouse between
Liege and Namur.
Austrian troops have occupied the
town of Miechow, in Russian Poland
They surprised 1000 Cossacks while
the Russians slept and killed or
wounded 400 of them.
Lieutenant Colonel Rousett, a re-
tired military critic of Paris, France
says the great battle has begun
along a front of nearly two hundred
and fifty miles, 100000 men taking
part
Reports to Paris, France, from Rome
indicate that Austria and Italy soor
will be at war.
The British embassy announced that
the German navy is either in the Bal
tic sea or in various ports of safety.
Grand Duke Nicholas is leading q
Russian army corps over the Prussiar
border with the battle cry of "On tt
Periin!" Estimates of the Russian
strength vary from 100000 to 1,275,
600 men.
The Belgian government protests
officially against what 1t calls the Ger
man army's infractions of the laws
OF civilized warfare-in the shooting
OF wounded and noncombatants. ant
the maltreatment of women.