The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-08-14
HALF MILLION MEN
INVADE GERMANY
RUSSIA EXECUTES SURPRISING
MAMEUVER IN ATTACK
ON TEuTON.
PRUSSlANS ENTER FINLAND
Kaiser, Planning First to Crush the
French, Then Engage Russia,
Seems to Have Been OutWitted.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
| London.-Germany and Russia eac,
launched an army across the horde,
Saturday.
A full army corps of 10000 of the
kaisers fighting army invaded Finland
landing at Ekenaes, and is MARCHING
toward Helsingfors. 100 miles away.
Helsingfors, on the Gulf of Finland
was reported shelled and captured b,
the German fleet.
From HeIsingfors it is but $50 miles
to st. Petersburg, and there is direc,
railway line.
Russia's blow at Germany, if the re-
port be true, is one of vastly create,
weight. The st. Petersburg CORE
spondent of the London Standard ca
bles his paper that 100000 Russian sol
diers with 700 heavy guns crossed the
border Friday at some point unnamed
and are now marching into the kaiser,
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.
II the size of the 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 neutrality of Bel.
GUM he meant to swing an immense
force into unprotected France. crush
the troops thrown out to oppose him,
march into Paris and dictate the terms
OF peace before Russia 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 movements and strike ID
them on their grounds before they
were ready to invade his empire.
The mobilization of the Russians
has been revelation to the world.
Enthusiastic for war against the 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 max
ing quick work of France his army sent
to the west now has to face the CON.
bined French, British and Belgian
armies, and will rather need help
than be able to give it.
The suggestion that comes from Co.
penhagen with the dispatch telling of
the German invasion of Finland is that
the Germans are actually setting ont
for st. Petersburg.
Unless this force of 10000 is merely
an advance guard of an immense army
the suggestion is not to he taken seri-
ously. In that land of vast distances
single army corps would never dare
go so far from its base without
strong force to keep open communica.
tions. But if the kaiser is prepared to
hack up this advance corps with rev.
eral more, the invasion might become
! 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 HIM.
gary, and are now near Radziwille
This is almost equidistant from the
Russian city of Kiev and the Russian
Poland city of Warsaw, reported eyac.
uated by the Russians. The force
may be intended to move on ether
place.
The Austrian force along the Rms.
sian border now consists of l6o 0oo
troops, of which $4,000 are cavalry
Austria is assembling another 2so mo
men with which to menace the podo.
lian frontier, but it is not exnected
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
Volotschisk, 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.
STA. The Russians were repn,sed
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