The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-22
NAVAL
 EXPERT TELLS OF
 E''WAR OF WORLD"
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ment in the Louvaine hospital which | had been taken for the use of German 1 soldiers wounded in battle. The Bel gians surrounded the hospital at l night, entered the building a,nd over 1 coming resistance, cut the throats of the disabled Germans It was this outrage which decided Germany upon the drastic lesson tt the Be1gians that followed shortly upon the alleged in human acts of the citizens of Lou yaine.
 From the same inside sources that have today been opened to The Farmer, it is disclosed that all is not at peace in the great Russian empire In Germany, on August IS, it was re- ported that the Caucasus had rebelleda 1 and that the city of Odessa was in revolt. This news was shortly after wards confirmed and on August 427 it sovereignty of the people Of Odessa l as an independent nation had been 1 proclaimed after the loyal Russian troops had failed to put down the revolution.
 Another battle as yet unreported i'll 1 America, according to the German source is the battle of Metz, lasting fop three days in which 8Q0,00O sol- diers, about equally divided participat- ed with the result that Germany strategy and technique which is the only hope left to the Germans of win ming against greater odds, conquered and the Germans claim to have cap- turedf 10000 French and 150 cannon. Tn this tattIeo it is claimed that the pursuit of the French was carried on i over 9 distance of 15o miles in which ammunition trains. cannon and army equipment was constantly abandoned l by the roadside while hundreds were shot and lay for days by the road- side.
 ] In battle near Gunbinnen. in ~ l with the Russians, 5000 prisoners were taken and a number of cannon.
 7 Among the most remarkable feats accomplished by the Germans in their whirlwind march upon the French 1 through Belgium, the Rapture of Yer viers stands out prominentIy. This town in Belgium was said to be the l key to the thoroughfare through Bel gium and when the little nation saw { the advancing columns of the Ger I mans approach near the mountainous ! approach of the city through which a
 railroad tunnel had been cut for i1- gress and egress they ran five or more l gigantic engines into the hole and J blew them up.s When the Germans l-were confronted with this effectuai l harricade the engineering corps was i summoned and in an almost unprece- 8 dented haste and technique planned #i and built a railroad with it's bridges,
 cuts and fills about the mountain for Hi a distance of over five miles. The
 work was completed ana troops being
 transported within four days. This is lsgaid to be but minor operation that 4 has been accomplished by co-opera- l tion skill and technique by the Ger T mans in their marvellous campaign.
 Another noteworthy fact not yet 4 -broght into prominence by the news I cables from abroad is the fact that
 the 1ndependency of Monaco in France
 and Morocco in Africa have also de- l clared war against Germany, the proc- q lamation having been published In IBer1in on August 28.
 English cavalry and infantry de-
 feats are recorded in Germany as of T August g, when cavalry brigade was
 defeated near Maubeuge and also at
 St. Quentin when s0o0 British were
 taken prisoners by the Germans
 During the course of the war not
 only did 100000 German volunteers
 offer their services to the Kaiser but !. in the, midst of their own strife with
 Servia,s Austria came to the front with H volunteers to the extent of 800, men.
 At Kiel, the details of sea disasters and battles is reported in a far diff ferent manner than elsewhere. It sI was shown to German inhabitants that the cruiser Magdeburg, which ran
 aground off the coast of Finland when I in danger from capture by the Rus-
 sians was blown up by her commando
 CT on August 26. and that in 9 naval
 battle off HeligoIand, when one Ger
 man torpedo boat and three small II cruisers were suddenly confronted by 1 a superior number of English battle
 ships, instead of engaging in battle
 the German commanders followed the lI prescribed course and blew, up their ships.
 Among other alleged unpublished 2 fxz i04
 at the river Sarnbre in which the Ger
 mans defeated eight Belgian and @ French army corps (nearly 36o, ,000 1 mem who were attempting to re-
 Iieve the garrison at Namur. The gar rison already had been taken by the
 eSernans with their IT inch siege J guns, throwing charges of explosive
 that wrecked 10 feet solid cement
 walls, heretofore supposed impervious
 to shot and shell, and which crunpled l into powder and with the explosion
 of magazines left gaping pits in the These interesting details are supple : nented, after the fall of Namur, by the announcement throughout Ger
 many that the Belgian King had re- l treated to the city of Antwerp, where after a few saIIies in an effort to dis lodge the German forces he was sur rounded and is still said to remain a
 virtual prisoner before the German
 lines.
 I AL I4lS zC1ly L4AC 4A OcsA SHO SAAS
 Zeppelin airstips is noted as they first
 attacked the gas-woTlzs of the city
 blowing the monster tanks high into
 the air with their bombs. With the
 city in total darkness they are in-
 vesting it.
 Another most important fact an- , nounced in the letter received yester- day and known throughout Germany is the fact that Manon VilIers. near
 LunvilIe France, the strongest forJi-
 hcafion of the French, located upon a
 mountain-top, has been captured by fl tthe Germans. It is apparently in an . effort to check the Germans in their march towards France past this fort ? that the tremendous battle now raging lalong 15O miles front is being contest :. ad inch h.z inch and xRifh he loss o4