The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-08-07
GERMANY |NvADES
FRINGE At FIVE
7 1RENT POINTS
French Troops Defeat Enemy at
Cirey-Luxembourg Occupied.
RUSSIA AND KAISER AT WAR
Britain Seizes Big German Liner Car
ryIng sfo,soo,ooo In GoId-SeIzure 10
In Reprisai for kaiser's Act in Hold
ing Vessels.

has attacked the French customs
house at Dele. near the Swiss border
according To a war Office dispatch. The
which crossed the border near Nancy
earlier In the day. No details of the
lighting have yet been received.
Arion, Belgium, Aug 3.-One hun
dred thousand German troops are
crossing the Grand Duchy at Luxem
bourg and concentrating on the French
frontier near Liege. according to ad
vices received here. Frontier engage
ments, in which the Germans are said
To have been defeated. are reported
twenty-five thousand men are digging
trenches IN front OF a German and
French post
Germans Hold Luxembourg.
A train filled with troops arrived in
Luxembourg and the government of
the Grand Duchy is now in the hands
Of the German military authorities,
who have installed headquarters at
the government house. All railroad
and Geographic communication was
immediately cut Of
AT three o'clock in the afternoon the
German ambassador had not left his
post in Paris. The Hungarian
ambassador also is here still.
News of the trouble on the frontier
reached Paris about two o'clock in the
afternoon and was received with out
IF Of 81,
G'ermany's brigandage.
Germany Begins Invasion.
Brussels. Aug. 3.-With five armies
thrown across the border at as many
points. the total numbering approx
mately 100000 troops, Germany has be-
gun its invasion of France.
On the fortyfourth anniversary of
the first battle of the Franco Prussian
war the kaiser's forces, apparently
bent on duplicating the first move
ments of 1870. have attacked the
French troops and have been reported
successful in all but one instance.
Five French Towns Attacked.
The various points at which fighting
Langion-A strongly fortified town
three miles from the Belgian frontier,
which is reported captured by the Ger
mans
Delle-A town near the Switzerland
border. where a German column has
attacked the customs house.
Cirey-A town on the Luxembourg
border. where German invading
force of 10000 was reported repulsed
with heavy losses
Longwy-A fortified city 40 miles
northwest of Metz, Germany. where
lighting is reported still in progress.
Nancy-Another border town near
Grey and Strassburg where the kais-
er's forces are reported to have crossed
the line.
March Through Duchy.
The invading army marched
through the duchy of Luxembourg
breaking the terms OF the treaty of
neutrality, IL is charged. and split up
into five columns which struck almost
simultaneously. At Grey. where 90
400 Germans attacked the French,
they were defeated with heavy losses.
The dispatch says the invaders were
driven back across the border.
The fortress of Langion fell under
the sudden attack OF the invaders.
which had penetrated five miles In
side the French border TO the town
during the night and the early part
of Sunday.
\ force which is thought To have
been part of that which crossed the
border near Nancy earlier in the day
attacked the French customs house
at Dele. near the Switzerland border.
but no details OF the fighting have vet
been received.
Advance in Night.
The German troops began their ad
vance In the night. and before dawn
they had invaded Luxembourg. They
sought to enter the barracks, but the
major In command OF the Luxembourg
volunteers protested against such a
breach OF neutrality. and the Germans
then withdrew
Herman troops hold the railway sta |
ton. public buildings and entire rail.
say line and are guarding the from.
Ter
The German troops seized all the
bridges and stations on the Treves /
and Trios Vierges lines in order to |
insure the regular passage of military |
trains across the Grand Duchy.
The Germans assert that the rail- |
way lines belong 10 them and thew
have the right to do what they like
N Luxembourg and refuse To with
RAW.
Claim Action Unjus.ifed.
London, Aug. 3.-Regarding the in.
Fasion OF Luxembourg by German
rosps, the French embassy issued the
ollowing statement
German troops have invaded J.ux-
BY this action Germany IA.
'iolated the neutrality OF Luxembourg
rhis neutrality was established by