Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-08-05
GERMANY |NVADES
FRANCE At FIVE
DIFFERENT POINTS
French Troops Defeat Enemy at
Cirey-Luxembourg Occupied.
RUSSIA AND KAISER AT WAR
Cars People Arm for ig BConfIict-
st. Petersburg Announces VIII
helms Action and Declares
Martial Law.

has attacked the French customs
house at Dele, near the Swiss border,
according to war Office dispatch. The
force is thought to be part of that
which crossed the border near Nancy
earlier in the day. No details of the
fighting have yet been received.
Germans Hold Luxembourg.
A train filed 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 telegraphic communication was
Immediately cut OFF.
AT three o'clock in the afternoon the
German ambassador had not left his
post in Paris. The Austro- 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
bursts of rage at which was termed
Germany's brigandage.
Arlon, Belgium, Aug. 3.-One hun
dred thousand German troops are
crossing the Grand Duchy at Luxem-
bourg and concentrating on the French
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.
London, Aug. 3.-An official dis
patch just received here states that
the German force traversing Luxem-
bourg is marching on the fortress at
Longwy, a fortified town of France on
the Belgian frontier, 40 miles north
west of Metz, Germany.
Brussels, Aug. 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 forty-fourth 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
has taken place are as follows:
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 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
fighting is reported still in progress.
Nancy-Another border town near
Grey and Strassburg, where the kais-
ers forces are reported to have crossed
the line
Details of the fighting at these va
rious points have been meager, but
dispatches from Liege which have
reached here indicate that the invad-
ing force greatly outnumbered the
defenders and that only in the towns
which are heavily fortified and have
been expecting an attack were the
Germans repulsed.
March Through Duchy.
The invading army marched
breaking the terms of the treaty of
neutrality, it is charged, and split up
into five columns which struck almost
simultaneously. At Grey, where TO-
900 Germans attacked the French,
they were defeated with heavy losses.
The dispatch telling of this engage
ment gives no details of the fighting
other than that 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
or Sunday.
A 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 yet
been received.
Advance in Night.
The German troops began their adj
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.
German troops hold the railway sta
ton, public buildings and entire rail-
way line and are guarding the from
tier.
The German troops seized all the