The Yale expositor., 1914-08-13
After Days of Fierce Fighting
Liege is Taken by
Germans
OWING TO CENSORSHIP
REPORTS ARE CONFLICTING
French Army Penetrates AIsace-lor-
raine Capturing Several Towns
German Send Flower of Army
to Recover Them.

that is engaging Europe's five great
powers. The German army in at
tempting to pass through this country
to reach French territory has met with
fierce and deadly resistance from the
Belgian forces.
The important and strongly forti-
fed city of Liege was stormed for
several days by the invaders. The
Belgians put up gallant defense and
the German losses were very heavy.
A dispatch from Brussels early Mon
day morning admitted that the Ger
mans had taken the city.
The German losses in the fighting
at Liege are said to be thirty thou
sand men. Accurate figures and facts
concerning the fighting are hard to
obtained owing to the strict censor
ship exercised by all OF the coun-
tries engaged in the fight.
A conjunction of English, French
In Belgium where a stubborn resist
ance will be offered to the kaisers
army.
Two Austrian army corps have been
detailed to assist their ally, Germany,
and are moving to join her in her at
tack on the French frontier in Alsace
and Lorraine.
Reports from the Austro- Servian
conflict the original fight of the pres
ent general war, indicate that the
| Servians have succeeded in defending
| their frontier from invasion and it is
reported that their armies will take
the offensive under the crown prince
and invade Austrian territory
Simultaneous with these reports
| comes word that Russian army of
enormous strength-some reports
place the number in excess of 5000
is invading Germany and Austria
from a point along the northern boun-
Diary of Prussia down to a point 125
miles south of the northern Austrian
frontier boundary.
If this latter report is true, it means
that at last the Russian army is in
action. The car has declared in all
of his speeches that he has made from
the throne and to the troops ever
since the war became imminent that
Russia would take the offensive.
Sunday night it was reported that
Grand Duke Nicholas had left for the
front and that he would lead the in
vasion of Austria. With Russian
troops in action along the Prussian
and Austrian frontiers, it would be
almost impossible for Austria to spare
many troops to help Germany, and
the kaiser would be forced to call on
his first line of reserves to come to
the rescue of his Prussian frontier
guards.
French Claim Important Victories
Paris-Advices through newspaper
dispatches and official sources, re
ceived Sunday stated that the French
had won a great victory over the Ger
mans in Alsace-Lorraine by taking the
stronghold of Mulhausen and three
other towns.
The French force, said to number
100000 defeated a force of 10000 Ger
mans, composed principally of the
regular Mulhausen garrison of 1900
infantry and $500 cavalry.
Mulhausen, which has a population
of 100000, and is the principal cot
ton spinning center of western Ger
many, is 81 miles southwest of Strass
burg, the capital. 1t became French
possession in 1903 but was taken b!
Germany in 1870.
The news of the victory of French
arms caused great excitement and re
joicing in Paris. The news came ii
fragments, telling of the taking o
one town after another.
French Claim the Victory.
The war Office, after maintaining
an from censorship for hours, sud
denly announced that the army will
headquarters at Belfort had takeI
Altkirch in Alsace. II had been
brilliant attack" the war Office said
with sweeping victory gained"
Soon afterward II was admitte,
that fighting was in progress in Lux
emburg. The army from Nancy, ad
vancing northeastward, had encoun
tered the German advance. The .ini