Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

the counterfeit signature of the Bel gian minister of war. ..
 France has formally declared war on Austria. The declaration followed the' failure of the Austrian government to make satisfactory explanations of the movement of Austrian troops frotn the Austrian Tyrol through Switzerland to the Alsatian border.
 Servans Drive Back Austrians.
 The Servian legation in London, in an official statement. confirmed the report that Austrian troops have abandoned their attempt to cross into Servian ter ritory. The statement says:
 After seven fruitless attempts to cross the Danube in the face of the Servian defense the Austrian troops finally abandoned the effort and re <, tired. leaving the Servians in posses l sion Servian troops are now operating in Bosnia t-.-
 According to advices received h Paris. the Servian advanced posts have arrived before Visegrad. Bosnia. to which place the Austrian troops fell back when they retired from the Ser | vian frontier.
 dispatch from Rome says Monte negro has invaded the new state of Al i bnnia and taken the city of Scutari i which was taken from Montenegro by i the powers at the close of the last Bal kan war. Montencgrin troops captured Scutari during the conflict after ter rife fighting ..-
 The Montenegrin forces have also directed an attack against the Austrian lines at Trebinje in 'Herzovina. fifty two miles southeast of Mostar. Germany is n1assing her main army above Basel Switzerland, to strike French army advancing victoriously through Alsace and already seventy miles beyond the frontier. < Austria Sending Troops.
 Austria Is sending re-enfofcenents by the thousands, and the total Aus trian allied force may exceed 10000. A Berne dispatch says that already 40,000 Austrian troops are concentrated near Basel. Forty-eight train loads of troops from TyroI arrived at Leopold. shoehe in Baden. northwest of Basel. Several other Austrian corps, 10000 each, are being organized at Sansbruk to re-enfore the Germans.
 The troops invading Alsace are be- lieved to be the main French army directed by General Joseph Joffre.
 With the entire army of invasion hurled back once more in a terrific as sault upon the Liege forts. movement Of German troops across the Mouse was begun.
 The plan now apparently Is to pass around the forts toward Wise and be tween Liege and Huy. which is mid- way between Liege and Namur.
 The German aim is .o attack the Bel gian army before the arrival of French re-enforcements. which are hurrying forward under forced marches.
 A general engagement between the Germans and the French and Belgians is imminent.
 The French have already effected a partial Junction with the Belgians, and a French army of 100000 is reported to be approaching from Lille.
 At the same time 1t is reported that the German Crown Prince Frederick William is leading 800.0O0 Germans in the forward movement against France
 The Seventh. Ninth and Tenth Ger. man army corps. said to number 125, 900 men. engaged in the assault on the Liege forts. with General von Emmicb in personal command.
 The union. of the French with the Belgians is said to have been accom- plished ut Warren. west of Liege. It is estimated at Brussels that 100000 French are already on Belgian soil. Among the prisoners taken by the