The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1914-08-26
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR

According to latest reports from
the front the Germans are overrun-
ming north Belgium and are within
few miles of Ostend. The report also
says that $4,000 Germans who marched
through Brussels are now in Client.
The English consul at Ostend has ad-
vised all the English to leave that
place, and most of them have departed
for Folkestone. The Germans occu-
pied Brussels without firing a shot
Antwerp, an important port city,
has been placed in a state OF siege
and all foreigners have been asked to
leave as soon as possible. King Albert
and the general staff are in the city,
the forts are manned and the civil
guard has been directed to act under
orders of the military. Fast channel
steamers have been requisitioned to
carry non-combatants to places OF safe
ty. The forts are being made ready
for vigorous defense. The defenses
of the city are considered impregna-
BILE. The German troops have been
bombarding Namur with heavy siege
guns and have partially invested that
city, also attacking the French lines
at Dinant, only ten miles from the
French border. ~
An Impregnable Fort.
1t is estimated that an army of $780,
900 men could not capture Antwerp in
six months, and not then unless the
food supplies ran low The Belgian
main army consists OF about 100000
men and the garrison of the forts is
about 10000. The army is large
enough to hold off much bigger array
by the help Of the forts and will be in
a position to inflict great losses upon
the enemy by sorties. In case OF ex-
IRENE necessity French and British
war vessels can be brought up the
Scheldte and can contribute enormous
ly to the defense of the city.
The French have taken ninety-one
German field guns, nineteen autos and
four flags, according to dispatch re
ceived in Paris from Alsace. The
French cavalry routed a column of
the Rhine from Leopoldshohe, near
the village of ST. Louis, in Alsace. The
German losses were placed at 500
killed and wounded. Austrian troops
are reported to be concentrating in
great numbers at Leopoldshohe
Paris reports that the only French
territory invested by Germans is that
which is occupied by small body OF
German troops at Audun-Le-Roman in
the Muerthe-et-Moselle department.
Russians Invading Germany.
Official advices from ST Petersburg
report that 100000 Russians are now
upon German territory. The German
forces were defeated at Staluponen
and the Russians have occupied Ko
vallen, Melkenen and also the import
ant east Prussian town of Lyck, just
over the Russian border and about
sixty miles from Gumbinen. The oc
cupation of Lyck was made after two
days of hard fighting, and was only
effected after the German position had
been stormed by strong Russian rein
forcements
Austria has protested to Italy against
the latter's affording facilities to the
fleets of Great Britain and France in
the Adriatic, and there are indications
that the diplomatic tension between
the two countries is very acute.
The German project of upper AL
SAGE has warned the citizens that II
the inhabitants take part in the fight
ing against Germany they will be shot
their local burgomaster also will be
shot, and the localities will be demol
ished.
All British army reservists in the
United States have been ordered to
place themselves at the orders of Eng
lish consular officers in their districts