Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-09-12
Russia Sends Million Men Into
Eastern Provinces and Aus
tria-More Follow.
JAPANESE ACTIVE IN ORIENT
They Move On German Naval Base and
Colony at kaio Chow-ltaiy
MoboIizes and May
Strike.
{ Summary Of Events.)

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The French-British army was
crushed and scattered in it's first bat
tie with the German army which is
hurrying through Belgium to France.
After the Belgians had succeeded in
holding back the great Teutonic fight
ing machine for three weeks, while
the French and English chose battle
positions and dug their trenches, it
was expected the Germans would meet
severe defeat at the forts of Namur,
Belgium.
Expectations went to naught. The
kaiser's horses and men waded through
the allies with more dispatch thar
they had gone through the Belgian de-
Tense. They are now on the French
border, and the French and British
war offices are worried. The French
have been driven out of Alsace and Lor-
raine also, and at least temporary vic
tory rests with the Germans through
out the length of their 260-mile battle
line which extends from the Dutch
Belgian border southwark to the
French-Swiss border.
British officialdom has issued
statement in which it calmly an
Eounces that England and Russia will
hang on to Germany until they wear
her out, as the allies wore out Napo-
leon finally. Earl Kitchener, chief of
the British war board, is preparing
now to send to the continent one-half
million men every three months until
the end of hostilitieS
Russia Invades Germany.
Even now, Germany is not faring
well in the north and east. Russia is
pouring more than one million men
over the border into German Poland
and into northern Austria, and three
million more Russians are on their
way south. The Slavs, by sheer num-
bers, are sweeping things before them.
Austrias defense is weak because she
is harrassed by Serbs and Montene-
grins on her southern border.
Germany can put up only a poor
defense against Japan in the Far East.
AS soon as Japan declared war on
Germany, Sunday evening. August %.
Japanese warships and troops began
to move against the German naval sta
ton and colony in the Chinese prov
ince of Kaio Chow. They greatly out
number the Germans and will over
power the defense.
Even though she is victorious
against the French and English for
the present and gets well into France,
Germany cannot win finally, in the
opinion of unbiased military experts.
The kaiser has thrown an army of two
million men against France. This
army has steadily advanced, but it
has lost nearly sixty thousand in
killed, wounded and prisoners. accord
ing to the latest estimates. The al
lies have not lost nearly so heavily.
German Troubles Coming.
With Russian hordes pouring into
Germany from the northeast, it will
soon be necessary to recall part of
the army of French invasion to the
defense of Berlin. 1t is reported of
ficially from London that Britain is
contemplating the invasion of Schles-
wig-Holstein, the most northern Ger
man province, with an army of $780,
600. Such a movement as this will
further reduce the strength of the
western German army.
italy is mobilizing her war-strength
army of 100000 men. 1t has been re-
ported from semi-officia1 sources that
she will attack Austria
The misery of war is beginning to
crush non-combatants in Europe. Not
a wheel has turned in Belgium or Fiol-
land since the first week of August,
and the poor are feeling hunger's
pinch The Dutch haven't been fight
ing, but every able-bodied man is
guarding his country's border against
German invasion
Fate of France in Balance
Paris-A new battle, desperate in
its fighting, is in progress from Mau-