The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-12
GREAT ARMIES
MANOEUVR|NG
FOR POSITION
At Any Hour Now May
Come Order for Advance
to Decisive Conflict.
GERMANS ARE DEFEATED
IN MINOR ENGAGEMENTS
Unsuccessful In Attempt to Drive
French From Position Out
side Muelhausen.
JAPANESE READY FOR WAR
Embarked on Transports at Shanghai
Are $4,000 Soldiers Await
ing Orders.
GERMANS ARE DEFEATED
IN MINOR ENGAGEMENTS
JAPANESE READY FOR WAR
Embarked on Transports at Shanghai
Are $4,000 Soldiers Await
ing Orders.

French and German troops are fac
ing each other to the north of Verdun.
There have been numerous ella shes of
minor nature, probably preliminary
to an extensive engagement in the
near future.
The respective positions of the Ger
mans and BelGians before Liege ap-
parently are unchanged.
German forccs arc making careful
"Reminiscences In the district of Hes
baye, which is believed To mean that
Germany Will take the offensive north
of Liege
According to French reports. the
Germans have been unsuccessful in
their attempt to drive the French from
their position outside Muclhausen.
The British War Offices information
bureau says there is reason TO believe
the German cruisers, Goeben and Bres-
lau. for which British and French war
ships were waiting. have taken refuge
| in the Dardanelles.
Clashes between Austrians and Rus
! SLAMS SO far have been of minor i'm
| p0rtance
| a Shanghai dispatch says AZ, 900 Jap
anese soldiers have embarked on
/ transports, and are awaiting orders
A Copenhagen dispatch announces
that Russian mobilization will be COM
| plete August 81.
several Australian warships have
Joined tho British squadron In AsIatIc
waters.
Recruiting goes on in London for
| overseas service.
The cunard liner Lusitania. In her
dash across the Atlantic, has reached
the Mersey in safety.
TWO SALIENT POINTS
IN NEWS OF GREAT WAR
LONDON. Angst 1.-Two salient
points emerge from the latest news of
the great war.
The first and most striking is what
Is described here The silent Vic
TORY. Thls applies to the fact that
the North Sea. over which almost alb
soluto silence has brooded so long. ts
now open 10 shipping without serious
danger. Steamship service from Dom
mark TO London and from Newca stle
TO Norway Is being resumed, while
steamship service between the Hook
or Holland and Harwich has suffered
no interruption.
These facts, I'm the opinion of an.
thorities here, imply that the German
Meet Tor tho time being is held safely
IN check. The second point Is that the
French have been Obliged TO evacuate
Mueihausen and occupy new positions
outside the town.
According to German reports. this
was the first important battle OF tho
campaign and the French who had h5.
oo0 men suffered serious check.
III Belgium. the position shows lit
tie change. great battle Is ex-
pected somewhere on the line between
Thtonvillc and LieSe between the Ger
! mans. the French and Belglans. II Ia
thought probably It will occur within
= few days
The Germans have occupied Tonrres
and are reported to have captured n
railway station twenty four miles
from Liege. Outpost affairs OF no
great Importance are reported at nu-
merous frontier points of the many
nations engaged in the war, but eN-
cept In Belgium. no great battle is
iikely Tor some time to come as tho
respective armies are still engaged be-
hind the covering actions In tho work
or concentration on the frontiers
IN tho naval Sphere there is no news,
except report that tho elusive Ger
man cruisers, Goeben and B4eslau.
have reached the Dardanelles, where.
IN accordance with international law.
they will be dismantled and interned
until tho war Is ended Should this
news be confirmed, II will be great
step toward tho safety OF British and
French shipping In the Mediterranean.
in the political sphere are two in
teresting Items. According to tho
Cologne Gazette. Roumania has Joined
tho triple alliance. and will Invade
servia II Is reported from Cettinte
that the Serr!an and Montenegrfn
arms have affected a junction at
Plevlje (Tashllja). 157 miles from
Novipazar. where they are awaiting
the result OF tho revolution campaiEns
In Bosnia. which they hope will facili-
tate their occupation of that country.
BIG DATTLE FoREsHADoWED
BY MINOR SISfRMIsHEs
BRUSSELS, August IL (via Lon
dom. n).--Hostllites began Monday be-
tween German cavalry and Belgian
cavalry outposts in the Hesbaye dis
trict. This district is west of I.iere s
and north OF the Meusc. and forms
parts of the Provinces of I.icSe, Lin, &
burg and Namur.
Tho Germans have begun a syste-
matte accommodating OF Hesbaye to
discover the positions of Belgian field &
army. Their cavalry patrols are fol- q
lowed BY infantry detachments
German cavalry passed tho our K
skirts OF Lixhe on Sunday, following 4
route 10 tho south of tho Province. Of 4
Limhurg to Tongres and st. Trond. and \
evidently proceeding toward Hesbaye
Two hundred German cavalry with
ouioS-hrers already hayo reached
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