Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-08-26
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Fate Of France Depends on
Stand Being Made on Second
Line Of Defense.

The fate Of France depends upon
the outcome of second great battle
now raging, it is admitted in an offici-
al Paris statement. All available
French troops are being merged to-
gether with British and Belgian forces
in an effort to check the advancing
Germans. To accomplish this the
French commander has ordered the
abandonment of all occupied territory
in Alsace, even the evacuation of
Muelhausen.
British warships lombard Using
Tau, the seaport of Kiao-Chow, the
German possession in the Far East,
for the purpose of unmasking the bat
teries. The British and Japanese
fleets are co-operationg outside the
forts while the land forces of four
nations are mobilizing preparatory to
advancing on the possession.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 25.-The
German army captured 10000 soldiers
and several generals of the French
army and now control Longwy and
the greater part of the Belgian-French
frontier, the German embassy was Of
ficially informed today.
German troops passed through the
French lines in several battles, the
report says. The army of Gen. Joffre
was dismembered. Over $50 guns
were captured. The army of the duke
of Wurtemburg marched through Bel
GUM, crossed the Semois river and
completely crushed the advancing
French army. German troops ad-
vanced west of the Meuse toward
Maudeuge and defeated an English
cavalry brigade. Semois river and
the town of Longwy are now in Ger
man hands.
A concentrating advance of all Ger
man armies toward Paris is probable.
Paris, Aug. S5..;The French and
English have been driven back across
the French border in to and behind
the border forts. This was admitted
by the war Office today. The allies
lost heavily, but figures are not given
out: The Germans are renewing the
attack in heavy forces. They are
reported to have penetrated to
point north of Lille in Boulogne, and
the allies are alarmed at the possibili-
ties Of flank attack.
London, Aug. 25.--Reports from the
front have alarmed England. The
news of the dirigible attack on Ant
werp has increased the terror of the
people, who fear an air attack on Lon
don and some of the English seaports.
The newspapers are demanding an
explanation of the report, now appar-
emily confirmed, that the Namur forts
fell in three days. One alarming re-
port reaching here is that the Ger
mans have occupied Nancy.
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A combined French and British
force is holding the front near Civ
ct, along the river Meuse, 30 miles
from Namur, while French troops
command the roads out of the great
forests Of Ardennes.
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Sir John French reports British re-
tired in good order to new position.
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| An acute situation has arisen in the
Balkan states over the possible entry
of Turkey into the European war, &C.
cording to reports received at Wash
ington.
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Great Britain Is to raise army of
100000 men for field service on the
continent, declares Lord Kitchener.
The operations between Russia and
Germany are clouded in doubt by cen.
sorship. The Russians are claiming a
great victory at Gumbinnen and In.
ster berg near the frontier, while
the Germans claim that they captured
5000 men from the Russians and
many cannon at the former place. Nc
doubt the immense army Of the Czal
lis forcing back the Germans to theil
first line of effective defenses at Kon
igsberg and along the Vistula river
} Late dispatches do not indicate thai
, the Russians have penetrated very fa1
as yet into Galicia, the exposed prov
ince Of Austria Hungary.
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The armies engaged In this war ar
| so immense as to dwarf into insigni
ficance those of any previous war O
modern times.
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