Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
Great Teutonic Forces Soon Expect
ed to Come in Contact With
Allied Armies.
THE DELAY SERIOUS TO THEM.
Russian Hordes Said to Be March
ing Toward Prussia and
Austrian Galicia.
HE DELAY SERIOUS TO THEM.

London, Aug. 5.-Pushing for
ward by mere weight of numbers
the German advance across Belgium
is slowly but steadily proceeding
and soon must come in contact with
the allied armies which according
to an official communication from
Brussels last night, are in battle Or
der at some point unnamed.
The Belgians in the outpost skir-
mishes are said to have inflicted Sc
we're checks upon the German forces,
but on the whole the German wing
has kept on it's way and has reached
a line from north of Namur to Haze
len which suggests that the first big
battle will be fought somewhere be-
tween Louvain and Diest, where the
allies probably will try to block the
roads to Brussels and Antwerp and
prevent the German attempt to make
north Belgium untenable.
FRENCH TO THEIR AID.
Further south, French troops have
entered Belgium through Charleroi,
going to the relief of their neigh
borS and to aid in any attack direct
ed toward Namur, while in the east
the French are reported to have Sc
cured possession of ridges in the
Vosges mountains and to hold the
passes of LIE Bonhomme and Sainte
Marie-AuMines, through which i'm
portant roads pass and which, it is
asserted, gives them great strategic
advantage.
The Germans again are hammer
ing at the Liege forts and, accord
ing to their accounts, one of the
forts-Pontisse- fallen. This,
however, is denied by the Belgians,
who tell of another slaughter of in
vaders who, they say, attempted to
rush the fortress.
UNEXPECTED DELAY.
Military strategists are of the
opinion that the Germans are meet
ing with delay which they did not
count on, and that every day the
Belgians keep them fighting means
An increase of Russian forces on the
eastern frontier. They express the
belief that unless Germany soon dis
poses of Belgium and France she will
have to choose between withdrawing
q great part of her army from the
west or leaving the road to Berlin
open to the forces of the emperor of
Russia
Already hordes of Russians are
said to be marching toward Prussia |
on the one side and to Austrian Ga
licia on the other. In the latter
country they are said to be in the
vicinity of the Styr river, which is
on the route to Lemberg.
WARNING AGAINST RUMORS.
The official news bureau of the
army and admiralty has issued a
warning to the public against plac-
ing the slightest reliance in the
many rumors current daily regard
ing alleged victories or defeats, or
concerning the arrival of wounded |
soldiers or disabled ships of Great
Britain.
These are without exception |
baseless," the warning says.
The probable attitude of Japan
and Italy is still the subject of much
speculation. Conversations are 60
ing on continuously between Japan
and Great Britain concerning ia
pans duty under her alliance with
Great Britain and the part she will
be permitted to take in the peace
conferences following the war.
ITALY TO ENTER CONFLICT.
There are persistent rumors that
Italy will join the triple entente.
The Italian ambassador is a frequent
should prove correct that Turkey has
purchased the German cruisers Goe-
ben and Breslau, war between
Greece and Turkey is said to be like
ly, for Greece sees in the movement
an attempt on the part of Turkey
to recover some of her islands TAX
en- in the last war Russia, to meet
such a contingency, would send
troops to the Roumanian frontier.
The British government has called
for bids for an issue of $4,000, 900
treasury bills.
With the arrival in English ports
of many ships there has been sharp
decline in the prices of provisions.
r. A. Boysen. Dentist, Second St.