The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-08-27
AT LEAST 100000 MEN LINKED
IN DEATH GRAPPLE IN BEL
GUM AT THE PRESENT
TIME.
FIGHTING LINE EXTENDS
FROM MONS TO LUXEMBOURG
Hundred Miles Of Battle Front Makes
Great Struggle far Surpass Any
Recorded in History-Milion
Germans Face to Face With
Great Army of Allies.

London, Aug. 25.-Along 100 miles
OF fighting line at least 1000, 900 men
are linked in a death grapple in the
first pitched battle of the a
The struggle is being waged from
Mans on the southern edge of Belgium
to the Luxembourg frontier.
The British expeditionary force has
at last emerged into the open and is
fighting at the side of the French. One
million Germans of the kaiser's army
are face to face with the allied troops
and with cavalry charge and cannon
ade and hand to hand encounter of the
infantry, the destiny of Europe is
trembling in the balance.
No Details Emerge.
No details of how the issue OF the
strife goes are permitted to emerge
from behind the curtain that envelopes
the scene. 1t will be days and may be
weeks before a decisive result has
been attained and the world Is per-
mitted to know.
Half a dozen battles are simultane-
ously being fought, any one of which
dwarfs Gettysburg or Waterloo by
comparison.
At Mons, at Givet, along both
banks of the river Mouse, down at
Neuf Chateau and along toward Ar
lon the embattled powers are strug-
Cling with varying successes.
Bloody Battle at Luttre.
At Luttre, in Hainsult province
where Mons is also located, a bloody
battle is in progress. One would say
1t was the left wing of the allies army
that is here engaged, since Luttre is
but 10 miles from Mons to the north
east and but five miles distance from
Charleroi.
Again between Charleroi and Ma
muir another great struggle is going
forward with the French on the Of
fensive, it is declared, and meeting
with success.
B~ombardment at Namur.
All the while a tremendous bonn
bardment of the Namur fort is under
way. the roar of the siege guns shak-
ing the earth beneath the feet of the
millions battling for supremacy.
From Namur to Charleroi Is another
Is miles. Along this line the contest
RACES to halt the German advance to-
ward Dinant, but six miles from the
French frontier.
Apparently the Germans, having d.
verted their original plans for the sal
ly north into Brussels, have now sud
denly returned to the original plan OF
campaign and are pouring southwark
In two main columns converging on
Mons. where a union will be made
with the German forces which have
advanced through Luxembourg.
The German lines are said to extend
from Tamise near Antwerp southwest
through Puere and Zele. and thence
southeast to Gosselies and Charleroi.
Trap Was Laid.
If the above deduction Is correct, it
was at Charleroi later in the day that
the junction was made with the troops
which advanced through Luxembourg.
thus completing the battle line from
Mons to the Luxembourg frontier,
which is now raging.
1t will remain for the developments
OF the next few days to determine
whether the trap which the allies
claim to have laid for the Germans
has been effective.
Paris Official Announcement.
Paris, Aug. 24.-The following Of
fetal announcement was issued last
night:
"A great battle is now in progress
along a vast line extending from Mons
to the frontier of Luxembourg. Our
troops in conjunction with the British
have assumed everywhere the ofens-
i've. We are faced by almost the