Arizona republican., 1914-08-10
CONFLICTING NEWS OF
 THE DAY

An irreconcilable discrep- ancy in official dispatches from Berlin, Brussels and Paris as to the fate of Liege was the outstanding feature of the news today from the European war.
 From Berlin came posi- tive assurances that the Kaiser's troops held the city and had taken 4000 lprisoners.
 Brussels was equally pos itive that nothing of the sort had happened. One dispatch said that King AL bert reviewed the Belgian troops today. Another had lit that there had been no fighting in the past forty eight hours, and that the Belgian forts were undam- aged by the German fire of siX-inch shells which the heavy. steel shields of the forts caromed effectively. 1 Still later, via London, which is supposed to be in direct communication with Belgium, came a partial acknowledgment that the city was invested, but that none of the forts had fallen. Earlier dispatches said that 1000 civilians were furi- ously at work digging en- ItrenchlnentS to make the city impregnable. In short, it is impossible to tell what really happened.
 Possibly even of greater significance than the fate of Liege was the report that l German cavalry had been sighted at Dinant, far south of Liege, south even of Ma mur, where a second line of defense is supposed to be forming. Should this prove true, it might indicate a turning movement, for which the obstinate opera tions in front of Liege, cost ly as they have been, might have been nothing more than a mask.
 The announcement from Brussels that French, Belgian and British troops had effected junction on
 Belgian soil at an unnamed point created the widest enthusiasm.
 France celebrated today what the nation believed to be a brilliant vic tory. The French minister of war , sent the French commander in- chief. General Joffre. the thanks of the
 country for his accomplishment in
 taking Muehlhausen yesterday The , German evacuation is said to have
 been nothing short of a rout. Muehl-
 hausen is the industrial and intellec- . tual center of Alsace, and the French
 lay great stress on the moral effect 7 of it's possession by their troops. Both from Rome and Paris came , word that Austria is moving troops | toward Alsace, to effect a juncture . with the German forces, by way of
 the Swiss frontier, and that an en-
 gagement of moment on that from , tier may be expected at any hour , One dispatch had it that forty eight , trainloads of Austrians had been de-
 trained at Leopoldhoehe, in Baden
 northwest of Basel, Switzerland. The attitude of Bulgaria is the
 subject of conflicting reports. From St. Petersburg came word that a
 former commander of the Bulgarian :, army resigned in order to enlist with
 the Russians. Another dispatch said
 that Turkish troops in force are u marching on Thrace, apparently with the sanction of the Bulgarians
 Inasmhch as there has been thus
 far no declaration of war on France . by Austria Hungary. the repor tet " movement of Austrian troops caused II the French ambassador at Vienna tC inquire as to Austrias intentions. German Togoland in Africa is be ' ing attacked on both the south ant north. Today brought news that
 French advance on the north is nov $ ing to join British advance iron the south.
 Joseph Caillaux, former premier