The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1914-08-19
CITING
ALI. ALONG
THE: FRONT
French Pushing the
Germans Back.
A BRILLIANT VICTORY
Operations In the VOsges Con-
sidared important.
PUSHING ON TO STRASSBURG
The French Now Said to 0Omi-
nate lorraine.
A BRILLIANT VICTORY
PUSH|NG ON TO STRASSBURG
The French Now Said to OOmi-
nate lorraine.

Nish. Ang. l7--lt Is semi officially
gagenent between French and Aus
trian warships today off Budua. A
French squadron from the southwest
attacked the Austrian fleet Two iron
clads of the Austrans we're sunk and
third took fire fourth fed
b. ST Petersburg. Aug. 1.-THE report
is confirmed that the Russians have
captured Gumbinnen and Internburg,
In eastern Prussia near the Russian
frontier.
Plymouth, Aug. 1.-THE United
States cruiser Tennessee and the
cruiser North Carolina. with gold for
American refugees. arrived here Sun
day evening
London, Aug a. - The French
army corps with heavy losses in the
vicinity of Blamont. Grey and Avri-
court, drove the enemy back to Saar-
burg, across the Lorraine border.
Thannhaut. Alsace, fourteen miles
west of Muelhausen. is again in French
hands. These positions indicate the
left and right wings of the French
army of invasion. At the center, in
the Vosges mOuntains. it Is announced
that the French now control the three
passes of Ct Marie. BOnhomme and
Sales. an dominate the approach to
Alsace
The French successes in the passes
of the Vos~es mountains have ir1meas-
urably strengthened their mastery of
the heights and approaches command
ing Alsace and Lorraine. These sue.
cesses appear to have duplicated in
brilliancy the manner in which the
enemy was driven back. first from Bla-
mont to Grey, then from Grey to Az
rincourt, and finally out Of Avrincourt
to refuge in Saarsburg. A full Bavari-
an army corps had been intrusted
with the occupation of this section.
and according to the reports this army
not only was crumpled up. but was
CIuSutu ny q nlONCliCut, WhfSh
pushed it back with heavy losses ON
Saarsburg
BeIgians Win Again.
The Belgians won another engage
ment with advance guards of the Ger
mans at Dinant. fifteen miles south Of
Namur according to Paris dispatches.
Both advance guards we're in force,
the Belgian infantry driving the Ger
mans back after an interchange be-
tween the artillery of the two detach-
ments. No information of the position
of the allied armies in Belgium is
forthcoming from the war Offices of the
countries involved.
Rome hears n rumor, which has not
been confirmed, that Dr. Carl Lieb-
knecht. a Socialist leader in the reich
stag, has been killed following his re-
fusal to enlist in the German army.
The report says that there is great
Indignation among the Socialists over
mis- death. No further advances of the
German armies in Belgium have been
reported. German troops which invad-
ed France by way OF Alsace have been
forced back beyond their own frontier.
Russian troops are reported to be con-
centrating in German Poland Berlin
advices say that the Austrian Invasion
of Russia is continuing by way of the
River Dneister.
The North Sea Cleared
The British fleet has cleared the
. North sea so that merchant vessels
are now passing freely between Scan
dinavian ports and England bringing
provisions to the United Kingdom. The
German fleet is reported to be still
bottled up in the eastern part OF the
North sea. The British Mediterranean
feet and the French fleet are reported
70 be searching for the Austrian fleet
last reported at Pola. No news Is
given out by the British war office re-
harding the expeditionary forces now
a the continent: