The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-08-27
GERMANS FORCE ......
ALLIES TO RETREAT;
WIN FOUR BATTLES
Namur and Nancy Reported
Captured.
FRENCH ABANDON ALSACE
Paris War Office Admits Capture OF
Three ToWnS-Thousands Killed
and Wounded In Clash at
Chartered.

London, Aug. 25.--The official press
bureau of the war Office announced
that Namur had fallen to the Germans,
who have been assaulting its forts for
days with heavy siege guns.
London, Aug. 26.-Germany has won
her great three days battle at Charlie
roi, Belgium, against the French and
English army.
The press bureau OF the war office
announces that the Germans have
taken the first line and that the
French and English have been forced
to fall back inside the French frontier.
The battle has been by far the
bloodiest the modern world has ever
known. No one will undertake to esti-
mate the losses. The war office merely
says:
The killed and wounded already
outnumber those Of any battle OF mod
ern times. The figures are so stupen-
dous as to mean very little."S
Pressing steadily after the retreat
Ing allies, the gigantic invading force
of the kaiser, estimated at 100000
men, now has a firm footing on French
soil.
Between them and Paris the allies
are throwing force Of 100000 men
to stop the invaders progress.
At the moment OF this victory on
the Sambre comes the claim from Ber-
lin-which is not contradicted-that
three other great victories have
crowned the German arms.
Three Other German Victories.
The German army under Grand
Duke Albrecht of Wurtemberg over
whelmingly defeated the French forces
at Nefchateau, Belgian Luxembourg,
with the capture of seven French gen
erals and many men and guns. This
Is asserted in an official dispatch sent
out by wireless from Nauen, Germany
simultaneously comes the wireless
announcement, also official, that Crown
Prince Frederick Wilhelm's army
northwest of Diedenhofen (thionville,
has completely routed the French
army of five corps, driving them across
the Mouse river and chasing them be
yond Longwy. Advancing toward Mau
beuge, the Germans met and defeated
brigade of British cavalry. The
French, the report says, no longer dare
face the terrible German infantry.
French viii Abandon Alsaee.
Farther south, in the department Of
Meurthe-et-Moselle, a German army
under Rupprecht captured Luneyille
Blamont and Grey, taking 1870 guns
1t is admitted at Paris that Luneyille
has fallen. The German official dis
patch says:
The retreat of the southern French
wing on Verdun has been cut Off"
The French war office makes thii
announcement:
The general situation has deter
mined us to bring back our troops"
This means the abandonment of AL
sace-Lorraine and the concentration o
the French armies-if their retreat b.
not in fact, cut off-on the fortified
tions inside the frontier.
All along the Vosges mountains, (
fierce battle is now raging and thu
Germans are evidently bent on DRIVING
the French out OF the department a
once, though Paris dispatches declar'
, the French are acting on the offensive
Muelhausen and Nancy Taken.
One dispatch from Paris declares
that the battle in the Vosges is ter
rife affair and may last for days.
1T will be impossible to follow tn
movements Of each Of our armies,
=! says the report. The campaign Is be
! ing carried out methodically and, witt
the cooperation Of the English an
Belgian troops. In several places tn
French have fallen back, but that wa
because the positions they held wer
no longer Of strategic Importance.
4 A dispatch from Basel, Switzerland
= says that the Germans have again ts
+ ken Muelhausen, and there is an uncoI
/ firmed rumor in Paris that Nancy ha
: fallen.
= Nancy is the capital Of Meurthe-e
i Moselle, So miles south of Metz, on tn
It left bank Of the River Meurthe, abou
l. ten miles from the German frontie
e 1t is one of the most prosperous town
VI of France and has a population {
more than ninety thousand. or tn
! ancient Notifications OF the town onl
!. the citadel has been preserved.
& But the point Of breathless interes
d to all is In southern Belgium, wher
I, the British and French have for thre
~ days been in a terrible. struggle
n stem the tide of the German advanc
N There is being fought the really d
IL cisiye action of the campaign.
in As the details of the early fightir
rs begin to filter through 1t appears thu
y only on Monday did the allies beg
= to lose ground. The first days hgh
-Saturday-was apparently
draw. On Sunday the allies assume
the offensive and at one point drc'
the Germans back westward a. far
81 Hal, to the south Of Brussels.
as But the terrible German mAchin