The Springdale news., 1914-08-14
HALF MILLION MEN
 INVADE GERMANY
RUSSIA EXECUTES SURPRISING MANEUVER IN ATTACK
 ON TEUTON.
PRUSSiANS ENTER FINLAND
Kaiser, Planning First to Crush the French. Then Engage Russia,
 Seems to Have Been Outwitted.

western Sevspspef Union News Service
 London.-Germany and Russia each launched an army across the border Saturday.
 A full army corps of 10000 of the kaiser's fighting army invaded Finland. landing at Ekenaes, and Is marching toward Helsingfors. 100 miles away
 Helsingfors. on the Gulf of Finland, was reported shelled and captured by the German fleet.
 From Helsingfors it Is but 250 miles to St. Petersburg, and there Is direct railway line.
 Russla's blow at Germany, if the re- port be true, is one of vastly greater weight. The St. Petersburg corre- spondent of the London Standard ca bles his paper that 500,000 Russian sol diers with 700 heavy guns crossed the border Friday at some point unnamed and are now marching into the kaiser's domains.
 To back up this great array, the mob ilization orders of Russia include pretty nearly every fighting man in the empire and six million are called to arms. The war is intensely popular with all classes
 If the size of the Russian invading army is correctly reported, 1t makes the situation grave for the kaiser
 There Is no doubt that he has count. cd ho al cIn Russians in getting under way, and had confidently expected by brilliant stroke to strike his adversaries one by one
 By ignoring the neutrality of Bel gium he meant to swing an immense force into unprotected France, crush the troops thrown out to oppose him, march into Paris and dictate the terms of peace before Russia could get under way
 Then, with troops flushed with vic tory. he could rush them back across Germany and meet the Russians at the border, or. perhaps, even anticipate their slow movements and strike at
 
 were ready to invade his empire.
 The mobilization of the Russians has been a revelation to the world. Enthusiastic for war against the Ger mans. the men have rushed to their posts and taken trains for the front at rate not thought possible. and they are ready to strike.
 On the other hand. the hornets nest in Belgium was just as little expect ed by the kaiser. and instead of mak ing quick work of France his army sent to the west now has to face the com- bined French. British and Belgian armies, and will rather need help than be able to give it.
 The suggestion that comes from CO penhagen with the dispatch telling of the German invasion of Finland is that the Germans are actually setting out for St. Petersburg.
 Unless this force of 40.000 is merely an advance guard of an immense army, the suggestion is not to be taken seri- ously. In that land of vast distances a single army corps would never dare go so far from it's base without a strong force to keep open communica- tions But if the kaiser is prepared to back up this advance corps with sev- eral more the invasion might become a serious menace.
 A third event along the Russian frontier was the reported invasion of Russia by the Austrian troops. St Petersburg announces that Austro- Hungarian troops have crossed the bor der from Galicia, in northeastern Hun gary. and are now near Radziwille. This is almost equidistant from the Russian city of Kiev and the Russian Poland city of Warsaw, reported eyac- uated by the Russians The force may he intended to move on either place.
 The Austrian force along the Rus sian border now consists of 160.000 troops, of which 44.000 are cavalry. Austria is assembling another 25O.O00 men with which 10 menace the Podo- Han frontier, but it is not expected that they will be i'll position to offer battle for ten days at least. The Austrians have blown up the bridge over the boundary river. Zbrutch, near Volotschisk. which is about seven miles south of the Russian border.
 Chief among the minor clashees along the Russo-German border an at tack by a Russian cavalry brigade on the Germans at Soluda, in East Prus- sia. The Russians were repulsed