The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-08-27
Reported That Japanese Are
Bombarding Tsing-Tau--
Both Sides Suffer
Heavy Losses.
Wounded Already Outnum-
Der Those of Any Battle
in Modern Times.

The German consulate in st. Pau
today gave out the following officia
statement of the campaigns in Bel
GUM and Alsace, as received by wire
less from Germany:
The French attempt to invade up
per Alsace has been frustrated by its
defenders. In Lorraine the French are
retiring from the frontier. The Ger
man people find reports about social
ed big French progress most amazing
and just as false as some reports pub
lished in 1870.
North of Metz the army under the
German crown prince, advancing on
both sides Of Longway, has defeated
and forced back the French army. An.
other German army under the Bavar-
ian crown prince, which, as already
reported, won the victory in Lorraine,
pursuing the beaten enemy, has reach
ed the line from Luneville to Blamont
and continues today.
German guns since yesterday have
been laundering at Namur. Very soon
some new Zeppelins will be ready for
work on the Belgian coast and canal"
London, Aug. 25.-Actlng purely on
the defensive, the French and British
allied army continues today to hold
back the enormous German war ma.
chine. For three daysthe tide of bat.
tie has steadily risen, but today it il
still far from reaching the food.
At somepoints the defense wall has
been partly wrecked, only to be re.
stored by rushing reinforcements in
desperate haste. At others the German
infantry, unable to penetrate the with.
ering hail Of explosive bullets and the
fire Of the thousands of machine guns
already in action, has fallen back,
checked, but not defeated.
The carnage has been fearful. The
chiefs at the war Office calmly sa, in
terse language that the dead and
wounded already outnumber those Of
any battle ia modern times. They ad.
NIT figures are so stupendous as to
mean little.
THE general engagement continues
today with desperation" is the word
ing of an offici.l French communica.
ton given out latetoday. ALREADY
both sides have suffered serious loss"
Three great armies. the bulwark Of
the kaiser's war machine, are advanc.
ing steadily in determined attempt
to break the allied line and penetrate
French territory.
Behind them are the reserves, total
ing more than 100000 additional men
But up to the present time, the allied
lines haveheld and a Paris war Office
'ofbcia2 bulletin characterizes the gen.
Wal situation as Satisfactory"
The situation had changed overnight
in that the French officials no longer
declare the allies were on the often
sive. H.,
It is accepted herethat the offensive
movement, undertaken to determine
the exact strength Of the attacking
force, which was engaged along the
entire frontier from Mons to Luxem-
burg, demonstrated this attack was
not feint, but that the German Often
sive movement was complete.
The inevitable result was falling
back on the first line Of trenches
wherethe battle is now being fought.
Every report from the front agrees
that the fighting is of the most desper'
ate character. The result may not be
discernible for days. And, the war ex-
perts point out, it may be temporarily
decisive result, in so far as the Ger
mans are concerned. If routed they
will be in grave danger of having their
column split squarely in two. On the
other hand, if the allies suffer set
back and are forced to retreat, they
will have to fall back only on a secon:
dairy entrenched position already pre-
pared.
So serious is the situation along the
line held by the allies that the war
Office refuses to permit any informa
ton about the fighting to be made pub
lie. Only a brief statement was forth
coming today. They were stated to be
holding the German advance in checl
at Mons and that they had been In &C
ton since Sunday. But no comment on
what is transpiring in the entire terri
tory where the greatest armies of mod
ern times are locked in titanic strug
gle is forthcoming.
The British public was again warned
today that it must not expect too much
from the allies. Military experts have
insisted that it will be an almost i'm
possible task to hold the present ad
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