The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-12
Outpost Skirmishing Between
Germans and Allied Armies.
SvElBORG LOOKS FOR BATTLE
Montenegro Troops Occupy =
Position Overlooking Scutari.
The Montenegrin Coast Is Ef-
fectively BlOckaded.

cannOnade was heard this morning
from the direction Of Tongres. north |
of Liege. 1t was reported yesterday
that two divisions of German cavalry |
with artillery had arrived there.
Belgium was today again the scene
of outpost fighting between Belgians,
French and Germans.
The German commander at Liege
denies the loss Of 10000 in his effort
to take the forts there. He says they
will be taken without the loss Of a
man as soon as German heavy artil-
lery arrives! He assefts that "the
Belgian force is numerically superior
to ours" He intimates that the as
saults were stopped by the emperor's
orders to avoid needless sacrifice OF
life.
On the subject Of Liege, the French
foreign minister declares all the sur
rounding forts intact and that only q
small force Of Germans entered the
| It had been pointed out previously
| that the defense Of the Liege forts
| was the inability to see one fort from
| the next. although the fire of their
| guns crosses.
| A Brussels dispatch says the bulk Of
the German army is leaving Liege and
advancing toward the French frontier
| through the heart of Belgium.
The French foreign minister de-
! scribed the French positions in Alsace
as good. as the troops occupy the
crests and passes of the vosges noun
| tains.
Military experts studying the posi-
tions Of the opposing armies, may, 1t
is pointed out. possibly have been con-
| fused as to the German entrench-
ments said to have been erected on
the River Aisne, which they conclude
| to be the river Of tha- name well in
side the French border. There is also
a small stream called the Aisne run
ming into the Ourthe at Bomal, below
Liege, and this may be the one men,
toned as 1t would thus form an ex-
tension of the defensive works thrown
up by the Germans after they en-
countered Belgian opposition at Liege.
r Belgium expects an attempt by Ger
many to cross Dutch territory and has
requested Holland to state her In
tentfons regarding the resistance to q
| breach of her neutrality.
Sveaborg, the great Russian fortress
IN Finland, awaits bombardment OF
a battle az the commander has ordered
all civilians to leave there and also
Helsingfors.
Paris reports Montenegrin troops
occupying Tarabosch, overlooking Scu.
tart, Albania.
Considerable sums of English gold
are to be deposited in ottawa, Canada,
to facilitate payments without running
the risk of shipping money across the
Germans Build . Bridge.
Amsterdam, Aug. 1.-THE second
attempt of the German army to build
a pontoon bridge at Herstat over the
Meuse was successful, according to a
dispatch from Maestricht to the Tele-
graaf today. The bridge is intended
for the passage OF siege artillery, sew
eral pieces of which are being sent tc
Liege and others to Namur.
Destroyed by . Mine.
London, Aug. 12.-The COpenhager
correspondent Of the Daily Mail says
"It is ascertained that the German
torpedo boat destroyer, which was re-
ported to have been sunk by the ex.
plosiOn Of one Of her boilers off South
Gedser, on August s, really was de-
stroyed by a mine laid by a German
warship.
'"The Danish and Swedish steamers
it is reported, ceased running as a re-
suit Of information that the German
J had laid contact mines in the Nortf
/ sea"
Blockade Of Montenegro.
Vienna, Aug. 12.-An effectiv.
blockade of the Montenegrin coast ha,
been established since yesterday by tn,
, AustrO-Hungarian fleet, according tt
an official announcement here today