The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-08-14
GERMANY NvADES
FRANCE At FIVE
DIFFERENT POINTS
French Troops Defeat Enemy at
Cirey-Luxembourg Occupied.
RUSSIA AND KAISER AT WkA
Britain seizes Big German Liner Car
ryina $4,000. COO in ooId-seizure 10
In ReprisaI for kaiser's Act In Hold
inq vesseis-

has attacked the French customs
house at Dele. near the Swiss border.
according to a war office dispatch. Inc
force Is thought to be part OF tnal
which crossed the border near Nancy
earlier I'm the day. No details of the
lighting have yet been received.
Arion, Belgium, Aug. 3.-One nun
dred thousand German troops are
crossing the Grand Duchy at Luxem-
bourg and concentrating on the french |
frontier near Liege. according 10 ao
vices received here. Frontier engage
ments. in which the Germans are SAID
TO have been defeated. are reported
twenty-five thousand men are digging
trenches In front of German anu
French post.
Germans Hold Luxembourg.
train filed with troops arrived III
Luxembourg and the government Oh
the Grand Duchy is now In the nanus
OF the German military authorizes
Who have installed headquarters al
the government house. All railroad
and Geographic communication was
Immediately cut OF.
At three O'Clock in the afternoon me
German ambassador had not left MS
post In Paris. The Hungarian
ambassador also is here still.
News of the trouble on the frontier
reached Paris about two o'clock In the
afternoon and was received with out
bursts OF rage at which were termed
Germany's brigandage.
Germany Begins Invasion.
Brussels, Aug. 3.-With five armies
thrown across the border at as many
points. the total numbering approx
mately 100000 troops, Germany has De-
gun its invasion of France.
On the forty-fourth anniversary OF
the first battle of the Franco-Prussian
war the kaiser's forces, apparently
bent on duplicating the first move
ments OF 1910, have attacked the
French troops and have been reported
successful in all but one instance.
Five French Towns Attacked.
The various points at which fighting
has taken place are as follows:
I.angion-A strongly fortified towr
three miles from the Belgian frontier
which is reported captured by the Ger
mans.
Delle-A town near the Switzerland
border, where a German column ha'
attacked the customs house.
Cirey-A town on the Luxembour,
border, where German invading
force of 1000 was reported repulse'
with heavy losses.
Longwy-A fortified city 40 mile
northwest of Metz, Germany, wher
lighting is reported still in progress.
Nancy-Ancther border town nea
Grey and Strassburg. where the kais
er's forces are reported ID have crosse
tho line.
March Through Duchy.
The invading army marche
through the duchy of Luxembourg
breaking the terms of the treaty {
neutrality, it is charged. and split u
into five columns which struck almo:
simultaneously. At Grey. where 2C
900 Germans attacked the Frenc
they were defeated with heavy losse
The dispatch says the invaders wei
driven back across the border
The fortress of Langion fell und'
the sudden attack OF the invader
which had penetrated five miles !
side the French border to the tow
during the night and the early pa
Of Sunday.
a force which is thought to ha'
been part Of that which crossed Il
border near Nancy earlier in the d'
attacked the French customs hou
at Dele. near the Switzerland horde
but no details of the fighting have y
been received.
Advance in Night.
The German troops began their Z
vance In the night. and before da'
hey had invaded Luxembourg. TIL
sought TO enter the barracks. but
major in command Of the Luxembou
volunteers protested against such
breach OF neutrality. and the Germa
then withdrew
German troops hold the railway s
ton. public buildings and entire r;
xay line and are guarding the fir,
tier.
The German troops seized all
bridges and stations on the TREY
and Trios Vierges lines in order
insure the regular passage of milit,
trains across the Grand Duchy.
The Germans assert that the r
way lines belong 10 them and u
have the right TO do what they |
I'm Luxembourg and refuse 10 VI
draw.
Claim Action Uniustified.
London. Aug. 3.-Regarding the
yasion OF Luxembourg by Germ
troSps. the French embassy issued
following statement
German troops have invaded l.
embourg. BY this action Germany
violated the neutrality OF Luxemboi
This neutrality was established