Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-08-19
INVASION OF ALSACE
BY FRENCH HALTED
BY GERMAN TROOPS
Poincare's Army Suffers Heavy
Losses at New Breisach.
KAISER AIDED BY AUsTRlaNS
Ambassador to France From Austria
ls Handed Passports and Deeiar-
alton Of War ls Expected Soon
Ruler at Head Of Army.

Paris, Aug. 1.-THE French foreign
office announced officially tbat France
had broken Of diplomatic relations
with Btria-Hungary. The foreign
minister issued the following state
-lent:
Contrary 20 assurances given By
Austria 10 the French minister Of FOR
eign affairs that no Austrian troopS
were taking part In the Franco-Ger-
man war. the French government has
ascertained beyond any possible doubt
that certain Austrian troops are at
present In Germany outside the Aus
trian frontier.
These troops. which have set free
certain German troops destined to be
employed in lighting the French,
ought individually, de facto and de
jure, to be considered as acting
against France. In these circum-
stances the French ambassador was
ordered to leave Vienna
The Austrian ambassador at Paris.
Count Szosen Won Temerip, on being
informed of Frances decision, asked
for his passports and left Paris"
French RepuIsed With Sig Losses
London, Aug. 11.-Coincident with
the receipt here OF the report that a
great battle was on in the valley of
the Rhine near Neu Breisach between
the French and the Austrian-German
forces, and that the French had been
swept back with heavy losses, came a
dispatch from Paris declaring that the
French war Office had forbidI.- the
publication OF casualty lists
The French engaged are the army
Which is invading Germany from Bel
tort, and which already has swept the
Germans before it in victories at Alt
kirch and Muelhausen.
Admit Serious Losses.
Before the ban was put on the list
of French casualties, according to the
war Office statement, to prevent the
German general stan from obtaining
the slightest milling of the activities
OF the French troops. the French war
department had made the admission
of serious losses when the Fren y
troops occupied the Vosges Bass at
Sainte Marie Aux mines near holman.
The French were reported in force
before the Hardt Forest before Neu
Breisach. through which the GERMANY
army. after tie fight at Meulhauseng
had taken flight
Reinforced by AustrIans.
Here the Germans were ported to
have been REINFORCED by 10000 Aus
TRANS and were prepared to make a
stand. 1t is believed that tae French
advance. which so far had been un-
impeded has suffered a serious ehock
here.
Meanwhile the Germans have been
blocked in their turning movement
through Belgium, but with the French
blocked in their attempt to turn the
Other flank }. the German defenses.
the German army of the MoseIls.
whic.. is the erman center, is moving
into France through 41sch. after de-
stroying the village of Merl.
$4,000 Germans Cross Border.
Paris. Aug. IA great battle he.
tween the French and Germans is
reported raging near Esch. on the Dor
der between rance and Tue Grand
Duchy in Luxembourg. Whe her this
is merely another clash OF Cutposts or
| whether the yreat armies lave finally
ceased jockeying for position and are
In death grapple, no one can tell.
II is known that German force NJ
$4,000 men invaded France at Esch
1t may have been but scouting party
of cavalry. screening the movements
of the great army corps in the rear
or it may have been the main army
Before moving across the frontier
the Germans felled trees and dug
trenches for temporary fertilization
upon which they might fall back ~
repulsed
/ That the fighting was not all IN
favor OF the French is admitted bv
the war department which saws that
French cavalry patrol encountered
German body Of cavalry supported
by infantry and artillery. near LON
gayon and was routed
A Rome correspondent wires thar
| Kaiser Wilhelm. who has arrived at
! La-Chapelle to take personal com
mand Of the field forces, is assembling
! 100000 additional soldiers for the In.
vasion II was at first announced that
| the kaiser was on his way TO Alsace.
Lorraine to see to his defenses there
| but II he is at Alx-La-C hapelle n
means that the heavy blow is to ba
struck in the Mouse valley to the
west of Metz. With Kaiser Wilhelm,
at AK and Grown Prince Frederick
/ Wilhelm before Liege. II looks ne -
/ Germany means to let the Rhtna
/ forts keep on the defensive. and nm,
/ all their strength into the effort 70
break open a way TO Paris from IN.