The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-08-13
SLAV DIVISIONS ARE SENT
TOAD OF THE PRUSSIANS
Kaiser Takes Personal Charge Of Army -Ameri-
can Ships Are Warned to Beware Of German
Ports, Many Of Which Have Been Mined All
Europe Is Watchful and Uneasy

soldiers when they started to invade
Belgium, because the kaiser said that
they would be marching through
rich country where they could forage
for themselves.
Reason for Armistice.
This condition is said to have been
the secret of the German request for
an armistice. From Berlin comes
semi-otficial dispatch saying that Liege
has fallen, and that between 5000 and
1000 Belgian prisoners are on their
way to German fortresses. In the face
of this report comes a dispatch from
Brussels that the Liege forts are still
holding out, and that the German
artillery fire has so slackened that the
| Belgians believe that the kaiser's
troops are running out of ammunition.
Nobody epected that Liege would
hold out so long as it has, and it has
more than answered every purpose of
resistance. Whether the city still
stands or not, it has held back the
kaiser's intruders until the French
have placed an army in readiness to
welcome them and the Belgians and
French now are united.
The Germans can not but be more
or less demoralized. They have lost
perhaps $4,000 OF their best men, they
are short of supplies and possibly of
ammunition. When they do get past
Liege they will be confronted by the
united French, Belgian and British
troops, fresh end fully provisioned and
! with undepleted stors of ammunition.
Wait for Reinforcements.
1t is quite possible that the Germans
will think it best to wait for rein
forcements, in which case it will rest
with the French commander whether
he quietly awaits them or carries the
battle to them while they are shaken
by the Liege rebuff. The fighting at
! Liege has not Of itself decided any
thing of the least Importance to the
war, but the result Of this delay to the
German army may decide the great fu-
ture battle.
Brussels.-Several thousand GYr-
mans out of total of $4,000, operating
about Liege, fell in three days con-
! tinuous fighting. The Germans were
driven back again in three desperate
charges. Furious fighting continued
and the dead aid wounded lay unat-
tended on the battlefield. 1t is de-
! fln ha
tice to relieve their wounded and bury
their dead, who numbered at least
$4,000. A dispatch says that the Bel
gians granted the armistice for "a
hours, and that the latter collected
their wounded and buried their dead.
The Germans withdrew to a less ex-
posed portion, where they can re-
Cuperate. The request was laid before
| King Albert He considered in decid-
! ing whether Germany would take ad-
vantage of the "a hours delay to bring
up reinforcements but finally granted
| it.
Exploding shells set fire to a num-
ber of the historic buildings of the
city, including the Cathedral of St.
Haut, the Paiais de Justice, the Church
of st. Jacques, the fheater Royale and
the university. Students and citizens
who were noncombatants successfully
fought the fires in the city, but in Bres-
SIOUX, where the Germans were in
force, fires threatened the destruction
of the suburb.
London.-Dispatches from Brussels
place the combined strength of the
three columns of Germans advancing
across the frontier at about 100000.
Immediately engaged, where the Ger
man advance guard was in contact
with Belgians at Liege were about S0,-
900, which included all branches of the
besieging forces. The first of the ad-
vancing German columns coming from
AK la Chapelle was checked at Wise;
the second followed the main road
from AK la Chapelle to Liege, and the
third moved up the valley Of the Yes
DIRE river, which joins the Meuse river
at Liege.
:; The British torpedo boat destroyer
Lance was the hero of the first naval
engagement in the present war, sink
ing the Hamburg-American Line
steamer. Koenigin Luise, which had
been fitted out as a mine layer The
Lance fired only four shots. The first
destroyed the bridge of the steamer,
the third and fourth tore away the
stern, and the Koeniwin Luise sank
in six minutes. The Lance rescued %