The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-08-15
KAISER HURLS
A MILLION MEN
AGAINST ALLIES
Makes Another Desperate Effort
to Pierce Their Front
BATTLE LINE 200 MILES LONG

Germans Move Toward Brussels and
/ Namur and Are Confronted by Army
of $4,000 Men Thrown Across Their
Patb-Desperate Fighting Ensues as
Vaneuaras Neet-Great Britain and
Austria HAY Declare War Today.
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/ London, Aug. 13.-This morning a
great curtain of secrecy shuts from
view the great field of battle in Ec
rope. So tense and critical is the
situation that no war office dare gf7e
out word Of information for fear OF
jeopardizing the success. of their armf.
! One fact stands out clearly-that
up to this time, SO far as known, the
| Germans have not succeeded in pen
etrating the French line of defense
except at Longwy, and there they
were driven back after a temporary
success. --~+"--'- >~-' -
| That Great Britain and Austria Will
today throw down the gauntlet of war
as a result of the massing of Austrian
troops near the border of Germany
! anu OWlLZGIld1u, lAS II iCANl
army in Alsace, is expected here.
The German kaiser has more than
! 1,000,0 900 men, composing the greater
number of his twentysix army corps,
massed between Luxembourg and Liege,
To oppose them as many more French
and their British and Belgian allies
are In the field.
The heaviest fighting took place
north OF Liege, when the German army
of the Meuse moved both toward Brus-
sells and Namur in a last desperate
effort to break through the barrier OF
allies for dash on Paris.
! A combined army of 350,000 men
was thrown across their path Furious
battles took place as the vanguards
met. At Tongres, north of Liege,
fierce artillery fight was heard fifteen
miles away AT Tielmont the Belgians
blocked the German march and fought
furiously to protect Brussels, their
capital. 1t was reported that $4,000
| Germans had invested Namur, forti-
! fed city, rivaling Liege in the strength
of its defenses.
The battle lines of the allies in
Belgium are stretched from Louvain,
the Belgian army headquarters ten
miles from Brussels, in southeaster
| ly direction by way of Tirlemont TO
| Namur, and from Namur on to Dinant
/ to the south and thence to Givet,
where the Meuse crosses the Franco
Belgian border
Here the outposts of the allies which
are defending Belgium are in touch
with the outposts of the French army,
whose line extends to the south
through Mezieres to the strong French
fortress Of Verdun. .a-p-
! The German army of the Meuse,
| part Of which stormed at the forts OF
Liege for days without success, has
! circ1ed that fortress to the north and
south and is advancing toward Brus-
sells, but between it and Brussels is
The battle line Of the allies.
The great German line, taking in the
three armies cooperating againss
France, begins to the north of Liege,
circles to the rear of the forts of that
city aed on the southern bank of the
Meuse approaches to near Namdr. ~
1t turns south, following the course
of the Meuse, then turns to the south
east when east of Dinant and runs
down to Longwy and the junction of
the Belgian, France and Luxembourg
! borders. 1t then continues in SINH
lar direction to Thionville, Metz,
Strassburg and on down to Neu Brei-
sach, the last three points in Alsace-
| Lorraine. The French army which has
invaded these lost provinces" faces
the southern part of the German line.
| The Belgian legation in London has
received no news from the front for
| twenty-four hours.
| 1t is believed that this official ST.
! lence indicates that the two great ar
mics, one moving eastward and made
/ up of the forces of France, Belgium
and Great Britain, and the other the
three German armies of the Meuse.
the Moselle and the Rhine, have met
in at least one place. 1t is believed the
center Of this battle is on the plains
| between Liege and Namur.
A Belgian staff officer who has just
arrived in London said that the silence
of the war offices Of the several coun-
tries involved probably would not be
! broken for some time. HIT, too, ex-
pressed the same belief that already
was held in London-the belief that
Ia great and decisive battle has begun.
So far as details were concerned this
Belgian officer confined himself to say
ing that the main Belgian army was
moving on Louvain and Liege to join
the French.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 13.-The Rus
sian troops have defeated the Germans
who were atttmpting to recapture
Eydtkehnen.
Berlin, Aug. 13. - 1t is announced
semiofficially that the Germans near
Mulhausen captured ten French Off
GERS and SIS men.