The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-08-13
INVASION OF ALSACE
BY FRENCH HALTED
PoinCare'S Army Suffers Heavy
Losses at New BreiSaCh.
KAISER AIDED BY AUsTRIANS
Ambassador to France From Austria
10 Handed Passports and peelar-
alton Of War L. Expected Soon
Big Fight on Near Eseh.


alton Of War L. Expected Soon
Big Fight on Near ESeh.
London, Aug. 1.-THE day has
been calm. All Europe is awaiting Q
great battle In Belgium which is ex'
pected within a few hours.
Paris, Aug. 1.-THE French foreign
ONCE announced officially that France
had broken of diplomatic relations
with Austria.Hungary. The foreign
minister issued the following state
ment.
Contrary to assurances given by
Austria to the French minister Of for"
eign affairs that no Austrian troops
we're taking part in the Franco-Ger
man war, the French government has
Rscertained beyond any possible doubt
that certain Austrian troops are al
present in Germany outside the Aus
trian frontier.
These troops, which have set free
certain German troops destined to be
employed in fighting the French,
ought Individually, de facto and dc
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,
Coun Szosen Won Temerin, on being
informed OF Frances decision, asked
for his passports and left Paris"
French RepuIsed With Sig losses.
London, Aug. 11.-Coincideut With
the receipt here Of the report that 3
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 o
dispatch from Paris declaring that the
French war once had forbidden the
publication of casualty lists.
The French engaged are the army
which is invading Germany from Bel
fort, and which already has swept the
Germans before 1t 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 ONCE statement, to prevent the
German general staff from obtaining
the slightest inkling Of the activities
of the French troops, the French wal
department had made the admission
Of serious losses when the French
troops occupied the Vosges Bass al
| Sainte Marie Aux mines near holman
The French were reported In force
before the Hardt Forest before Neu
Breisach, through which the German
army, after the fight at Meulhausen
had taken fight.
Reinforced by AustrIans.
Here the Germans were reported to
have been reinforced by 10000 Aus
TRANS and were prepared to make a
stand. 1t is believed that the French
advance. which so far had been un,
impeded has suffered q serious shock
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 flanE of the German defenses
the German army OF the Moselle
which is the German center, Is moving
into France through Esch after de-
stroying the village Of Merl.
$4,000 Germans Cross Border.
! Paris, Aug. ia great battle be
! tween the French and Germans Is
reported raging near Esch, on the Dor
der between France and the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg Whether this
is merely another clash Of outposts OF
whether the great armies have finally
| ceased jockeying for position and are
IN death grapple, no one can tell.
| 1t is known that a German force Of
| $4,000 men invaded France at Esch
II may have been but a scouting party
Of cavalry, screening the movements
OF the great army corps in the rear
or 1t 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 II
| repulsed.
That the fighting was not all In
favor OF the French Is admitted By
the war department. which says thai
a French cavalry patrol encountered
a German body OF cavalry, supported
by infantry and artillery, near Don
| guyon and was routed
Strike West Of Lonawy.
II the Germans are really invading
IN force they are striking the line q
little west OF Longwy, and their rout
OF French cavalry patrol at Lon
gayon indicates that they have passed
well to the rear Of Longwy, which 1,
strongly fortified. Yet the reports
have said nothing about fighting al
Longwy. .. .s...f.
A Rome correspondent wires tina,
Kaiser Wilhelm,i who has arrived al
AiI-La.Chapelle to take personal com
mand of the field forces, ia assemb
ling 100000 additional soldiers fol
| the invasion 1t was at hrst announced