Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-11

strength. In this role she was favored
by her own instant readiness and the
nreadfnes OF two of her enemies, Rus
STA and England. And France. being
than either of those allies, had
to be dealt with first.
On the seas, Germany could not hold
a place against the British, who were
twice as powerful, to a nothing Of
the entire allied fleet. which outmatch-
ed hers more than three to one. There
fore. she hid her navy in the Kiel
canals; she v her ports by strew-
ing her harbors with mines and she
sent out her submarines to creep be-
meath the waters, from the fac OF
ships vanished like fishermen scurry-
ing to refuge before a squall.
Having abandoned the sea, or pru-
IDENTIFY postponed the struggle for its
mastery, Germany dismissed huge,
slow moving Russia as a negligible fac
tor for perhaps three months. Taking
two Austrian cor~s from the very from
tier of the car, she made a lunge at
France. But not across the French
frontier. for that was a chain of forts
which. after a year remains unbroken.
Without a minute to lose. h over
ruled. as Chancellor Bethmann Won
Hollwegg frankly announced to the
reichstag on August 4. the legitimate
protests of the Luxembourg and Bel
Use to repair the wrong we are doing
as soon as our military aims have been
achieved"
A Fatal Fortnight.
Already two streams of German
troops were pouring over the soil of
those neutral. buffer states. But the
day after the chancellor's statement,
nnA ne tho ~ ~,c IroIo o-ot,o< tho
Belgian Notifications at Liege.
That iron ring stopped Germany for
a full fortnight. In those two weeks so
fraught with fate. while little Belgium
held the bridge France in safety pre-
pared herself for the attack; England
ferried her few trained troops to the
French shore and the Russion giant,
across the German and Austrian from
tiers.
With the fall of Liege on August 10,
the lightning schedule of Prussian war
making was resumed. but too late.
Brussels was Occupied by the German
right wing on the goth; Namur was
smitten on the 23d, and the Belgian
at Antwerp. But the gray host did not
turn aside. Boldly leaving the Bel
gian enemy on it's flank, 1T sped
through the five gates Of Mons on the
2&th n out upon the plains of North
ern France. where the two streams Of
invading Germans united and flooded
the land.
The French ministry gave way to a
cabinet Of national defense. And to
emphasize the fact that the invader
was facing a nation and not a govern
ment, as in 1870, the republic began to
pack up for the removal Of its capital
from Paris to Bordeaux.
I'M tho NJ ~ 11l 1I~@~,y4~r
the French surrendered the fortress Of
Longwy on August "a and La Fere on
the 28th. Next the second line of their
defenses were turned. and General
Joffre's daily bulletins were unsparing
reports of a German advance and a
French retirement. Outnumbered three
to one at first. n then two to one,
France before the doubled right fist Of
the German Michael and General Won
Kluck's irresistible drive on Paris.
Germany Stopped.
With every mile Won Kluck went he
was cutting off the French army from
a larger and larger part of France, and
once he was in Paris he would be in
the enemy's rear. But while the Ger
man torrent rolled down the fair VAL
ley Of the Disc. the Russians, 1000
miles away. were streaming down the
valley Of the Pregel in EAST Prussia
and stalking through the gates of LEM
berg in Galicia, and the Serbians were
moving up the Danube.
The outlook on the lowered birth
places of the HohenzOllera kingdom at
Koingsberg was ~anXiously watching for
the coming of the C~ossacks; a popular
subscription was being raised at re-
named Petrograd for the reward of the
first of the children of the Don to gallop
through the Brandenburg gate and
tether his pony beneath the lindens of
Berlin, and Francis Joseph was hastily
strengthening the tdefenses of Vienna.
With the czar close upon both Of the
kaisers. they called back men by whole
army corps from the advance on the
French capital and sped them east to
repel the Russian invader. But when
they divided their forces to fight two
foes al orc the German plan OF CAM
paign for the conquest of Europe had
failed.
The drive on Paris stopped on Sep
TENDER s. after going 200 miles in three
weeks. In his marcel to the Marine, Won
Kluck had beaten by nearly two weeks
Won Moltke's record IS years before.
And when he halted on the banks Of
river at the little town of Lagny,
he a only Il miles from his goal.
But he had lost the superiority Of
numbers. His great thanking movement
was itself in danger OF being Thanked
when he turned away from Parts. where
soc. 900 defenders stood within its ring
OF Notifications, to hurl himself at the
center Of the army In the field under
J0ffre.
The Fate Of the Year Decided.
For five days that battle OF the
Marine lasted, a m0mentous conflict be-
tween the greatest forces that ever
had been engaged. The fate OF the
war in Its first year. IL not the sdes-
tiny OF the world for an age. was deter
mined on that vast field. And Ger
many lost the battle. II not the war.
In the course Of that titanic combat.
the German tide was rolled back 10 the