A MILLION GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2227, 13 August 1914, Page 5

A MILLION GERMANS

MOVING ON."FRANCE-

LIEGE STILL" STANDS

31,000 GERMAN. CASUAL 1 ®

GERMAN SUBMARINES ; ROUTED ;

BRITISH CRUISER'S SPLENDID. GUNNERY.

NAVAL DUEL OFF AMERICAN COAST '

'■•■■■Hie fog of •war envolops tho movements of the ■Gorman'armies in thp Bolgian-Franqo-Brussian theatre of action, states- the. Bureau, and no nows can with propriety bo divulged regarding the. • of the allied armies operating against the Austro-German.- ■ advanoe.. Liege still holds out, French territory has been cleared of all "\ hutthenoglifeible elements of German invasion, Austrian, troops aro .be- \. >]ievcd in be m Alsace, whilo Lorraine is reported to be.but poorly held '. by the Germans. -Thopresence of German troops i l s_ reported beyond - • ■ LiegOj but in the absence of more definite information,- it may be • siimed that theso are-only small composite bodies acting as part of the screen which obscures the; movements of their parent armieß.vAn im-: portahl; message from , "The-Times'' correspondent • reveals ■ elaborate - dispositions of the huge armies which the Kaiser proposes to latlnch • upon the French frontier, and students of the war will -no ' • ■ find, with the assistance of the map which we published a few days ago, that the days of stupendous events are close at:-hand. Germany": • is in the unsatisfactory position, from the tactician's point-of view, ■ . of having to operate on several fronts, and it'is inpbnceivable that the momentum of her huge armies can enable her, vheri 1 she takes the offensive, to strike effectively at all points without 'being seriously ' ' embarrassed at ope or other of these, with the attendant dislocation of her main plan .of oampaign. From the sea oome&a detailed account • of the rout of the. flotilla of. German submarines by British cruisers, and tho sinking of one of them by the splendid gunnery of H.'M.S. . Birmingham. In national bearing it one .of calm fortitude, ••• there-18. a steadyingof; 'commercial nerves, foodiiroutes Jiby-• sek -arc'-i fe being caytionsly reopened, and most significant ;of' alii' some of tJio . banks are paying out in gold. Yesterday,'i.Wollingto'n -beheld .'with a" ■ ■ thrill of> patriotio-pride," tinged with graver. emotionaVtlie/first section - t of the New . Zealand Expeditionary Foroß'maTching through the oity to tho waterfront, to embark on'the troopships, which moved out into the stream.' ; v ■' ■; ■ y :