OVER A MILLION GERMANS MARCHING ON FRENCH FRONTIER

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

OVER A MILLION GERMANS MARCHING ON FRENCH FRONTIER

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AUSTRIAN ARMY CORPS REACH ALSACE ' ; ■/ ■ -,' "r' '• ip-'"-By Telegraph—Press' Association—Copyright ({Beceivcd August 13, 0.30 a.m.)-v' ' " <im. m: -,-l . . . London, August 12. , v J-'w military correspondent says the present dispositions of the Germans snow that twenty army. corpß are ready to advance, including eight divis'"P® of cavalry and' toe fourteenth Austrian Army Corps '-"which is at Lbrriaca ' "J 8 * miles' from Mulhausien.The total strenjrth is 1,275,000 men; of whom 783.000 are rifles, : 65,000 sabre,.with-4418 guns 'and::1488, machine guhsi * ofe'ffht Amy Corp,s of which- the Seventh;: I .Ninth, and Tenth are about Liege, .the Fourth at Rochefort, oh the frontier of Belgium aM Luiemburg, the Nineteenth at Bastogne, both ; entreiifihedi ■, The Eighth Army Corps is_at Luxemburg, the Sixteenth and Second Bavarian Corps' aie at'Thionville to the north of Luxemburg. : - \ . V ' i?' 18 i 6e Gftrmau line consists of nine Army Corps and iicludes the Eleventh and Phird at Vemers,, of Liege; the Twelfth-and Third Bavarians eoheloned behind the Eighth-Army Corps- at Luxemburg, on- the railway from Mersch.to Troisvierjpes; the Thirteenth and First Bavarian at- SaaTbrucV;--the .... - om Coblenzj the Eeighteenth from Mainzj and the SEVENTEEN ARIIIY CORPS AGAINST NORTHERN FRANCE, • 'swenteen armr corps, aggregating' a million, men, that the Kaiser' m able.tojauach against, northern France and Belgium. Th<>, majority is advancing thrpughihei Belgian Ardennes.forest, in close formation. The Germans probably believe the woods will make it difficult for the French field artillery to assert it 3 pre-eminence. ' - /, i Twonty.fiwt .Germani Corps .is, between iihe Fifteenth at Strasburg and Neu Breiwh,vw£ile there..are sis corps defending tho Russian fronti-eiv consisting of the Jirst, Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, an 4 Twentieth - Army Crops. . ADVANTAGES OF THE GERMAN PLAN, S® $' 6 ? sMold.be able to place in line.more m&n, sabres, guns, ir it forces. The German plan has the-Supreme mint of enabling of army ; to act together in any' diTectioh. The natural . line of advance is.againsfc Verdun, Mezieres, K&mur,.- and Brussels.