HOW GERMAN PLANS FAILED

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2248, 7 September 1914, Page 6

HOW GERMAN PLANS FAILED

SOME INTERESTING MEMENTOES. A message from Paris published in the American Press on August 17, states: —Just how completely the ma-, tured plans of the German general staff for the invasion of France have failed ii revealed by the individual mobilisation cards found on a number of the prisoners taken by the French and Belgians, and by other documentary information that has fallen into 'the hands of the French Ministry of War, according to an .official statement issued by that Department yesterday. The Germans planned first to make a quick attack on the French frontier ppsts in and around Nancy, this invasion to be made by their first line. The second invasion of France was to have been made through Belgium, , in which, country : it was not expected'that any sorious resistance would or could be made. . Positive proof to _ verify this double plan has been supplied by the mobilisation cards found on some of the German prisoners, the cards directing those reservists to whom they were sent to join their regiments at various French cities, specially named. The resistance offered by the forts at Liege, the valour of tho Belgian army, and the intervention of the French cavalry upset their carefully-laidplans.