HEAVY CAVALRY ENGAGEMENTS

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 694, 15 August 1914, Page 5

HEAVY CAVALRY ENGAGEMENTS

TERRIFIC CANNONADE NEAR TONGRES London, Wednesday Reuter'a agency reports that heavy cavalry engagements are proceeding between the French and Belgians and the Germans The locality of the fighting is not stated, but it is surmised that it is to the west and north-west of Liege The Daily Telegraph's Amsterdam correspondent reports that a terrific cannonade is in progress in direction of Tougres, ten miles north-west of Liege

It is officially announced that many German patrols have been captured 1 round Dinant and Rochefort. in the Bouth of Belgium, and Givet, across the French frontier

An important engagement is reported from Tirlemont, 28 miles to the eastward of Brussels. The Belgians are here offering a vigorous resistance to the German advance It is officially announceed in Paris that only small groups of Germans entered the town of Liege, while all the forts from Belfort to Liege are intact

The French cavalry at all points is maintaining its superiority, and the French still hold the crests and the passes of the Vosges. They dominate the heights of Alsace, and hold the lines between lhann, an Alsatia town ten miles from the French frontier, and Altkirch

Belgian airmen report one solid mass of shining armour from Liege to Ducreu. Each German private has a glow watch (to see the time in the dark) and field glasses. The non-com-missioned officers have whistles, and the commands during assaults on the forts are given by whistles of varying shrillness There is good reascn to believe that the mass of the Germans is distributed hetween Thionville and Liege, while Loraine is held comparatively lightly. There is every indication that Austrians have entered Alsace. It is believed that none of the forts of Liege have been taken