German Army

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 96, 13 August 1914, Page 5

German Army

DISPOSITION OF THE CORPS. London, August 12. The Times' military correspondent says the present dispositions of the Germans show that the twenty army corps ready to advance, including eight corps which are at Lorracs, total 1,275,000 men, of whom 783,000 are rifle companies, 65,000 sabres, 4416 guns and 1488 machine guns. The first line consists of eight corps, of which the seventh, ninth and tenth are about Liege. The fourth are at Rochefort, and the nineteenth at Bastogue. Both are entrenched. The eighth are at Luxemburg, the sixteenth and second Bavarians at Thionville. The second line consists of nine army corps, including the eleventh and-third at- .Venders.' The twelfth and third Bavarians are at Echelom ned,; behind the eigathiarmy corps at Luxemburg, on the [railway from Mersch to Troisvierges; the thirteenth, and first Bavarians at Saarbruck, the Guards' probably advancing from Coblenz, the eighteenth from Mainz, and the fourteenth from Badon. This gives seventeen corps,! aggre• gating a million men, that the Kaiser is able to launch against Northern France and Belgium. The majority are advancing through the. Bplgi an Ardennes forests in very close formation. The twenty-fifth German corps is between Metz and Saarburg, the fifteenth at Strasburg and Neubrusch, while the six corps defending the Russian frontier consist of the first, second, fifth, sixth, seventh and twentieth. France and her allies should be able to place in the line more men, sabres, guns and rifles than the attacking forces.