Armies on the Move,

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 7, 26 August 1914, Page 6

Armies on the Move,

ij:: GERMANS PASS THROUGH BRUSSELS. ISiKAH' LINE 100 MILES? LONG. A.L:rj PREPARED TO MEET NEW SITUATION. 1 II KCTRIO TeMGRAM—COPtttIGHT] | I'IOTTO PRE*B AWJOOIATtON.] F (Received 1.30 p.m.) [i ' Ostend, August 25. Lie Belgian War Minister states R|6y,ooo Germans passed through

1,, -.witness slate-; that half went direction of Minove and Lille -.'. towards Charleroi and Mom. streme rapidity of the advance j in that the fighting up to the L is confined chiefly to the Gernalry and artillery'. f >Tinan !ifi > i ■ nearly a hun.■Jes long, with a formidable iv.ivement. They descended'uptbe available roads east and ''[Brussels, endeavouring to force 3,*-o over the Sambre at many possibly with a view to pene- : Franco between Valenciennes i;; the week French cavalry urs) and Darrique artillery adlirirth frqm Charleroi, but were putty supported by infantry •e forced to withdraw. ' iilo the Allies prepared to ; ki : "'«eit situation. , e nge.—-Fortified town, France, aeivfc of Nord, on the Sambre, s from Mons and 45 from Nacionnes.—Town France, deiS Xord, on river Scheldt, 28 .1". of Lille. It was the reof the Merovingian kings. It itirred by ithe French in 1677.