Huge Forces

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 71, 13 August 1914, Page 5

Huge Forces

OVER TWO MILLION MEN ALMOST AT. GRIPS; ONWARD MARCH.OF GERMAN 1 PHALANX. ltiveived 13. 12..W a.m. London, August 1 i (morning), lhe Times' military correspondent says the present dispositions of the Germans show thnts the twenty army corps ready to advance, including eight crops which are at Lorracs, total 1,275,000 men on \ 783 ' o<lo ar " riflt> companies. <w,ooo sabres, 4416 guns and 1488 machine 'guns. T.h-e first line consists of eight corps, of which the seventh, ninth and tenth are abo.it Liege. "The fourth are at Rochefort, and the nineteenth at Bastogne. Botli are entrencihed. The eighth are at Luxemburg, the sixteenth and second Bavarians at Thionville. The second line consists of nine armv corps including the eleventh and third at Vomers. The- twelfth and third Bavarians are at Echelomned, behind the eigth army corps at Luxemburg, on the railway from Mersch to Tioisvierges; the thirteenth and first Bavarians at Saarbruck, the Guards, probably advancing from Coblenz,( the eighteenth from Mainz, and the fourteenth from Baden. This gives, seventeen corps, aggregating a million men, .that the Kaiser is j to laimob against Northern Prance and Belgium. ®ajontv are advancing through tho Belgian Ardennes forests in very close formation. J The Germans probably believe that the woods will make it difficult for the pencil field artillery to assert its preeminence. The twenty-fifth German corps is bbtween Metz and Saarburg, the fifteenth at fetrasburg and Neubniscih, while the Blx corps defending the Russian frontier . consist of tlie first, second, fifth, sixth seventh and twentieth. ' France and her allies should be able to place in the Jine more men, sabres forces. than the attao^ng m^^ enn K? P 'fv has t!,B supr W h f; ment of enabling the mass of the army to act together in any direction. Their natural lme of advance is against Verdm, Mezieres, Namur and Brussels. I