GERMANY'S POSITTION GRAVELY INVOLVED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 11 August 1914, Page 8

GERMANY'S POSITTION GRAVELY INVOLVED.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 10. p£'hf> fact that two of Austria's finest vnvv corps, the Fourteenth from Innshn fk, and the Third from Graz, are l»?iug brought to the Rhine is regarded I '.< ■: proof that Germany's position is *.::vt>ly involved by the failure at LK'.»;e. The report of the surrender of seven German regiments is not confirmed, hut th'iir cavsffry were severely handled, and lost many. * (

The enterprise of the German scouts is amazing. One of those taken prisoner rode seventy kilometres. The method is to ride in small parties with the object of seizing a passage, across, the Meuse. None of the attempts succeeded. A German pontoon bridge over the Meuse waa 'shot away and the 19th and 25th Regiments who were supporting the bridge-builders were mown down by •quick-firing guns. Forty thousand Belgian volunteers have offered to form twenty special regiments.