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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8810, 13 August 1914, Page 5

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THE GERMAN^ ADVANCE 1.000,000 launched against NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. (Received August 13, 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 12. “The Times” military correspondent states that the German second lino consists of nine Army Corps. It includes the Eleventh and Third nt Verviers, the Twelfth and Third Bavarians at Echelomned, behind the Eighth Army Corps at Luxembourg on the railway from Mersch to Troisviergos. The Thirteenth and First Bavarians are at Saarhruck, and the guards are probably advancing from Coblenz, the Eighteenth Army Corps from Mainz and tho Fourteenth from Baden. This gives seventeen corps aggregating 1,000,000 men, whom the Kaiser is able to launch against Northern Franca and Belgium. The majority are 'advancing on Belgium by the Ardennes in very close formation. , The Gormans probably believe that the woods will make it difficult for the French field artillery to assert its preeminence. _ . The Twenty-first German Corps is between Metz and Saarburg, the Fifteenth at Strasburg and Neubreisch, while six corps are defending the Russian frontier. They consist of the First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Twentieth. France and her allies should be able to place in the line more men with sabres, guns, and rifles than the attacking forces. , Tho Gorman plan has the supreme merit of enabling the mass of tho array, to act together in any direction. The'.natural line of advance is against Verdun, Mezieres and Namur.