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Show FRENCH MINISTER MAKES STA TEMENT LONDON Aug 12 11 a m The m Ii tary pos tlon at Liege Be g um a so alo g he Franco German frontier whe e the opposing outposts are in touch and I A sace where seve e engagements be tween a French invad ng force and the German defenders recent y were fought s expla ned in a d spatch from the French , foreign m n ster received here t s morn ng He says Rumors regarding the loss of the forts of Liege by the Be gian troops are entire y fa se On y sma groups of German solders ente ed t e town itself under cover of he darkness All the encirc ing forts twe ve in number are intact. Small, un mportant engagen ents have occurred a ong the who e 1 ne where the French and German arm es are facing each other f om Be fort oppos te the southernmost part of Alsace to Liege in Be gium In these encounters the French ava ry has a ways ma nta ned its super or Ity over the German mounted t oops wh e our arti ery 1 as been sp end d ly served Our troops have kept the crests and passes of the Vosgea mounta ns and they dom nate the he ghts of Alsace A line between Thann (twenty two mi es southwest of Kol a A sace) and A tk rch the fi st pos tlon occu p ed by t e trench arm af er ts n vas on of A sace s eld by our a m es T s ne uns s gh y to the rea of Mue hausen The Frenc government I d gnant y de es that the e was any io at on of German te i orv bj t e French army before the dec aration o var |