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Show HIES fffl BOTH ' BRING ON DEADLOCK t - fest Battle on French gffll Is Near Spincourt, M Across Luxemburg : (Border; Cavalry Drives j. lack Germans; An- totber Battle in France Occurs at Longwy; Re- v. E (wit Kept Secret. J GERMANS MASS TO L HIT HEAVY BLOW 'reach Greatly Outnumbered Out-numbered at Mulhau-h Mulhau-h gjiidLPefeated, but M Claim to Be Masters Mas-ters of Southern Al- j ee, Many Affairs at IAe Outposts. IrtiCifcle fcy imaenert 'with London Emuy f Jnj ui bummtlona New Srrkt s JiHS, og 11. Official announee-KS announee-KS n&cate that fighting has bet ome B along the f router between KF'ffifli an J German troops. From ffsa'Msi to Holland, on German, tad Belgian territory there s roctiiraous fight ng Most of it 5 t Bred sk rmish ng jut now and , "wni! for position. But anv honr the edvane ordered for one of iistone ptehed battles of the " 111 history a o finally announced that en !ts occurred today between Ger : aaa Trench troops at Longwv ; $njid the French border at a ' ot,ll Belgium Luxemburg and ; !orra " meet deta Is are ler official statement tells of en r ''OfflJ between the French and Ger I?"1 Franco Belgian front er I .Rirr on Fiench tentory an 1 at W .on Belgian tentory to the south '"-Won German cavalry patrols 'aobeea encoantered to the north taedy on the Franco Belgian Fight in France m battle fought on French so 1 ( fe. " a Prcncn victory today "rt n the department of the .where German cavalry with an Sn?P0rt "0!3ed th bwder and i u, ' mtlreb ca airy The Oe fern" e" baek" ; f t6 the reported occupat on ' U oi&Ur 'tated ifcs. tS.W. TOs occap ed bT French etrel the unfor Wrtonof the town bnt left 1m 7 lor the purpose of occupying " j iff oa hy whleh they " " Waki MtlTe re8i6tanc to Pos 1 fV the r Were a"ed in great - 'SbfidM0' th troops ' torn, ht "m'"l in the rear h - . ,tho ad'nee of the ,MJht1n2 .ckIj' 8WUDK "s '"roes " ian net?nd haed the Ger "'Wi n.P't" their superior I'ftednrfn,. ?ch ara declared to 1!l.Ilantly and it is averted Alice " tne maters of south ' forced Back. ' h MhoorL'h'f ment from the war 0? Nen T." ,the Jroacb ?Poii ir,Sn Brelaaeh was for-el Sii ulhao"n by what the war rej overwhelming force of Ti!!jg German force eom I Wowtoaed oa Pago Four ) BATTLES ALONG THE FRONTIERS AREJEADLQCK Both German and French ' Experience Victoiy and Defeat From Holland to Switzerland (Continued from Page One) pr sed part of the Gern an army wh ch was massed at btrassb rg Th s body s understood to number nearly a m I 1 on men and was the force originally des gnated to lead the invas on of France from a po nt near the Swiss bor German troops are reported in several movements toward Mohange, wh ch is twenty m les southeast of Metz At tacks op Roger V Hers and Habl n v lie by the Germans failed because of the br lliant support afforded by the cannon from Manonv llers All reports ind cate that the ka ser s mass ng for a heavy blow at the 1 rench front er from the great fortress of Metz lust over the Lorra ne border The enemy s advanc ng in force is all the war department will saj Other d spatches declare that the Germans are unload ng troops bv the tho sand along a 1 ne from Gerolste n in Ehenish Pruss a all the way down to Metz These troops are taking the r places in the 1 ne front ng the French frontier and wherever the outposts of the two armies collide there is fight ng on a small scale The Germans attacked two French outposts near Hannon Villers but Bev eral French batter es we e sent aga nst them and they were driven off Many German troops are reported close to Blamont n the department of Menrthe et Moselle The Matin asserts that there is not a single German soldier in France to n ght One of the German columns advanced east of Longuyon where it struck a battal on of French chasseurs and drove them back by force of numbers |