Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-08-12 | Page 1 | [Illegible]Advance Guard Battle Along the Frontiers

fierce Advance Guard Battles Along the Frontiers i GERMANS DEFEATED BY FRENCH ITjlDEfi Defenders Repel Attack on Towns Near Luxemburg, Lux-emburg, Destroying a Battery and Capturing Another; French Take German Village at the Point of the Bayonet. FIGHTING ALONG ENTIRE FRONTIER Berlin Papers Claim a Brilliant Victory for the Kaiser's Soldiers Near Mulhausen in Alsace; Germans Capture Cap-ture Earthworks by Assault. PAEI'' An;? 12, V 30 a. m. The Freneh troops along the entire front are in contact with the Germans. At Mangiennes, northeast of Verdun the Germans attacked the French on Hon j day evening. The Freneh reinforced by-reserves, by-reserves, then took the offensive and re ' pulrfd the Germans with considerable losses. A German battery was destroyed de-stroyed by the French artillery fire and another was captured with three Gat line guns and amtnun t on regiment of Ge man cavalry snf fered senouslj Near 'Woncel a Ger man battalion with artillery was re pulsed The German losses are said to ha e been heavv The village of Lagarde in German terr tory was taken by the French at the point of the bayonet German forces appeared at Longwy and demanded the surrender of the town wh ch was refused GERMANS ATTACK ADVANCING FRENCH PARIS ia London Aug 11 A large force of Germans, on Sunday nlgbt at tacked the French advance guard which had pushed forward on Cernay and Muhl haueen Before this attack the commander of he F en h t oops had quit Muhlhausen and assemb ed his troops in the rear of the town Hp qu ckl paced his forces n a fighting line and stopped the ad van e of t e Germans who. accorcung o French eports were superior in num ""he ac uni. of he French are declared a have een b 1 ant and it Is claimed ha thc era n masters of northern Al sace The e la e been numerous move ments of German troops toward Mor hange twenty mi es southeast of Met2 and in the region of B amont In Meurthe et Moselle . . , An attack on RogervlUers and Hab In vllle was attempted by the Germans but failed because the French were support ed by cannon f om Manon 11 ers RUSSIANS MOBILIZE TROOPS ON BALTIC STOCKHOLM (via London) Aug 11 6 0 a. m The Swed sn steamer Rune burg which arrived here tonight (n day from Raumo Fin and reported that she had not seen a sing e wa sh p in tne A and nrchipe ago or anywhere else Her captain was to d that the Russ an fleet had no me the German fleet at ail, but vas watng in the Inner part of the Gu f of Finland for a su table opportunity to sUrt an acton The Russ ans are oncentrat ng he r troops at Ekenas on he north side of t e entrance to the fu f of Sveaho g and keep ng in re ser e a ns de ab e force eported to mmrer 00 00 men Ape a a f m e In ens h In the ha bo of Hango was b own up by mis ake The ommande w p had been orde ed to p epa e fo he poss b e de struct on of t e p er anged h mae f upon (Continued on Page Foax ) US CLAIM VICTORY OVER FRENGHTRDQPS Say They Stormed Earth works Commanding Ap-i proach to City of Mulhausen (Continued from Page One) discovering that he had acted prema ture y The vessel had no news f om the Ba tic I The concentrat on of Russ an forces n strength at Ekenas apparently d sproves the repo t w de y pub shed on Saturday that a German armv of 40 000 men 1 ad been landed there and v. as ma ch ng on He slngfors