Show I GE GERMANS MAruS SAY liEGE fEll E EARLY LY AS AUGUST 7 Special Corr Associated Press ROTTERDAM Holland Au Aug 19 If H If the he German newspapers are arc to be beloved be be- loved the time forts about Liege and the city ity it itself elf were in tho the hands of the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans on August 7 7 According to the time Cologne Gazette the tho Belgians put up a aery very ery stout light tight but butI I had ad to give way to the tho repeated severe ere I Hacks attacks of the German infantry The Tho same amo paper points out that the tho place was not ot taken when first attacked because the he brigades sent against again t it were ot of peace strength and Ja lacked l ed sufficient artillery It was pointed out also that the Ger Ger- mans lans could oula not have made the mistakes put nit to their account by the En English press because the thc forts fort were laid laW out and constructed con con- by German military engineers and aud ud consequently plans of them were ii h the lie hands bands of the German war m ministry Tho The rc report ort that attacks on the forts by v t the e German infantry were ma made do in lose dOMe formation is s ridiculed bv by many German Jerman papers the Am declaring that En England land was not the only power which winch by the lessons of the lie B Boor Boer cr and Ian wars German papers contain many stories S alleging corruption on tho the part of the Russian military authorities The Cologno Cologno Co Co- Gazette o of or August Augut 17 asserts that the be mobilization of tho the Russian arm army had bad hardly begun nail and that milan man many weeks would ho he before Russia could nit Jut even en all of its standing tan ing arm army ii in ic the thc fiel field On AU August lIst 16 two regiments of Aims Aus trian rian mounted artillery passed through h Cologne on their way to northern Vance Franco and another tw two regiments were aKen takemi to upper Alsace for work in the tho n mountains it js is assumed Ger- Ger man flail lany hns no artillery di distinctly quipped and trained J lor for mountain 6 fighting It is is also alo that several sO regi of Hungarian cavalry said paid to bethe betho be bo the tho 10 best in Europe have Im joi joined cd the Ger- Ger iuis in iii Alsace The rime German Germun pa passed parsed cd through lJ Cologne on August Ati- Ati gust J 17 to take pert personal charge of the operations H against northern France Automobiles aud aumi other moans of at moor mo tor or traction arc nrc being used to a aver very large ar argo o extent tent by br J tho IO Germans At Co Co- men J l automobiles i an arrived last Monday Mon Men day duy from eastern German Germany all of them quipped equipped for tho limo transportation of wounded by providing pro them with will a special special cial ciul ambulance boll body capable of carrying Mix six men Tho Time int intention nt on of the time Gorman military authorities j is to lo tal take o all wounded to the time nearest cit city base Imse instead in stead of establishing field fiel ho hospitals Automobiles s and traction en engines ines also arc are used useI for the movin moving of supplies Diets Dicta h Pru Prussia tia on oti August Au Au- gust u t. t J W. W 16 pa passed ell thirty seven armored motor cars car each carrying two machine machino guns housed in n a i ro revolving turret Trai Trac- tion tiomi engine also jo arc timed bv h the time Germans Ger Ger- mans mang to tu haul haitI the their r heavy artillery some of it having ha in in this manner been taken long distances Tn Tim the time field fleM however horses hOr aro arc being used the time impression hc being u that owing to tu I the thc heavy hean traffic on the railroads of western German Germany the method o of transporting transporting trans trans- porting artillery saved much time timmie German Germau and Austrian iau newspapers insist insist in in- that the war ar against Russia France and aud is a U holy war because the extinction of the two peoples is said to be aimed at Their propaganda seems scorns to hu have 0 had result In ln German Germany 1600 volunteers arc road ready to hear bear arms aut anti and in ill A Austria and lIu Hungary gary a similar force is bein being raised estimated at present pres ent ont at about mOll men I Both countries it is said here lack the equipment necessary to place llaco these men in the tIle field With every ever every factor factory of arms and ammunition working day ay and ni night ht at full capacity and with plants suitable to the production of munitions pressed into this service Fer it is hoped to meet this situation soon Meanwhile Holland is beginning inning to feel that sho she is the grist between the upper and amid nether millstones In her fiol fields s are arc rotting thousands of tons of fresh vegetables which under normal conditions would have have been exported to toEn En England land and amid Germany and the river and aud canal traffic from which The Netherlands Netherlands Neth Neth- erlands derive normally a largo large revenue has almost closed Tho The ports are filled with vessels which find it impossible to get et cargoes Most of their crews h have hc c been hoen mustered out and ami the resulting condition of unemployment is nothing short hort of appalling Time The Dutch have made up their mind to sell sel th ir independence dearly should thero ariso a a. situation likely to taU tale it ii from Croin them All the tho dikes alon along t tb tb-b tb or Zee have llave been mined and all o ot or Utrecht province would be bc set several feet of water should it become necessary san to set the mines otT off One One- fourth o of Netherlands 1 territory would t l w converted into a salt bait marsh for years II la to lacome come were sere the dikes likes broken and the effort of centuries would be Jo Jos Jost 4 |