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Show THREE BIG BUTTLES flOW INPBOGRESS KAISER WILHELM IN PERSONAL CHARGE ON THE PLAINS NORTH OF LIEGE. Another Encounter Inside the French Border, While the Third is Being Fought in Alsace, to the South of German Stronghold. London. Three great battles are Imminent in the great European war. Reports received here indicate that two of them are being fought there now. The greatest of them, with Kaiser Wilhelm in personal charge, is reported re-ported in the plains of Belgium to the north or northwest of Liege, near Tongres. There the combined French, English and Belgian forces are opposing op-posing the German invaders. Another is inside the French border, bor-der, just south of the frontier town of Esch, and not far from the fortified forti-fied French post of Longwy. The third is being fought in Alsace, Al-sace, to the south of the German stronghold of Strassburg. There the Germans, reinforced by Austrians, are opposing the French advance. All dispatches agree that there is fighting at each of these vital points, but whether the preliminary skirmishing skirm-ishing is still in progress or whether the great and decisive battle is being fought out is kept carefully concealed conceal-ed by the "war departments of all the nations involved. |