Ottumwa Tri Weekly Courier

KAISER ARMS ANOTHER MILLION

ANOTHER SECTION OF THE GERMAN RESERVISTS ARE CALLED OUT; LIEGE CAPTURED BUT FORTS STILL RESIST

Reports From the Battlefield in Belgium Conflict, But Partial Success of Invaders Seems Assured; Get Ready for Another Engagement Nearer France.

REPUBLICAN TROOPS BEGIN TO ARRIVE AT SCENE OF ACTION TO AID BELGIANS

English Soldiers Also Reported on the Way; France Is Told of Atrocities Practised on Her Citizens By Traditional Enemies Across the Rhine

London, Aug. 10.—A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Brussels says that Germany is mobilizing another million men, who include those of the landsturm, for the invasion of France.

Paris, Aug. 10.—A statement issued by the war department at a late hour last night says that numerous skirmishes are taking place along the entire front of the French army. One clash with the Germans was violent, the loss on both sides being serious.

London, Aug. 10.—The North Sea was again closed to the fishing fleets today. The harbor master at Scarborough received a message from the admiralty instructing him to tell the masters of fishing vessels not to go out until further notice.

Brussels, Aug. 10 (via London)—Reports reached here today from many directions of the retreat of German cavalry before large French forces, which are said already to have cleared the territory.

The locality of the fighting is not revealed by the military authorities.

In official circles here it was announced today that there had been no further battle in the vicinity of Liege or in the town itself.

No big engagements between the allied armies and the German troops are expected on Belgian soil until the French and Belgian combined forces take the offensive.