French Forces Enter Mulhausen and Alsace Front
Paris reports French troops occupy Mulhausen and Altkirch, with Colmar potentially fallen, as German garrisons retreat to strongholds. Martial law declared in Alsace, fires burn warehouses, and German fortifications around Strasbourg and Liege tighten. Details show cross front coordination, Austro-Hungarian fleet concerns, and suppression of wireless stations. French West Africa and Dahomey joins in occupying Togoland with English warship. Caillaux joins trench army as Treasury inspector.
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Paris
Lower
Alsace
Joseph Joffre
France
Altkirch
Mulhausen
Colmar
Basel
Tyrol
Austria-Hungary
Hard
Liege
Belgium
French West Africa
Colonial Office
Togoland
Port Lome
Grand Pope
Dahomey
Algeria
Oseph Caillaux
Trench Army
Aeas
Treasury Department
Brisach Fortifications Tell of Repeated Historic Conflicts
The old city of Brisach on the Rhine carries Celtic origins and centuries of clashes between Austrians and French. Louis XIV founded the nearby new town as a bare livery of a garrison with few inhabitants. Fortifications now dominate both sides, connected by a pontoon bridge under German occupation.
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Brisach
Breisach
Vieux Brisach
Old
Neuf Brisach
New
Rhine
Louis XIV
American officer in French garrison hides American uniform
In a town near the German frontier an American army officer serving as a military attache drew attention from locals who mistook him for English or Russian. To avoid constant invitations for drinks he asked the commandant to permit a change from uniform to plain clothes, which was granted.
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Paris
Oceanic Passengers See War Measures Aboard Transatlantic
Passengers on the Oceanic arriving in Southampton from New York describe a wartime precaution as portholes were shuttered lights out and the ship sailed with no lights at night. They recalled a two day night delay and a brief sighting of smoke as fear of German warships loomed.
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London
Southampton
New York
International Women’s Suffrage Alliance
England
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Actors and bankers to police London in wartime
London Aug 9 30 000 special policemen will begin duty tomorrow joining university men brokers bank clerks actors to guard waterworks railways tunnels and more. Cyril Maude and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree lead actors Viscount Goschen bankers. A Thames patrol of motorboats will assist.
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London
Cyril Maude
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
George Alexander
Viscount Goschen
Thames
Reginald McKenna
Three Armies Join In Belgium Across German Advance
Belgian official reports say Belgian British and French troops linked up across the German advance in Belgium. Fighting at Liege has quieted while French forces push forward, and Luxemburg appears largely cleared. An aviator Alfred Lanser was arrested on suspicion of spying as volunteers surge in Brussels.
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Brussels
War Office
Belgium
Liege
Namur
Luxemburg
Alfred Lanser
Flanders
Hanover
Mecklenburg
Antwerp
Picturesque Colmar Unchanged Through Three Centuries
Colmar sits 16 kilometers from the Rhine shore at the Vosges amphitheatre and preserves medieval charm. The town, once a free German city, became French after 1675 and now hosts historic arcades, St Martin’s College, museums, and canal-bordered lanes along the Ill.
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Colmar
Rhine
Vosges
Rhine Valley
Ill
Innink
Turenne
Strasburg
Basel
Switzerland
German Empire
St. Martin’s College
Unterlinde
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Austria
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Servia
Russia
Alsace-Lorraine
Neu Breisach
Strassburg
U. S. Man
Om Oceanic
Saw
Solent
Ireland
Chatham OK Yard
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