The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-03
Take Possession of City After
Three Days Fighting.
Austrians Are Overwhelmingly
Defeated Near Lemberg.
THEY LOSE over 100, 900 men
The Cars Army Takes 81 OF
Enemy's Big Guns.
Russian Cavalry Destroys =
Towns In East Prussia.
PARIS IS IN NO DANGER YET
Proclamation Tells Why the
Government Was Removed.
Sixty Thousand Men Join
Kitchener's Second Army.
The Cars Army Takes 81 OF
Enemy's Big Guns.
Russian Cavalry Destroys =
Towns in East Prussia.
PARIS IS IN NO DANGER YET
Proclamation Tells Why the
Government Was Removed.
Sixty Thousand Men Join
Kitchener's Second Army.

London Sept. 3.-A dlSpatch IToA'
Amiens, France, to the Daily Mall oe-
clares that the Germans have taken
possession of Amiens after three days
fighting.
Amiens is the capital of the depart
ment of Somme and is 70 miles dlrect-
ly north OF Paris. 1t Is manufactur-
ing city and has population OF 9O,OO
1t is on the line of the railroad to Bou-
Iogne. and is about so miles to the
west Of Lafere and other points In the
depa rtment of Aisne, where there has
been fighting curing the last few days
between the allied armies and the
Austrians Lose 100, 900 Men.
Rome, Sept. S.-The Russian en-
bassy has been notified the Austrians
were overwhelmingly defeated near
Lemberg, losing more than 1OO.00O
men and 81 cannon. The occupation
imminent.
Destruction in Belgium.
Paris Sept. 3.-A Havas agency dis
patch from Antwerp contains the fol-
lowing Official announcement by the
Belgian government:
The situation remains the same in
the provinces Of Antwerp and Linn
bourg. The Germans have set fire to
several sets of farm buildings:
IN. Merchten, attache at the Rus
sian embassy, confirms the report OF
the destruction of Lansberg, Cessel and
Beschofsheim by Russian cavalry and
also that they have broken the lines
of the enemy between Heilsberg Cast
Prussia, 40 miles south of Koenigs-
berg) and Koenigsberg."
OnlySIen Returned.
Berlin, Sept. 3.-The Tageblatt pub
fishes a dispatch from Thorn, town OF
west Prussia on the right bank Of the
Vistula, describing an ill-fated scout
INN Nnd
with machine guns and carrying about
seventy soldiers, steamed up the river
into Russian territory reaching a point
not many miles from Nieszama.
The party landed to recOnnoiter the
country and was attacked by Russian
Cossacks and infantry. Only ten Ger
mans returned with the steamer.
Will Defend Paris.
Paris, Sept. SIT is officially an
nounced that General Gallieni, COM
mander of the army defending the city,
today issued the following proclama-
tion to the inhabitants Of Paris:
The members of the government of
the republic have left Paris in order
to give a new impetus to the defense
of the nation. 1 have been ordered to
defend Paris against the invaders. This
order I will fulfill to the end.
(Signed) GALLIENI,
Military Governor of Paris. Com
manding the Army Of Paris.''
Attack on Paris Not Imminent.
London Sept. 3.-The decision of the
French government to withdraw from
Paris while proving mOmentary shock
to the man in the street. is regarded
both by politicians and strategiSts here
as being wise. To retain Paris as a
center Of the government would. it is
held, be incompatible with the supreme
necessities of France at the present
moment. These are to keep the gov
army an unbroken force which neither
can be captured in detail nor shut up
in the fortresses.
A proclamation by the French gov
ernment describes the move as pre-
c:ltionary and sets forth that an at
not C. ---idered probable. No date
upon which to base a jud 5rlent Of the
general situation ov the wide-f1une
battle line in France is available.
The retirement Of the allies withou,
a defeat and fighting every foot Of the
way is an expression that has become
stereotyped. 1t Is, however about the
only official news that has reached
London since Field Marshal Kitche.
ner's story was given out last Sunday
TIE Russian occupation of Lem.
berg, the capital of Austrian Galicia
may have a far-reaching effect on the
campaign in eastern Europe apar
altogether from the loss of Austrian
prestige through the fall of the city
More than three quarters of the pop
ulation are Poles, and the Russian.
anticipate that their entry to the city
will contribute toward tn, hoped-fo
Polish uprising against Germany
This uprising Emperor Nicholas con
templated when he promised autono
my to a united Polish kingdom.
Tie rush Of recruits for the British
army is phenomenal Sixty Thousand
men have joined Lord Kitchener.
1z In Pav