Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-09-17
GERMANS RETREAT
Kaiser's Forces Still Failing
Back from Former Positions
VICTORIES ARE CONFIRMED
French Commander In Official Dis
patch Says That Allies Successes
Are Becoming More Complete
and Satisfactory Daily.

GdTlS, sept. Ian OUlCldL state
ment issued issued yesterday after
noon says:
First. On the left wing the enemy
continues his retreating movement.
He has evacuated Amiens, falling back
to the eastward between scissors and
Rheims. They have retired northward
from the Vesle. They have not de-
Tended the Marine to the southeast of
Rheims.
Second: At the center, the enemy,
though it has lost Revigny and Bra
bant-le-Roi, still holds the south end
of the forest of Argonne.
"On our right wing the hostile forces
which were along the Meurthe, are
beating a retreat beyond st. Die and
Luneville. We have reoccupied Ora
on, lie Tape, Baccarat, Ramireville,
Nomeny and Pontaousson.
"In the Belgian field Of operations
the Belgian army has vigorously taken
the offensive to the south OF Lire.
an the Russian field the battle has
been in progress in Galicia for the
last seventeen days and has ended in
a great victory for the Russian army.
The Austrians have retreated along
the entire front, leaving in the hands
of the Russians great number OF
prisoners and important war mate
rial"
Confirms Successes.
Bordeaux, Sept. 1.-THE minister OF
war, Alexandra Millerand, has COM
municated to the cabinet the following
telegram which he had received
from General Joffre, commander in
chief Of the French forces:
"Our victory is confirmed as more
and more complete. Everywhereth the
enemy is in retreat. Everywhere the
Germans are abandoning prisoners
wounded and munitions of war.
War News Condensed.
A British official announeeIAentG
says that British troops have cressed
the river Ourcq and are pursuing the
German right wing whose retreat Isl
rapid. 1t lis declared that the Third
French army had captured all the ar.
tillery of one German army corps
The latest official German report
said their forces had captured for
tress southwest Of Verdun, and news
dispatches indicate a purpose on the
part Of the German general stat 70
surround and cut off from the line Of
the allies the strongly fortified city OF
Verdun.
News dispatches indicate that INC
Russians have not overwhelming the
Austrians in Galicia as had been clain-I
ed. Fresh and stubborn lighting III
that Austrian province is reported and
this has given rise to the speculatlon
that the German corps brought from
the west may have been thrown into
Austria to support the Austrians I'M
stead of proceeding to east Prussis
to reinforce the Germans already
there. Mn
Advices received by the French EN-.
bassy at Washington tell of the retire.
ment of the German center east or
Paris, but these obviously refer TO
earlier fighting the details q which
have just been made known IA pfficfal
dispatches from Paris. sas .
A dispatch from Rome says THAI
Pope Benedict XIV has charged foreign
cardinals to urge their governments to
cease hostilities andsconvoke peace
conference.
A news dispatch from Petrograd
says that the Servians are continuing
successfully their offensive operations
against Austria @t
The situation in east Prussia Is in
doubt, but there is nothing to indicate
that the Russians have made any no
table advance west since their reverse
at Allenstein. They were last report
ed attacking Koenigsberg, while the
German troops were said to be moving
toward this stronghold
Important news comes from east
Prussia, where the Russians appear
to have made little IL any progress
since the reverse at Allenstein. They
are now reported to be bombarding
the strongly fortified capital of Koen-
igsberg. There are indications, how
ever, that the Germans are arriving
In force and moving toward Koenigs-
berg. A dispatch from Petroerad says
that the Germans from the west con-
centrated on the banks OF the river
ALE and are marching in an easterly
direction while the Russian advance
guard is retreating. The Allie river
flows north and east in a direction
southeast from Koenigsberg.
A dispatch from Rotterdam says that
an official German communication de-
MES that the fortress at Przemys is
surrounded by Russians or that the
Russian forces are advancing on Cra-
COW, as has been represented at Petro-
grad and London.
Renewed activity by the German
navy in the Baltic is indicated in re-
ports from Berlin and elsewhere.
Nish reports that Servian forces
have occupied Semlin, town OF Aus
tria-Hungary from which the Austri-
ans began their original attack on
Servia. Servian and Montenegro
troops have effected juncture and
begun march on Sarajevo, the capt.
tai OF Bosnia.
Eight French physicians arriving in
Rotterdam after attending both French
and German wounded declare they
found no evidence Of the use Of dunn
dunn bullets by either side.
According to Servian advices, Serv-
Ian troops have crossed the river Save
and are successfully, invading Hun
gary. Montenegrin troops are In Bos-
MIA, hoping to incite a revolution in