The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-03
GERMANS CLAIM TO
HAVE WON SUCCESS
AGAINST THE ALLIES
OFFICIAL BERLIN REPoRrs CAST
DOUBT ON CLAIMS OF FRENCH
AND ENGLISH.
FRENCH ADMIT Won KLUCK
IS ADVANCING N0RTHWARD
Today's Reports Are Decidedly Fav-
orabIe to Germany and Austria-Jap-
anese Boat Sunk by German Mines
| italian Sea Merchants Fear to
| Ship Goods
(By Assoct0ted Press. ]
Ship Goods

London, Oct. 3.-Unusual activity in
the publicity departments Of the Ger
man and Austrian army headquarters
has furnished an account Of the results
of current battles differing so radical
ly from those eminating from the
camps of their opponents as to render
the widely divergent statements COM
pletely irreconscilable.
In regard to the battle on the Aisne
there is only one point on which the
French and German statements agree
and that is that General Won Kluck is
going northward, though at a snail's
pace, and that he is so powerful that
General Joffre, commander-in-chief of
| the French forces, has been obliged to
admit that the German commander
| has been able to make a fresh French
detachment debouching from Paris to
| fall back.
other Reports Contradictory.
| Farther south in the neighhorhood
of Roye, according to a German stan
report, the French have been dis
lodged from their positions, but the
French communications declare that
,::.,l German assaults there have been
repulsed. LAT
Again the Germans assert they have
fought their way southwark and have
made substantial gains in the Argonne
district, while the French counter
claim by saying they have made ad-
vances there II:
On the far eastern end of the battle
line each side maintains it has been
successful.
Each side thus furnished the news
it wishes to hear.
For the neutral observers the only
certainty is that these intermittent
conflicts along g<the immense line fur
nish only cumulative results which
gradually tend In a given direction
and to an outcome which will be duly
determined when the present process
of attrition completes its course.
That the attention of the different
commanders is centered at the allies
left seems indicated both from the
German and French reports that in the
center of the great battle line little is
transpiring. Possibly some of the re-
Inducements mentioned in the French
reports as having been received by
Won Kluck came from that section of
the line
Servian Victories Denied.
i The First Austrian staff report gives
fiat denial to the Servians vivid
stories of victory and the Serbs are
g equally emphatic in giving the lie to
the Austrians.
, The new army of Emperor Nicholas
e is on the march and according to
Petrograd, the general staff of the
I Muscovites have crossed the German
4 frontier onto Russian Poland. This is
e conceivably awkward for the Germans
s who are said to be retreating from the
!. Suwalki district.
r Reports of the illness of King
II Charles of Roumania have been re
d vived. Those opposed to the mon
n arch's friendliness toward Germany
v insist that these reports are issued to
d cover the delay in determining Rou
# manias attitude.
Ne German Troops Advancing.
nj Berlin, Oct. 2.-This official state
8 ment was given out at Army head
,e quarters last night:
ir The right wing of the German
rtl army in France has repulsed renewes
efforts on the part of the French t
outfiank it. To the south of Roye tn
. French have been dislodged from thei
. positions.
. THE situation in the center of th
. battle front remains unchanged.
>l German troops advancing In y
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