The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-10-10
lEXTENSlON OF FRENCH BATTLE
FRONT BRINGS FIGHT WITHIN
6s MILES OF ANTWERP.
ARTILLERY Is STILL BUSY
Allies Have Plenty of Guns and Am
munition to Reply to German AS,
saults-EneIish Have System Of
Screening Movements.

On the Battle Front, via Paris. Oct.
9.-ll:45 p. m.-The sharp offensive
movement of the Germans on the
western wing of the allies at the Bel
gian frontier evidently has failed in
its object of bending or breaking the
French and British line.
The long extension of the battle
line, which now has gone beyond tie
four rivers-Scarpe, Somme. Disc.
and Aisne-was initiated by the allies
in an endeayor to find a solution OF
the problem on ousting the Germans
from their strong position in north
eastern France. In these positions
the Germans had been besieged near
ly a month, since the conclusion of
the bloody battle of the Marne. a
frontal attack being considered mex
pedient by the allies. The present
front is within about 6S miles Of Ant
werp, where the Belgians have offered
such heroic resistance to the bonn
ibardment of the heavy German ar
tillery. Belgian officers who have ar
rived here from Antwerp declare that
the Belgians themselves destroyed
IForts Waelhem and Wavre-St Cath
crimes.
Further down the center of the line
severe fighting continued today at
Roye, where the allies took a large
number of prisoners. Rheims again
was subjected to a short lombard
ment
In other parts of the center the op-
posing forces remain constantly alert
The cannonade has diminished in in
tensity and the allied troops occupy
ing the trenches are becoming thor
oughly accustomed to the situation
Many of them spend the intervals be
tween the spells of rifle fire reading
newspapers to their comrades beneath
the bomb-proof shelters.
The allied artillery men seem In
defatiguble replying with vigor when
ever German cannon opens fire. The
men throw themselves on the ground
when they hear the peculiar tearing
noise of the elemys she'll and consa-
quently the causualities in this sec
| tion are few.
Al night everybody is at high ten
sion and few noises are heard. An
occasional dull signal lamp or a lalt-
ern with its light turned away from
the German lines indicates the num-
Der of a brigade or division occupying
the position and permits of the rars
despatch of rider on a motorcycle
to find his way along the rear to the
commanding officers. All around the
air is full of dust and sand thrown up
by shell splinters, while the odor
from the explosives is intense.
The French and Germans still gen.
orally utilize bugle calls and when
these are heard searchlights imme-
diately are flashed out. The British
commands, however, are whispered
along the trenches from mouth 20
mouth so that even in the silence Cf
the night no sound reaches the ears
of tne Germans in their trenches not
so far away and no indication is given
of any proposed movement or attack
until it is in full swing.
On the eastern wing the fighting is
still very fierce around st. Mihiel
with many night attacks. The Ger
mans are extremely clever in cor
structing blind trenches against the
allies fire often is directed while the
Germans actually are posted some dis
tance away in other trenches from
whicA they can pour in al enfilading
fire.