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the Argonne, with often successful
blows in the offensive. Gen. Joffre, Paris
believes. has found troops for semi
independent blow at the German power
in Belgium. Obviously, he has forced
the Germans to assume practically !
new battle line. north and south
front. while forcing them 80 to weaken
their old line Of east and west resistance
that the allies may he expected 20
break through even that strongly fortl-
fed position.
Internationally the Germans have
turned again on their pursuers in the
forest Of the Argoune and along the
Meuse. The Crown Prince for the thiTd
time is seeking strength to pierce the
eastern barrier, a triumph sorelN needed
by German arms II the pressure to the
west is TO he relieved.
News OF "A reverse which 80 closely
followed a success at Scissors dulled
elation in the capital. but confidence
in the eventual victory OF the allies ls
undlmlnlshed 1t il the French view
that the very intensity OF the German
effort to smash through the allies line
somewhere plainly indicates the des-
peration of their plight And 1t is fur
Their noted that the Govcrnme re-
por,s, always accurate and truthful,
point to 10 relaxation OF the allies spirit
and determination.
Constant reiteratiOn of the phrase
THE battle IL now in "A critica! stage"
statement never followed by decisive
results has inclined public opinion to-
ward belief that the result may he
weeks away. There are, however. GER
al nc t.,b{ Is.
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The German violation,

Yet within forty-eight hours the same
Herr Won RuelOw delivered the German
ultlmatum. The text Of the Belgian reply
has not hitherto appeared. II is as fol-
lows
by it's note of August .. 1914, the
German Government makes II known
that. according to Its certain Information.
the French forces have the intention Of
marching upon the Meusr by way Of
Givet and Dnant and that Belgium, not
withstanding her good intention, would
not be In condition to rcpcl without as
s!siance an advance march ~ the French
troops. The German Government feels
itself under the obligation to prevent that
attack and 10 violate Belgian territory.
Under these circumstances Germany pro-
poses to the Kings Government To adopt
In reference to her friendly attitude
and engages at a moment or peace 20
guarantee the integrity OF IN" Kingdom
and it's possessions in all their extent
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harm from the German Dombardment.
Tho big German guns are not being
worked hy regular soldiers but by men
in citizens clothing, who wear only an
arm.et to indicate heir military occu-
patton. Undoubtedly these men are EN-
pluycrs OF the Hrupp factory. The
heaviest German guns are located north
Of Ni,vordy, where foundations OF r.
Enforced concrete have been prepared.
The German shells have practically
wiped out most of the little villages and
ham,ets in the ou'eT circle OF the Ant
werp defenCes. The Germans still hold
Malines, although AT heavy cost, as
the town IL subject TO a constant bonn
bardment from the Antwerp forts"
The correspondent Of the DdilU Err
press asserts that homhardment and
successive infantry assaults have not
materially weakened the defence. He
adds.
AN attempt by Iandstrum battalions
and marines To occupy Forts Waelhem
and Wavre-St. Catherine was an
extraordinary error Of judgment on the
part OF the German commander. Be
licving that the forts had been silenCeG
by the explosions of the AZ Centimetei
shells he sent forward an assaulting
force estimated at from 10 900 TO $1,000
men. supported by field artillery, to
take them with the bayonet. Both forts
had slaCkencd their fire gradually.
Finally the fire ceased altogether.
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MILANESE DEMAND
WAR ON AUSTRIA
Socialists. i'm Great Dcmon>tra.
ton. Call for the Liberia
ton Of Trent.
PETITION TO PARLIAME
Speciai cable bespatch IN Tnt S.,

ROME. October
\ great demonstration was held ~,
night in Milan in favor Of war ar. .ns,
Austria Signor Battisti, a So. lie,
Deputy from Trent Austria. addressed
huge meeting, saying that Tr.l, ,
awaiting liberation by its I..an
brothers.
THE liberation of Trent and Tr,..n"
he continued. means the aocump .r.
ment Of a duty left rs a hcritae' DO. ..-
great makers of the fatherland"
After the meeting crowds paI.l. 4
the streets IN spite Of the efforts OBJ. tue
police and carabinlcH To- prevent NE
demonstration The crowds sturp,
front Of the Monttncgriu Cousu,u., AID
manifested their sympathy win lt
Moutcncgrins. then marched Go sac
monument Of Garihdldi. where ilf.uvr
speeches were made
A petition signed by Italians q
Trent. headed by Signor Batust las
been presented to the itdhau Ta....
mcnt urging the Governments TO ,lu-
plete the work Of freeing Italy w..h
was begun by Garibaidl and tp ...e
with the Italian Kingdom the Austrian
provinces Inhabited by Italians
The situation in Albania is favor.
able to Italy since the arrival e.. E.,ad
Pasha Through his initiat,y, E.rtt
has been rcoccupicd and the EprYt,.
have been defeated. Nalon1 il no LONGER
threatened.
The syndicate of railway men dol."s
emphatically reports that railway
strike will be organized In cas- D,
mobilization. The reports had 81 nat
such "A strike would Ice started ii e.
taliatiOn for the dismissal Of 900 rl.-
way men and their punishment a. . 10.
suit OF the riots last June. The ~ .ii.
cate adds that such unpatrint,r "a-
prisals would be- likely to damage ne
security of the country.
The appeal of number of German
artists ana scientists insisting Lat
Germany was compelled to enter uupa
war as a defensive measure. is ,.m-
mented upon to-day by the tribune y
"A significant inspired article The
Trtbuad points out that II the war wee
defensive on Gcrmanys part Italy
would have Joined Germany and that
the fact ot Itllv's neutrality proves
that the war was essentially agrees
sivo. Otherwise. the article says 'ta,v
would be accused Of violating the Triple
Alliance.
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ALLIES GIVE WAY SLIGHTLY AT CERTAIN POINTS ON LIEF
ALLIES GAIN SLOWLY.
TasL IL BEING Done sureIy-"Ger-
man Successes Local"
ny CHARLES TOWER,

NY shhNbfS IoWE En-.
spec'a, Correspondent Of THE srS and the
london "DdHV NdH'
Special Cd6ie Despatch TO THE suH.
RoUES, October :.
The hcrccst lighting recently has
been at and near Royc. The enemy
holds the curve running from Peronne
to Chaunos and thence to Lassigny
with the salient at the latter town,
which has been twice reported as having
surrendered It was obviously en-
daugercd. but IN now strongly held.
The severity Of the lighting is shown
b. the number of wounded brought
from the front ln ,his region. The at
tempts of the enemy to break or weaken
the grip upon him around the whole
curve from Noyuu To Arras have been
fuilcd lie has doubtless won local
succ,sse.. bat the a,,..s counter attack
10 understood to nc still in progress and
has obtained a general advantage.
In the Argonnc district there has
been noticeable and recently rapid
movement forward The sixteenth
German Army corps. which was
originally uaIt of the crown Princes
army, has been driven back with very
,ousidcraD'. losses. Its retirement II
the moment - apparently continuing.
The vigorous attack "n the Meuse
for,s is gradually being worn down but
the pruGr,ss is slow and TIA" task ~ The
allies at this point is not really mu'h
more thau 90 hold the enemy IN CHECK
and force hum to waste his efforts ~
iruItlesa Cpuulcr attacks
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Unler the walls OF the eastern forts OF
Iicge the first shots of the Belgian cam
paign were fired on August I. Yesterday
then marked the close Of the second month
OF the great war supplied an appropriate
calendar division at which to measure the
progress Of the several campaigns.
The honors Of the first month undoubt-
eddy rested with the Germans. Thirty
days after the artillery OF the Kaiser
awakened echoes not merely OF the hills
above the Nesdre and Ourthe valleys but
throughout the civilized world his gray
uniformed masses were on the Marine ana
the Seine, the roar Of his cannon at Meaux
and Lagny was plainly audible on the
boulcvards and along the quays of the
French capital. Five weeks aft r Ger
many had despatched her first declaration
Of war, that to Petrograd, her massive
military machine had ovcrrun Belgium and
reached tn. gates of Paris.
Looking eastward, II the success was
less complete there was still little cause
for German pessimism. II was true that
.bOut Lemberg the main Austrian army
had been beaten. was falling back In
retreat which. as IL turned out, was to De-
come a rout. but north and east In Poland
and before Lublin and in LODI Austrian
and German soldiers were still advancing.
In East Prussia, too, on Sedan day Gen.
Won Hindenberg had won the sweeping
victory OF Tannenberg-"the Sedan Of the
East" German journals named II. The
destruction OF Gen. Ronnenkampfs force.
the right wing Of the Russian battle line
from the Carpathlans to the Baltic.
seemed quite as probable as the rout OF
Austrian army corps on the San and the
NIstula
Plainly indisputably. Germany had won
the first round. ON September 4--and to
get just appreciation Of the situation on
October In its proper relation to that or
u month before 1t is necessary ~ recall
what the world expected on the earlier
date-the press Of London and Berlin alike
talked frankly of the possibility that In a
Few days Paris might fall, the French Gov
eminent had fed 10 Bordeaux, all the par
dllels and presidents OF 1870 were on the
lips and in the minds of men. For two
weeks defeated French and English armies
had retrcatel over the fields OF Flanders,
Picardy. Artois and Champagne 49, these
provinces were lost and there existed the
grave possibility that the morale Of the
allied armies had been shaken-possibly
destroyed.
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From the disc go the ArgOune region
The enemy has been enabled lee weaken
the u.l.c.' infantry owing 10 the
strength of his ntrcnched position. tie
made successive attempts To break the
allies lines. but all OF them, which were
costly, failed.
The recent attacks hy tn" enemy
have shown a lack Of cohesion and IA
f,rlur leadership. \ certain Weakening
OF the cnemy's artillery fire may be due
to the fact that some of hl~ heavy guns
have exceeded their normal Life. They
have lost their precision and have not
been replaced up 10 the present His
heavy artillery Is now outrtnged ana
probably outuumbered and ne has been
forced IN numerous instances to aban-
don carefully prepared gun positions,
The weakning OF the enemy's centre has
been promptly followed by IA vigorous OF
frnsiye by both the Tureos and the left
wing ~ the British, who nave cameo
ground since saturday.
Speaking about the losses, YOU have
already heard how close formed masses
of the enemy advanced again and again
to the attack. how they were moved
down by rifiemen who had been taught
never to waste a bullet and by machine
guns.
Wp~nded Are Neglected.
The intervals between the trenches
are covered with dead and wounded. but
the enemy has inflicted upon his own
wounded worse torment than he has
wreaked by shot and shell. Conscious
perhaps that he can no longer ind pro-
lection under the Red Cross which he
has abused. he will neither attempt TO
bring in his own wounded nor allow our
ambulance parties to do II for him.
Hence flr days and nights the ground
IN front of the trenches was covered
with wounded. Whose cries and groans
added 10 the nerve racking strain of life
In the trenches.
Som, ~ the wounded 60 mad. Their
screams are another horror of the night,
while the very air is pestilcnt with the
smell of slaughter and over this ground
over these dead and wounded, is driven
D. the next attack
An English officer told me that his
regiment after counter attack was
unable 10 enter the cnemy's trenches
when they reached them owing 10 the
heaps of dead.
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RESERVES ARE CATCHING FISH.
Good Food, Fine weather. hut No
Air Guns for Hunting.

PARIS. oct 5.--An officer who has lust
returned from the British hraduuartrrs
whence he visited the lighting lines. re-.
ports that the conditions are splendid
Thr men are well fed ana the weather
Is pleasant.
The reserves back OF the actual n,h,iug
line ar" having good hshiug They ox-
press regrets that no silent air gun. ar,
available for hunting
The correspondent Of THE Sun asked
IN" officer how the battle was going IL
replied Slowly hut surely I'm our favo.
The nghtlng Is mostly Smelling, which
is uninterestlng, with neither side getting
marked advantage"
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EXPECT NEW OFFENSIVE.
Paris Looks for Raid Into belgium
Under Jonre's Direction.
Special CdJie despatch 10 Tmr SIN.
PARIS Dctobar

PARIS, October 3.
The government supplies no news OF
the operations Of the allied troops north
ward along Won kluck's west flank and
toward the Belgian border. II does not
deny correspondents assertions that an
allied column Is near Douai; a continu-
ancc OF the thanking thrust apparently,
IN spite of German assaults much fur
thor south.
There is hope here that the COM
handHr in cnef has iound an oppor-
'unlty Tor his long oppressed character
Is'Ic 81 u dashng offensive. II that be
~. Gen. Joffrc, while sti,l planning the
development Of the German right wing.
aims more definitely toward II great raid
mt" N"'gium, u raid designed 10 force
me fernanS To abandon the Siege of
Antwerp and clear out Of BRUSSELS.
Maintaining determined resistance all
along the right angle of Albert, Rove.
, Noyon, scissors, Craonne, Rheims and
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IN all this time the main effort OF
the Germans had been defensive. The
hone Of q new thrust at Paris. made
promptly when the armies defeated at
the Marine had been rolitted. rested, had
vanished Save FOR d desperate flank
push toward the NcrdunToul barrier
the whole concern Of the German Gen
eraI stan was b. protect It's impcrlled
right-to guard the railroad from Laon
aud 81 Quentin to Brussels and Llege,
the Ne line Of the great armies In
France Even the vigorous drive It
Antwerp was one NOR" defensive move.
20 relieve pressure upon necessary com
munications
Up to October the Germans had
.urcceded I'm thcir ef ITS. French and
British advances To Peroupo and the
suburbs - st Quentin had been pushed
back Cavalry raids to lie Catelet and
Rolsrl. towns actually on the WESTERN st
Of tho German supply lines had been
checked and flung back Even to the
south beyond Noyou. impairment drives
at LassRny and the Noyon Hills had been
crushed down and ground lost had been
rr'aken
Rut to do this troops had been coll
lected from the whole extent Of the battle
line from the interior garrisons - Ger
mnny-RttnCk in Ais ce In Lorraine had
been abandoned The efforts TO break the
allied centre had failed, Army corps in
Belgium had been drawn down and the
garri. onlng Of this captured kingdom left
20 the Landsturm, t. middle aged men.
Yet all this had not served to relieve
the pressure, Repused at one point the
allied hankinl thrust moved always TO
the north. II had failed at Peronne and
II Quentin, II was renewed Mt Albert
and BnUaume Halted here, II was felt
again east of Arras and was now mount
! Ing up 10 ponai The battle Of the Alsnc
lad become the battle OF the seven rivers
In fact the Germ an offensive in the
second month had fallen to the level Of
siege and II was the invaders who were
being besieged Again and again they
were striking out with unfaltering courage
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POPE ASKS GEAR TO END WAR.
sends Request 10 Russian ns We'll as
Austrian SOVEREIGN.

NDeciai Cdbie Dsspatch 10 TuE srv
ROME. oct. Sit is reported that the
Pope, in addition to the request re
made Of Emperor Francis Joseph ~
Austria, to bring the war to an end. {,
trying to influence the car in favor NJ
peace.
Pope BenediCts advance is being
made, il is said through Count IsvolsHu
the Russian Ambassador in Paris, who
Is an intimate friend of the pontif.
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But on October who could mistake
the change? The battle of the Marine had
been fought. The southernmost foothold
Of the Germans. that on the Noyon Hills.
was nearly seventy miles from Paris and
eighty from Lagny the high water mark
Of the advance OF Won Kluck. Eastward
the German line now ran straight across
the plain of Chalons north OF Nerdun, no
longer surrounded. the army OF the
Crown Prince was retiring from Narnnes
and the vicious th,ust through the bar
rier forts at St Mihlel seemed to be
frustrated
More than this. after week Of retreat
and three more weeks of desperate, tre-
mcndous heroic efforts the German
masses had been unable To get on foot
again. to step out once more toward
Paris To NoyOn and the Craonne
plateau north ~ scissors Won Kluck had
come back on September l2 Won Buelow
had been driven north Of Rheims in the
same general movement and on October
I neither the German right nor the centre
had regained "A single mile or territory
on this front
Three weeks of the most confused and
bloodicst fighting the Western world had
known found the Germans and the allies
facing each other. deadlocked on lines
swept by the heaviest artillery OF three
nations. cut and scanned with the trenches
and Entertainments which were daily
growing ana more anu HluI" thh'Hh vi
the character ~ those lines below Rich
moud where Grant and Lee did battle
from July. 1864. to April 1865.
Meantime to the west and north new
allied armies. gathered from every quar-
ter OF the globe, regiments Of Sikhs and
Gurkhas touching elbows with Moroccan
goums and battalons of black soldiers
from the Senegal and the Niger British
regulars recalled from fIindustan ana
Egypt. strengthened or about to be
strengthened by Colonial troops from
Canada and Australia were moving upon
the flank and rear Of the German armies
Asln, Africa. America and Australia were
beginning Ia contribute the first levles
from rcsoucrs which should henceforth
be ineXhaustlhlc
As q result OF this thrust all north
west France had been recovered. Amiens,
Lille. Arras cities and regions which
had been occupied by Germans in earl"
September. had paid ransom to their
conGuerars, were now redeemed. All the
main railways from Paris to the channel
were I'm allied hands once more and having
been reconstructed we're conveying fresh
troops far northward as the campaign
developed toward the Belgian line.
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a cabled despatch from ConstantinopIe.
published September q, said that Ger
many had paid s25O.O00 to I.uxemburg as
partial compensation for damage inflicted
In the violation Of the neutrality ~ the
Grand Duchv.
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IN VICTORIOUS ADVANCED
"Nossischr Z-itung's" Expert says
Both Wings of German Army
Progress.
Nv e. r. STEwAun
By q. T.. STEWARD,

SDeCiIi correspondent Of TnE sUN and Ms
LoHdoH "Ddiiy Ners"
ROTTERDAM. oct The VosSische
/citun0's military expert says:
Both wings of the German army are
in victorious advance and occupy
strong positions for decisive battle. An
absolutely comprehensive plan OF at
lacking the enemy by overwhelming
pressure is now being executed"
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The German General apparently con-
cludcd they were hors de combat, The
attacking force went forward without
hndranCe, covered by the guns. II was
allowed to approach within 800 yards
~ the forts before any signs Of life
were apparent, suddenly Waelhem and
Wayre-St. Catherine literally burst into
flame Every siege gun and every quick
hrer was turned against the masses Of
foot soldiers who had almost reached
their goal
They were moved down in companies
and the slaughter was beyond dcscrip-
ton. In some places before Fort Wavre-
St Catherine the dead and wounded
We're piled seven fert high. Tho wounded
men who lay underneath were SUI
focated, their bodies being found after
ward IN contortcd and aGonizod posi-
tons"
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Advance OF Allied Armies.

Yet on October 4 il was allied not
German armies that were advancing In
France. As on September I the world
was talking OF the fall Of Paris on
October IL was the probable approach
Of German retreat from France which
occupied the attention not alone Of allies
but of neutral observers. The eNpeCta-
tons of the earlier month had proved
false, those OF October might be equally
unwafranted Yet not even in German
official and unofficial utterances was there
longer the promise OF victory that shotGd
terminate the western war. What had
opened as daring. magnificent, un-
riyalled effort to end n war In the first
weeks OF conflict with a brief and ire
sistible drive had fallen now To the level
OF 4 mere campaign, In size, in extent Of
territory, In numbers engaged, uuoqudlled
In history. but still "A campaign. like other
campaigns, before Waterloo. Sedan aud
Sadowa had nourished the belief that
millions could be crushed in weeks, even
In days.
So In a larger sense October 4 might
be accepted AZ the date which saw the
close Of the frst phase OF the great war.
the interruption. perhaps temporary. per-
haps final OF German expectations, but at
least the termination of the period In
which Hhe had hoped to win quickly the
extinction OF the dream which had dom
Dlated her military operations from
LeCe TO the time when the battle of the
Aisnc beca me the battle Of the seven
rivers OF the three NATIONS, for the iUmc-
diate battle-ground now stretched through
Germany, France and Belgium. from the
Swiss TO the Dutch frontiers From THE
EVENING SUN Of yesterday
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Germany Won First Round
of War; Allies the Second
October Which Closed First Phase of Great Struggle Saw
Termination of Period in Which Kaiser
Had Hoped to Win Quickly.
SITUATION CHANGES GREATLY IN TWO MO

and determination endeavoring to break
the circle OF steel always closing about
them. But despite small gains they had
made no substantial progress. The eround
they occupied they held. their lines OF
communication remained intact. But this
was the limit OF their ADVANTAGE after
three weeks of effort, after losses which
far exceeded those from llege to the
Marine.
Meantime the situation I'm the east had
gravely changed. Austrian defeat AT Lem
berG had been followed by rout at To-
mazov. at Rawaruska. Iaraslov had
fallen. Przemysl was Isolated and in
vested Cossacks had crowned the car
pathians and flowed over into the Hun
sarian Plain. A considerable offensive
toward tho Niemen from East Prussia
was being beaten down. From The Baltic
10 the Carpathians tho Russian battle line
was at last In motion. iis left flank on
tho Carpathians near CraCOw, rs right
once more moving into East Prussia. its
centre drawing toward Posen and Breslau,
still on Russian soil. hut no longer far
from the Silesian and POsen frontier posts.
Two months too the car had been al
lowed to bring up his millions In bringing
them he seemed Enthusiastically to have
crushed Austrian military strength. and
there was left only Germany TO meet
allied might in the hong feared war Of
the two fronts"
II the first month. the FIRST round.
had been to the Germans. was It less
unmistakable on October that the
second had been to the allies? hut Ger
man statesmen themselves. In justfying
their violation OF Belgian neutrality. mad.
In effect confessed that to win at all
Germany must triumph IN the first round +.
win not tactically but decisively crush.
annihilate the military strength Of France ,
hold Paris ana the republic to ransom. as
a hostage. while victorious western armies
flowed back TO the Niemen to deal with
the armies OF the Gar