The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-10-20
ALLIES STILL ADVANCING
Germans Said TO Be Bringing Up
Siege Guns For Use In the Eastern
Section of France to Force Forti-
fications.

London, Oct. 19.-1O:15 p. m.-The
third act of the war in the western
theatre mas reached a critical point.
The first act was the German attempt
to sweep through Belgium and North
ern France upon Paris, with the cap
ture of the French capital as tAe
climax Of an irrisitable advance.
The second act was the offensive
assumed by the allies after General
Won Kluck had stretched his army on
the German west wing over a long
line of communications that he could
not hold. The allied army pressed the
German forces back toward the Bel
gian border compelling the entire
line from the eastern pivot Of Verdun
to recede in order to maintain an ua-
treat.
The third act is the attempted adj
vance of the Germans along the coast
of Belgium and Northern France, an
parently with the design of establish
! ing themselves in tne channel ports,
from which points of vantage they
| couId menace England.
The allies have made progress east
ward from point south of Armen-
there's toward Lille on a line running
roughly to Arras. The report tells
or house to house fighting in which
the allies are advancing. The battle
has ragged around Arras without re.
| spite for ten days and ON the part Uf
the allied troops with a perseverance
and spirit which never for a mo-
ment nave been reiaxed.
The German official report covers
these operations more tersely. 1t
says that the attacks to the west ald
northwest Of Lille have been re-
pulsed with heavy losses to the al
lies.
The situation is still so mucn in the
dark that it is impossible to Judge Of
the exact trend of events.
The English and French papers
merely gather encouragement fros
the reports published. from their sid
From the German point of view it IS
possible the Germans have improved
their position and with the forces
which besieged Antwerp and rein
forcements from Germany are at
tempting along the coast another
sweeping movement like that which
carried them so far into France.
In this field of action, it appears
inevitable that there must soon BE
some decisive result The flatness
Of the country seems to have made it
impossible for the two armies to en-
trench and face each other without
important change in position for
weeks as tney have done across
Northern France.
The announcement that the Ger
mans have taken siege guns to the
neighborhood of Belfort may mean
that they plan to attempt an advance
on both ends of wnat during the past
month has become virtually a long
fortified line.
German official report says that the
exodus from Ostend is being repeated
in the flight of the inhabitants from
Dunkirk and Boulogne. While con-
firmation of this assertion mas not
been received here 1t is wholly pos
sible that the proximity of the Ger
mans has created a panic at those
ports.
Great battles continue in the east
ern theatre between the Russian AMI
AustroGerman forces. Reports from
bota sides are brief and contradictory.
Petrograd claims the Russians have
Won partial success in very hard
fighting before Warsaw and Prze-
mysl.
Vienna declares that the Austro-
German armies hare made advances
on both regions and that the Russian
casualties at Przemysl number 40
900.