Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-17
FIERCE FIGHTING IN
FRANCE CONTINUES
GREAT BATTLE ON FRENCH SOIL
PROGRESSES WITH VARYING
RESULTS.
Ono Town Taken and Retaken at
Least a Dozen Times.-Ostend is
Now the Center of Interest in
Contest.


tory continues, first one side and then
the other claiming the advantage. The
battle had been in progress thrty-one
days ON Wednesday.
The section where encounters are
most severe has suddenly changed
from Roye to Lassignys where the Ger
mans tried to make a breech through
the allied lines. The battle, however,
is still progressing about Roye, which
has been taken and retaken at least
,welve times. The Germans expert
enced an unpleasant surprise at Roye
from the French infantry and artillery
and after the French gunners had bat
tered them a German infantry battal-
ion and cavalry regiment surrendered.
British troops have been engaged
with the enemy towards the left OF
he allied line lin France), with the
result that the Germans have been
pressed back slightly on their flank.
The nature of the country in which
the fighting has been conducted being
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difficult
Ostend is now the center of inter
est in the contest being waged in the
western theater of war. Reports indi.
cate that there is now virtually no
obstacle in the way of the German ad-
ance on Ostend and other ports in tho
northwest of Belgium.
Scores of wounded soldiers are be-
ing brought into Ostend from Client.
1t is reported that the allies and the
Germans engaged in serious battle
near Client on Monday, that the Ger
man forces were far superior in num-
bers, and that the allies were obliged
10 withdraw toward the west. This
removed the stumbling block in the
way Of German progress towards Os-
lend.
A state of panic exists among the in
1abitants of Ostend, for the Germans
are known to have large force with
in twenty miles of the city. AS fast
Is ships can be provided, the residents
are fleeing to England, escape by land
having been cut off on all sides.
The extreme right wing of the main
German army has been forced to fall
back before an assault by the allies,
nd reports indicate. that the invaders
ii encounter strong opposition in at
,empting to extend their right wing to
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Gently the German cavalry had pro-
gressed as far west as Hazbrouck but
now, according to the French war Of
fee, the front of the battle extends
from La Basse through Estaires to
Baileul on the Belgian frontier
Across the border Ypres has been ac-
cupied by the allied forces. This in
dicates a decided gain for the allies,
In the eastern theater, the Russians
on October 13 successfully pressed
back the German forces on the left
bank of the Vistula, along the road
leading from Warsaw to lvangorod ac
cording to an official communication
issued by the Russian general staff
Fighting continues to the south OF
Przemysl, Galicia, says the statement
There are no important changes on
the other fronts.
An official announcement given out
in Vienna says that the Austrian
troops advancing towards Przemysl
has repulsed the encircling Russian
troops in sucn a way that the enemy
is now able to maintain his position
only before the eastern front of the
fortress. Fighting continues east OF
Chyrow, Galicia.
From Nish, Servia, comes the off
cial statement that on Sunday night
the Austrians were repulsed in two
attacks on the extreme right wing
of the Servian front between Svornik,
Bosnia and Losnitza, Servia. On Nom
day the Austrians attacked the Serv-
ians twice on the left bank of the
Save river, but were repulsed on each
occasion with great loss.