The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-10-23
BATTLES RACING
ALONG VAST LINE.
Allies AsSaiIed Between Men,
port and DixmudG.
ATTACK AT ARRAS AND ROYE

Report of Recapture of Ostend Not
onfirmed-Turkish and Russ Fleets
in Sea BattIe-Japs Seize Pacific
Isands-Germans RepuIsed Before
Warsaw-Serbs Report Austrian
Rcut.
II was announced officially in Tokyo
that the German torpedo boat $50
has been destroyed by the Japanese
at point sixty miles south of Kiau-
ckau bay.
A dispatch from Copenhagen to the
Central News says: "The RerIiner
TagebIatt publishes telegram from
Bucharest saying that evidently
Russian-Turkish naval battle has
taken place in the Black Sea. Ex-
ceedingIy heavy firing, lasting
considerable time, is reported"
The navy department has announced
the occupation, for military pur-
poses, of strategcaIIy important is
lands in the Marianne (or Ladrone),
Marshall, East Caroline and West
Caroline archipelagos.
A London Morning Post special cor
respondent in the north of France
says that he is informed on excel
lent authority that the allies have
retaken Ostend. There is no con-
firmation here of this report.
n@rDnNr Tbo pJ,,D 0;n0 at-
tacks on the allied line near the Bel
gian coast between Newport and Dix
nude, similar tactics by the allies in
France between Arras and Roye,
where progress is claimed, contln-
ueG allied assault on Lille, still held
by Germans, and stubborn fighting in
the vicinity of st. Mihiel, where for
DAYS the allies have been trying to
drive the Germans from their south
ernlnost Judgment, where the acute
points in the sprawling battle area of
France and Belgium.
The communications issued in be-
half of the allies enabled Britons to
visualize for the first time in ten days
the approximate battle line after cross
ing the Belgian frontier. and showed
the allies, during the days of censor
ship, were throwing their forces west
Ward to meet the inevitable German
which followed the taking of Ostend.
The fighting is now centered only
few miles southwest of that city and
the Belgian army, heretofore reported
a shaving repulsed the Germans on
the banks of the River Yser is again
in the thick of the fight, being credit
ed with bending back the German
line as far as Roulers, Belgium, thir-
teen miles northwest of Courtrai,
which point they are holding, accord
ing to the latest reports available
when this dispatch was written.
Germans Hurled Back Near Warsaw.
LONDON = A dispatch to the
Times from Petrograd says:
''FIerce fighting has been in progress
since Sunday west of Warsaw. The
Russian columns have resOlutely hur1-
ed back the Germans toward their
main positions on the line of Shrine
vice, Kielce and Sandomir.
mo details have reached the war
Office concerning this fighting, but the
cor: espondents at the front give de-
scriptions of the fierce artillery duels
and tel lof the captures of large num-
bers of prisoners, including many
Saxons They add that the Germans
are exhausted and starving"
Servians Report Reverse for Austrans.
NISH SERVIA = In the region
of the Save, near Mitrovitza, the Aus
tris,ns after brisk artillery fire, at
tempted unsuccessfully to capture the
Se'. ian position at Prekiet. From the
heights of Dejamia the Austrians
bombarded Topzider and the banks of
the Save and the Danube, and also
sought to cannonade the vicinity of
Senlin, but were forced to retire be-
fore the Servian fire.