The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-09-02
Russians Admit
Loss of Two Army
Corps to Germans
Near Allenstein
Russians State That This Is Only Reverse However and
They Are Almost Ready to Strike for Berlin
Corner of War Curtain Raised Today.

NEW YORK SEPT. 2-DoW, JONES co. PUBLISH
ED THE FOLLOWING ON THEIR NEWS TICKER: LON
DON-UNCoNFIRMED REPORTS ARE CURRENT HERE
THAT TURKEY HAS DECLARED WAR ON RUSSIA.
COMMUNICATION WITH CoNsTANTINoPLE HAS
BEEN CUT OFF FOR THREE DAYS AND THE TURKISH
AMBASSADOR STATED HE HAD NO WAY OF TELLING
WHEN HE WOULD HEAR FROM HIS GOVERNMENT
AGAIN.
PARIS, SEPT 2-REPoRTs OF REFUGEES ARRIv-
ING HERE THAT GERMANS ARE FIGHTING IN THE
VICINITY OF CoMPIEGNE, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
oIsE, INDICATE A FURTHER MARKED ADVANCE OF
THE GERMANS. PREVIOUS REPORTS HAD THEM
FIGHTING AT LAFERE, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
AINE ABOUT SEVENTY MILES FROM PARIS COM
PIEGNE Is FORTY MILES FROM PARIS, JUST NORTH
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SEINE IN WHICH
PARIS rs LOCATED.
LONDON, ENGLAND SEPT THE DAILY MAILS
CORRESPONDENT AT ABBEvILLE FRANCE LEARNS
THAT EMPEROR WILLIAM WAS IN CHARLERo, BEL
GUM LAST SATURDAY, WHERE HE VIEWED THE
BATTLE FROM THE FIRING LINE, GOING LATER IN
THE MORNING TO MONS. THE EMPEROR SPENT SAT-
URDAY NIGHT IN BRUSSELS, WHERE HE STAYED AT
THE BELLVUE HOTEL
PARIS, SEPT 1.-THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT
WAS GIVEN OUT OFFICIALLY: "A GERMAN CAvAL-
RY CORPS, MARCHING TOWARD THE FOREST OF
CoMPIEGNE, ON THE LEFT WING OF THE ALLIED
FORCES, WAS ENGAGED BY THE ENGLISH TUESDAY,
SEPT. /. THE ENGLISH CAPTURED TEN CANNON"
THE PARIS BoURSE Is CLOSED
AUSTRIA TO EvAcUATE LEMBERG
Rome, Sept 2-The Giornale Italia publishes dis
patch from Vienna saying that the Austrian
made arrangements for the evacuation of Lemberg Gaca
Lemberg is the capital of Gaca Recent dispatches de-
scribe it invested by Russian troops Reports from St.
Petersburg declared that the Iron ring around Lemberg
being drawn closer and closer.
London Sept IA of the curtain over the battle
drama in northwestern France has momentary been raised
1t shows the allies battling desperately prevent the
of the Germans the upper Oise less than fifty miles from
Paris.
the stage frankly confesses to dis
aser to two army CORPS but elsewhere the Russian
seemed to have umphed Gaca has been successfully in
vaded. Lemberg will soon be evacuated.
this is true, the Austrian to Russian Poland
will be ended and the Russian forces begin to converge
for march Berlin the Russian objective in north Gaca
apparently being Koengshue when the Russians march
Berlin via Bresau.
On the upper oise the British fighting desperately to
prevent the Germans from securing of the most direct
routes to Paris.
The of this battle reaching here two different
the first definite information since the end of the
by sheer weight of numbers the Germans secured slight
vantage
Military experts point out that from the present position
the upper Disc river the German advance will become
creasngy difficult owing the natural features of
try well the artificial defenses that will have be
countered becoming evident that all along the western
line the allies playing for time in the hope that the Ger
man assault will become exhausted
On the diplomatic side Germany making renewed ef
forts to bring Italy into her camp by proclamation which
cites that victory for England and France will deprive Italy
of all chance of dominating the Mediterranean.