The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-10-02
FOE FAILS
ADVANCE
kaiser's Right Wing
Hurled Back.
SAYS THEIR LINES HOLD
Berlin Claims They Repulsed
Enemy at Albert
INDIAN TROOPS At FRONT
10 600 British Oriental Soldiers
on the Firing Line.
INDIAN TROOPS At FRONT
10 900 British Oriental Soldiers
on the Firing Line.

London Oct. 2.-Wh1le OmclaI re-
ports both from France and Berlin
deny any important changes have oc-
CURED. In the battle line in France,
which apparently stretches from the
Belsian frontier near Valenciennes to
the juncture of the Disc and the Aisne
rivers and then along the Aisne to the
Argonne region and the valley OF the
Meuse.
At the same time unofficial reports
credit the French with steady adj
vance toward the north of the Somme
river In an encircling movement, that
1t Il believed is forcing the retire
ment Of the German right under Won
Kluck.
The German version is that the al
lies failed in their attack on the Ger
mau forces between Albert and Com
blee. north of the Somme; that the
Germans are slowly gaining in the
Arxonne district, with mo change in
the situation" along the Mouse, where
they are attacking the outer line OF
French forts between Verdun and
Toul.
Il Is In the Toul district that the
French claim to be successful in max
ing % much progress as they have on
their extreme left, north of the river
Somme. Both official reports agree
that there is little change in the cen
tr1l region ,between Rheims and the
forest of Argonne.
Both sides have been reinforced on
the battle line in France. Among other
troops which have come to the aid OF
the allies that are now on the firing
ground are 10000 native troops from
India, which recently landed at Mar
sotlles.
French Statement.
The following official statement was
issued In Paris:
There Is nothing of particular i'm
portance to describe except in the re-
don Of Roye (on the French left
wing. twelve miles northwest OF Noy-
a. west Of the Disc, but south of the
Scmme), where q violent action has
successfully turned In our favor, and
IN the Argonne, where we have made
mogress at several new points.
The general situation remains sat
ialhctory."
a Communication given out later
aid:
There has been no modification In
~ general situation. We have, never
theless, made progress on our left, to
the north Of the Somme, and on our
raght, In the southern Woevre dis
tT1ct."
German Statement.
Tho following official communica-
doa was Issued in Berlin:
The hostile forces advancing to
he north and south of Albert "a town
e France, eighteen miles northeast
e Amiens) have been repulsed. The
general fighting on our right contin-
80, the French resuming their as
saults at various points. The fighting
- IN progress with great severity, but
there has been no decisive gain by
either side in this section.
I'm Argonne our attack is progress
ding steadily though slowly. At the
cutter forts on the Mouse the line is
without change.
wednesday the enemy advanced in
AlSace and Lorraine and in the CEN
tai Vosges.
I'm every instance our troops have
beaten back the attacks Of the enemy,
iAdicting heavy losses. The enemy,
assisted by the garrisons of the Yer
dun-Toul line of fores, continues it's
efforts to prevent the complete in.
vestment of these positions, but we
90 holding our line intact at every
point in this territory"
The war information bureau in Lon
don announced that 10000 Indian
troops were landed in France last
Friday. The point of landing was not
revealed, but it is presumed that the
troops disembarked at Marseilles.
A dispatch from Client to the Elk
Dgess declares that the Germans have
buflt five heavy pontoon bridges over
The River Mouse between Givet and
Namur, apparently to facilitate their
rotirement from France. ALI of their
wounded, the dispatch says, have been
removed to Brussels.
It Il. officially announced that the
reserve territorials and men of the
auxiliaFy service of the north OF
Dfance, who were withdrawn from
that section at the time of the Ger
man invasion, while others were sent
hack home because they were not
needed, now also have been sent HON
temporarily
Princess to Award Honors.
In a dispatch from Berlin, sent by
way of The Hague, the correspondent
OF the Exchange Telegraph company
says that the German Crown Princess
Cecilie, accompanied by her two ED
est sons, has left Berlin to join the
crown prince at his headquarters in
France. She purposes personally to
bestow decorations upon officers OF
her dragon regiment.
Z The Times says that it is able to
give from a thoroughly trustworthy
source the text of an order issued by
Emperor William to his army on Aug.
10. It follows:
ut is my royal and imperial com
mAnd that you concentrate your ener
11es for the immediate present upon
the single purpose, and that is, that
you address all your skill and all the
valor Of my soldiers to exterminate
first the treacherous English and walk
ever General Frenchis contemplate
little army"
On Wednesday the Germans were
a0nin IN Peronne and their advance
lng1 was pushing good way be-
-s 49,