The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-02
PARIS STAYS CALM AWAITING ATTACK OF GERMAN TROOPS

last month when Paris presented the appearance of such complete calm" says the Paris correspondent of the Chronicle. More shops are open and rows of chairs have appeared before the chief cafes.
 ''The possibility of a German raid is very slight. We may assume that if the Germans have faced eastward and turned their. backs on the British and other forces gathering in Picardy victory or risk being caught between the hammer and the anvil. If they win they will still have to meet other armies. including large garrisons. No considerable change is percepti- ble in the military situation and it is. believed that the main French army and the British flank still hold the line So far the German turning movement by western Belgium, which cost enormous losses and risks, has been successful, but now the position is very different. The best Prussfan ed and the Germans have now the main bodies of the allies to meet. ssThe forts, on which so many brains have been spent are not silenced. Pros pective defeat, flight and slaughter is open for the Germans.
 "A brief official review just issued reveals the vast extent of this unpre- cedented battlefield, seventy-f1ve miles long. Forty-f1ve miles southward from their main army, the allies block ed the German path.
 Whether the same British force is fighting on the Son1rne to the south west or another we don't know. Near Sedan the French troops had to effect a slow retreat, but it repelled another German attack and in so doing in- fiicted heavy German losses. Fresh German reinforcern ents then appeared from Rocroi, a fortified town in the department of Ardenes, making to- wards-----, and fighting is now going on between .------ and, the Mouse.
 ssTfe official note on the lighting de- scribes it as a, kind of siege warfare As every position previously captur- ed by the French in the Vasges re- zion has been strengthened and or ganized the French advance there is necessarily slow.
 l s.Parisians, in reply to the message from the German aeroplane to sur render, say: What did you bring under your wing that we should :? You brought death-a bomb. That is why you will never have Paris Paris is civilization in it's beauty. You are barbarism in it's ugliness.'
 Many wounded continue to arrive in Paris some with trophies such as swords and helmets. The Red Cross Ia dies here have been officially in- formed that 12 of their number were J
 London, Sept 2-Advfces have been received here from St Peters burg to the effect that the Russian general staff frankly confesses to dis aster to two army corps including the loss of three generals.
 A despatch to the Daily News from Rome says: Besides advanc- ing in east Prussia the Russians are also invading Germany in northern (No1f shutee. in Prussian silesia whence presumably they will march on Ser lin by way of Breslau.''
 London. Sept. TeIegraphfng from St. Petersburg the correspondent of the Times declares that the war re- ports given out by the Headquarters staff in the Russian capital are gen erally rather meagre but in contradic- ton to what is the case in Berlin and Vienna, they are always true. Up to the present time they have had nothing to announce but a series of victories.
 That headquarters will stick to this plan also when the news is bad is proved by the announcements of to- day. This attitude shows their con- ddence in the fortitude and staunch- ness of the Russian people which un- doubtedly is deserved and augurs well for the futurA
 The wording of today's announce ment indicates that other VistuIa for tresses besides Graudenz and Thorne have been sent reinforcements. The news arrived last night and the peo- pie of St Petersburg received it with firnness- Their faith in a final Rus sian victory remains wholly unshak- en-
 General Samsonov (whose death has been reported) was considered one of Russia's most capable and brilliant generals. He greatly dis tfnguished himself in the Russo-Jap- anese war where he commanded a division of Siberian Cossacks He was afterwards nominated commander of an army corps and later appointed commander of the troops in Turke- stan He lived in Tashkent, Russian Turkestans until the present war was declared. He was very popular and his name was a household word among all classes Aof the population
 General Martos was commander of an army corps, the Times correspon- dent goes on while General Pestitch was attached to the general staff From Galicia the only news is that a fierce battle is still raging. The situation in this Austrian province probably Is as follows:
 A large Austrian army with it's base upon Cracow and Przemysl, 50 miles west of Lemburg, has occupied the southern portion of the Russian Polish governments of Lublin. and Kielce. It advanced in two indepen- dent columns to the north, one on either side of the river Vistula Against the column advancing on Lublin marched the largest part of the Russian army. The hostile forces met south of Lublin and towards Tomashov, where the battle began more than a week ago is still in pro gress.
 At the same time the Russian fourth army crossed the. frontier of Gahcia and after a series of minor encounters in which it was every where victorious it drove back the consid derab1e Austrian forces nassed there until a battle ensued about thirty miles east of Lemberg.