The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-10-16
GERMANS AGAIN
CAPTURE LILLE
FROM THE ALLIES
Bruges Also in Hands of Kaiser's
Forces--French Win in Arras.
CLAIM PROGRESS AT ALBERT
Officials in France Admit Loss o.
Important Town--Te utons Win
on Allied Arnny's Left and
Move to Coast.
Nv FRANKLIN p. MERRicK.

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| international News Service Correspondent.
Paris, Oct. 14.-Lille has been cap
tured by the Germans. This is the
outstanding feature of an official state
ment issued here some time after the
usual hour The fighting has conferred
about Lille for nearly two weeks. The
admission by the French that it has
been lost indicates that the Germans
are gaining in their counter-danking
movement against the allies left wing
and that the kaiser's troops will now
sweep quickly to the coast.
The capture Of Lille was effected by
a German army corps, says the official
statement. A German corps numbers
10000 men. 1t is stated that the
French force in the city consisted OF
only detachment of territorials.
To offset the loss of Lille the French
claim that they have gained ground
between Arras and Albert, southwest
of Lille, and also at the center of the
battle front in the region of. Berry-au
BAG.
Rruges, for the second time in this
war; is, in the hands of the Germans,
who occupied Client in force on Mon
day. The telegraph lines from Bruges
to Ostend have. been cut
There have been 80 days of fighting.
The battle line has been still further
extended. If the fighting in Belgium
is considered part o. the general en-
gagement, the battle front is now an
proximately ESQ miles long, stretching
out in the form Of the sides of mighty
triangle. One side (the southern) be.
gins at point near Toul, east Of the
Mouse, and stretches in a northwest
erly direction; the upper side begins
in Belgium at point near Client and
stretches toward the southwest The
apex lies in the vicinity of Roye
Awful Conditions at Front.
Unspeakable conditions prevail along
the lines which have been stationary
since the fighting began. The sicken-
ing stencil sof a moltth-oEd battlefield
is continually with the soldiers, many
of whom have been sickened by it. 1t
can be smelled for mile.
Where they can be reached the
corpses are burned at night or are
sprinkled thickly with quicklime.
Almost every unofficial dispatch
from the front dwells upon the fierce
ness of the fighting around Arras last
week. Lens, which is less than ten
miles from Arras, has changed hands
three times lin two weeks.
Tells of Mutiny in Siberia.
Berlin, Oct. 14.--The official German
news agency gives out this informa
ton:
"The Russians have sent two reg:-
ments in order to suppress mutiny
of Siberian reservists. Pogroms have
occurred in Bessarabia and Poland.
"The British ambassador at Con-
stantinople has ordered the women
Battle in North Soon.
The greatest battle of the war, SO
far, is shortly to be fought on the
north end of the opposing lines, be-
tween Lens and Cassel, reaching per-
haps to the seacoast and connecting
with the left flank engagements OF
the battle of Seven Rivers, now iii its
twenty ninth day, according to frag-
mentary information disseminated by
the press bureaus of the belligerent
powers.
On this giant conflict will depend
the success of the German effort to
obtain North sea base from which
to launch the projected aerial and
infantry attacks on England
Germans Ambushed by Allies. "a
The following dispatch has ibeeh re
eeived by the Central News from Ost
tend: i.s,5 -
1T is reported that heavy engaged
ment occurred near Thorout Ga, Bell
gian town IL miles southwest of
Bruges). The operations around
Client have opened favorably for the
allies. The Germans asked for an
armistice to enable them to bury their
dead, but the-request was refused
Germans Are .Ambushed.
! Advancing confidently against
what they imagined to be .the rem,
nants of retreating Belgian army;
4 German column was ambushed by d
force south OF Client Thee German
soldiers were moved down in swaths
and bayonet charge completed their
rout. Six hundred dead were left on
The field, while the allies losses wers
practically nothing. The Germans re
tired precipitately on Alost