Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-09-03
PARIS PREPARES
FOR The GERMANS
Homes In The Suburbs Are Ordered
Burned And The Forts Cleared
For Action
BOMBS DROPPED IN PARIS
BY German Airman - Little Damage
Done - Gives Warning of
Germans Approach

Paris.-It j. officially announced tina
the military governor has ordered al
residents OF the zone within action o
the city's defending forts to evacuatt
and destroy their houses within fou
days.
1t is officially announced that th'
/ French left, composed Of four army
corps, drove back on Guise the Tenth
/ German corps and guards. The Ger
mans suffered a considerable loss.
Further announcements made by the
war office say:
I'm Lorraine our forces have advanc
ed. We occupy a line along Hertagne
and our right wing is pushing forward
There is no news from the Meuse.
"A violent battle occurred in the re-
gion of Lanncy, near Lille, Signy Lab
baye and Chateau Porcion, but the re
suit has no; been decisive and the at
tack win be resumed.
-Four French army corps engaged
in violent battle on left wing The
right wing of these four corps, taking
the offensive, drove back on Guise the
Tenth German corps and guard, both
suffering considerable losses.
Our left was less fortunate, the Ger
man forces are advancing in the direc-
tion of La Fere." Ga Fere is a town
in Aiene, fourteen miles southwest
of Laon 1t is fortress of the second
Glass;
Aviator Drops Bombs in Paris
London - "A German aviator flew
over Paris and dropped five bombs,
which fell in the most popular quar-
ter of the city. In one case two wom-
en- we're wounded
"One bomb fell in front of shop
Of baker and wine merchant at Rue
Abby and Rue des Vinaigriers; two
az Quai de Va.my one Of which did
not explode, while the other struck
the walls of the Night Refuge, behind
st. Martins hospital Two others
dropped in the Rue des Recollets and
Rue Marcin neither of which exploded
The aviator, who signed himself
Lieut. Won Heissfn, dropped manifes-
tos on which waf written: The Ger
man army isr.aais b-gates of Paris;
Il VI tnes 'T -er. I'll bat surrender"
bat e always feels" ore Reserves
Paris! +Th,ent si1nstry of war an
nounces that NYNns been decided to
call out the class of 1914, which will
give at least 100000 additional troops,
and also to call out the active reserve
md the eldest classes of the territorial
'eserve.
Enulish Defeated at San Quentin
Berlin, by way of Copenhagen and
Iondon.-The correspondent at Ger
nan headquarters of the Deutsches
Zeitung reports the defeat of the
english at San Quentin, accompanied
" great losses. The army, utterly
defeated, he says, found it's retreat
,arred by masses of German cavalry.
The correspondent adds:
"The English suffered not only the
oss of their communication with the
orthern French army, but also their
along the road to the
yest and their depots, which, accord
lR 10 FRENCH SJdIoHlSuIS, llSg udu
established at Maubeuge.
Correspondents describing the events
t Bouvain say superior court-mar-
al condemned to death numerous in
ividuals who had been seized with
rms in their hands. Among these
ere two clergymen who had distrib-
ted ammunition among French irreg- I
lars.
Lieut. Gen Hoffgarten of the Sixth l
III German brigade reserve infantry !
as slightly wounded. There were l. '
80 casualties in his command. The {
ne Hundred and Twenty-siXth infan- |
Y from Wurtemburg, suffered 335 c
lsualties. Among these was Jacob a
vetzel of Salem, Ohio, who was slight l
wounded. The Eighty-ninth regi- r
ent of Saverne had 1S1 casualties.
British Capture German Possession II
London. official information bu-
au announces that Apia, a seaport +
Upola, Samoan islands, and CAPT /
| of the German part OF the group II
rrendered to British force from a
ew Zealand u
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