Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-03
Invaders Have Forced Their
Way to Within Two Score
Miles of French Capital
DEFENDERS FORCED
TO MOVE BACKWARD
Difficulties for the Invaders
Become Greater as They
Get Nearer the Goal

Paris, Sept. IA German cav
airy corps marching toward tho
forest Of Compieone on the lett
wing Of the allied forces, engaged
the English Tuesday. Sept. !. The
Enoiish captured ten guns"
This statement was given out
officially today.
London, Sept. 2.-The Chron-
icIe's correspondent sends a report
Of third British battle in the
Upper oise valley, where the Ger
mans are using the whole OF their
weight to force 2 wedge. The bat
tie ragged throughout Sunday and
Monday when the Germans, 1t 10
stated, sacrificed lives recklessly.
The British were !compelled to J.
Give way slightly but are main
tanning the defensive heroica'ly.
The battle is still undecided.
London, Sept. 2 (10:10 a. m.)-
A corner of the curtain over the bat
tie drama in northwestern France has
been raised. It shows
the allies battling desperately to pre-
vent the success of the German as
sault on the upper Disc, about fifty
miles from Paris.
On the eastern war stage Russia
frankly confesses to disaster to two
army corps with the loss Of three gen.
erals. elsewhere the Russian arms
seemed to have triumphed. Galicia
has been successfully invaded and
Lemberg will soon be evacuated, &C
cording to reports from the st. Peters
burg war office. II this Is true. the
Austrian menace to Russian Poland
will be ended and the Russian forces
can begin to converge for the march
on Berlin. The Russian objective in
north Galicia apparently being Koenig-
shuttle, whence they can march on
Berlin via Breslau.
On the upper Disc the British are
fighting desperately to prevent the
Germans from securing one Of the
most direct routes to- Paris. News of
this battle reaching here from two
different sources Is the first definite
since the end Of the bat
tie Of Mons. The battle ragged Sunday
and Monday and by sheer weight OF
numbers the Germans secured slight
advantage.
Military experts point out the form
The present position on the upper Disc
river, the German advance will be-
come increasingly difficult owing to
the natural features of the country as
we'll as the artificial defense that will
have to be encountered. 1t is becom-
ng evident that all along the western
line the allies are playing for time In
The hope that the German assault will
became exhausted
On the diplomatic side. Germany is
making renewed efforts to bring Italy
nto her camp by proclamation
which cites that victory for Eng
and and France will deprive Italy Of
i'll chance Of dominating the Mediter-
'anean.
The western coast of Belgium and
he northwestern coast Of France are
clear of Germans. Antwerp
las asked for an increased garrison.
rhe town has also experienced shud-
Ter because Of another Zeppelin visit.
rhe great dirigible was fired on and
t departed without dropping any
combs.
Il 5ritons Fight Desperately.
London, Sept. 2.-The Chronicles
from an unnamed town
'ends an account of the third British
,attle, dated Monday which follows
Desperate fighting in which the
British troops are playing a heroic
,art is taking place close by The
light wing of the allied forces forming
he northern army has ben fercely en-
,aged, but it is against the British
eft wing that the Germans are flying
he whole of their weight regardless
4 the enormous sacrifice of human
lie. The enemy seemed bent upon