, 1914-09-02
ST. CROIX STATION.
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onoo,v ratiyino before as. In the centre,
I've have bAd alternate checks and successes,
and q general action is now being fought.
TTnon our left. bv a series OF circumstances
which turned In favour of the Germans and
Cespite lucky counter-attacks, the Anglo
French forces were forced to give way. Our
armies remain intact and their morale is
excellent despite considerable losses which
are rapidly filled from the regim0ntal depots.
1t is estimated that Frances last call to
arms will add 100000 troops withlE SAX
weeks.
All night lorg troops were arriving IN "a
rs from the southwest and passing to their
positions sin the encircling Notifications.
Thousands of persons are leaving the city,
their departure being favour0d, as the fewer
non-corbatante the better. The queue OF
ticket BUYERS stretches for blocks from the
railway stations, and all train accommodation IS
Immediately sold. Those told that there are
10 more tickets prepare themselves for an
eighteen hours wait for the next supply. The
,wspapers re-assure the public and remind
Them that even in 1870 Paris resisted for
five months, without anything to distract
the Germans attention, and declare that a
repetition Of 1870 is most improbable, and if
accomplished it would not have any strategic
significance, any moro than the occupation
of Brussels.
According to official advices from Wash
ington the French Foreign Office is discuss
sing with the diplomats regarding their
accommodation if the seat Of Government
should be removed from Paris to Bordeaux
England has ioiDed in the French protest
against the United States purchase Of Ger
man vessels. England's position is that such
action is unprecedented, while France regards
it as equivalent to assisting Germany with
payments for useless vessels.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
''Morning Post" states that Russia has al
lowed six weeks leave to half a million
1eseryists of the class OF 1907, that is, she is
oversupplied with men at a time when Ger
many is summoning schoolboys and re-
enforcing her field armies by the garrisons
from the fortresses between Thorn and
GraudeDz. The Russians pursuit of the
Germans is so hot, that the formers cavalry
actually entered the outer defences Of Ko~
nigsberg together with the fugitive Germans,
and they have since beld their advantage,
Wireless messages from Berlin officially
announce that the Germans took 10000
Russian prisoners in East Prussia, especial
ly at Ortelsburg, Hohenstein, aud Taanen-
burg, including many officers OF high rank,
The German attack was made across swamps
and lakes.
An Austrian communiqae to Berlin says
that decisive battles were in progress for
several days and the Austrian forces being
victorious near Krasnik, pursued the enemy
towards Lublin. The Austrians also adj
vapced into the enemy's territory between
the rivers Bug and Wieprz, and took posi-
tions before Zamosc, while other Austrian
forces hold positions to the northeast and
southwest of Lemberg. The Austro-Rus-
sian battle front extends for 420 miles.
Ia the House of Commons Mr.. Asquith
said the Times war correspondence was q
regrettable exception to the patriotic re-
ticence which the press as q whole has shown
up to now. u trust be added, "that it
wilt not recur. otherwise it will be necessary
TO ask the House to pass drastic legislation
which loathe to propose until the urgency
becomes extreme" The foregoing refers
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