The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-20
GERMAN ADVANCE HAITs
TEMPORARILY AT LEAST
Situation From Viewpoint of Allies
More Hopeful Than at ANY
Sl9 9f1fS5 Time In Moptls.
KAIsER's ARMY NEAR DuNKIR11
Reinforcements From Brussels for
Allies Brought Up Before Lille,
Where Teutons Are Making Des-
perate Effort to RetalSe the City.

|. where leutOnS Are Making OeS-
perate Effort to Retalse the City.
LONDON. October l9.-Trom the
point OF view of the allied armies. SO
far as could be learned from dispatches
reaching London, to-day, the situation
IN West Flanders and in France as far
south as Lille. seemed OH this, the sew
moro hopeful than at any time since
the German advance on Paris was
checked.
Though the news reaching England
is mcagre and to an extent delayed, as
always. all tidings seem to indicate that
the German advance from Ostend on the
French coast towns has been blocked,
temporarily at least. while further
south, in n region that was a week ago
tho extreme German right. the invad-
ers have been again compelled to give
ground before the allies wedge force,
which has been concentrating on Lille
:, Several reports contend that tho
Germans bave withdrawn from this
town. but this is not confirmed, nor Is
the report that they evacuated Cour-
trai, nearly thirty miles northwest IT
seems plain. however, that the menace
here grew marked and that the Ger
man army, operating along the coast
of Flanders. found itself in peril of
being cut off from the main body.
What opposition they met along the
sea Is only sswork. for it has never
been disclosed in Great Britain what
forces the allies have or at what point
they touched the coast.
CITY OF osTEND
CLEAR OF f;I!nSsa HS
All reports seem to agree that the
city of Ostend is practically clear OF
Germans, who, apparently, are reform
ing to the south with reinforcements
and the siege guns used to batter the
belgian forts. and that they now pro-
nose to hammer on toward Dunkirk and
Caiais One report says that they are
beyond Furnes, less than ten miles from
Dunlsirk
Further south in France reinforce
n1ents from Brussels are said to have
brought up before Lille, which the Ger
mans are reported as bombarding in a
desperate attempt to, retalSe the place.
The Belgians themselves have beer
putting In some hard knocks Accord
ing to last nights Paris official com
mun,cation. they have held the Ger
mans In an attempt to cross the River
User, southwest of Dixmude Belgium,
This was the first heard of the Belgian
forces since the evacuation of Ant
werp. and nowlthey are found appro-
priateiy and picturesquely defending
that little splotch OF their own coun-
try that the invaders have not taken
King Albert, unheard OF for some
time is said to have cheered tive men
in the field. @
Some of the London papers describe
the German evacuation. of Ostend as a
retirement to the east on the theory
THAI the allies progress to the south
threatened 10 isolnte the Ostend gar
rison, making a retreat imperative. The
dispatches are far from unanimous OH
the direction OF the retirement how
ever, most Of them describing II as a
passaSe to the west, and any attempt,
tural
SOME SORT OF NAVAL
CRAFT PRESSED INTO Use
From various sources came r,ports
none of which We're confirmed, thai
some sort OF naval ,cruft are being
pressed into use by the allies in the
canals OF Flanders and perhaps from
the sea. Sunday a dispatch, direct from
Dunkirk, said that heavy firing could
be heard there. and it was believed that
Sunboahs We're being used in tho canals.
IT was added that heavy fighting was
progressing south of Ostend, which, tf
true, meant the presence of alice,
forces mt point further north than
heretofore suspected. This is contra
dic;ed by the report that the Germans
are west of Furncs.
though there was 4 sporadic recur-
renee OF the anti crman rioting in
parts OF London early this morning,
police protection in such places has
been increased, and no serious out
breaks were reported during the fore
noon in the city, but at Saffron Walden,
In Essex. an English lawyers house was
attacked and the windows smashed
because, IL was said, he had been HAIR
boring two Germans. In the continue
ton of the rioting at Deptford last
night German grain Dealers house
and store were wrecked and then
burned
In thy eastern war area the great
battle hf Poland seems to be progress
Ing In favor OF the Russians, who claim
20 lave checked decisively the German
forces In their attempt TO cross tho
Nistula. The Russians in and aroun,.
warsaw are. being temporarily pro
tacted from fresh t!>rman artillery
aggression by reason of the ira ,,assuDie
condition OF the country through recent
rains and owing to the destruction OF
the only railroad from Lowicz to War.
saw on which the Germans could trans
port their heavy guns.
Around Przemysl the Austrians claIE
10 nave Killed and wounded 10000 RUS
slams and also to have crossed ;he Car
pathinns, but on the other i,aiid tho
Russians rcpulscd an Austrian ;,,i s!npt
to cross the river San. That the Aus
trians arc meeting with vigorous op-
position Is admitted fiu the latest dis
patch, which says that "our troops are
advancing rs against a fortress"
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