Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-16
L|EGE ABANDONED,
GERMANS FALL BACK
At SEVERAL POINTS
Another General Battle in Pro-
gress, in which Conditions
Are Unchanged
BRITISH ATTEMPT TO
CRUSH GERMAN RIGHT
Indications Are Germans Are
Preparing to Again Take
the Offensive

AllOCllSI SCllSl al SllSdSSHlCuJ
to the east and north of Paris
was developing today.
On the east General Joffre in
personal command, was driving
the French against the German
crown princes and the duke Of
Wurtemburgs teutonic forces.
North of the River Aisne the
British were attempting further
to crumple the German right.
Fighting had been in progress
since Monday.
The allies admitted the Ger
mans position north of the Aisne
was the strongest they have oc-
cupied since they entered
France.
1t was denied, however, that
they had resumed the offensive
anywhere and asserted that, in
spots, they had given way a lit
| tie.
That they intended attempting
to take the offensive again was
nevertheless, plain.
1t was also certain that they
had been reinforced.
Unwilling to risk disaster by
over-impetuosity, the allies were
maneuvering cautiously.
Heavy rains in the fighting
zone handicapped both sides, but
especially the Germans, with
their huge and easily-mired
guns.
The Berlin war office denied
that the allies had won decisively
anywhere in the battle of the
Marne.
Weakened by the transfer of
troops to the northward, the
German forces along the Lor-
raine border were falling back
somewhat.
The French continued to hold
most of upper Alsace.
Berlin announced the German
abandonment of Liege, a puzzl-
ing statement which the London
military authorities thought they
might have misunderstood.
Sixty thousand Germans were NOV
ing from AK La Chapelle into Belgium,
with what object the allies did not
know.
A German attack on 0stend was
thought possibility.
1t was reported the kaiser was going
to East Prussia to superintend opera
tions against the Russians.
Italian sources haG il that the Ger
mans would retreat from France and
act defensively in the west until they
had beaten the Russians, afterward re-
suming their western campaign, but
British experts doubted this story.
All accounts agreed that the Ger
mans were defeating the Russians in
East Prussia--very heavily, the Ger
mans said.
A German invasion of Russian Po-
land, with Warsaw as its objective, was
talked Of.
Claim Great Victory.
Over the Austrians in Gaheia, the
Russians claimed the greatest victory
Gin the history Of warfare.
They declared their troops were al
ready across the River San and that
the Austrian stronghold of Przemysl
had been Invested.
They said they had General Dankl's
Austrian army surrounded and some ac-
counts had it that it had surrendered.
The Austrian version was that, after
being nearly surrounded, Dankl's forces
had cut their way through the Russians
and Joined the main Austrian body.
Vienna also denied the investment
of Przemysl.
From the Austrian provinces OF Ga
hcia and Bukovina, the Russians were
oyerrunning TransyhrLsa
Austrians defeated the Servian in
vaders and drove them back across the
River Save.
Italy was believed to be nearer than
ever to joining the Anglo Franco Rus.
sian combination against Germany and
Austria Hungary.
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