The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-09-18
GERMANS FORCED
To WITHDRAW MEN
TO DUST INVADERS
Kaiser BUSHES Troops From Bel
GUM to Stop Russians.
ALLIES TO TAKE OFFENSIVE
British and French Armies Retire TO
Second Line of Defense-Paris
Relieved When Teutons
Halt Advance on City.

London. Aug. 31.-Germany, which
up to three days ago had been sending
its vast legions plunging through the
line of the allied forces on the Franco
Belgian frontier and had been hurting
still other armies in a steady flow into
east Prussia in response to the often
sive movement of the Russian army oil
invasion, now appears TO have been
checked in it's aggressive movement
and to have been thrown practically
on the defensive.
Allies Have 100000 in Line.
The retirement of the allies TO their
second line of defense has been &C
complished, according to the latest re-
ports, without hitch; there are now
100000 men on the line. The allied
forces are now ready to assume the
offensive.
Indeed this movement has already
begun. Dispatches from Paris report
that the British; in conjunction with
the French left, have begun a vigor-
Gus assault on the German forces who
have penetrated a short distance on
the Somme river in the direction of La
Fere, in the department of Aisne.
Russian Victories Aid France.
Further west the French have
checked the Germans advance guard
and at the other extremity on the
Mouse the French are offering a Wig
crous and successful resistance which
al ~
The apparent turn in the fortunes of
war in favor of the allies was brought
about by the overwhelming successes
of the Russians in east Prussia which
has forced the kaiser to withdraw
nearly all the army left to occupy Bel
GUM, greatly weakening the force at
lacking the French frontier in order
to reinforce the fighting line on the
east
Great Battle Is Raging.
Along the Austro-Russian frontier a
great battle has been raging for three
days with 100000 men engaged. The
battle line is 100 miles long and ex-
tends from the Vistula to the Dneister.
The Russians are reported to have pen
etrated over twenty miles into Aus
TRAN territory The attacks and coun-
ter attacks marking the engagement
have been as serooious as at any bat
tie yet fought and there is no indica-
ton that a decisive result will be
achieved inside of several days.
1t is to turn the tide OF this great
battle as we'll as to strenf hen the
eastern line generally that ne kaiser
Is rushing across Prussia from Bel
GUM 136 trains loaded with troops and
their impediments. Reports from st.
Petersburg declare that Russia's in
vasion of Germany has been success
full along the whole line of battle.
Germans Are Repulsed.
German troops have been forced to
abandon several points held by them
along the Vistula river which marks
line Of great strategic value.
The northern Russian army is en-
gaging the Germans south of Koenigs- |
berg, which is now in a state of siege. |
and further south the Austrians are |
being assailed near Lemberg in Aus |
trian Galicia. More than 5000 Aus |
TRANS were killed and many prisoners |
taken in this engagement up to the |
time of the latest reports from st. |
Petersburg
British Lose 5000 i'm Battle.
The losses to the British army in the
fighting between August % and 20
were between five and six thousand.
according TO the estimate of Field Mar
shall Sir John French. But an official
statement announces that a sufficient
to the British forces In France to more
than doubly make up for the losses in
battle. In the language of the war of
flee announcement. every gunner has
been replaced and the army is now
ready for the next great battle"
Through the official press bureau
he admiralty also announced that the
losses incident TO the battle of Heligo-
land fight were two officers and %
men killed and Sc wounded.
France to Call Out Reserves.
That England is not alone in filling
-hc SapS ehoe nave oeeu toFn IN the
lighting line in France is indicated by
IN official disDatch from Paris, which
declares that the war ministry will
,all the 1914 class of reservists 10 the
,olors. and vii also call the active re-
serve and the older classes of the ter
'itorial reserve, who momentarily have
been sent TO their barracks
An official statement from the Brit
sh war office throws considerable light
lpon the actiysies of the British troops
n the four-day battle which opened at
Mons on the 23d and ended on the
9th. The British troops co-operated
With the French and resisted and
hecked the German advance while