Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-08
REPORTS Of BATTLE
REACH EMBASSIES
British and French ENJOYS
Hear of Fighting in Re-
gion of Paris.

ment along wide battle front passing
through Meaux, east of Paris, is con-
tanned in official dispatches to both
British and French embassies here to-
lay from their home foreign Offices.
The following dispatch, dated Lon
don. September s, was received at the
British embassy:
THE following is an official COM
munication of the French government:
4 general action has been engaged in
line passing through Nanteuil,
La Haudouin. Meaux. Sezanne and
Vitry-le-Francois and extending as far
as verdun. Thanks to the very vigor-
Gus action OF our troops. powerfully
assisted by the British army, the Ger
man troops, who had advanced the day
before yesterday and yesterday as far
as the region of Coulommiere and La
Ferte Gaucher. were compelled to make
a movement Of retreat
I'm the Austro-Russian theater of op-
erations twelve divisions of the Austrian
army. operating on the line from Kras-
nos-odol opol In the Lublin region, are
suffering very serious losses. They are
now acting on the defensive and in places
have 4retreated.''
French Embassy Advices.
The message to the French embassy
also summarized the movements of the
French troops in Belgium and confirmed
the capture of twelve divisions Of the
Austrian army when Lemberg was taken.
The dispatch, as announced here, was as
follows:
The German right wing, the first
army. on the rivers Ourcq and Grand
NORM. has been attacked with advantage
by our troops On the Rhine from Maux
to Vftry-le-Francois the battle became
general today.
1.-THE Campaine and the Limbourg have
been evacuated by the Germans up to the
lines from Diest to Hasselt. We have
been apprised of the movement on trans
ports of German troops from the west to
the east, by numerous advices.
THE fact that when Lemberg was tax
en- twelve divisions of the Austrian army
were annihilated has been confirmed to
us
Proud of British Troops.
Sir Edward Grey, minister of foreign
affairs for Great Britain. sent this
message to the embassy here today:
The government and people of Aus
tralia have telegraphed, expressing
their intense admiration of the gallant
manner in which the British troops
have acquitted themselves.
Their splendid valor.' their tele-
gram concludes. has made US still
prouder of the grand old flag.
The governor general of the COM
monwealth has telegraphed as follows
to the colonial office:
"'An ranks commonwealth defense
forces congratulate army and navy on
their splendid achievements. Australian
comrades In the field"
Officials here displayed much inter-
est in the reports of the general en-
gagement in France along an extended
that decisive battle was in progress.
but official dispatches to the Ameri-
can government contained no news of
the hostilities.
Military observers noted that Meaux,
the place east of Paris where the gen.
erai engagement began yesterday. is
the same place where the German
headquarters were established Septem-
her Is, 1870, and the orders issued for
the investment of Paris.
Began Siege Of Paris.
IneSe ORDERS uirecteQ the German
army of the Aeuse to invest the cap
ital in wide half circle from the
Marine, above Paris. to the Seine, be-
low it. while the third army was or
dered to form similar half-circle on
the left bank of both rivers. The or
ders also specified that in case of any
attempt to relieve the capital the army
was to allow the relieving force to
approach within short distance, and
then. leaving the investment to be
maintained by weak details, to strike
the enemy with its main body
1t is regarded as coincidence that
the second attempt at investment be-
gins at the same place. and almost on
the same day of the year. as the first
investment, but under entirely differ
emit conditions. The previous German
advance in Meaux came after Emperor
Napoleon III had surrendered at Sedan
and the Germans had swept the field
up to Paris, where's they are at Meaux
today with the allied forces still in.