The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-08-28
GERMAN A|RSH|P DROPS BOMBS IN PARIS
Allies Are Hard Pressed
Russians Continue
Victorious March.
Victory Over Germans Told in Detail
An Entire Brigade Of Prussians
Annihilated by the Machine Guns
Near Gumbinnen-Take Inster-
burg Fl Days After War BEGAN.

Paris. Aug. 31.-Flying at a height
OF 5000 feet, a German aviator hurled
five bombs into the city.
Little Damage Done.
n struck near LEST railway sta
ton, not far from the military station,
but did no damage. Others dropped
near the Quai DJemmapes in the Rue
Rieollet and in the Place De La Re
publique.
TWO women were injured and a
number of windows broken. A section
OF pavement was blown up.
Calm Still Prevails.
Though the city was startled by this
threatening occurrence. which
brought home to the people with stun.
ming force the realization that the Ger
mans are within striking distance of
n capital, calm still prevails.
According to the Paris TEMPS. the
aviator also dropped a manifesto read
Ing as follows:
The German army is atsthe gates OF
Paris. There is nothing for you to do
but surrender.
tSlgned) Lieut.. Won Hidssen.'
Order Houses Raced.
The official communication issued by
the military governor ordering that the
houses within the zone Of action of the
Paris forts be evacuated and razed has
been the subject of much discussion
and upon this order rumors of various
kinds spread throughout the city.
Germans in Paris by Sept. 2.
London.-A Times Copenhagen dis
patch declares that the German en-
peror and several high German officers
are selling their Russian and English
orders and turning the proceeds over
to the Red Cross fund.
The German press confidently as
serts that the official prediction that
their troops would be in Paris on Sept.
Q will be fulfilled.
The we'll known German airnlan.
Helmuth Hirth, the dispatch says. was
shot Saturday as a spy in Berlin. He
was suspected because of his friend.
ship for Roland Garros, the French
airman, to whom he had written after
the outbreak of the war.
Fighting Is Resumed.
Fighting OF a desperate character
continues in France. A report from
Dieppe, France, not confirmed here,
says thai the project of Dieppe an.
nounces that French troops under
General Pau annihilated an entire
German army corps.
The advance of the Germans
through Picardy, the northernmost
province Of France, is reported from
Amiens, as having been checked BY
the combined French and English
forces, after the Germans had advanc.
ed farther to the south. Tremendous
losses have been inflicted on the Ger.
mans.
Severe Action Is Now in Progress.
Severe action has been in progress
since Friday about Launois and Signy
La Abbaye, 10 mics southwest of Me.
%zieres, says an Official statement. From
this report it is inferred that the
crown princes army, recently in the
Belgian ardennes, is trying to break
through to conform with the advance
Of the German right. 1t is anticipated
that a corresponding movement will
be made by the German army recent
ly in Luxembourg, probably against
the line of the Mouse, between Dun
and Stenay.
French Check First.
Further west the French have check
ed the Germans advance guard and
at the other extremity on the Meuse
the French are offering a vigorous and
successful resistance which extends
along nearly the whole front.
Allies Ready to Take the Offensive.
The allied forces are now ready to
assume the offensive. Indeed, this
movement has already begun. The
British, in conjunction with the French
left, have begun a vigorous assault on
the German forces who have penetrat-
ed a short distance on the Somme riv
er in the direction of La Fere, in the
department Of Aisne.
The overwhelming successes of the
Russians in East Prussia have forced
the kaiser to withdraw nearly all the
army left to occupy Belgium, greatly
weakening the force attacking the
French frontier.
Desperate Fighting Continues.
London, Aug. 31.-The Chronicles
st. Petersburg correspondent sends
the unofficial announcement that the
Russian forces, pursuing the German
army, succeeded during the genera,
confusion in entering the city Of Koe
nisberg, east Prussia, on the heels Of
Americans Would Volunteer.