The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-10-09
SUMMARY OF THE WAR
THE SITUATION AS COMPLIED BY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New York, Oct. 9.-Special: While
the world awaits news of the great
battle in which the French and Brit
ish allied forces and the Germans
in northern France have engaged for
twenty-six days, the meager official
reports from the front vouchsafe lit
tie information of the actual opera
tons. Today it is a small piece of
ground lost and tomorrow the same
ground has been regained. Mean
while the French forces are moving
northward, but are gaining little to
the east, which would be essential to
the out1anking of the German right
| wing.
AS a matter of fact, Gen Won
Kluck, in command of that section of
the German army, with heavy rein
forcements which have reached him
in the last week, has taken a decided
offensive day by day. The announce
ment is made by the French war Of
fee that the violent battle continues,
The British official bureau reports
that the French army is fighting with
the greatest dash and bravery, but is
silent on what the British are doing.
The French officials report an adj
vance on certain points on the center
and the retaking of the ground pre-
viously yielded in the Roye district.
Masses of German cavalry recently
have been active near Lille and be-
hind them are the German forces
moving on a line between T~ourcoing
and Armentieres. This important
unit of the German army, which ii
was thought might serve to break
the French line, the French report
says, has been held in check, and to
the north of Lille has been driven
back. On two wings, it is added, the
German attacks have been repulsed.
The northward movement of the
French line brings it close to the
Belgian frontier, and coincidentally,
there have been engagements be-
tween the Belgians and the Germans
in the environs of Ypres, twenty
miles south of Ostend, and at Auden-
arde, fifteen miles southwest OF
Client.
While the East Indian troops have
Preached France and may already have
reinforced Field Marshal Sir John
French's army, operating in the
neighborhood of Scissors, the where
abouts of the Canadians, numbering
about $4,000, has been a matter OF
conjecture. 1t is now announced that
they are about to be landed in Eng
land and will be sent to an inland
training camp.
The situation as between the Rus
slams and Germans and Austrians is
somewhat problematical, but a very
frank statement from Berlin admits
that the German forces on the from
tier of East Prussia have assumed a
defensive movement, and that they
abandoned the bombardment of Os-
soweta, a fortress in Russian Poland
This statement adds that the fight
ing at Augustowo and in Suwalki was
of a most sa~nguinary nature and that
ally turned the scale of battle in
favor of the Germans, the slaughter
of the German artillerymen was ter
rife. The movements of the German
troops were greatly hampered by the
physical condition of the country.
The forty-third German casualty
list issued at Berlin contains 10000
names in dead, wounded and missing
Berlin also reports that the fight
ing on the German right wing in
France has been successful, and that
in the assault on Antwerp two more
forts have fallen into German hands,
The Belgian government has been
removed from Antwerp to Ostend,
several of the ministers and many
thousands of refugees having reached
there.
The bombardment of Antwerp, il
is reported already has begun, follow.
ing a notification from the command.
er of the German troops hat noncom
batants and others desiring to do sc
should withdraw from the city.
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