The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-27
~ HERBERT TEMPLE
(Eurspean Manager Of the lntsrna'
tlonal News Servlca,)

(europoAn Manager OF the inSe5UA'
tlonai News service.)
LONDON. Aug. 27.-Reports that
left wing of the allied army has been
rolled back. and that the Germans
have captured the fortified city Of
Lille. 120 miles northeast Of Paris.
gave England the greatest shock today
that It has sustained since the war
with Germany began.
The fall of Lille was not officially
announced here early today, but dis
patches from Ostend said that the
Germans secured possession OF the
city on Tuesday without firing shot.
According to reports from the same
source the French defenders withdrew
upon the approach Of the Germans. to
save the city from bombardment and
destruction by tho heavy German
guns.
A dispatch to the Daily Express
says:
1T was decided on Monday not to
defend the city, and on Tuesday the
mayors proclamation was published
announcing the withdrawal of the
French forces. Apparently there was
no great force of allies to bar the Ger
man advance"
Strategic City.
Lille Is a strategic point, and its
capture by the Germans would open
the way to the English channel
through the department of Pas-De-
Calais, thus preventing the junction Of
British reinforcements with the
French army.
When the war broke out Lille was
expected to be the frst city to be at
tackled by the German armies march
ing upon Paris, and on account of this
belief it was supposed that heavy
French forces had been massed there
to reinforce the permanent forttflca-
tions
kilograms from Paris indicate that
the fighting along the Belgian from
tier has favored the invaders. This
of the resignation of the French cabi-
net tended to intensity the pessimistic
feeling.
Britons Discouraged.
The announcement of the French
war office last night gave small en-
couragement to Britons as it admitted
that the "Franeo-Britfsh lines had
moved back" before the smashing as
saults of the Germans.
The French war office admitted dis
aster to its left wing, in the vicinity
of StDie, supported by English in tho
vicinity of Maubeuge.
The opposing troops are strung over
a line of $50 miles long, from point
on the Belgian border opposite Lille.
France, to q point in the Vosges
mountains. At intervals along the
mighty battle front fierce fighting is
believed to be in progress.
The French embassy issued an an
nouncement here which was intended
to be optimistic, but it showed that
German forces In great numbers had
penetrated to a point between Cam.
oria and LIE Cateau, which Is rs miles
inside the French border.
That one million more British sol.
diers will be necessary In Europe to
carry on successful campaign
against the mighty German army
which is sweeping on France, was the
opinion expressed by newspapers to.
day after digesting the latest news
from the front.
Need More Soldiers.
The newspapers advised the war Of
Ace to rush more reinforcements to
the continent at once.
Discussing the campaign In north.
ern France the Daily Mail says:
The rear flank movement around
the left wing Of the allies army is
probably a prelude to q general at
tack, in force all along the line. The