Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-02
German From Berlin
vadng Russians Government Brussels
Kaiser Watches the Battle From Firing

kalSer Watches the Bat
The veil created by censorship the events
transpiring in France, rnonentary lifted today.
shows the allies battling desperately prevent the
Of German assaults Upper Disc, less than
fifty miles from Paris.
RUSSIA FRANKLY cONFESSES BIG LOSS.
On the eastern war stage, Russia frankly con-
fesses to disaster to two big army corps but elsewhere
the Russian seemed to have triuphed. Galicia
has been successfully invaded, and Leberg soon will
be evacuated
AUSTRIAN MENACE NEAR AN END.
If thisis true, the Austrian menace to Russian Po-
land will end, Russian forces begin to converge
for the march Berlin, the Russian objective in north
Galicia apparently being Koenigshutte, whence the
Russians can march on Berlin via Breslau.
;BRI4IsF1 IN DESPERATE BATTLE.
On Upper Disc, the British are fighting desperate
ly* prevent the Germans from securing of the
most direct route to Paris of this battle reaching
here from two different sources being the first definite
information since the end of the battle of Mons The
battle ragged Sunday and Monday and by sheer weight
of numbers the Germans secured slight advance.
ADVANCE WILL INCREASE IN DIFFICULTY.
Military experts point out that from the present
position the Upper Disc river, the German advance
will become increasingly difficult owing natural fea-
lures of the country well artificial defenses that
will have to be encountered It is becoming evident
that along the western lines the allies playing for
time in the hope that the German assault will become
exhausted.
GERMANY PLAYING FOR ITALY's AID
On the diplomatic side, Germany is making re-
newed efforts to bring Italy into her camp by procla-
nation which cites that victory for England and
France will deprive Italy of all chance of dominating
the Mediterranean.
HORRIBLE BRUTALITIES LAID TO RUSSIANS
Washington, Sept 2.-The German embassy re-
ceved wireless from Berlin announcing that "the Ger
man and Austrian troops have occupied Lodz the larg
the battle northward from Lernberg is continuing
"The report is confirmed that the French abduct-
ed IA women and Is children from German frontier
place; also hospital doctor and assistant from Lorcl
ingen. Fate unknown.
"The papers are full of Russian horrors in East
Prussia. The Russians cut off the breast of mother
and irnpaled her five children on fence
-Four Cossacks ravished woman while thev
handcufed her husband and forced him to be wit
ness.'
CLAIM RUSSIANS ARE FALLING BACK.
Later the German embassy here received the fol-
lowing additional wireless from Berlin:
The news that the German troops have left Brus-
sells on account of the situation in East Prussia is
wrong. The German administration in Brussels is
very active civil servants arriving every day for newly
organized Offices The French official statement that
the Russians have completely invested Koenigsbere
also is lie The Russians covered half the dis
tance between the frontier and Koenigsberp and are
now retreang eastward after the annhlaton of their
Narew army The Gazette Del Popolaro, respectable
paper, calls London lie factory comparable to Shang-
ha during the Russo Japanese war"
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