The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-29
Official Bulletin From Berlin
Claims Many German
Successes
FRENCH SAY POSITIONS IN
CENTER ARE BEING HELD
Turkey Assures the Ambassadors OF
Great Britain That She Intends
to Maintain Her Policy
of Neutrality.

London-The following official bull
letin issued by the main headquarters
OF the German army, has been trans
mitted here by wireless for the press:
The fighting along the User. or
Ypres canal has been extraordinarily
stubborn, but we have effected
crossing in the north with large
forces.
East of Ypres. and southwest of
Lille, our troops have advanced slow
Iy after very heavy fighting.
Our troops have advanced in the
Argonne forest region. where they
made a number OF prisoners and cap
tured several machine guns. Two
French flying machines also were
shot down to the north OF Toul.
Near frey, the French refused
to grant an armistice which we of.
fered to enable them to bury their
dead and remove the injured.
The Russians renewed their at
tacks to the west of Augustowo. but
were driven back.
THE Swedish steamer Alice struck
a mine outside OF Lowestoft and nine
of the crew were lost.
1.-THE king of Saxony has bestow-
ed on the kaiser. the Ritterkreuz and
the Grosskreuz of the military Or
der of st. Heinrich. The kaiser, in
return. bestowed on the king of
Saxony, the Order of the Iron Cross,
of the first and second class.
The Serbo-M Montenegro advance
into Bosnia has been repulsed with
heavy losses to the enemy.
The government of Bombay has
published a statement relating to the
cruiser Emden, according to which
all of the Indian sea routes are
again considered sufficiently safe.
THE French official communique,
issued Friday, spread depression
among the public and caused a pan
ic in Paris. The communique adj
mitted that the allies had retreated
between the sea and LaBassee, and
the midnight bulletin was still more
pessimstic in tone. To allay further
apprehension, an official statement
was issued two hours later, intimating
that the battle front had shifted 200
kilometers 10 the northward."
French Claim Some Advances.
OF the battles on the center and left
wing, the German report does not
speak, but the French declare they
are maintaining their positions in the
Argonne and on the heights of the
Meuse and have destroyed three more
German batteries. From unofficial
sources ii is learned that the French
have made some advance in the
mountains along the Alsace border.
In Poland. very heavy battle is
now in progress between the fort
resses of lvangorod and Radon,
where the Germans and Austrians,
who were defeated in their first at
tempt to cross the Vistula before the
former city, have made a stand
against the Russians, who have fol-
lowed in the hope of destroying them.
Both sides have, according to their
own reports. made prisoners and cap
tured guns, but the battle which ex-
tends over a front Of twenty-six miles
has not yet been decided
The Austrians are still making a
bold effort to cross the River San,
and are carrying on a splendid fight
south Of Przemysl in the hope Of
reaching and recapturing Lemberg.
The Montenegrins admit that they
have had to withdraw to their pre-
vious positions along the Bosnian
frontier after an attack by superior
force Of Austrians. The latter, in fact,
seem to have made a wonderful re-
covery and to be fighting in a man.
ner, of which their first performances
in the war hardly gave promise.
Turkey, which il was believed at
one time had decided to throw In her
lot with Germany, has again assured
the ambassadors OF Great Britain.
France and Russia that she intends
to maintain her policy of neutrality.
Turkey, however, continued her mill.
tary activities and is collecting trans
port animala, which. II is said, are
destined for the Egyptian frontier. II
is considered that the presence OF
strong Russian forces on the Turkish
border has Influenced her not TO take
any action against the allies.