The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-09-10
THE WAR DAY BY DAY

Sept 7.=German Imperial Guard
| annihlated by the British. at Irecy.
| on the Disc river. 80 miles from Pasis'
according to Parts dispatches, where.
on a battle line 40 miles long. nom
the Meuse to the Disc rivers. as ths
central part of the. action. 4,OOo,Oov
men are engaged in the first general
conflict. which may settle the d. sti-
nies of nations Kaiser directs attacks
against Nancy in desperate advance
Vigorous attack by allies force Ger
mans to retire. Peerograd reports sec
ond Austrian corps crushed by Rus
SLAMS, who open up pathway to Berlin.
Thousands die of disease ON retreat To
Vienna
Sept "a London special. via AM
sterdan. states that the Germans have
opened a terrific assault ON the forts
| at Nancy. This is another steu in The
Germans southeastern movement. The
lLuxemburg division of the Teutons,
| which battered down the forts AT Mau.
beuge f'ridav and occupied Rhei'ns anu
division of the Kaiser's invaders bat
| tling at Nancy. German Emreror form
ing great semicirclc around French
capital. French official statement de-
clares advance is made by allies In
fighting around Paris, Dover reports
train service between Paris and Dleppe
| abandoned. The British cruiser Path
finder blown up by mine In North sea.
gers on board. struck mine in North
Sea and sunk. Advices to Washington
from British foreign office report nine
neutral merchant ships sunk by Ger
man mines. ne,roErad report from
Toxic says British destroyer Wieland
has sunk several German torpedo
boats. Bombardment OF for,ifications
| in Bay of Cattaro. Austria Hungary. by
large French fleet. reported Russians
| Czernowitz.
Sept. 5.-The French war office an
aounces the fall of three forts AT Mau
by the. German right wing. which is
advancing ON Paris. Rheims and La
Fere fell Friday. British Admiralty an
nounces that all aids to navigation on
the east coast of England and scot
land may be removed without warning.
Eng siand. France and Russia signed an
agreement that neither would agree to
peace unless all three approved such
a course; Famine, perils Vienna AZ
Russian forces cut way toward Berlin.
| Retreat of Austrian army. beaten by
the Russian. invading forces has be.
wounded abandoned on fields between
Lenbcrg. Tarnow and Tarnopol.
, Sept, 4.-Lemberg.. Galicia.s capital.
SLAMS after seven days OF fighting. in
which many were killed and wounded.
lin in northern Galicia. London re .
ports complete destruction of right
wing of Kaiser's army in France ana
nn end of his dash on Paris seems
probable from ostend dispatches tell
| ing OF the repuise of the Germans
on their line at Rheims bv the French
London reports sinking OF an Austrian
steamer Bathon by British cruiser in
Bay of Biscay. Premier AsGuith stat
ed in Guildhall. London. that 100000 re-
cruits have volunteered for service
against Germany. and plead FOR fur-
| ther reinforcements.
Sept 3.-Rome dispatch to the Rus
sian embassy says an official report
/ asserts
mercifully defeated near LemberS.
with losses of more than 100000. and
tured by the Cars forces. Petrograd
report. states that the Austrians were
junction of the Gnita Lipa river, with
the Dniester. losing 1900 killed and
many prisoners. including one general
| titles of supplies. Rome dispatch says
that now the Pope has been elected, IT,
join the allies in the war against the
| Kaiser. Turkish mobilization on the
Persian boundary reported slow. <Tur-
cruiser North Carolina through the
/ Dardanelles to deliver S150.000 relief
fund saying waters We're mined and II
Kai.ers Raa ''asn ARMY within A 20 m miles '',S Of
via Petrograd est. Petersburgl says
Japs have captured sey.n islands near
kiao-Chow.
Sept. 2.--French move capital to Bor-
deaux as troops of Kaiser near Paris
gates. Petrograd formerly st. Peters
| burg) reports that fatal blow to Aus
trian hopes in East was delivered by
Gar in Galicia and that Lemberg is
y in Russian hands. Loss of two army
corps. 10000 men. including three gem
erals. admitted. Germany reports VIC
tories in East and West. Washington
diplomatic circles told that Turkey has
declared war Russia. France and
England and that Sultan has mobilized
100000 men. French again masters of
Alsace. Thousands watch air battle
over Paris in which three German aero
planes are routed by two French fli
ers who used rapid-fire guns. British
fighting on Disc river.
Sept. 1.-Bucharest Roumania, tele-
grams, received in Rome. declare Aus
trfan defeat in Galicia was colossal {;
trains transporting tens of thousands
OF wounded. and many regiments de-
stroyed. Vienna report states that B.
100000 men are engaged along the
| Austrian Prussian- Russian frontier in
greatest battle in the history of the
world. German victories at Allenstein
and other places reported to the Ger
man embassy at Washington from
Berlin: in one battle three Russian
tarmy corps, approximately loo ar1
men. We're reported annihilated and
10000 Russian soldiers taken prison-
ers. Paris correspondent to 1.onuoit
decided success in France north of
Compeigne. and asked armistice. to
bury their dead Rome reports Turk
iSh army mobiliziug,