South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-16
Won KIuCk and Won BOehm Cut
Off From Won BeSeIer in At
tempting Circular Sweep of
Northwest France.
RETAklNG OF LILLE
AND YPRES BIG GAIN
Invaders Also Forced to Aban-
don All Positions on Left
Bank of LyS With Heavy
Losses of Troops.

PARIS, oct. 15.-Although the fall
of Ostend appears to have become a
certainty the German sweep of the
northwest coast to the west has been
circumvented by the allies in driving
a wedge between the army of Gen.
Won Reseler and the forces Of Generals
Won Kluck and Won Boehm which
compose the German right OF the
main line of the invaders in France.
Definite information from official
sources regarding the movements and
the strength of the armies engaged is
lacking because of the excessive strin-
gency of the censorship inaugurated
with the development o. the move
ment in the department du Nord in
France and west Flanders in Belgium,
where the two great armies are report
ed to have met in a great pitched bat
tle--the greatest of the warn
which the fighting already is reported
as severe.
The official communique issued at
Bordeaux, at midnight tonight, re-
whole front the capture of Estaires,
1 8 miles west of Lille and on the north
bank Of the Lys.
Big Gain Indicated.
This taken in connection with the
previously reported occupation of
Ypres and tOday's unofficial announce
ment that the allies have retaken Lille
indicates remarkable advantage gain
ed by the allies during the two days
fighting. Ypres is across the Belgian
frontier and the allies front now ex-
TO, Dc
there's TO Ypres. Fifteen miles west
of the line lies Hazebrouck and 20
miles behind il is Cassel where the
Germans for a week by furious caval-
~ charges have been trying to smash
the allied lines. The occupation Of
the new French and British positions
shows that the Germans have been
driven back just this distance TO the
northward and that the allies are
moving straight north to give battle
to the Antwerp beleaguring army
which is moving to the westward.
Northeast of this position the Ger
mans have made a corresponding ad-
vance which is part Of the cOnverging
movement upon OStend.
The army from Antwerp not only
has occupied Bruges, only 10 miles
from Ostend on the east, but has es-
! tablished a line swinging in an arc
to the south and then to the west with
the vanguard of the German army oc-
cupying ThourOut and DiXmunde, the
/ latter but ten miles from the coast
and TO the southwest Of Ostend. In
Thielt, 10 miles southeast of Bruges, a
large force of Germans has appeared
and at least 100000 Of the invaderN
are reported to have occupied Ghent-
II is these two forces in great
strength, but lacking elaborate e<-
/ trenchments and. Notifications that
mark the battle of the Aisne as one Of
the most stubborn struggles in the
history Of the war, that are reported
\ to have come in contact near the Bel
gian border of vast proportions which
will decide the German plan TO ad-
vance against the French channel
ports.
On the left bank of the Lys the
{ Germans have been forced 10 abandon
all their positions according TO official
announcement from Bordeaux and in
the vicinity of Lens and between Arras
i and Albert the French have made con-
siderable progress. The continued ad-
I vance Of the allies in this direction in
dicates that the German offensive
here has been definitely checked. An
index OF the severity OF the engage
ments fought in the region Of Arras
7 is the report published today by the
France du Nord that between u, 300
]
surrounded in the marsh land IN the
/ Immediate vicinity Of Arras.
lombard Cathedral.
A telegram from Bordeaux says
that the Germans have recommended
! zhe bombardment Of the cathedral al
J Rheims while official dispatches re-
cord the capture Of the German
! trenches north OF Rheims by the allies
Tonights bulletin says the French
have succeeded in advancing about
two kilometers TO the north and east
I Of Rheims. The French have moved
forward toward CraOnne from Berry
au Bac and north Of PrlInay IN the di-
rection OF Bein.
Further successes are claimed by
/ the French war office on the heights
Of the Meuse and in the Woevre re-
gion. principally 10 the south OF st
! Mihiel and near Afarcheville. Between
( the Meuse and the Moselle furious at
/ tacks by the Germans 10 the southeast
/ Of Nerdun were repulsed and the
French have been able 10 advance
1 some distance to the south OF the road
from XerSun 10 Metz