The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-21
Latter Resume Often
sive All Along West
ern Battle Front in
France and Belgium
DUNKIRK GOAL
OF THE INVADERS
Reports Through Dutch Sources De-
clare Germans Have Been Repulsed
Six Miles From ostend and That
Guns Are Now Heard Near There

London, Oct. 81, 1910 A. MA
comparison of the official reports from
Paris and Berlin leads to the conclu-
sion that all along the western battle
front in France and Belgium the Ger
mans have resumed the offensive, but
with their supreme efforts directed
against the allies left.
The news supplementing these official
communications, however, indicate that
on the left, at least, the allies are not
acting merely on the defensive.
The great turning movement is un-
doubtedly developing through the cor
ner of Belgium bounded by France and
the sea, but the public remains in a
haze as to whether the turning move
ment is one on the part of the allies to
get around the German right flank or a
German operation to envelope the al
lies left.
Germans After Dunkirk
The impression grows that the Ger
mans ar determined to add Dunkirk to
the line of seaports now held along the
Belgian coast and the allies are making
| desperate efforts to hurl back the in
vaders. Late reports through Dutch
sources declare that the Germans have
been repulsed six miles from Ostend
and that guns are now heard near that
| city. Other late reports, which lack
confirmation, state that the Germans
have abandoned Bruges. If these re-
ports are true, it would indicate that
the allies are meeting with some sue
| cess in their efforts to reoccupy the sea
| coast
| The movements along the coast con
| tinue to be more or less in the nature
| of reconnaissance movements, while the
aim of the fighting on the allies left
| centers around Lille, because its rail
road and highway connections are of
| vital strategic Importance to the Ger.
mans From Lille two roads run out
| to the west-one northerly to Armen.
| there's and the other southerly to
Fournes through country which is en-.
closed and thickly populated.
Berlin Claims a Victory
The French report contents itself
with the assertion that these roads are
held by strong forces of Germans, while
| the Berlin communication claims a vic,
| tory on them. The operations along
| these roads may also merely ibe a
reconnaissance movement. checked by
| the Germans, but all reports agree that
the German resistance at Lille continues
to be of the most stubborn nature.
Only the most meagre reports arrive
| from the eastern war area, but it is
| clear that the Russians are at least
| holding their own. Both sides are evi.
IDENTIFY entrenching and the Vistula riv-
er region promises to become another
battle of the Aisne.
The allies console themselves for the
Russian withdrawal! from western Ga,
licia and the advanced iposi tions near
the Russian-Polish border by the be-
lief that the Germans, having commit
ted themselves to an invasion OF Rus
sian Poland, will not be as likely to
send reinforcements to the armies in
the west as would have been the case
if the Russians had suffered great
! reverse nearer the German frontier.
Military Operations in Center
Outside of the purely military opera
tons in the center in the Russian En-
perOr S ukase against vodka and the
efforts being made to care for the Bel
gians still in their own country and to
feed and repatriate those who have
taken refuge in other countries, Ber-
lin states that no obstacles would be
placed in the way of this necessary
work, but, at the same time, calIms that
Germany has done all possible, in view
! of military exigencies, to relieve the
distress in Belgium.
The Russian Emperor ukase is said