The chronicle=news., 1914-09-16

Berlin. Sept. 16.-The German
prospects in the battle In the Marne
region are still characterized In Ber-
lin az favorable.
Berlin, Sept. 16.-The German
general staff aniionnces that the
situation on the west frontier is still
safe. 1t is declared that the French
and English had at no place on the
whole battle front won victory
and that the Germans can look with
confidence to the outcome.
The public has been showing signs
OF impatience at the absence OF news
from the front.
The fact that the Siberian corps
was engaged in the fight at Lyck.
east Prussia, is noted with interest
here as indicating that the mobiliza-
tion OF this corps must have been
accomplished with extraordinary rap
idity to enable 1t to arrive in Eu-
lrope within six weeks after the Rus
sian mobilization order was issued.
The general staff has authorized
the announcement that nowhere
along the line OF battle have the
British or French forces won a vic
tory.
No details of the fighting in
France are given out, and 1t is said
that no decisive turn of events seems
probable for some time to come.
Paris, Sept. 16.-AccOrding to Of
ficial announcement made this after
noon the German army is fighting a
defensive battle along its front from
Noyon to a point north OF Verdun.
According to documents found on
Russian prisoners. the remainder OF
the Russian army OF wilma. whose
defeat was announced In Berlin yes
|terday, has moved southwark to the
wilma river.
According to an official report.
French troops in fighting which took
place on the 25th OF August, attacked
and destroyed a German geld hos
pital. killing surgeons In charge and
nurses and the wounded soldiers.
Attention is called here to the rap
idity with which the Siberians OF
| Russia have appeared in the Euro
pean field. Portions of the third
Siberian army corps. which was de-
feated at Lyck. in East Prussia. came
from Irkutsk: consequently their
mobilization and transportation must
, have been extraordinarily rapid as
, Irkutsk is on til e eastern Siberia
border. Military experts here are
scarcely able to believe that such q
troop movement has been possible In
81 .,S, h lfop tfrt, nj
the Russian order of mobilization.
r according to dispatches received
there the British naval commission a
i, Constantinople today resigned from
, the Turkish service.
Fifty-two pieces of artillery capt
, ured from the British. have arrived
in Hamburg.
: The rumors in circulation that
r upper Silesia is threatened by a Rus
sian invasion are declared to be With
out foundation.
The attempt of the Russians In
South Poland to isolate the Austrian
army under General Dankl is de.
, clared to have failed.
| The Silesian landwehr. or reserve
took part in the fighting against the
Russians.
, A German who formerly lived in
e Antwerp and who is now in Berlin
I has made the declaration that the
middle of last June he saw mines
being planted in the suburbs of An
twerp. A Belgian laborer who was
e engaged in this work told him that
t every one of those mines would blow
: up battalion of German soldiers
} soon.
Paris. Sept. 16.-The Petit Jour.
3 male prints a telegram from Berlin
e via Copenhagen stating that the
German emperor will proceed to east
: Prussia and assume chief command
( against the Russians.
Scissors. France. Sept. 16-Con.
tinuing the correspondent says:
) Here had been a fine little city
tions since the time of Caesar A
r few hundred persons were in the
streets back of the river. The rest
had left before the Germans entered.
Directions weber to find bridges
: and routes to neighboring towns
were painted on the walls of build
: ings at the corners of streets in the
German language.
German soldiers named Schneid-