Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24
MAIN ARMIES REST.
Forces Struggle on With No
Advantage on Either Side.
MANY SOLDIERS LOSE LIVES
Russians Prevent Joining of Enemy on
Galician SoiI-czar's Army Has
Completely Cut of Austrian
Forces Extreme Left.

London, Sept 21.-One of the fierc-
been raging across northern France
for a week past with first a slight adj
vantage on one side and then on the
other remains undecided.
The great armies which have been
fighting for a month, with few, IL any
intermissions, have dug themselves
into entertainments on rivers and
mountain ranges on front reaching
from. the Disc to the Meuse, and
thence southeastward along the Fran
co-German frontier.
Artillery duels such as never have
been seen before are being carried on
with the hope of compelling the evacu.
alton of the strongly held positions,
with occasional successes to the OPP
posing sides, while the infantry, in
the face of CALLING fire, have charged
right up to the guns, only to make
their opponents give way slightly, or
to be repulsed with great losses.
Fighting has been fiercest on the
allies left, which lies on the right
bank of the Disc river, in the vicinity
OF Rheims, the famous cathedral OF
which has been set afre by German
shells, and between that town and the
Argonne ridge it has been give and
take all the time.
The French official report, however,
again claims slight progress on the
French left and that the allies have
again repulsed strong frontal attacks
between Craonne and Rheims.
Around Rheims itself matters have
been about equalized. as the Germans
have recaptured the heights OF Bril-
mont, while the French have taken
the defenses OF La Pompelle. The
French also have scored success be-
tween Rheims and the Argonne,
where they have taken the village Of
Souain and have captured numerous
prisoners.
Russians completely cut off General
Dankrs army which forms extreme
left of new battle line from Phzemysl
to Cracow, and prevented his juncture
with General van Auffenberg. While
Dankl is retreating in desperate at
tempt to reach the Cracow fortifica-
lions, the Russians are advancing
from Sandomir in an endeavor to cut
off that retreat also.
Germans Claiming Gains.
Berlin.-Members Of the general
staff here, in private conversation,
have manifested absolute confidence
in the outcome Of the battle in France,
as their own army is steadily growing
stronger and the lines of communica-
ton have been adjusted to permit q
more efficient supply Of provisions and
ammunition, it having rather outrun
its supply arrangements in the rapid
advance on Paris.
The French army, according to the
bulletin, is showing signs OF having
shot its bolt and has fought itself to
a standstill, being unable to fill its de-
pleted ranks like the Germans. The
Germans, according to the last bulle-
tin, are slowly but surely gaining
ground in the center.
The headquarters announcements
still give no definite information re-
garding the position of the battle line
contenting themselves with speaking
of it generally as located between the
Disc and Mouse rivers, but &ot men,
tioning what part of this large region
the Germans occupy.
War News Condensed.
A report from German army head
quarters, made public in Berlin an
-
es in all theaters of the war. In
France, 1t is declared, a decisive at
tack Is being made north off Noyon;
Beaumont has been stormed and q
500 French have been captured, while
counter attacks OF the allies along the
entire front have been repulsed easily.
In the east the Germans continue
their advance against the Russians
and the Servians have been routed by
the Austrians, 1t is said.
Unofficial advices from the German
capital say that members OF the Ger
man staff manifest implicit confidence
in favorable outcome Of the fighting
in France. Their armies are being
reinforced and the lines OF commune
cation reformed.
Dispatches from Vienna report OIL
cially that the Austrians and Germans
In Galicia have formed new defense
line and are awaiting Russian at
tack on the strong fortress OF Pre-
mysl, fifty miles west of Lemberg.
News dispatches from London re-
feet the popular belief that the re-
ported shortage OF ammunition and
supplies had been met.
Official statement issued in Paris,
states that the Germans are strongly
entrenched in the river Aisne and
have been reinforced from Lorraine.
The Germans, successful in driving
the Russian invaders from East Prus-
STA, are reported pushing their way in
to Russian Poland. The Austrian
armies, following their disastrous
clash with the Russians in Galicia, are
believed to be attempting to reform
at Cracow.
News dispatches represent London
as regarding the present battle as the
supreme conflict Of the campaign in
France.
II is officially announced from Toxic
that Japanese troops were landed at
Laoshan bay. Laoshan in neutral ter