The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-31
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Transports Land British
Troops by Night at Ostend
to Attack Army of Kaiser
in Rear.
Earl Kitchener Cheers COun-
try by Announcing Send
, ing of Reinforcements to
Aid Allies.
~ herbert TEMPLE,
European Manager International New
Service.


European Manager International News
Service.
LONDON, Aug 31.-While heavy
rains have served to check the ad-
vance Of the right flank Of the Ger
man army. the allies have thrown for
ward re-inforcements, and now hold a
position much stronger than that
which they occupied before the fight
Ing at Mons and Charleroi. Lying be-
hind barricades and earthworks, sup
ported by French and British artillery,
the allies are awaiting with confidence
for the attack of the main body of the
German host upon the second line of
defense.
That section Of the defensive line
which is opposing the smashing rush
of the right flank and center Of the
German army, is stretched out over a
line between 125 and $50 miles long,
beginning at a point near Amiens, and
ending at a point near Mezieres.
,(Amiens is 62 miles north of Paris;
Mezieres is 12O miles northeast of
Paris)
British Encouraged.
The frank statement of Earl Kitch-
fener announcing that the British ex-
probationary force has been rein.
forced and that the allies now hold
the strongest position they have yet
smaintained, and the telegram from
IDieppe giving news of the humiliation
tof an entire German army corps, gave
much encouragement to the British
tpublic.
News of the destruction of German
'army corps came in the following dis
patch to the Daily Mail:
1T is announced officially at the
lsub-prefecture at Dieppe that Ger
man army corps has been wiped out
by General Pau's troops
Some confusion was caused by con-
Trajectory advices from France. An
official statement issued by the Paris
war office shortly before midnight
said:
THE progress of the German right
wing has obliged us to yield ground
on our left"
Check Right Wing.
This was followed several hours
later by a dispatch from Boulogne to
the Times which, in part, said:
The war cloud has passed away to
the south, leaving this town calm and
peaceful. The department of Bias De
Calais from Lille to Dieppe. is said to
be free from Germans. Dispatch bear
lers from the front passed through
here Sunday afternoon, and afterward
the good news was posted that the
German right had been checked and
slightly turned
r Paris correspondent of the
Chronicle wires:
The French army and our troops
are now holding good positions in a
much stronger and closer line. and
stemming the tide Of the German host
rolling toward Paris.
General Pau the hero of this war
after his swift return from the eastern
frontier, where he repaired the deadly
check at Muelhaussen, has dealt a
smashing blow to the German army
corps. which was striving to penetrate
the heart Of France.
Paris is still safe for the time be
ing, with the great army of the allied
forces drawn across the country as g
barrier which surely will not be bro
ken by the enemy"
Along the Franco Alsatian border
the German army is still striving with
might and main to check the French
lines. The French troops in that quar-
ter have been more successful than
those further north.