The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-10-15
BATTLE IS RAGING
ON. FRENCH SOIL
GENERAL Won kLUCk, WITH
HEAVY RElNFoRcEMENTS, HAS
TAKEN OFFENSIVE.
French Army Fighting With Great
Dash and Bravery and Claim to
Have Retaken Ground Yielded
in the Roye District.

Heavy losses following fierce fight
the battle raging on French soil be-
tween the allied forces and the Ger
man invaders. Meager official re-
ports from the front received Thurs
day morning indicate the French
forces are moving northward, but are
gaining little to the east, which would
be essential to the outflanking of the
German right wing.
General Won Kluck, with heavy rein
forcements, has taken decided often
sive.
The British official bureau reports
that the French army is fighting with
the greatest dash and bravery. The
French officials report an advance at
points on the center and the retaking
of ground previously yielded in the
Roye district
Masses of German cavalry have.
been recently near Lille and behind
them German forces moving on a line
between Tourcoing and Armentieres.
This important unit of the German
army, which It was thought might
serve to break the French line, the
French report, has been held in check,
and to the ncrth of Lille has been
driven back.
The northward movement of the
French line brings it close to the Bel
gian frontier and coincidentally there
have been engagements between the
Belgians and the Germans In the en-
virons of Ypres, twenty miles south
of Ostend and at Audenarde, fifteen
miles southwest of Client.
The Canadian forces are about to
be landed in England. and will be
sent to an inland training camp.
AS to the situation az between the
Russians and Germans and Austrians,
q frank statement from Berlin admits
that the German forces on the from
tier of East Prussia have assumed a
defensive movement and that they
abandoned the bombardment of Osso-
wetz, a fortress in Russian Poland.
This statement adds that the fighting
at Augustowo and In Suwalh was of
machine guns finally turned the battle
in favor of the Germans. but the
slaughter of the German artillerymen
was terrific.
The forty-third German casualty
list issued at Berlin contains 10000
names in dead. wounded and missing.
Berlin also reports that the fighting
on the German right wing in France
has been successful and that in the as
sault on Antwerp two more forts have
fallen into German hands. The Bel.
gian government has been removed
from Antwerp to ostend, with many
thousands OF refugees. The lombard.
ment of Antwerp, 1t is reported, al
ready had begun, following a notifica
ton from the commander OF the Ger
man troops that Roncombatants and
others desiring to do SO should with
draw from the city.
President Poincare, accompanied
by Premier Viviani and the minister
OF war, NJ. Millerand, has returned to
Paris after a visit to the battle
front
A British submarine has made an
other raid close to the German base
In the North sea and has torpedoed Q
German torpedo boat destroyer.
The Japanese have occupied the
island OF zap. of the Caroline group
In the Pacific and have notified tht
state department at Washington thai
the occupation is temporary and sole
| ly for military purposes.