The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-09-08
BRITISH CASUALTIES SAID
|. TO Be $4,000 BEFORE PARIS
Terrific Fighting AT Guise, Near Bel
gian Border Where Germans Invaded
France, Destroys Three Splendid
Teuton Army Corps Almost To Man


LONDON September 7Assocated Press by Federal Wire
announcement given out yesterday from the war
Office states that nohew main trial Of strength has occurred be-
tween the Allies and the German forces near Paris The staon
is not greatly changed since August 80.
The allied feces occupy positions east of Paris along the river
Marne Opposed to them are NE three German arrNiesto the
east Of PAIRS and possibly operating to- the north The railroad
between Paris and Deppe about eighty miles north has stopped
running trains XXX "a 49, go
foul successful advance guard action checking the progress
of this army 80. Ntst 80 "a -
LOCATION OF CoNTENDNG ARMIES
The latest addces regarding the Germans We're that the first
German army Was between Laierts Sousouare and Eises
Bofford
The second German army after having captured Rheims one
hundred miles east and north Of Paris is advancing Chateau
Thiery about thirty miles southwest Of Paris.
The fourth German army reported to be approaching Argonne
between Fuippes and Vile Jourbe.
Ian of these points reached by the Germans September g.
The British troops are IN the approximate center Of the allied
forces before Paris and lying south Of the Mane line with
the French troops forming the right and left Of the defensive line
The British have been reinforced by $4,000 men.
BRITISH CASUALTIES TOTAL $1,000
The British casualties in the fighting total $1,000 officers and
men Of which large number have become separated from the
main army and viii be able to rejon their commands in safety
The spirit Of the British troops has not been affected by their
losses m battle which have been sal in proportion to those in
The French troops show the same spirit The allies consider
the sacrifices required of their armies not unproporonate to their
man army. @ t.t t8s aEs 1ss 81 5.t8gj. ..ss
Since the fighting began the British troops have concerned with
the general movement and acted in harmony with the strategic
conceptons Of the French general staff nghng retiring be-
fore the Germans.
Since August 26 the French seventh corps has been operating
on the British left and the French fifth army the British right
This has relieved the heavy the left flank since the
battle at Cambraia, about hWo miles southeast Of Lille The
German advance has been continuous since that engagement and
during the withdrawal Of the Allied armies towards Paris their
was always in contact with the German advance
FRENCH REPEL THREE TEUToN CORPS
Details Of the terrific fighting Guse, the Belgian frontier
where the German invaders entered France, just coming
light The fifth French army is reported to have gained marked
solid success in this fighting between Guse and Disc river by
peIing three German army corps. &f+
1t is reported that these three corps fell back in disorder after
suffering heavy losses leaving the ground streWn with dead and
wounded The commander Of the tenth German corps killed
in this engagement was at this point that the invaders were
reported as having been checked " III &s~ta
Paris announces the repuse Of the seventh German army by
the French at DienyiHe. E.y. G.H E., n,
The attest reports Of killed include the Of Lieutenant
Andre Dubo son OF former minister Paul LangeFon, the
avlato and Lieutenant larcheN Of French general
Official reports from Berlin that two of the Maubeuge
forts have fallen and that the German artillery seng the town.
which burning in different places The German despatch claims
that Won Nuck and Won Bueiows armies north Of the Meuse
Belgium completely surpassed the French troops opposed to them