The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-12-10
CONCENTRATING
PICKED FORCES
AsseM0l ms ON MAIN ROUTE

Reports by Way Of London Have II
That General Won Kiuek 10 coneen-
trstine the Flower Of the kaissr's
Forces with . View to Pushing Into
French Capital at First Favorable
Opportunity.
Petrograd. Dec. Sit Is unofhcially
admitted that the Germans have cap
tured LODI, but 1t is asserted the Rus
SLAMS have the strength TO hold the
Germans back in Poland. while a Rus
sian army passes Cracow and invades
Silesia.
London. Dec. S.-Under the COM
mand OF General Won Kluck the Ger
man staff has again concentrated the
picked forces of the empire at a point
on the main route to Paris.
Won Klucks headquarters are at
Chateau Pinon. half way between Sois-
sons and Laon. on the right bank OF
the Aisne. The position is accessible
to Paris by both the main railway line
and three branch lines. His army is
said to be made up Of the Third rrus-
sian corps from Berlin, additionally
recruited from Brandenburg This is
equivalent to saying that the picked
forces of the invading army have been
concentrated at this point.
Brief OfficiaI Report.
Following is the latest Official re-
port from Paris: The Germans have
bombarded COST Dunkerke, four kilo-
meters west OF Newport. Between
Bethune and Lens we have finally cap
tured the village OF Vermelles and a
position east of which our lines exten1
along the railroad Our troops have
made noteworthy progress in the To-
gion OF Rouvroye, Parvillers and Ques-
noy-En- Ssinterre. There is nothing
else to report"
The German officiai Report.
A Berlin dispatch says no special
reports have been received from the
western theater nor from the region
to the east Of the plain of the Mazuri-
an lakes. In northern Poland we
gained important successes in pro-
longed fighting around Lodz by de-
feating strong Russian forces station
Ell to the northwest and to the south
west OF this city LODI is in our pos
session. Details of the battle cannot
yet be published because of the ex-
tepded field Of the engagement The
Russian losses we're very large. Az
attempt by the Russians to come to
the relief of their threatened armies
of the north from northern Poland
was foiled by the activity of the Aus
tro- Hungarian and German troops in
the district southwest Of Piotrkow.
The French Report.
A Paris dispatch says the allies have
driven the Germans back IN e genera
assault from the North sea to Alsace.
It is officially announced that German
artillery and infantry were defeated in
hard fighting i'm Flanders in the re-
gion of Armentiers. OF Arras, alon .
the Disc. north OF the Aisne and In
the Argonne. For the first time the
French government declares that the
allies offensive shows a superiority
over the German, and the statement
Is supported by the list OF positions
which have fallen into the hands u
the allies in their forward drive. There
Is a confident ring in the brief and
conservative ofa farSaa nf tho off, cip
reports issued in Paris. and there !
no longer doubt here that the long ex-
pected general advance has been or
dered and the preliminary attacks b.
infantry have been the result of the
clean-cut victories of the allied arti,.
lery In Flanders the offense has
driven the Germans from trenches
along the User, and in this region the
allies are no longer the attacked but
are the attackers.
The Austrian OFFICIAL Report.
Vienna dispatches say the fight in
the Russian war theater Is not YET
decisive. The Austro Hungarian and
German troops In the district south
west Of Piatrokow (Poland) attackea
the Russian troops advancing north
ward across Nowo Radomsko, and
forced them TO retreat
In west Galicia important battles are
proceeding. but no result has been
reached The Austro-German troops
captured In that territory Sunday 1900
Russians.
In the Carpathisns the battles con
tinue, and from some points the en-
envy has withdrawn strong forces be-
hind the mountains.