Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-09-02
GERMANS FORCED
TO WITHDRAW MEN
TO GUST INVADERS
Kaiser RuSheS Troops From Bel
GUM to Stop Russians.
ALLIES TO TAKE OFFENSIVE
British and French Armies Retire 70
Second Line of Defense-Paris
Relieved When Teutons
Halt Advance on City.


Its vast legiOns plunging through the
line of the allied forces on the Franco
Belgian frontier and had been hurting
still other armies in steady flow into
east Prussia in response to the often
s1Ve movement of the Russian army of
invasion, now appears to have been
checked in its aggressive movement
and to have been thrown practically
on the defensive.
Allies Have 100000 in Line.
The retirement of the allies to their
second line of defense has been &C
complished, according to the latest re-
ports, without 2 hitch; there are now
100000 men OF the line. The allied
forces are now ready to assume the
offensive.
Indeed this movement has already
begun. Dispatches from Paris report
that the British, in conjunction with
the French left, have begun a vigor-
Gus assault on the German forces who
have penetrated a short distance on
the Somme river in the direction of
La Fere, in the department of Aisne.
Russian Victories Aid France.
Further west the French have
checked the Germans advance guard
and at the other extremity on the
Meuse the French are offering a Wig
orous and successful resistance which
extends along nearly the whole front.
The apparent turn in the fortunes of
war in favor of the allies was brought
about by the overwhelming successes
Of the Russians in east Prussia which
has forced the kaiser to withdraw near
ly all'the army left to occupy Belgium,
greatly weakening the force attacking
the French frontier in order TO rein
force the fighting line on the east.
Great Battle Is Raging.
Along the Austro-Russian frontier a
great battle has been raging for three
days with 100000 men engaged. The
battle line is 100 miles long and ex-
tends from the Vistula to the Dneister.
The Russians are reported to have pen
etrated over twenty miles into Aus
trian territory. The attacks and coun-
ter attacks marking the engagement
have been as ferocious as at any bat
tie yet fought and there is no indica-
ton that a decisive result will be
achieved inside of several days.
1t is to turn the tide of this great
battle as well as to strengthen the
eastern line generally that the kaiser
is rushing across Prussia from Bel
GUM 1876 trains loaded with troops and
their impediments. Reports from ST.
Petersburg declare that Russia's in
vasion of Germany has been successful
along the whole line of battle.
Germans Are RepuIsed.
German troops have been forced to
abandon several points held by them
along the Vistula river which marks
a line of great strategic value.
The northern Russian army is en-
gaging the Germans south of Koenigs-
berg, which is now in state of SIEGE
and further south the Austrians are
being assailed near Lemberg in Aus
trian Galicia More than 5000 Aus
trians were killed and many prison
ers taken in this engagement up to
the time of the latest reports from ST
Petersburg.
Aviator Drops Bomb in Paris.
In Paris, where preparations already
had begun for the razing of residences
with the zone of activity of the forti-
ficatiOns. the news of the check given
to German arms had just instilled in
the inhabitants a spirit of elevation
giving rise to the hope that after all
the city might not again be called
upon to withstand a German SIEGE
when the populace was startled by an
incident which brought to them wildly
the realization that Paris was not yet
out of danger. A German aviator flew
over Paris shortly after noon, evading
the vigilance of the guards in the
Ethel Tower and dropped bomb in
the street in front of the Care LEST
near a military hospital The street
was torn up and the houses in the
vicinity damaged but no one was
killed. The German airman escaped.
British Lose 5000 in Battle.
The losses to the British army in
the fighting between August % and &c
were between five and six thousand,
according 10 the estimate OF Field Mar
shall Sir John French. But an official
statement announces that a sufficient
number of fresh troops have been sent
to the British forces in France to more
than doubly make up for the losses in
battle In the language of the war of
flee announcement, every gunner has
been replaced and the army is now
ready for the next great battle
Through the official press bureau the
admiralty also announced that the
losses incident to the battle of Heligo-
land blight were two officers and q
men killed and SO wounded.
France to Call Out Reserves.
That England is not alone in filing
the gaps that have been torn in the
fighting line in France IS indicated by
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