Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-26
French Say Germans Are
Reinforcing Won Kluck
on Extreme Right
ACTION DESCRIBED
OF MUCH VIOLENCE
Situation in Center and on
East of Long Fighting
Line Is Unchanged

On, the eastern end Of the pat'ie
line in France the Germans are report
ed to be making a determined assaui'
on the Verdun positions. one repor,
Of the fighting there places the uer-
man casualties at ten thousand deao'
and fifteen thousand wounded.
The German army headquarters IN
it's latest official report OF the sltua-
ton in France, confines itself to stat
ing that there have been some minor
engagements. but that nothing OF I'M
portance has occurred.
The sharpening of the censorship
over news passing through the nanos
of the British authorities as announc-
ed last night, would be put into effect,
is apparent to a marked degree today.
A considerable amount Of unofficial
reports, comment and special dls-
patches from the war zone is not be-
ing transmitted from England.
It has been said that new battle
was developing on the allies left
wing, but this lacks official confirma-
ton. There we're also reports that the
Germans have made gigantic prepara-
tions to resume their siege of Verdun.
The heaviest siege artillery, according
to reports, is being transported by the
Germans from Metz and they are sac
riicing thousands of lives in their en-
deavors to place these monsters in
position.
The plain to the east Of Verdun is
said to be strewn with ten thousand
dead and fifteen thousand wounded,
the result of repeated German ad-
vances which have followed each 9th
er with lightning like rapidity
Paris, Sept 25., = The following
official communication was given out
in Paris this afternoon:
First, on our left wing there has
begun a general action Of great vio-
lence between those detachments Of
our forces that are operating between
the river Somme and the river Oise
and the army corps which the enemy
has grouped in the region around
Tergnier and st. Quentin. These
army corps have come, some from the
center of the enemys line and others
from Lorraine and the Vosges. These
last named corps were transported by
rail to Cambria by way of Liege and
~ WV
Aisne as far as Berry-Au-Bac, there
has been no change of importance.
Second, on the center we have made
progress to the east of Rheims in the
direction of Berry and Moronvilliers.
Further to the east, as far as Argonne
region, the situation shows no changes.
To the east of the Argonne the enemy
has not been able to move out of
Varennes, On the right bank of the
river Meuse the enemy succeeded in
getting footing on the heights of the
Meuse, in the region of the promon-
tory of Hatton Chatel and forced in
the direction Of st. Mihiel, he bonn
barded the forts OF Paroches and of
Camp des Romans. To>~offset this
to the south Of Verdun we remain
masters Ol lie Heights VI Iu0 McuSS
and our troops moving out Of Toul,
advanced until they reached the
region of Beaumont.
Third, on. our right wing Lorraine
and the Vosges we have repulsed at
tacks of minor Importance on Money.
To the east Of Luneville the enemy
has made some advance along the
lines of the river Vegouse and the
river Blette"
Bad Campaign Weather.
London, Sept. 25.-The weather con-
ditions which were exceptionally fav-
orable to modern military operations
during the first six weeks of the war,
have now changed radically and are
in the main responsible for the lull
prevailing in all the war, areas with
the exception of the combined Mon
tenegrin and Servian assault on the
coveted provinces of Bosnia and Her
zegovina Accompany the reports of
bad weather comes the ominous news
of the presence of disease Hungary
has acknowledged an outbreak of
cholera among her troops, and while