The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-10-01
ALLIES REPULSE
GERMAN ATTACK
ON THE CENTER
Both Sides Suffer Enormous
Losses in Fighting.
END OF BIG BATTLE IS NEAR2
French Gain Slight Advance on
Heights Of the Meuse--Prussian
Guard ls Cut to Pleces-Von
kIuck la Losing.

London, Sept. 29.-The allies are ad.
gancing In the battle OF the Aisne, ac-
cording to reports from the battle
front, having crossed the river Somme
In the vicinity Of Peronne. The Prus-
sian Guard has been cut to pieces In
the past few days. The Germans have
made desperate attacks on the center,
where the fighting has hitherto been
an artillery duel. These attacks have
been hurled back with enormous losses
to each side.
Paris dispatches assert the belief
there Is growing that the battle now Is
entering on its final phase. Berlin
aerograms, however. are just as posi-
tive that the battle is far from its fin
ish. A dispatch from the German
front to the Lokalanzeiger in Berlin
terms the past combats subordinate
actions and declares that the allies
losses have been greater than those OF
the Teutons.
French Are Advancing.
Slight advances are claimed for the
French on the heights Of the Mouse.
In the Woevre district, according to
Paris statements, dense fog has sus-
pended warlike actions.
All movements Of troops are being
vigorously concealed. and the official
statements Of the war Offices give
only the bare outlines of what has
or has not occurred. The great effort
on the part OF the allies to drive back
the right wing Of the Germans con-
tinues with undated fury.
Steadily. foot by foot, General Won
Kluck's army is being driven back
The center Of interest has shifted from
the allies center, where both sides
were too strongly intrenched to allow
any great offensive movement, to the
allies right wing,
Germans Attack Costly Failure.
The days attack on the line between
the Aisne and the Argonne marks the
last point upon which the kaiser has
tried, by means Of concentrated as
sault upon each strategic point on the
hundred-mile front TO turn the tide OF
battle. According to dispatches from
the front, the days attempt was the
most violent of the war. Column after
column was pushed forward, despite
the devastating fire from well-placed
French batteries. Passing through
this, the attacking forces were met by
French, Who aided, by rneir Turco
comrades. successfully held their po-
sitions.
After hours of this Intellectual and
costly battle, the German forces were
withdrawn again to their fortified lines
north of the French positions.
Encircling Line Drawns In.
The tactics of the opposing general
STATS, as shown by reports from the
front, remain unchanged. Frantic
blows, delivered by the German forces
first at one point, then cnother, on
a line from the River Aisne to the Ar
gonne forest, to pierce the French
front and thus relieve the harassed
German right wing from It's peril,
failed. The allies continued their en-
veloping movement against Won
Kluck's slowly bending front, and
while no pronounced successes are
claimed, every indication is that per
ceptible progress has resulted.
Many Frenchmen Prisoners.
A Berlin aerogram quotes a CORE
spondent of the Lokaanzeiger:
"a long colImn of French prisoners
of war arrived during the week from
the direction of Reims, Last Monday
| met a column Of about one thou
sand men whose faces showed that
they were glad at last to have es-
capped the turmoil and terrors of this
greatest OF modern battlefields."
Berlin Claims Gains.
Berlin, via Amsterdam, Sept. 20
The following official statement was
Issued by the war Office;
The offensive movemen. of our
troops continues without severe
check Heavy losses have been in.
iicted upon the enemy by our bay.
onet charges and they have had to
bring up their reserves to strengthen
their lines,
AT the eastern end of the battle
line our artillery has silenced part
OF the forts on the Verdun-Toul line
and We have succeeded In crossing
the Mouse, The passage is being
sharply resisted.
In the center we continue to gain,
despite the encmy's heav. artillery
fire. which Is now showing better aim.
"On the west We have held all the
ground we gained, though the enemy
has received large re-enforcements
and Ia making counter-attacks.
These, however. have been repulsed '