The Yale expositor., 1914-10-01
ALLIES GAIN
GROUND after
FURIOUS ATTACKS
Germans Force Fighting ALL
Along the Line of
Battle
HOPE TO SAVE THE ARMY
OF GEN. Won KLUCK
The Germans Are Being Heavily Re,
inforced for Great Battle On
Border of East Prussia.

Paris-Desperate attempts made by
the Germans on the western end of
the long line of battle to break through
the allies forces which are engaged
in turning movement have resulted
in the most furious fighting which
has taken place since the beginning
OF the campaign.
After fighting without respite night
and day, corps after corps of Germans
was hurled against the flower of the
French and English armies, only to be
thrown back.
The infantry bore the brunt of the
incessant fighting, but the artillery of
both armies continued throughout "a
hours TO lombard each others posi-
tons. Hand-to-hand combats occur
red at many points and bayonet were
used freely.
The French Colonial infantry, most
of whose men were many medals for
bravery displayed in colonial cam
paigns, was to the fore, and beside
these men fought the black Sengalese
troops, while further along the line
the greatest determination.
French Show Great Courage.
The French troops showed more
than their accustomed dash in attacks;
everywhere acts of wonderful courage
were performed. The cavalry also
participated in the engagements at
many points, the allies horses having
enjoyed a long rest which enabled
this arm of the service to distinguish
itself. The famous Scots Greys, find
ing that the color OF their horses Of
fered prominent mark for the Ger
man riflemen, had dyed their mounts
brown,
Another prominent French officer,
General Marquet has met death on the
field
AT Nubecourt, home of the parents
of President Poincare, the Germans
broke open the Poincare family vault,
it is reported, and buried a number of
their dead there. The Germans pla.
carded the town or Valenciennes, de-
handing from the mayors of neigh
boring communes lists of the available
supplies of clothing and food.
Big Battle On East Prussia.
London-A dispatch from Petrograd
says that a decisive battle is immi-
nent on the border of East Prussia.
The Germans are being heavily re-
inforced
The armies are in close touch along
the whole western line from near
Meml, in the north, to the frontier
of the government of Kalisch.
Other dispatches from Petrograd re-
port that fierce fighting still goes on
in Galicia, though Cracow, towards
which the Russian hosts have been
marching ever since Przemysl was in
vested and the communications cut,
has not yet been attacked
To the north the German invasion
is assuming vaster proportions, not
withstanding the Russian war Office
insists that the Germans are being re-
pulsed at the frontier 1t is estimated
here that the German front extends
from the Baltic coast to the south
ern boundary of Silesia, a distance
of about 400 miles.
What opposition the Germans have
met is believed to have been little
more than a cavalry screen. The
fighting centered again along the river
Niemen, from Drukeniki, in Suwalki,
Russian Poland. to Sopotzkin. The
official statement issued at Petrograd
said that the German artillery had
been unable to assume the offensive at
Sopotzkin and that their retreat was
more or less general.