Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-09-17
ostend dispatch to Reuters Telegram

yesterday in the neighborhood ~
Grembergen and Termonde. Belgium
The Germans beat hasty retreat. ieav
Ing 80 prisoners behind. Before de
parting from Termonde the Germans
plIlaged and destroyed the town. Ont
OF 1s4OO homes, 100 are In ashes and
works of art and historical memorials
nave been destroyed Several nota.
| Die people have been taken prisoners
and zoo civilians have been sent to
Germany.
Bands of Uhlans have been mr.
sued into the woods surrounding Qua
trecht and Wetteren.'
While the latest official statements
give few details of the great battle
being waged in France in which
0,OOO'OOO men are engaged, it seems
apparent that the German forces are
still falling back from the announce
ment that the allies have gained about
81 miles of territory in their advance.
an Increase of IL in the past "a hours
operations.
Both British and French troops
have crossed the River Marne, tho
British capturing men and guns. Tho
action of greatest severity is being
fought between Mailly and Vitry-Le-
Francois.
In an engagement between British
and Germans in Nyassa Land, British
Central Africa, the Germans, accord
ing to the British official press bureau
were driven back to the River Song
we. which is part of the frontier be-
tween the British and German pro-
tectorates.
London, Sept. ia Reuter- dis.
patch from Berlin says:
THE general star announces that
the 22nd Russian army corps of Fin
Land, has tried to force an entrance
into East Prussia by way OF Lyck
Russians were defeated at Lyck." Il.
,Lyck is In East Prussia on Lake
Lyck. 56 miles south of Gumbinnen.
-; 49, .css,s-S s,,.s7e
London, Sept. 1.-THE battle OF
Marne, az the French have christened
the great struggle which has been In
progress for q week In the territory
between Paris and Berdun, with the
allied armiQg of France and England
en- one side and the Germans on the
other. has not yet reached Q decisive
result. z -. SO. s.
The German fight. however, n thss
face Of superior forces and threaten
ed with mn outilank kialR tnenf.
rontinnes 70 r8strf 90 IN D liUEt along
tie gante over. Millcli iaeneEaI S SE0nsi
kluck made his. famous lightning ad-
vance on Paris from, the Belgian hor-
der after having defeated thesallies at
Mons and again at Cambrai, and st
Quentin =
With General; Won Kluck also, ac-
cording to French officials reports, the
right wing of General Won Buelow'S
army which supported his left, is fall
ing back toward the rivers Aisne and
Disc. On Won Buelow's left the army
Of the Prince of Wurttemberg which
has been trying for weeks to break
through the French line has stopped
fighting and retired north The Ger
man left wing, however, composed of
other sections of the Prince of Wurt-
temberg's army and the army COM
manded by the German Crown Primes
is still fighting with varying success
These armies, however, appear to
have passed Verdun, as Berlin re-
port say they have been bombarding
fortified positions south Of that for.
tress. "f lHsNgES ar~-H~~H TT
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Rotterdam, Sept. 10-A dispatch tJ
the Courant, dated Bfeda, Holland, re-
ports that a heavy engagement took
Place Wednesday at Aerschot, Bel
GUM, nine miles northeast of Louvain.
when the Belgians attacked the garri
son there.
Paris, Sept 1O.-"During the four
days battle" says an official COM
munication issued tonight. 'The al
lies have pushed back the Germans
sixty kilometres approximately 81
n,iles) and taken many prisoners
and machine guns"
Plymouth, Sept. 10-The German
bark Urania, bound from Tocopilla
Chile, for Hamburg, with a cargo OF
nitrate valued at $4,000 has been
captured by British Warship.
Paris, Sept. 10-According to
Munich report received here the Ber-
lin garrison alone has lost 42,0OO men
killed or wounded in the war thus far.
The Munich report evidently refers
to men of the Berlin garrison who
went to the front at the outbreak OF
the war.
Berlin, Sept. 9-By wireless to tn"
Associated Press by way of Sayv1lle.
L I.-OfRcial announcement was
made today at army headquarters thai
French fortress of Maubeuge on the
Sambre River had fallen.
The Germans took 10000 prisoners
Including four generals. Four hun
Gred guns also were captured.
Washington, Sept. 9.-The German
embassy today received this wireless
from Berlin:
"Bresliau silesian LandWehr cap
tured II officers, 1000 men all Rus.
sian Imperial Guard. )"
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