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ALLIES MAKING
SLOW PROGRESS
IN GREAT BATTLE
Three Weeks of Hard and
Steady Fighting Without
Definite Result.
LULL ALONG CENTER
Germans Give Up Positions on Meuse'
Fighting in Eastern Prussia Con-
tinues Without ResuIt-Greece
Warned by Kaiser.
--latest Dis6afcHeS.1

Paris.-The following official COM
munication has Just been issued:
'First-On our left wing one Of
our detachments which came out of
Arras Ga fortified town and capital
OF the department of Pas-de-Calais)
has fallen back a little toward the
east and north of that city. North of
the Somme we have made progress in
front of Albert. Between Roye and
Lassigny the enemy has directed VIC
lent attacks which have broken
against our resistance
'Second-Quiet prevails along the
rest of the front 1t is reported that
in the neighbodhood of st. Mihiel
department of Meuse, twenty miles
southeast Of Verdur) there remains
no enemy on the left bank Of the
Meuse."
Premature Reports of Success.
London.-The battle of the Aisne,
as it is still called, although the
armies contending in it have spread
far beyond that river, now has been
in progress just three weeks and no
decision has been reached.
Reports from Paris earlier in the
week that the allies operations were
about to succeed were premature.
From all appearances there must be
more fighting before either side gives
way.
The heaviest blows are being given
and taken in the western area, where,
according to French official COM
munication, an extremely violent bat
tie continues, especially in the Roye
district where the Germans have con-
centrated considerable forces. The
communication added that the action
was extending more and more north
ward and that the fighting front now
extended to the district south of
Arras.
No Result in East Prussia.
Petrograd.-The general staff head
quarters has issued the following Of
fetal statement:
'The battle on the front in Eastern
Prussia continues on the line of
Miriampol. No decisive result has
been obtained. We have at last oc-
cupied the German position at
Preskasno, west of Symno. Under a
night of offensive attack by the Rus
SLAMS the enemy retired from Lei
pouny, in the direction of Suwalki.
On the road from Seyny, northward to
SuwaIki, the movement of the Ger
mans, pursued by the Russian cavalry
under protection of artillery, became
at times a disorderly retreat. Fierce
fighting is going on in the vicinity Of
Suwalki"
Germans Attack Tahiti.
Bordeaux.-The German cruiser
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on Sep
TENDER %, bombarded and half de-
stroyed Papeete, principal town and
port of the French Island of Tahiti
the most important member of the So
ciety Group in the Pacific. Such is
the news received by the minister Of
colonies, CASTOR Doumergue.
Kaiser Warns Greece.
London.-A dispatch to the Express
from Rome states that it is reported
there that Emperor William of Ger
many has sent telegram to the king
of Greece warning him that if Greece
enters into a war against Turkey, Ger
many will not guarantee the future
existence of Greece. King Constan-
tine replied, the dispatch declares
that if any of the Balkan states took
up arms on either side, Greece would
declare for the triple entente.
ReIgians Capture Duke.
London-The mysterious prisoner
held by the Belgians, to whom the
! other German prisoners pay extraordi
nary respect, such as would be &C
corded by them only to royalty, has
been identified as the Duke of Neck
lenburg- Schwerin.
Disaster in Concentration Effort.
| Petrograd-It is the opinion of OBJ
servers here, who judge the situation
from information in PetrogTad, that as
a result of the recent fighting on the
| Russian-German frontier, including
the unsuccessful attempts Of the Ger
mans to cross the Niemen river, the
German positions are suffering from
| the efforts to concentrate troops from
four directions on the southeast Pol
ish border, where a decisive battle Is
expected.