Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-09-03
FRENCH AND ENGLISH RESIST
DETERMINED ADVANCE OF
GERMAN FORCES.
RUSSIANS SMASH AUSTRIANS
A Brief Summary Of the Events Since
Last Week Noted in Chrome
logical Order.

"o "e"s JUST as we went to press
last week indicated determined ad-
vance of the victorious Germans, hav.
ing defeated the allies in a great hat
tie along 250-mile battle front. anA
this has not been checked. The French
have no hope whatever Of stopping tn
irresistible Teuton and have takes
every step necessary to prepare Parh
for siege as little stands in the Ger.
man army's way.
Outside Of the reports of great Ges-
man successes, the censor has cut OF
all news of the extent of casualties of
the battling giants. These losses TIN
world knows are enormous and horri-
bic in contemplation. They are with
held for good reason and the pu,-
pose readily appears from the fact
that even the German at home in Be,-
lin, who is being told of the great vi,-
tories over the allies, would scarcely
believe the reports il he could Learn
of the immense losses Of soldiers. ana
German losses must exceed that a
the allies in maintaining an offensive
attack all Of the time. Likewise thu
French and the English could get lit.
tie sympathy in their recruiting opera
tions ms the people would consider tn
fight hopeless.
The Germans have been both VIZ
tors and vanquished this week ana
last, for on the Russian side the SlaS
soldiers have advanced almost as ran-
idly into German territory as CO.
many has into France. This the Co
mans have denied but at the sarn
time have rushed troops from tn
France side to the Russian frontier =
stay advances Of the Russian army.
One hundred and twenty-five trains =
German troops were reported to haye
left Belgium for eastern Germany la&
week.
The uncertainty as to what is tab
ing place and what has already deva-
oped leaves one bewildered as NJ
reads the war news. Reports are givth
piecemeal as they have been censored
and the following fragment issuea
from London August 81, is a good
example:
From all the rar-spread BATH
lines only bulletins of Napoleonje
brevity have come in the last twenty
four hours. History is being made n
three great fields of action-alonx
25O miles Of French frontier, on 2OO
miles of the Austro Hungarian border
and through wide area of eastern
Prussia.
'Silence has covered Austria Is wr
with Servia for several days, but thSk
has become minor detail of tls
death struggle of the European pow
ers.
The Russian front is the scene II
events of the greatest magnitude, but
between the claims and counter clairas
Of the belligerants there is such !
vital difference it is impossible y
form an estimate Of which way II,
balance swings.
"From northern France the neNu
appears to follow events by three lr
four days. The French embassy d.
nounces that there has been harl
fighting on the right wing Of n
northern army near Mezieres sine
Friday and also that the Gerndth
forces are making progress in the =
fere district, which apparently meals
that the French left wing has retirsl
somewhat further, but II il not ~
vealed how near the Germans nzNo
approached to Lafere Fortress
To this may be added the query as1o
what the effect Of Russian vietor3ls
on the east WIN be and whether c.
many can follow up her victory o.
the French and withstAAd 1useian -
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