Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-08-29
GOTH FRENCH AND BRITISH RE
PULSED m FIRST BIG BATTLE
WITH GERMANS M BELGIUM.
JAPAN DECLARES WAR
Battle Fought Along Many Miles OF
Front -Scrvians Defeat Austri7ns
and Take Many Pr.soners-Rus-
SLAMS Have Crossed Into Germany.
News From the Front to Date.

army in Belgium have suffered seTi
Gus reverse. according to the oincia
announcement issued by the Frencj
war office. In the battle line, which
extends from Mons TO the LuXem
burg frontier. several army corps
composed Of both British and French
took the offensive on Sunday against
the Germans, but their plan Of at
tack failed. owing to the Unforeseen
difficulties as described by the Of
fetal statement, and the troops re
tired on the covering positions.
The losses on both sides are report
ed as extremely heavy and the French
officials describe the Germans as be
ing obliged to establish themselves in
fresh positions in Lorraine.
The French have abandoned those
portions of Alsace and Lorraine which
they previously had occupied and
now look for heavy fighting in French
territory.
JtAdNllIltuiN VI Vel man "a y W.
Grating on the extreme right, have
reached RoubaiX, a few miles north
OF Lille. This territory is defended
only by reservists.
As Using Tau, capital OF Kiauchau,
the German protectorate in China,
the German forces have prepared for
a bombardment by the japanese fleet
by dynamitinG all the tall structures
there which might be used by the at
lacking forces as sighting points.
They also have taken all possible
measures to oppose the advance of a
Japanese field army.
Emperor Nicholas OF Russia is re-
ported to have gone to the headquar-
tiers of the Russian army which. has
taken the offensive in full strength,
and is said to be advancing rapidly in
East and West Prussia.
An official statement from Paris
says: THE Russians occupy terri
tory fifty miles wide on the German
frontier. After a great victory, the
Servians have made safe Austrian
territory to the north of them"
The Venice correspondent of the
Daily Mail sends the report that
Prince William of Albania. accom-
panied by his family, has arrived at
Brindisi. en- route for Germany. The
correspondent also says Albania is in
a state of anarchy. There is a report
emanating from Rome and Avalona
that the Albanian insurgents have en-
tered Avalona and raised their flag.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton, the Standard Oil Company and
the United Fruit Company have no
titled the government of their inten-
lions to put their fleets under the
American flag under the new law ex-
tending home registry to foreign built
craft.
The Montenegrin troops. with a
bayonet charge, repulsed a fresh Aus
trian attack at Rahovo, taking $50
prisoners and killing 800 Austrians,
according to a Cettinje dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company at Lon
don.
Refugees coming to London from
Germany state, according to the Even
ing Standard, that reports persist
there that Crown Prince Frederick
William is dead This is the latest of
a series OF similar unverified reports
Reports are current that Francis Jo-
seph is seriously i'll. These reports
have been denied, but they are being
reiterated.
A dispatch from Rome quotes the
Messagero OF that city to the effect
that Prince William OF Wied had fled
from Albania.
While the Liege forts are said to be
holding out. an official statement from
the French government tells OF the
blowing up of Fort Chau de Foutaine
by the Belgian commander after It had
been RACED by German guns.
The Avanti, at Rome, says Greece
has dispatched troops to aid Servia
in her fight against Austria.
The Servians now apparently are
driving out the Austrians, and a late
dispatch by way OF Italy says 1t is an
nounced at Vienna that the operations
against Servian on the Drina River
have been abandoned.
1t is reported that the Italian army
will be modified Aug. ~. Influential
Italians at Malta say that Italian in
in favor of Great Britain.
France and Russia is only a question
of days.
information bureau at London an
nounoes artillery attack by Germans
upon Namur.
The japanese premier has requested
the Japanese people 10 be especially
Of German residents. An
imperial ordinance gives German mer-
until Sept. to discharge
cargoes and sail.
A dispatch from Client says II is re-
ported that the Germans are marching
toward France by the way of Dude
a town fourteen miles south
west Of Client.
The Avanu, at Rome. says that
there had been another naval engage
ment In the Adriatic. in which some
Austrian ships were sunk.