The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-09-05
ALLIES MORE HOPEFUL
Situation Favorable for Making
StfCng Defense
NEWS is RIGIOLY CENSORED

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port this withdrawal from position
was made to avoid an unfavorable en-
gagement which might have been de-
.cisive. The center and right, accord
ing to official reports, are holding out
firmly. There is severe fighting along
the line from Rheims to La Fere and
there have been a number of engage
ments along the Lorraine border and
in the Vosges.
The French minister of war issued
call for the reservists OF the French
territorial army living in north and
northeastern France. The step is said
to be preliminary to calling out all
reserVists in the country who have not
previously been summoned.
On three sides the allies position
is surrounded by four German di-
visions, comprising in all more than
a million men, according to the esti-
mates here. Attacking at different
points they are conyerging on Laon.
General Won Buelows column OF Prus-
SLAMS in the lead has fought its way
past St. Quentin to within about
twenty miles of the LaOn-La Fere
forts. On the left Won Kluk's army
is pressing down from Combles, in the
department of the Somme. A third
corps under General Won Hausen has
forced the allies back to Rethel on
the Aisne river, and a fourth column
under the Duke of Wurtemberg ap-
oil
the Rocroi- i-Meizieres line and is ad-
vancing also upon the Laon battle
ground, which promises to be the de-
cisive encounter of the kaisers north
ern campaign.
The Paris correspondent of the
Evening News quotes the driver of
one of the automobiles of the British
general staff, who has returned to
Paris from the front, as saying that
the German advance has been we'll
checked to the north of Compeigne
and the Germans have asked for an
armistice to bury their dead.
Compeigne is at the junction of the
Disc and the Aisne rivers, twenty
eight miles southwest of La Fere,
where the British were reported last
week, and is only forty-fve miles
northwest of Paris.
In the northeast of France the
French have checked the Germans in
the district of Rethel twenty miles
southwest of Sedan, the scene OF the
crushing of French hopes forty-four
years ago.
Dispatches from Paris announce that
the war office has issued communi-
que announcing that the minister OF
war has decided to call out all re-
servists in France who have not al
ready Joined the colors.
French military experts, according
to Paris dispatches, express the opih-
ion that the allies are now in better
position than they have yet occupied,
while the Germans, should they fail
in the present battles on the northern
line, would be left in a dangerous posi-
ton and with exhausted troops.
The British army is believed to be
about to engage the German extreme
right unless it already has done So.
the severe fighting of last week and
their losses have been made good with
fresh troops. The statements that the
British, while losing heavily in the
fighting at Cambria, st. Quentin and
the other towns in their retreat last
week-the official figures were 5000
men-had inflicted far greater losses
on the enemy are borne out by dis
patch from Midelkerke. Belgium,
quoting a Red Cross nurse as saying
that the Germans lost $4,000 men at
Cambria alone.
Dispatches from Ostend say that q
German troop train has been blown up
in southern Belgium and that many OF
the troops were killed.
The German defenses in east Prus-
sia have been strengthened. Reports
from st. Petersburg say the Russian
advance has met with reverses. Re
ports from Berlin say the engagement
at Allenstein was one of the greatest
battles of the war, that 120,0 900 Rus
SLAMS were killed and 10000 taken
prisoners. The Russians claim that
their advance has not been checked
and that they are occupying defenseS
around Koenigsberg.
St. Petersburg, by an imperial edict
issued by the czar, according to &
correspondent, has been renamed
Petrograd. The termination burg
has been dropped off, it is assumed
because of it's German origin.
Reports from Vienna say that alons