The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-09-17
INVASION Of FRANCE IS BELIEVED BLOCKED
Germans Fall Back.
Russians Defeat
AuStrians.
Claimed Germany Has Withdrawn
Support From Her Ally in East
to Strengthen Own Frontier
and Help Defeat Soldiers
in France.

Paris, Sept. 15.-"The allies have
o a great general victory. The Ger,
mans have been routed everywhere"
May Mean Invasion Failed.
This official communique from the
French war office at Bordeaux. which
heretofore has been coldly conserva,
tive ever to the point of advising that
the public avoid becoming oversan.
quine, was accepted generally in Par,
is as the official announcement that
the German invasion Of France had
failed.
Rout Is Confines.
This is the second week of the Ger
man retreat. Every official communi,
cation tends to confirm the utter rout
of the invaders.
Reports from the front told of the
evacuation by the Germans of Amiens
in the department Of Somme and their
withdrawal from Pont-a-Mousson, 20
miles north of Nancy, which they had
already quit.
Germans Abandon Plan.
This important center on the Mo-
selle river in the department of Meur-
the-et-Moselle lies between Nancy and
Metz. It's evacuation by the Germans
indicates the possible abandonment of
the reported German plan to maintain
this line of communication for supplies
with Metz and Thionville, of Dieben-
hofen as basis. Nomeny, ten miles
east Of Pont-a-Mousson, also was eyac-
uated.
The troops evacuating Amiens have
fallen back towards the east between
scissors and Rheims. The latter place
has been reported abandoned by the
Germans, but no official confirmation
has been received. If it is true, as re-
ported. that the allies have already
occupied Rheims, inestimable damage
will have resulted to the Germans.
What Loss Means.
The loss of this position will mean
the cutting of their communications
by which ammunition and supplies
may be brought from East Belgium
and Luxembourg. The garrison of Ami
n is reported in one dispatch TO have
retired to the northward. In their re-
treat the invaders failed to defend the
Marine to the southeast of Rheims.
The news of the great victory of the
French troops was received by Paris
with the same dignified calm as had
greeted the adverse reports during the
French retreat from Belgian frontier
at the beginning of the operations.
Allies Take Artillery.
Already much of their heavy artil-
lery and equipment has been taken
and is in the hands OF the allies, who
are well fed, fresh, and are pursuing
the enemy day and night, giving him
no time to rest or sleep.
On the French left the allies have
forced the already %retreating Germans
back to a line 62 miles to the rear of
the position they occupied a week ago,
when the German invasion reached it's
high water mark.
Prisoners captured in small squads
and in larger sections, invariably be-
trayed utter exhaustion.
Apparent Aim of Kaiser.
Experts here believe the kaiser has
r~earranged his campaign settlement to
a better series Of furious attacks on
the right wing at and below Verdun.
This is the last chance Germany has of
maintaining IS broken armies in
France. IL the kaiser's plan is success
full and the great fortress of Verdun
is reduced, 1t will have the immediate
result of lessening the pressure of the
French right and will defect the
French center. which naturally will be
called to its support.
German Support Withdrawn.
Petrograd, Sept. 15.-The Austrian
army on the eastern frontier has been
utterly demoralized by the overwhelm-
ing defeats administered by the Rus
slams who have captured to date 120,-
900 Austrians, including 500 officers.
Germany has withdrawn her sup
port from her ally because of her re-
verses in France. The Germans are
again moving their troops from the
east to the west.
With these successes already chron-
icled there now ONE a report that
two of the Austrian armies are sur
rounded and their surrender is immi-
nent. Already from these armies
10000 more prisoners have been
taken, including 100 officers.
Many Captures Reported.
OF the captures included in the gen.
eral total the first Austrian army un-
der General Won Auffenberg consti-
tpted 300 officers. $4,000 soldiers and
i0S guns, while the second Austrian
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