The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-20
FRENCH REOCCUPy
TOWN OF ARMENT|ERS
And Check German Army on
Banks of the River User.
ENDING BATTLE OF WEEK
Allies Achieve Important Successes
in Fight for Dunkirk and
Calais.

Calais.
London, Oct. 1S.-Two important
successes in the battle of Dunkirk
and Calais, for the possession of
which the Germans are striving, are
credited to the allies in the official
communication issued in Paris this
afternoon.
The French are said to have reoc-
cupied Armentiers, an important
railway junction on the Belgian
frontier northwest of Lille, and to
have repulsed an attempt of the
Germans to cross the River User.
which flows through that little
corner Of West Flanders, which is all
of Belgium that remains in Belgian
hands. That would mean check to
the German attempt to reach Dun
kirk by the coast route. The French
also are said to have pushed back
still farther the German army.
which is advancing along the Bel
gian frontier to the coast
ENDED BATTLE OF WEEK.
The battle, which eliminated i'm
Armentiers, again coming under
French influence, lasted for week.
The fighting was hard and continu-
GUS. The town was seized by the Ger
mans last week owing to its impor-
tance as railway centre. Besides
1t is the road to Lille, which the
Germans still hold, despite reports
to the contrary The battle opened
with cavalry fighting, which gradu-
ally developed into a general battle,
which dictates that the French are
advancing in force toward Lille.
The allies also have advanced
north OF Labassee Canal, between
that line and Arras, and at certain
points between Arras and the Oise.
This latter is rather long front.
but the claims in the French official
communication are taken here to
mean that the German movement
westward has been checked.
GERMAN REINFORCEMENT
The Germans, however, are bring
ing up reinforcements, seemingly
determined to. resume the offensive
either toward Calais at some other
point of the long front.
Berlin says ii is not known where
these new troops are going, and it is
thought here that it probably will
be several days before the Germans
make their presence felt.
In the centre 1t the Vosges the sit
uation is stationary.
The Germans have established
civil administration in the greater
part ofBelgium, and are said to have
demanded war levies from Ostend
being called upon to pay $1,000, 900
and Blenkenberghe to supply GER
tain provisions.
The arrival in London of thou
sands of Belgians has stirred up
populations in the poorer districts of
the city against the Germans.
REPORTS CONFLICT.
Again the Russians and the Aus
trians fatty contradict one another
as to progress of events in the east.
The Austrians claim the operations
are progressing favorably for them
while an official Petrograd report to-
night saps attempts by the Austrians
to cross the River San failed, and
that In fighting south OF Prezemysl
they captured fifteen Austrian
officers and 1000 men.
1t would appear from reports of
correspondents at Petrograd that
the Germans made repeated "a
tempts to cross the Vistula at Jose
fow, but were driven back, with
heavy casualties.
British and French fleets and the
Montenegrin army are attacking
Cattaro, the fortified seaport OF
Austria in Almatia, the first sortie
from which the Montenegrins claim
to have repulsed.
Throughout their sphere of op-
erations, Servia reports say, the
Servians are sweeping everything
before them. 1t is not believed here,
however. that very serious fighting
mas been taking place there recently.
as weather and road conditions
must have been against it.
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