Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-10
BATTLE IS RAGING
ON FRENCH SOIL
GENERAL Won kLuck, WITH
HEAVY RElMFoRcEMENTs, HAS
TAKEN OFFENSIVE.
French Army Fighting With Great
Dash and Bravery and Claim to
Have Retaken GROUND Yielded
in the Roye District.

Heavy losses following fierce figh
ing marked the twenty-sixth day {
the battle raging ON French soil b.
tween the allied forces ana the Gel
man invaders. Meager fetal RI
ports from the front received Thurs
day morning indicate the Frencl
forces are moving northward but ar
gaining little to the east which woult
be essential to the outflanking of thu
German right wing.
General Won Kluck, with heavy rein
forcements, has taken a decided often
sive.
The British official bureau reports
that the French army is fighting with
The greatest dash and bravery. The
French officials report an advance at
points on the center and the retaking
of ground previously yielded in the
koye district.
Masses OF German cavalry have
been recently near Lille and behind
them German forces moving on a line
between Tourcoing and Armentieres
This important unit of the German
army, which II was thought mighs
Berve to break the French line, the
French report. has been held In check,
and to the ncrth of Lille has been
driven back.
The northward movement OF the
French line brings it close to the Bel
gfan frontier and coincidentally there
nave been engagements between the
Belgians and the Germans In the en-
virons Of Ypres, twenty miles south
OF Ostend and at Audenarde, fifteen
miles southwest of Client.
The Canadian forces are about to
be landed In England, and will be
sent to an inland training camp.
AS to the situation as between the
Russians and Germans and Austrians,
. frank statement from Berlin admits
that the German forces on the from
tier of East Prussia have assumed a
defensive movement and that they
abandoned the bombardment of Osso-
wetz, fortress in Russian Poland.
This statement adds that the fighting
at Augustowo and In Suwalki was of
most sanctuary nature. German
machine guns finally turned the battle
In favor of the Germans, but the
slaughter of the German artillerymen
was terrific.
The forty-thlrd German casualty
list issued at Berlin contains 10000
names in dead, wounded and missing.
Berlin also reports that the fighting
on the German right wing in France
has been successful and that in the as
sault on Antwerp two more forts have
fallen into German hands. The Bel
gian government has been removed
from Antwerp to Ostend, with many
thousands Of refugees The lombard
ment of Antwerp, II is reported, al
ready had begun, following a notifica-
lion from the commander Of the Ger
nan troops that noncombatants and
l,A7's desiring to do so should with
saw from the city.
resident Poincare, accompanied
~ Premier Viviani and the minister
If war, M. Millerand, has returned to
Paris after a visit to the battle
ront
A British submarine has made an
'ther raid close to the German base
n the North sea and has torpedoed a
German torpedo boat destroyer.
The Japanese have occupied the
sland of zap, of the Caroline group,
n the Pacific and have notified the
tate department at Washington that
he occupation is temporary and sole
= for military purposes.