Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-09-19
ALLIES ARE PUSHING THEIR AID
VANTAGE AND DOING THEIR
UTMOST TO TURN RETREAT
INTO RIOT.
RUSSIANS CROSS SAN RIVER
Thousands of Prisoners Have Been
Taken by Conteadins Armies. and
Much Spells and Munitions Have
Been Abandoned by RetreatinS
Forces.
summary Of War News to Date.


The reoccupation of Amiens by the
French and the preparations by the
Germans on the River Aisne to make
a stand against the allies are the chief
announcements contained in the lat
est statement issued by the French
government Apparently the Ger
mans also are preparing 70 resist on
the heights to the north and north
west Of Rheims.
Petrograd reports that the Russian
troops are crossing the San river and
that the Russian army, in requesting
a desperate attack by the Austrians,
captured many prisoners
The British official press bureau de-
MES the reports that Russian troops
have landed in Belgium and declares
also that there is no truth whatever
in the rumors that Russian soldiers
have landed in, or passed through
Great Britain on their way to France
and Belgium.
& Copenhagen dispatch says ad-
vices from Berlin admit that the chief
Austrian army has suffered an abso-
lutte defeat at the hands of the Rus
slams
Among the German prisoners arriv-
ing in the neighborhood OF Paris are
a general and his entire staff.
Pekin reports that $4,000 japanese
have been landed on the Shan Tung
peninsula and that Japanese troops
are passing toward Ping Tu, about
forty miles north of Kiauchau, the
German protectorate in China.
1t is officially announced in Paris
that the Germans are making a stand
on the Aisne.
The statement is as follows
ION our left wing we have every
where caught up with the rear guards
and even the main body of the enemy.
"Our troops have re-entered Amiens,
abandoned by the German forces.
"The enemy appears to be making
stand on a prepared front along
the River Aisne.
ION the center. similarly. it would
seem as If the enemy intends TO re-
sist on the heights to the northwest
and 20 the north of Rheims. In the
region between Argonne and the
Meuse they continue TO retire.
ION our right wing, in the Woeyre
district. we have succeeded in reliev-
ing the fort OF Troyon, which has
been attacked time and time again
during the last few days. (TrOyon is
twelve miles southeast of Nerdun.)
In Lorraine our pursuing detach-
ments are keeping. as everywhere
else. in touch with the Germans.
The morale and sanitary condition
Of our armies continue excellent"
From Berlin come brief reports.
General Won Stein has issued a state
ment describing meagerly operations
east of Paris and telling of heavy
losses on both sides. The statement
adds that the army commanded by
Grown Prince Frederick William has
been bombarding with heavy artillery
the forts south of Verdun since We'd
nesday.
A German fleet, the flagship of
which carries the flas of Prince Henry
OF Prussia. has been seen cruising
south OF the Aland islands in the Gulf
Of Bothnia. The fleet includes seven
dreadnaaghts.
Servians troops have crossed the
Save river. and an official statement
issued at Nish describes large Aus.
TRAN losses in the early fighting
Servia apparently is preparing TO un-
dertake further active offensive op
erations.
The Russians claim to have taken
Tomaszow. Russian Poland, and re
port that they have repulsed the Ger
mans near Chorzele and Myszinec
Reports from East Prussia say that
the Russian Twenty-second Army
Corps has been defeated by the Ger
mans at Lyck.