The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-27
Allies Advance Slightly Be.
tween River Disc and
Scissors.
INVADERS MAKE NO
=, ATTEMPT TO ATTACK
On Centre, Between Rheims and
Verdun, Situation Is
Unchanged.
GERMANS CROSS RIVER srEUsE
Effective Teuton Forces Seem ia
Have Been Reduced on Right
Wing.

PARIS. September 26.-Hoavy night
Ing is going on mt both tho cast and
west wings Of tho battle between tho
allies and Germans In France, accord
ing to tho official announcement issued
this afternoon by the French War De-
partnent.
Tho following Is the text OF the COM
first, on our loft wing. between
the Sommo and the Oise, tho battle con-
tinues very violently. between tho
River Disc and SCISSORS our troops havo
advanced slightly. The enemy has not
attempted attack. Between Soissons
and Rheims there has been no import
ant change In the situation.
Second on tho centre between
Rheims and Verdun the situation also
the enemy has boon able to cross tho
River Mouse III the vicinity of ST.
Mihiel, but the offensive taken by our
troops already has. to large extent,
thrown him back upon the river.
ITO the south OF tho Wocvrc region
our attacks have not ceased to progress
The Fourteenth German Army Corps
has fallen back, after having suffered
great losses.
Third. on our right wing Tin Lor-
raine and in the VosSes) the effective
German forces seem To have been re-
duced. Three detachments which had
at certain points driven back our adj
vance posts have been repulsed by tho
entrance into action of our reserves.
I'm the Russian zone the Russians
have captured Rzeszow, on the rail-
road leading to Cracow, and have also
taken two fortified positions to Tho
north and south OF Przenysl.
I'm Poland the Germans appear to
have fortified themselves to the north
OF kalisz."
NO DECISIVE SUCCESSES
TO RECORD IN ARENA OFF WAR.
| LONDON, September 2G.-Latest OIL
| cial announcements at Berlin, Paris and
| London agree In general tenor and in
dictate that there are no decisive sue
| cesses to record In the western arena
! of the war Weather conditions have
| SOW improved along tho west wing ot
the allies. and. according to Paris, Il
battle OF extraordinary violence is rag
Ing In that locality.
Reports continue to come in to Lon
don OF trouble between Bavarian and
Prussian troops in Brussels, and it is
said the German military authorities
in tho Belgian capital have ordered all
Bavariansi In Belgium TO the scene OF
operations In France. These reports.
however, are officially denied in Brus-
sells.
Dispatches from Petrograd declare
that tho Austrian civil government OF
Cracow has been taken over by the
u
are said to DO in flight The city soon
will cease Its normal functions. and be
transformed into II great fortified base.
According to these same sources, tho
Germans have thrown three army corps
into the Cracow district, in preparation
for the imminent Russian attack.
The Russian capital has been advised
also that all traffic has stopped between
Berlin and the Baltic ports of Danzig,
Elbing and Stettin.
ANOTHER DEMAND FOR
SURRENDER OH BT;LGRADI;,
Another demand has been made by
Austria for surrender of long suffering
Belgrade. This was answered by the
Smelling of Austrian monitors In tho
river. Meantime the Balkan allies con-
sinue their attack on Sarajevo. the cap
ital OF Bosnia.
The British military experts who last
week predicted that Germany would
maintain the defense in France only
while transferring troops to the eastern
arena OF war, have not, generally
speaking, been borno out. Although
the position of the invaders OF France
at the centre liz suited for such tactics
and seige warfare has prevailed for
days-thc lighting on the ends contra
diets them.
Correspondents teleSraphing to-day
from Amsterdam and dating their dis
patches from France, an eXpedicnt re-
sulting from the expulsion OF the writ
ers from anywhere near the scene OF
operations, again dwelt on tho excel
lent character of the German cntrench-
ments. 1t seems that in many places
along the Aisnc battle front. stone
quarries dot the hillsides. Il majority
Of which have been in German hands
Tor years. 1t would appear that during
several weeks before the opening OF
hostflities. thousands of tons OF stono
were cout from these uuarries, later to
no ha -t,.,t,, l. g.
Germans. OF barriers against which the
heaviest artillery has little effect
GREAT PREPARATIONS
MADE nv GERMANS
An EnGlishman. writing from tho
Mauheuge district, reveals some of tho
remarkable preparations wh:cA hn
alleges were made by the Germans for
the Present war This man. in his lot
ter, says:
TIE Germans Installed, a long t;mo
before the war. certain PORTIONS OF some
CT their big forty two- centimctcr guns
Oh farm. un6or the prctext fhas they
were boring for water. They put In
foundations OF concrete. so that every
thing was ready. Az their guns had q
logger range than those of the Maui
beuEc forts. X wa} not difficult for
them to conquer
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle confirms the foregoing
statement, and adds that all the Ger
man heavy artillery was placed on con-
crete platforms selected some years ago
as fo,Inda lions for factories never to be
completed.
Delayed reports giving Intimate de-
tails OF the occupation Of Alniens and
CompicGnc, from which cities the Ger
mans subsequently were driven, throw
further light OH what III England Ia
characterized as German advance pres
parations for invasion. According to