Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-02
oERMANs THROWING IMMENSE
ARMY AoAlNsT ALLIES IN EF.
FORT 10 Break LINES.
CENTER OF. ACTIVITIES ON
MAIN ROAD TO PARIS
Allies Fishtins desperately 70 Hold Pe-
sitisns Until Invading Army Becomes
Completely Exhausted Gsrmany's
Esesrt Daseribsd ~ supsrhurnan -
Antwerp Expects bembardmsnt.

western France has momontarily been
saised. 1t ows the allies battling
desperately TO prevent the success of
the German assaults on the upper Oise.
less than nifty miles from Paris.
On the eastern war stage Russia
frankly confesses to disaster to two
army corps with the loss Of three gen.
erals. Elsewhere the Russian army
seems to have triumphed.
Galicia has been successfully invad-
ed at Lemberg and will soon be evac-
uated, according to reports from the
ST. Petersburg war office.
Il this - true the Austrian menace
TO 1ussian Poland will be ended and
the Russian forces can begin to con-
verge TOR the march on Berlin. the
Russian ohfNcdvA in North Galicia ap-
,arently being KocniEshutte. whence
they can march on Berlin via Breslau.
Fish& Per Road to Paris.
On the upper Disc the British are
hghtins desperately to prevent the
Germans from obtaining ono Of the
most direct routes to Paris. The bat
ls Ia1ed 9nndAy and Nonday and BY
sh1sppe4Gnt sof nsnbers the Germans
secured sliSht advance
Military experts point out that from
the present position on the upper Disc
river the German advance will become
increasingly difficult owing to the nat
ural features Of the country a. we'll
as the artificial defenses that will have
to be encountered.
1t IL evident that all along the west
ern line the allies arc playing for time
in the hope that the German assault
will become exhausted.
German efort Supsrhuman.
The Times correspondent at Dieppe.
France. has telsaraphed his paper az
.oll0ws:
Tn the main northern theater Of war
the German advance appears to con-
tinue without slackening its pace.
TT must be indeed an over r-wearied
army that the Germans are bringing
toward the forts Of Paris. They have
made IN. effort which nearly deserved
TO be called supsrhuman. Nothing like
1t was ever before seen in war. Yet.
we may be sure, they have spent them
selves In VAIN
Asain Bernhard Malines.
a dlspatch from Antwerp to Reuters )
Telegram Company conveyes the fol-
lowing official announcement:
The Germans are again bombarding
Malines aiming at the steeple of the
cathedral, which IL a prominent land
mark.
Certain movements Of the German
troops n the direction Of Aesche. in
the province Of Brabant. six miles
northwest Of Brussels, gave rise to the
templating q movement toward Ter
monde. sixteen miles east OF Ghent
however, the Belgian troops have been
Y OF preserving control Of Vaasland. The
enemy advanced from Brussels to
Assche yesterday but could not pene-
trate further north.
.Ninove and Alost, sixteen and If
teen miles respectively from Ghent in
different directions have been occupied
by the Germans.
I'm the provinces Of Antwerp and
Limburg the situation Is unchanged"
GsensaHo Active Near Antwerp.
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Rotterdam says:
From TeTneuson, on the Dutch
frontier. near Antwerp, reports come
of . general movement Of German
troops eastward. Exhausted men are
being replaced In all directions by re-
serves. The movement IL also believed
to be connected with the arrival OF
the Landaturm. reservists who are to
occupy the whole Of the Belgian ter
ritory.
The movement Of trains for civilian
purposes south Of Client has again
ceased.
Preparations are being made at
Antwerp for IN immediate lombard
mont
Airship Dress eembs On Antwerp.
A dispatch to Reuters from Antwerp
1 says that ZSppelin airship passing
over that city this morning dropped
several bombs.
IN addition 70 those striking tho
houses, destroying ten. hve bombs tore
great holes in field at the rear OF the
buildings. The forts fired on the air
ship and it il believed she was hit. The
Zerpelin rstired IN a sontherly direction
ana dropped elght or nine bombs ct
ono time. seeminsly to facilitate heE
own escape. ~ Il
Allies Lines otiil unbesksn.
Washington, Sept. IA dispatch
dated lask nioht from Paris, to the