The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-23
GERMANS REPORTED
HALTED BY ALLIES;
DUNK|RK MENACED
Teutons Believed to Be Near
French Town.
CRUISER FIRES ON INVADERS
Torpedo Boats Believed to Have En-
gagged Teutons in Canals-Corre-
spondent Says Ostend Is Be-
ing Evacuated.


indication of big German movement
against Dunkirk- Three wagonloads
OF German wounded have been seen
returning from the front The guns
heard at sea are believed to have
been those Of a cruiser firing on the
Germans ON land Severe fighting is
taking place near Newport Heavy
firing has been heard at Dunkirk
since eight o'clock in the morning.
II Is suggested that torpedo boats or
gnnboats are being used in the canals
The report Is current in northwestern
France that the Germans are retiring
from Ostend and its neighborhood-
II Is added that the town was not oc-
cuIied IN great force 1t Is impossible
to obtain yerification OF the report,
which however, was from a reliable
SOURCE
From Dunkirk to Belfort the great
battle upon which hangs the fate OF
the Germans second drive on Paris
ragged during the day with undimin-
ished fury
On the French left the allies are
Distance of ten miles, and have as
sumed new positions in front OF
Givenchy and Fromelfes- And they
have retAken Armentieres, one of the
most important cities near the Bel
gian border, and railroad center of
great strategic value
To the north of Arras the French
and British troops succeeded IN break
ing through the German Gordon estab-
nshed there for the purpose of con-
trolling the lines of railway stretching
To the east, and SO far have been able
TO hold ths ground thus gained Also
between Arras and the River Disc the
allied lines had been advanced per
ceptib1y
Beiptans Repulsc Gernans-
Recognition of the active cooper
ton of the Belgia,s In the fighting
on the border was contained for the
first time In official dispatches when
their success i'm repulsing repeated
attacks directed by the Germans
against the crossings OF the River
User was recorded
The Geruranst 10 the north and again
to the east OF Saint Die were repulsed
py the French with severe losses TO
the enemy
The Germans are reported To have
~. L.. 40 tt,.s
in Lorraine and To the east, where
the army of the crown prince is In
an extremely difficult position.
Biggest Battle In Now On.
The most gigantic engagement OF
the war is now being fought just
across the border In western Belgium.
The Importance of the great events
now transpiring In this field and OH
and beyond the FrancoBe)gian Dor
der cannot be exaggerated
The German endeavor is TO cut their
way through the steel barrier OF the
allies 10 sweep down upon Dunkirk
and even to Calais
German Official Statement.
london Oct 19.-The following Of
fetal press bulletin issued at Berlin
has been received by wireless:
The main headquarters OF the army
reports under date of October Il that
immense quantities of war material
were captured at Bruges and Ostend,
including many ribes with ammunition
and 200 locomotives quite ready for
use.
In the French theater OF war no ac-
tual successes can be reported"
An index of the severity of the en-
gagements fought in the region of
Arras is the report published by the
France du Nord that between twelve
and fifteen thousand Germans were
lost when surrounded in the marsh
land in the immediate vicinity OF
Arras-
MuehIhausen and Altkirch Retaken.
The French have recaptured Muehl-
hansen and Altkirch. according TO a
dispatch from Basel. Switzerland,
transmitted TO the Exchange Tele-
graph company by its cores pendent
in Rome