The Raymer enterprise., 1914-10-15
coNQuERoRs OF ANTWERP NOW
SWEEP ACROSS BELGIUM TO
CRUSH DEFENDERS ON
FRENCH FRONTIER.
BIG BATTLE At LILLE
AUSTRIAN TROOPS TURN IN IT..
GER-likE ATTACK AFTER De.
FEATS AND PURSUE MUS.
cOvlTE INVADERS.
estern Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service,
London. Oct. 13.-The Kaiser is
hurting great masses of cavalry
against the line of the allies in the
neighborhood of Lille near the Bel
gian border and critical battle is in
progress at that point 1t is the evi
dent intention OF the Germans to break
through the allies line and prevent a
conjunction of the French and English
with the Belgians and British marines
who escaped from Antwerp.
The thanking movement of the allies
continues and desperate efforts are Do.
Ing made to circle the German left and
join the defeated army at Ostend
Should the Germans succeed in their
attack on Lille 1t will compel the
troops in the extreme west to discon-
tinue this movement and 60 to the
support of the defenders there. Mean
while the German army which cap
tured Antwerp is being hurried across
Belgium to the support of the Kaiser's
lines along the frontier. The number
available because OF the reduction OF
the Belgian metropolis Is estimated at
between 100000 and 100000 men.
1t is asserted that the Germans have
entered Ghent.
The finger of the censor having
twisted the tourniquet on all direct
sources of news from Belgium, just
now perhaps the most potentially i'm
portant scene of the fighting in the
great war. the British people we're
forced to content themselves with the
official communication from Paris, and
even close analysis Of this showed
no marked change In the situation IA
yoring either side.
The British and Belgian troops who
retired from Antwerp before the Ger
man occupation, with the exception of
those who are now interned on Dutch
soil as result Of having crossed the
border, have been swallowed as CON-
pletely as Ii they had been buried un-
der the ruined forts. For military rea-
sons their position and the area of hos.
tilities in Belgium must remain OBJ
scure until the turn OF events bring
them sharply to the fore again, as was
the case when after the fall of Ant
werp the British public learned for the
first time that British forces had as
sisted the garrison.
Optimistic, as always, the British
press, besides contending that Ant
werp is OF no Importance to Germany
as a naval base, finds solace In the
argument that the release of the allied
troops there more than counterbal-
ances the troops which Germany will
send from that point into France.
Colonel Frederick NJ Maude, re-
tifed army officer and author Of sew
eral standard military books, writing
in the Evening Standard. says:
This morning finds the Belgians,
with five-sixths of the British contin-
gent, perfectly ready to renew the
fight, with their supplies and rein
forcements from over sea amply safe
guarded. After deducting the neces.
sary garrison for Antwerp, losses, etc.
ii is exceedingly improbable that the
Germans have more than 10000 men
to follow them, which gives us clear
gain Of 10000 to our left wing, with
out counting the reinforcements which
we shall pick up on the way
The official communication from
Paris indicated that this left wing is
stretching daily and nightly further
west and north, and will soon reach
the coast If the opposing sides con.
tinue throwing out cavalry in an en-
deavor to outflank Or break through.
The allies make no claim to victory
In the afternoon statement, which
opens with the remark that these cav
airy operations continue as far north
and west as Hazebrouck. point hard
ly more than a good days walk from
Calais. When the allies claimed yes
terday that they had driven the Ger.
mans from Aire, London learned for
the first time that the Germans had
made substantial progress west from
Armentieres. which they reached last
week. Presumably the allies still hold
the ground they claim to have re-
gained, but the Germans are throwing
more men westward and are putting
up hard fight. The communication
does not make plain which side holds
the town nearest the coast.
Nowhere along the battle line do the
allies say they have made any prog
gress, except in the center, on the
light bank of the Aisne. below Sois.
song. At two other points, notably