Imperial Valley press., 1914-09-29
LAST NIGHTS NEWS
OF THE GREAT WAR
-Yotc Calffornia Dr,

again are taking the offensive, both in
the East and West. Dispatches from
the front today indicated that the
Kaiser's army hurled terrific attacks
On the allies lines in the Argonne dis
trict and near the River Aisne, but
the allies are reported to be holding
their own. The French war office
official statement admits the general
situation is unchanged.
News from the east states that the
Kaiser has made extensive prepara-
tions to crush the Russian advance at
] the Austrian border The first line of
forts has been greatly strengthened
and reinforced, and the second line,
commanding the Carpathian passes,
has leen strengthened by additional
redoubts.
Dispatches say the French in their
offensive movement have crossed the
Somme river to the north of Peronne.
For days the center of the fighting
has moved westward along the battle
front. Both sides realize that the
result of the battle along the whole
line depends on the outcome of the
struggle in the district between the
Somme and the Disc river.
The Germans are transferring men
from their left flank, Ogonne and
Woevre, to the crucial region by means
of the railways between Mons and
Valenciennes.
In a dispatch from Ostend a cor
respondent says that the Belgians, an
ticipating a German attack on AlOst,
have sent the inhabitants away. This
town has been regained by the Bel
gians.
While the British press bureau OF
the war department will not admit
that there is any change in the stu
alton, it is claimed here that the Ger
mans have lost positions of import
? ance. .a ee.as
: 1t was rumored in London tonigh
e further delay in series of attacks
5 in full force against the French an
! British designed to avert the imminen
! disaster that threatens in the conclu
= sion of the Battle of the Aisne, will
s victory for the allies.
10 From the River Aisne ON the wes
T to the Argonne region the Germans
left their trenches in a series of de-
5 termined assaults to break down th(
- French resistance by the sheer force
I Of numbers. The onslaught was me-
c by the French in series of counter
G attacks in which the Germans werf
4 defeated and driven back with heavy
o losses.
b The German repulses Saturday ant
e Sunday have given the allies a marked
S advantage. If the Germans are forcet
to retreat from their present strong
] positions on the line of the Sambr;
- and the Meuse it is believed that they
, must retreat for some distance before
D making "A further stand. The end o.
}, the long -drawn-out battle of the Aisn,
r is awaited daily.
Telegraphing from Petrograd, cor
{ respondent says:
D "It appeared last night as if th'
n battle in the west of Russia, for whicl
e. vast German preparations had beer
- made. had begun at last The Ger
b mans are in retreat, shelling the work!
of Ossowctz as they go. They cam,
across the border on the 23d at fou
s roints. The most southerly was elos'
s 20 kalisz. where they occupied th'
district Of Wartha and suffered heav!
- losses as Sieradz thirty-two mile.
/. itast-s0utheast of kalisz.
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