The Sentinel=record., 1914-10-08
GERMANS PRUTECT ARMIES
BY Falling Back on the Fortified Posi-
tions Within Their own Territory
and Await Attack Of Cars Advanc.
ing Hosts.

While the world awaits news of the
great battle in which the British and
/ French allied forces and the Germans
/ in Northern France have engaged for
bwenty-siX days, meager official re-
ports from the front vouchsafe little
intormatlo not the actual operations.
Today it is a small piec eof ground
lost, and tomorrow the same ground
has been regained. Meanwhile tle
French forces are moving nOrthward
ibut are gaining little to the east.
which would be essential to the out
thanking of the German right win..
AS a matter of fact, General Won
| Nluck, in command of that section CT
the German army with heavy rein.
tforcements which have reached lin
in the past week has taken a decided
| offensive and day by day The an
nouncement is made by the French
war office that the violent battle
continues"
The British official bureau reports
that the French army is fighting with
the greatest dash and bravery but Is
silent on what the British are doing.
The French officials report an ad-
vance on certain points on the center
and the retaktng of the ground pre-
viously yielded in the Roye district.
Masses of German cavalry have
been recently seen near Lille and be
hind them German forces moving in
line between Tourcoing and Almen,
there's. This important unit of the
German army, which it was thoU2h,
might serve to break the French line,
the French report, has been held in
check and to the north of Lille has
been driven back. On two wings, 1,
is added, the German attacks have
been repulsed.
The nortaward movement Of the
French line brings it close to the
Belgian frontier and coincidentaliy
there have been engagements be-
tween the Belgians and the Germans
in the environs of Ypres, 90 miles
south of Ostend and at Audenarde,
Is miles southwest of Ghent.
While the East Indian troops hav-
reached France and may already have
reinforced Field Marshal French's
army operating in the neigh5o, hcod
of Soissons, the whereabouts Of the
Canadians, numbering about $4,000,
has been a matter of conjecture. It
is now announced that they are about
to be landed in ENGLAND and will be
sent to an inland training camp.
The situation, as between the Rus
SLAMS and Germans and Austrians. is
somewhat problematiCal, but a very
frank statement from Berlin admits
that the German forces on the from
tier Of East Prussia have assumed a
strategical defensive movement and
that they abandoned their bomharo,
ment Of Ossowetz, a fort in Russian
Poland.
The statement adds that the fight
ing at Augustowo and in Suwalh
was of most sanguinary nature and
that while the German machine guns
finally turned the scale Of battle in
of the German artinerymen was ter
rifle. The movements of the German
, troops were greatly hampered by the
physical condition of the country
The forty-third German casualty list
issued at Berlin contains 10.600
names in dead, wounded and missing.
Berlin also reports that the fightins
on the German right wing in France
has been successful and that in the
assault on Antwerp two more forts
have fallen into German hands.
The Belgian government has beSn
removed from Antwerp to Ostend,
several of the ministers and many
thousands of refugees having reached
there The bombardment of Antwerp
it is reported, already has begun, fol-