Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-09-30
GERMANS SILENCE
FORTS SOUTH Of
yERDUN ON MEUSE.
Allies Report Gain Against Kai-
Ser'S Right Flank.
5000 TEUToNS ARE SLAIN?
French Reported to Have AnnihiIated
Entire Division of InVaders-Foe
Claims to Have Overwhelmed
Poincare's Troops.

London, Sept. 28.-Terrific fighting
is in progress all along the great 120-
mile front of the battle of the Aisne,
the French and British continuing
their desperate efforts to turn General
Won Kluck's right wing simultaneous
ly with vigorous effort on the part OF
the kaiser's army to break through the
center of the allies lines.
The allies are making progress
against the enemy's right flank,
according to an official statement, and,
although the Paris war Office admits
that the Germans gained some ground,
1t adds that the territory was immedt-
ately regained and the invaders were
repulsed.
On the heights of the Mouse, where
the German attack has been the
strongest, the French are holding their
ground, but the Germans have sue
ceeded in maintaining their positions
on the west bank of the river. Wire
less advices from Berlin declare that
the Germans have silenced the forts
south of Verdun on the Mouse. The
kaiser's general staff claims to have
repulsed with inferior numbers the at
tack on the right flank near the
Somme river
Germans OverwheIm French.
The Germans also claim to have
overwhelmed French division near
Bapaume, which is 80 miles northeast
of Paris and 10 miles southwest of Cam
brai. The fighting around Bapaume is
evidently with the object of the French
forces which have been trying to swing
around the army of General Won Kluck
in an enveloping movement in order
to attack the German line of communi-
cation
The battle line is being pushed far
Their and farther to the northwest OF
its original position. The Germans
say the allies have been favored in
their attacks upon the enemy's line of
communication by the use of railway
lines
Near Reims attacks and counter-at-
tacks have been In progress along the
trenches of the opposing armies, and
in the fighting around st. Quentin the
French and English have not yet sue
ceeded in disIodging the Germans or
In advancing to the railroad line.
French AnnihiIate 5000
An Amsterdam dispatch to LIoyd's
says strong German force is re-
treating from France into Belgium.
The German staff is said to be quar-
tered in the Hal station. South OF
Brussels the Germans have put their
whole line of communication in q
strong state of defense to resist any
attacks.
French troops surrounded and an
initiated the One Hundredth regiment
of German reserves, approximately
5000 men, according to Rome dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph. Tt
did not give the place or date.
Germans Evacuate Towns.
The French embassy here has re-
ceived from the French war office the
following statement:
cat the end of the day our troops
occupied the front of Dompierre.
southwest of Craonne. Ribencourt
and Noyon are put on the defensive
by the Germans. We occupy Berry
au-Bac.
'The enemy has retired at BIamont
with serious losses and has evacuated
Badonvilliers. He was forced from
Lessoux and the woods between Les
SIOUX and Niesenbach
(Blamont, in the department OF
Meurthe-et-Moselle, near the Lorraine
border, was one of the first towns
seized by the Germans in the war
Badonvilliers is a few miles south Of
Blamont. These towns are at the ex-
treme eastern end Of the battle line.
about seventy-five miles southeast Of
Verdun.)
The war Office statement in the
afternoon, however, said that there
was no change of Importance in the
Vosges or Lorraine.