The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-10-03
RIGHT
REPORTED To
HAVE BROKEN
aTis Dispatch Says Won kIuGk's
Men Are on Run
NO CONFIRMATION OF STORY


other Paris Dispatch Says That Gen.
eraI Won KIuck Offered to Surrender
to General Joffre-KaIser Expects
to Break Allies Lines, Says Berlin.
London, Sept. 30.-A Paris dispatch
10 the Exchange Telegraph company
says:
''It is stated here that the German
right has been entirely broken and
Is now being pursued by the allies. All
the automobiles in northern France
have been requisitioned for the pur-
>ose of pursuit.
"Armored motor cars with m1trail-
uses also are being used to pursue
10 enemy"
Earlier a dispatch from Paris said
at Genera Won Kluck had offered
- surrender to General Joffre, the
French mr'ander-in-chief, If the Ger.
mans were allowed to retire to Ger
many. He offered to guarantee that
aope of the Germans would again take
up arms during the war. According
to this report General Joffre declined
to accede to these terms.
Still another report was that the
Germans have been surrounded in the
Somme districts and that the allies
danking movement was being extend
cd further east. The German right
wing, according to this dispatch, was
retreating from its fortified position
between the Aisne and the Somme
rivers. 1t is added that it was believed
the German center army is now in
grave danger.
There is no confirmation of any of
these reports from official sources; in
fact they are contradicted by the of.
hcial reports.
fench left front, all of which were
4pulsed, marked the seventeenth day
] the battle.
When the communique was given
IT In Paris the French were still hold
Ng their positions, while on the right
center they had made progress in the
assault of the German positions on
the heights or the MeuSe.
The French line passes through the
region of Pont-a-Mousson, which has
already been the scene of numerous
engagements, and the region of st.
Mihiel, along the heights to the north
Of Spada and then through portion
Of the heights of the Meuse, where
the Germans have held strongly forti-
6ed points to the southeast of Verdun.
The general front of battle between
Verdun and Rheims is indicated by a
line passing through Varennes north
Of Souain and along the old Roman
road which runs into Rheims.
From Rheims the line passes west
of Berry y-au-B Bac, then along the right
bank Of the Aisne into the region OF
Scissors. 1t runs into the first plateau
on the right bank of the Aisne between
scissors and the forest of L'Agile and
reaches the town of Ribecourt on thu
Disc about midway between Com
pegne and Noyon.
From here the battle front is almost
directly north passing Lassigny, Roye,
Chaulnes, across the Somme and be-
tween the towns of Albert and Com
bles.
1t is evident that along this part OF
he line the two forces are In close
entact. Ribecourt is occupied by the
bench. Lassigny, five miles to the
birth, is in the hands of the Germans,
Shile Roye, five miles further north
}ard, is occupied by the French, and
shaulnes, bout the same distance
EIrther on. is occupied by the Ge4-
mans.
The Temps summarizes the position
on the Aisne as follows:
1--WE have reached the eighteenth
day of the battle and Mukden's record
has been broken. The Germans have
not yet quit the position which they
are bound to quit, having nowhere OBJ
tanned an advantage which would al
fortune.
1.-THE morale of the allies is excel.
lent and the Germans, especially the
leaders, must have known this. A
proof that they had observed it is the
hasty preparations of their lines OF
resistance on the Sambre and also
further north.
"a prolongation of the battle and
heavy losses by the enemy will deprive
him OF the means of making an equal
ly strong resistance on these lines.
"Our sacrifices have been cruel, bu.
they were necessary. After this out
rageous war France will take up agar
her former grand situation on Ger.
many's ruins"
Berlin (via Wireless Through Say.
nls, L. I), Sept. 30.-Reports re-
sived here from the front say the
Ugh German military officials in
harge of the campaign in France pre-
hct the Germans will break through
he allied lines within the next week.
The resistance is said to be slowly
SlackeninR at several pOints