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| London, Sept. 1.-The allies left
has again retreated to avoid the con-
tinued German attempt to envelop the
| AnglO-French line from that quarter,
according to advices received here
from Paris. The French embassy
gave out this statement:
The Anglo-French army corps have
had to give ground, but nowhere have
| they been broken through"
A Paris correspondent quotes the
/ driver of one of the automobiles Of
| the British general staff, who has re-
! turned to Paris from the front, as say
| ing that the German advance has been
well checked to the north of Com
! riegne and the Germans have asked
ICr an armistice to bury their dead
Compiegne is only forty miles north
west o. Paris.
In the north c"ct of France the
French have checked The Germans III
the district Of kc.Lel, twenty miles
sol thWcGt Of SnAan the scene of the
or Ishing Of French hopes forty-four
years ago.
All Reservists Called Out.
Dispatches from Paris announce
that the war Office has issued a com
munication announcing that the min
lister of wer has decided to call out all
/ In Erapao ubo ba6 NOT
ready joined the cOlors. The British
army is believed to be about to engage
the German extreme right unless il
has already done so. The British
! troops are rested after the severe
fighting of last week, and their losses
/ have been made good with fresh
! troops. The statements that the Brit
/ ish, while losing heavily in their re
! treat last weeH-the official figures
/ were 5000 men-had inflicted far
/ greater losses On the enemy, are
borne out by a dispatch quoting a Red
! Cross nurse as saying that the Ger
mans lost $4,000 men at Cambria
alone.
Severe Fighting Reported.
According to the French war office
report the withdrawal of the lett wing
| from position WIS made to avoid an
unfavorable engagement which might
have been decisive. The center and
! right, according to official reports, are
holding out firmly. There is severe
/ fighting along the line from Rheims to
LaFere and there have been a number
of engagements along the Lorraine
border and in the VoSgeS. A dispatch
from st. Petersburg says that the Ger
man defenses in East Prussia have
been strengthened. 1t also reports
that the Russian advance has met with
reverses. Reports from Berlin say
that the engagement at AllenStein
was che of the greatest battles of the
war, that 10000 Russians were killed
| and 10000 taken prisoners. The Rus
SLAMS claim that their advance has not
been checked and that they are occu-
plying defenses around KOenigsburg.
St Petersburg, by an imperial edict
issued by the car has been renamed
Petrograd. The termination burg has
/ been dropped off, it is assumed, be-
cause of its German origin.
Austrian Reverses Reported.
Reports from Vienna say that along
the Russian, Prussian and Austrian
border 100000 men are engaged and
that the battle line extends for 400
miles. The Austrian flanking move
ment toward Lublin is reported to
have been a failure, entailing consid-
cradle less and withdrawal from Rus
| sian Poland. Lemberg is invested by
the Russians, their lines half encir-
cling the city. Austria is recalling
| troops from France and also is bring
ing back more of the soldiers who
were sent to the Drina and Danube
against the Servians
Washington has been advised
| through London that a declaration of
war by Turkey is expected and that
! German officers have gone to Constan-
| tinople to take charge of the sultap's
forts. The Turkish ambassador in
| London, however, emphatically reiter
ates Turkeys determination not to in
/ terfere in the present European war.
The Turkish government, according TO
Rome dispatch, is mobiliZing an
army of 100000 and seventy-two high
German officers have been incorporat-
! ed in the army.