New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-10-14
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SIEGE o.
p RZ YSl
Russians ATeFoTCed
to Retire.
DRAWING up new LINE
Lid Is CIamped Tight on All
News From Belgium.
DRAWING up new LINE.

quet on all sources of news from Bel
GUM, just now perhaps the most pc.
tentially important scene of the fight.
ing in the great war, the British PEG.
pie were forced to content themselves
with the official communication from
Paris and even a close analysis
showed no marked changes in the sit
uation favoring either side.
From the East came tidings of a
decided reversal in form, the dis,
patches, both from Vienna and Petro.
grad, indicating that the Austrian
army at Przemysl, so often reported
surrounded, hopelessly outclassed and
on the verge of surrender, have turned
on the Russians, with the aid of rein
forcements, and forced them to re.
treat.
The first news of this claim emanat.
ed from the Austrian capital. It was
followed later by what purports to be
a Petrograd admission that the Rus
slams had abandoned the siege of
Przemysl for strategical reasons, with
the object of drawing up a new line
against the Austro- German army in
other points in Galicia
Presages Important News.
Whatever may be the truth of the
situation the Russians have been
claiming an unbroken series of vic.
tories in their sweep throug h Galicia
and the coincidence of the dispatches
supplemented as they were by more
circumstantial accounts from Vienna
of vigorous Austro-German offensive
seemed to presage important news.
The British and Belgian troops who
retired from Antwerp before the Ger
man occupation, with the exception
of those who now are interned on
Dutch soil as result of having crossed
the border, have been swallowed uI
as completely as if they had been
buried under the ruined forts.
For military reasons their positions
and the area of. hostilities in Belgium
must remain obscure until the turn OF
events brings them sharply to the fore
again, as was the case when, after the
fall of Antwerp, the British public
learned for the first time that British
forces had assisted the garrison.
Optimistic as always the British
press, besides .contending that Ant
werp is of no Importance to Germany
as naval base, finds solace in the
argument that the release of the al
lied troops there more than counter
balances the troops which Germany
will send from that point into France
Allies Lengthen Left Wing.
The official communication from
Paris indicated that the allies left
wing is stretching daily and nightly
farther west and north and soon viii
reach the coast if the opposing sides
continue throwing out cavalry in ar
endeavor to outfank or break through
The allies make no claim to victory
in the statement, which opens with
the remark that these cavalry opera
tons continue as far north and west
as Hazebrouck, a point hardly more
than a good days walk from Calais
| When the allies reported that they
had driven the Germans from Aire
London learned for the first time thai
the Germans had made substantial
progress west from Armentieres
which they reached last week. Pre-
sumably the allies still hold the
ground they say they have regained
but the Germans are throwing more
men westward and are putting up {
hard fight. The communication does
not make plain which side holds the
town nearest the coast.
| Nowhere along the battle line de
the allies say they have made any
progress except in the center, on the
right bank of the Aisne below Sois
sons. At two other points. notably
between Oisse and Arras and on the
right in the Vosges, it is stated, TIT
German attacks have been repulsed.
| Recruiting throughout Great Brit
ain, particularly in London, has beer
! booming, it is stated, since the fal
| of Antwerp, the talk of the Germans
advancing from there to Ostend hav
| ing seemingly brought the war close
home in the minds Ct the people.
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