The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-08
FURTHER ADVANCE
. ON CENTRE is MADE
AT SOME POINTS
North of the Disc and at
Lens There Is Hard
Fighting.
SATISFACTORY REPORTS
FROM ALL PARTS OF LINE
Between Chaulnes and Roye Pre-
viously Ceded Territory
Is Retaken. ,
GERMANS ALSO PUSH FORWARD
Forces Attacking Antwerp Over
come Considerable Re-
sistance.
GERMANS ALSO PUSH FORWARD
Decided Offensive
Taken by Germans

While the world awaits news OF
the grent battle In which the BritislS
and French niIicd forces and the
engaged for twenty-six days, menEre
official reports from the front
vouchsafc little, information OF the
actual operations. gtsr;tS
To-day II is a small piece OF
ground lost aud tomorrow the sume
ground has been reEnined. Mean
while the French forces arc moving
to the east, which would he essen
tfal to the outnnnkinE of the Ger-4
man right wing.
As n matter OF fact. General Won
OF the German army with heavy
reinforcements Witch have reached
him In the past week. hns taken a
the announcement ia made by; the &
French War Omce that the "ytolentS
battle continues"
that the French army IN hghting
with the greatest dash nnd BRAVERY
but In silent on what the British urci
doing. The French officials report
an advance on certain points ON the !
centre and the retaking of ground
pEeyiousiy yielded In the Roye dis-
:, g srnnn cayalry have been recent
ly.sseenS ne:a r. Iiilc,san .-bsata,Irt rthcsla-
German n fHrcSB moving ON q n line
bstwesn TolrouinY and dArmentieres.
Important unlkf OF the Germdn.t
nrmy which 1t WINS thought might
serve to brenfS the French line, the
Frenchl report snyn, Inns hcen held In y
check, and to the north of Lille has
tsS added, the German attacks have
been repulsed.
The northvard movement of the
Hrsneii lines brings it close to the
BelEtan frontier, and coincfdentaIly
there have been enEa&ements be-
tween the BclEians and the Germans
in the cnyirons of Ypres, twenty
miles south OF Ostcnd. and MT Au-
dcnnrds, fifteen miles southwest of
Ghent. N
While the East Indian troops have
reached France md already may
have reinforced Field NIurshnI
French's army. operating In tho
netEhhorhood of Soissons, the where
nbouts of the Canadians, numbering
conjecture. 1t is now announced
TINT they are about to he landed In
England and will be sent to nm ms
land training camp.
The Mutation ms between the Rus
SLAMS mud Germans and AustrInns
liz somewhat problemntical. but n
very frank stntement from berlin ;
admits that the German forces ON
the frontier of East Prussia have
assumed strntcgical defensive
movement, and that they abandoned
tue bomhnrdnent of Ossowetx, q
fortress In Russian Poland. s+
The FOrty-Third Germnn casualty
list ISSUED mt Berlin contains 10000
names I'm dead wounded and miss.f;
ing. -
Berlin also reports that the fgi,t--
Ing ON the German right wing in
France has been successfully, and that
In the assault on Antwerp two
more forts have fallen into German
hands.
The belgian government has been
removed from Antwerp to Ostend
several of the ministers and many
thousands of refugees having
reached there. The ombnrdmcnt OF
Antwerp IL In reported already Inns
begun, following n notification from
the conmandcr Of the German troops
that noncOmbntants and others de-
sirinS to do NO should withdraw.
from the city. iF..s7
President Poincare, accompanied
by Premier Viviani and the Minister
of War NJ. Miilernnd has returned
to Paris, after n visit to the battle
front. Ii han been reported that the +
French government would return
soon TO Pnris from bordeaux.