The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-06
BOTH ARMIES PLAYING
A WATCHING GAME
President Poincare Gone to the
Front to Address Soldiers.
OTHER RULERS AT FRONT.
werp, Present Belgian Capital,
Reported Fallen.


according to an official communica-
tion issued late today at Paris, have
resumed the offensive at several
points, while other positions on their
left have been maintained.
The great effort of the allies TO
envelop the German right may be
said to be in operation agaiB and
it is believed the whole Frepeh col
umn from Roye northward TO Arras
is moving eastward against the Ger
man positions.
1t is the same operation that has
been tried repeatedly or the last
three weeks in an attempt to reach
the German lines of communication
and either encircle the German army
forming the right wing or force it
to fall back to Belgium and LuXem-
burg
The Germans have had a long
time in which to make their position
secure, so there is a lot of hard
fighting ahead for ooth the attack
ing forces and the defenses. The
defensive role is apparently being
assumed by the invaders.
WATCHING GAME.
In the center from the Disc to the
krgonne, the two we'll entrenched
armies still are watching each other
ready at moments notice to meet
attacks, or, on the advice of aerial
observers, to move to some point
where the line is threatened. While
there have been many of these
movements there is little, according
to the French report, to record. In
other words, the situation remains
virtually as it was. I'm the Argonne
district, where the Crown Prince
army attempted to advance few
days ago, there has peen additional
fighting and the Germans have been
pushed back northward. In south
ern Woevre the French are max
ing progress but slowly" against
the Germans, who crossed the Meuse
at ST. Mihiel but later were forced
back over the river.
In Lorraine and Vosges there is
no change in the positions of the
opposing armies. This probably is
accounted for by the fact that the
Germans have not sufficient forces
to attack the almost impregnable
line of Notifications, while the
French are too busy elsewhere to
attempt an invasion of the lost
province. They have set themselves
the task of getting the Germans out
of northeastern France and if this
can be accomplished they are faced
with the necessity or attacking the
German positions in Alsace-Lor-
raine.
FORTS IN DOUBT.
OF the result OF the operations
around the line of fortifcations of
Antwerp there is considerable mys-
terry. Last night the Belgian lega-
tion at London announced the Bel
gians had been compelled before a
violent artillery attack to fall back
east of the river Senne toward the
Nethel This was taken to mean
that some of the forts had fallen
and the German official report is
sued today asserted that forts
Lierre, Waelhem and Komings-
hoyrck had been taken with re-
doubts and earthworks and that the
Germans had entered the line of
forts through the breaches.
Later the Belgian minister on au-
thority of a telegram from Antwerp
declared the forts had not been cap
tured, although Waelhem was dam
aged
These forts, although important
are only the first line of defense OF
the city and, besides two more pow.
erful lines, the besiegers will have
to contend with a large inundated
area. This extends along the rivers
Scheldt ,Rupel and Netne, as far as
DIffel, as well as to the north and
east of the town.
Heretofore fortesses have not
stood long after the big German
siege guns have been brought up
But Antwerp is in a different cate
CORY for in addition to being strong
er than any fortress yet attacked
there is a considerable space il
which the field army can operat
against the besieging forces.
The Germans also have been ac
tive in two widely separated mart