Connecticut western news., 1914-09-10
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.


 The battle ts the sAst and northeast Of Paris continues without suy. deeis~vs result On the left, however, the al- Nea appear te have gained slight advantage. .'e 'El ,s The osteons cf this ebaausrens .ts swaited with great iutsrsst tn Lon don. ParIs is optimistic, but . oau- tious tone is notioesbls in the French official communications. Rf's important operations are Iu proaress Tn the eastern theater of War Gen srai Ruxsky, following the capture of lembera, executed a flank. attack northward and ls making de- terr,ined attempt te snnihIlate a force of Austrisns under .Genetst Auffenbers. Fighting hss been in progress fer three days and is likely to continue for sorns tinns longer. Reports brought to New York of the landing of large Russian force in France seem to be borne out by the Rome Tribuna. That newspaper as- ssrts that 25o,ooo Russian troops are In France. r' s.'rt pff ts' 70 q 2, The buruonnsster of ohsnt Ia said to have received an order from the commander of the German forces h that section of Belgium to attend a conferences at which preparations shall be made for the entry of the German troops into that oity. An att tack on the Belgian army near Ant werp ls said to have been repulsed. Russian troops have been sent into Po- land. It is the plan of the ozar to crush Austria's war power. Russians In Galioia have sehelled the citadel of Prxempsl and plan to surround city. A battle which extends from NsnteuiI- le-Hardouin to Verdun Is now raging. The outcome may decide the fate of the kaiser's campaign In France, The light cruiser Pathfinder of the Brit ish navy was blown up by a mine in the North sea, and 1t Is unofficially reported that 200 of her crew per- ished.
 The Wilson liner Runo met the same fate. but by prompt work from fish ing vessels nearly all of the 300 on board were saved. h''"' A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company in London from Paris says. at is officially announced that the German right wing continues 10 go further away from Paris and Is still proceeding with the movement to- ward the southeast. commenced by it two days ago. The. announI- 1ent adds that according to the latest in- formation the snemy's troops have evacuated the region of compiesne and SenIis." 'fT @' ''- The correspondent of the Daily M. |" at Milan learns through Bucharest that the Russians are advancing l>uth- ward, after having occupied Cxerno- witz without resistance. 1t is said that the inhabitants of Bukowina, in which distrot czernowitx is located, joined with the Russians. This, the rrrcspondent says, Is regarded as the first sign of dissolution the Austro- Hungarian empire.
 The great battle which the German armies in France are wsging against the allied British and French forces is still going on, but nothing Is said about results, except that, while the allies have had to retire, the German masses have been unable to over wheln them.
 Paris Is preparing for the expected siege, and the French government has been removed to Bordeaux. Ann bassador Herriok remains In Paris to look after the interests of Americans German forces are reported to have abandoned the western section of Belgium to strengthen the fighting lines on the road to Paris.
 German Samoa has been surrendered to the New Zealand expedition, and the governor and other German pris- oners have been sent to the FiIi is- lands. .. British forces arc reported fighting desperately on the upper Disc to pre- vent 8 farther advance of the Ger mans on one of the direct routes to Paris.
 The Austrian forces which abandoned Lemberg, the capital of AustHisn Galioia, in order to prevent the bonn bardment of that city, have been TO- enforced and are again fighting the Russians.