Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-08

of continued hard fighting along the
150-mile front from the Somme to the
Moselle, and yet there is no definite
indication that the battle is nearing
a finish.
There are, however, evidences that
the Germans are receding before a
forcible and sustained pressure from
the allied armies especially on their
western and eastern wings, while the
center, where the Germans are more
strongly intrenched than at any other
point with heavy artillery, remains
almost stationary.
1t is generally concluded by French
military men that some important
move must soon be made by the Ger
mans, who have found it impossible
to stem the advance of the allies,
though they offered the sternest and
most desperate resistance, sacrificing
thousands of men daily.
The German wings appear to be
folding back on the center, leaving
the only loophole for a backward
mavement by way of Rethel.
The Germans main supply base at
Juniville, which is protected by heavy
masses of troops, appears to be placed
in precarious situation with its sim
gle line of railroad.
Some Change in Lines.
The line of battle has changed con-
siderably since the beginning of the
actual contact between the two great
armies, whose numbers and real posi-
tons 1t is not permitted TO make pub
lie. The front now presents sinuous
winding, looping inward and out
ward at various points in a country
which everywhere is wonderfully
adapted to Defense
Alarmed at Tone Of Press
London, Oct "A Rotterdam dis
patch to the Daily Telegraph says:
The Germans in Rotterdam are
aghast at the tone of the German
newspapers which arrived today. Only
one meaning can be attached to what
they contain-they are preparing the
German people for defeat and the ruin
of their hopes.
Official messages ask that judg-
ment be suspended if news should ar
rive that the German troops have been
compelled to abandon certain posi-
lions.
THE British troops are mentioned
as pushing on by the sheer weight of
their masses, and the French are ad-
mitted to have taught severe lesson.
A week ago such statements would
have meant the suppression of the
newspaper printing them"
Russians Hold German Forces.
London, Oct. 2.-That the Russian
forces in the north are holding at
bay and even driving back the Ger
man attempt to invade Russian
Poland, while in the South the Rus
SLAMS are pushing on toward Cracow
and continuing the invasion of Hun
gary, forms the consensus of dis
patches received here.
Dispatches from Petrograd state
that German army, consisting of IL
corps, for seven days has been max
ing desperate attempts to cross the
River Niemen and that the battle is
at its height in the territory west Of
the river and close to the East Prus-
sian frontier. The German attacks
have been constantly repulsed and
the invaders driven back 80 miles to
the region of Suwalki and Miriampoi.
German Loss at Antwerp.
London, Oct. "A dispatch from
Antwerp, dated ten o'clock Thursday
night, says:
The German attacks on Antwerp
continue The Belgians were firing
from Forts Breendonck and Waelhem
The Germans are using guns with a
range of 7R miles. Shells fell in the
village OF Billebroeck, depolishing
the town hall and MILL 1t is re-
ported that the German lost 5000
killed at Fort Wavre-St. Catharines.
Berlin, Oct. 2, via The Hague.-The