Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-09-11
INVADERS
retiring
ON Lines
Waiting for Rein
fOrCGmentS.
ARMY IS WORN OUT
Plea for Truce to Bury the
Dead Denied.
ALLIES PUSHING THEM HARD
German Forces No Longer Bend
Ing Energies On Paris.
ALLIES PUSHING THEM HARD

Rome special: The Montenegrins
nave cut off the aqueduct supplying
water 90 Caitaro. The bombardment
OF the Notifications has been resumed.
London special: The left wing OF
the allied army is continuing its adj
vance. according to communication
issued by the military government of
Paris. from the OUrcq toward Mont
mirail. The Germans are retreating
toward the Marine between MeauX'and
SeZanne.
The communication says also that
the Germans have lest ground in the
center about Eitry-Lc Francois, where
a retredting movement WIS clearly OBJ
served. On the allies right, also,
German attack on the line from Cha
teau Salins to Nancy was rcDulsed
north of the forest Of ChampenOuX,
and further to the east the French
have retaken the crest of Mandray and
the pass of FClneauX.
General Gallieni. the military gov
ernor Of Paris, said that the German
attack had lost its weight and that in
the west, near Paris, the British
French line had Cramrled u the Ger
man right completely, taking thou
sands of prisoners.
Request For Truce Denied.
Unofficial reports were current IN
Paris that the Germans had asked for
a twenty-four-hOUr truce TO bury their
dead, but that Sir John French, the
British field marshal, commanding the
operations against the German right
flank, had refused the request, fearing
| that the time would be used by the
| Germans for the bringing up OF rein
| forcements. It appears from the dis
| patches from the front that the fight
| ing on this wing has developed into a
| race AGAINST time. the allies striving
| to break through the German line be-
| fore achievements can be brought up.
The army Of invasion under General
| Won kluk, estimated at somewhere
around 100000, are reported to be well
worn out with the constant fighting
| and marching and to be held effective
ly in check by the fresher troops of
the allies. A great German army I'M
| der General Won BuelOW is now being
rushed to the rescue Of the hard-press-
| ed German right flank. According to
reports from Paris the plan of fighting
in this battle has heen thoroughly in
accordance with the French general
scheme Although there appears to be
no immediate danger of a siege OF
Paris, yet it is said that the defenses
of the city are being strengthened al
every point.
Russians Still Advancing.
Along the entire line extending
along the Bug and Vistula, the Austri
ans, according to reports from Petro
grad, have been forced back by the
Russian advance. So far the Russian:
claim to have taken $4,000 Austrian
), prisoners. PetrOgrad reports that thu
+. | Germans have withdrawn from the
= southern part of Poland and that IL
o Galicia the Russians have captured
AlICOldlOHs oblptlSis AOi tihCh pOli
about twenty miles south of Lemberg
Russian cavalry are on the Carpathial
mountains as a precaution against al
attack by Hungarian forces. The Rus
i slams report that at the battle of Nj
colaiof they captured forty cannon
z and large amounts of supplies. The
also say that in the operations aroun
Lublin the Austrian army suffered sc
verely and that the entire Forty-fift
regiment of infantry surrendered.
n Client has surrendered to the Gel
mans, but according to an understand
ing between the burgorlaster and tn
German commander, the city is not
be occupied in force.
Two ships, the Breslau and the Go,
ben, are now flying the star and cre
cent, and have been given Turks
names. Turkey still insists that she
maintaining a strict neutrality as
the war
Austria is hurriedly preparing for a
invasion of her territory by Italy, a
cording to dispatches from Rome.
is stated that 100000 men have bee
concentrated at Trieste.