Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
Conflict of Millions wsged with
Outer World Almost in Complete
Ignorance of Result.
BATTLE LINE OF $50 MILES
british Troops Occupy strong POST
ton, Supported on Both sides
by GsuIs-EnEIish Meet
Bigger Force.
BULLETIN.

thority that cannot be doubted that
the battle plans of the allies include
hard fighting of the extreme right
of the French front along the Vosges
and q gradual retreat on the left
along the west lines. This il is eX-
into western France, where it will
ultimately be cooped up by the gen.
eraI turning movement and so be un-
able TO get back to the defense of
Berlin by the time the Russians get
there.
LONDON, Aug. 2s.-The conflict
OF millions appears at last to be in
progress. Even such news as the
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse pales be-
side the realization that a titanic
battle is being fought. and that the
allies are fighting to block the road
to Paris, which the Germans are
hardly farther away from than New
York is from Philadelphia.
Meanwhile the Russians are draw
ing nearer to Berlin. Not even dur
ing the first great struggle between
Europe and Asia, on the far Man
churian plains was the enormous
battle fought in such impenetrable
silence as far as the outer world is
concerned. Only the vaguest gen
eralities are given to the people of
Great Britain and France by their re-
spective governments. The German
people know little more of what their
armies are accomplishing.
Fights splendidly.
All the information the British
public obtained today was the re-
port that the French announced by
Premier Asquith. in the House of
Commons, that the army was en-
gagged on Wednesday against a su-
perior force and fought splendidly,
and that he considers its position and
prospects in the impending battle
satisfactory.
After midnight the official news
bureau gave further information
that the French operations, extend
ing over a distance of $50 miles,
necessitated changes in the position
of the British troops, which are oc-
cupying a strong line supported by
the French on both flanks to meet
the German advance.
The impending battle undoubt-
eddy is an attempt by the Germans
with the hugest army ever employed
for a swift attack, to sledgehammer
its way through khe allies defensive
barrier, while trying to outflank
them between their left and the sea-
board.
The Pail Mall Gazette critic says
that the fighting has been on a front
twenty miles along the line between
Cambria and lie Cateau and between
the rivers Scheldt and sambre, while
the Germans have been steadily at
tempting an outflanking movement
by forced marches. The allies have
the advantage of working on interior
lines and have been falling back in
the interest Of concentration.
The Russians appear to be stead
lily advancing in east Prussia. They
are approaching the great fortress of
Koenigsburg and have crossed the
river ALLIE at several points. While
they continue their advance with Po-
sen as their objective, they are con-
fronting the Austrians between the
Dniester and the Vistula and claim
a number of victories along that line.
The Austrians assert that they
have defeated the Russians in a six
days battle near Krasnik, Russian
Poland. repulsing them decisively
over the entire front of about forty
three miles. A dozen battles are be-
ing fought around a great wall OF
German and Austrian bayonets, all
of which would be considered mile
stones of history in less overwhelm-
ing days.
Are Small Episodes.
The sinking of the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse by British cruiser and
the loss of the German cruiser Mag
deburg are small episodes in the
chronicles OF a day.
The British public is becoming
restless under the suspense. The
newspapers are beginning to demand
a loosening OF the censorship, while
women throng the war office for
word whether their husbands and
sons are among the 1000 British
dead and wounded of the last weeks