Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-10-07
Won NuCk'S Army Reported Sur
rounded.
TAKE 10000 PRISONERS?
Berlin Message Declares That the Stu
alton in France Is Becoming
More Favorable to the
Germans.

but uncOnhrmed rumOrS OF a great VIC
tory in the north of France are being
circulated in Paris.
The rumor states, according to the
Times, that General Won Kluck's army
is surrounded and that the German
crown prince has barely escaped, while
10000 prisoners have been taken, in
Guiding Won Kluck. The rumor adds
that $50 trains have been dispatched
70 transport the prisoners.
The Times editorially adds that at
the present moment there is no addi-
4iOnal warrant for excessive optimism,
as the situation is practically un-
changed
Berlin Says Situ alton Is Favorable.
Berlin, Oct. (by wireless to Lon
dOn).-The situation throughout the
entire theater of war is daily becoming
more favorable to Germany. Full conf
dence is felt in Berlin and a great de-
Cision is expecte soon.
The main heaC quarters of the army
reports that the encircling movements
attempted by the French against the
German right wing on October were
Tepulsed and the enemy's forces driven
from their positions.
French Lose Heavily.
On the center of the battle front the
situation is unchanged.
The French attempted to advance
east of the Mouse by night and were
repulsed with heavy losses.
Before Antwerp, the Wavre-St. Cath
crime and Dorpveld forts have been
stOrmed and taken, Fort Vaelhem has
been invested and Termonde, an i'm
pOrtant strategical point, has been oc-
cupied.
In the eastern theater, the advance
of the Russian forces across the Me
men in the direction of Suwalki is i'm
minent.
IN France, the French have been
elected from their positions to the
south of Roye and repeated sOrties
from the fortified position of Toul have
been repulsed with heavy losses.
Statement by French.
Paris. Oct. 5.-An official war min
istry cOmmunique says:
ION our left wing the struggle is at
its height in the region of Arras, with
out decisive result having yet been
obtained. The action has been less
violent between the valley of Ancre
(Albert) and the Somme and between
the Somme and the Disc. We have
progressed in the region of scissors,
where some of the enemys trenches
have been taken.
"On nearly all the rest of the front
the lull, already reported, persists. In
the Woevre we have made some prog
ress between Apremont and the
Meuse and on the Ru de Made"
German Offensive Halted.
The German offensive has been
brought TO a full stop as a result of
the decisive defeat administered by
the allies in the four-day battle of
Roye The French resumed the Of
fensive and concentrated the pick of
their fighting strength, supported by
the heavy guns of their artillery at
Arras. % miles from the nearest en-
crOaching point of the Belgian border.
The movement was set in force by
the cream of the German defensive
line and a struggle of great magni-
tude was precipitated
The French, by the British troops,
directed a determined assault against
the hastily constructed fortified posi-
lions of the Kaiser's forces in an eff
fort to cut the railroad lines leading
through Lille to Belgium and into
Brussels by way of Journal and from
Arras to Valenciennes where the line
continues through Mons, Charleroi and
Namur, in Belgium to Liege.
The official bulletin of the ministry
Of war declares that this struggle
unabated. energy and no decisive
result
Allies Take Foes Trenches.
The allies continue to maintain in
violate their positions in the remain
ing sections on their left and in the
region of scissors, on the Aisne,
slightly north of west of Reims, the
scene of a furious German onslaught
-VO weeks ago. The French and Brit
Ish have succeeded in capturing a
number of the enemy's trenches. 1t
was from this part of the German line
that Won Boehm's forces were with
drawn TO so to the support Of General
Won Kluck, and the noticeably dimin-
ished vigor of the defense indicated
that the line here had been consider
abyl weakened.
lit has been learned from informa-
zion cleaned from captured prisoners
and the stories of the German wounded
that the force withdrawn from other
Champaign there is no department of
not come from Lorraine and the Vos-
yes or from Germany, but were de-
tached from the army operating in the
Champaign. This is taken to indicate
that the Germans are risking all upon
the tide of events to the north and