The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-10-05
NOT Yet DECIDED
GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN GER.
MANS AND ALLIES STILL
In PROGRESS.

New York, Oct. Especial The
great battle of the Aisne. which has
been in progress three weeks, has not
been decided. The fiercest fighting
is taking place in the western area,
where an extremely violent battle
continues. especially in the Roye dis
trict, in which the Germans have on
centrated considerable forces. The
action appears to be extending more
and more northward.
On the left wing of the allies one
of the French detachments which
came out of Arras, department of Pas
| de Calais, has fallen back a little
toward the east and north of that
city, according to a French official
announcement.
The allies have made progress in
front of Albert, north of the Somme,
according to the latest official an
nouncement in Paris. Between Roye
and Lassigne violent attacks have
| directed by the Germans against the
| allied line, but these attacks. the
| French office says, have broken
against the French and British re
sistance.
Along the remainder of the front
quiet is said to prevail. 1t is official
lily announced in Paris that no enemy
| remains on the left bank of the
lMeuse in the neighborhood of ST. Mi
hiel, twenty miles southeast of Yer
/ dun.
The first attempts of the Germans
to pierce the outer line of forts at
| Antwerp appear to have failed.
None of the Belgian forts have
| been severely damaged, ii is stated in
a French official report, and the Ger
| man infantry attacks have been re-
pulsed with heavy losses to the in
vading forces. On the other hand,
/ an official statement issued in Berlin
| says the siege of Antwerp is making
progress.
Reports are being circulated again
I to the effect that the Germans are
preparing to evacuate Belgium, or at
least that portion as far east as
Brussels.
In the eastern theater of war a
| battle which promises to be the great
est and most important of the cam
Ipaign has commenced near Cracow,
Galicia. There an Austrian army es-
timated to number 100000 men is
endeavoring to check the Russian adj
vance. Both sides are bringing up
reinforcements.
According to Russian statements
the German plan of invasion from
Russia to east Prussia has failed.
1.-The statements say the Germans got
as far as the western bank of the Me
men river, but found strong Russian
forces on the eastern bank. Being in
low and marshy grounds the Germans
according to the Russian view, were
at a disadvantage and could not ad-
vance.
With a battle now being fought at
IMariampol, near the northeastern
Prussian frontier, the Russians claim
that further south in the Suwalki
district they have turned a German
retreat into a disorderly flight. In
the heavy fighting which is taking
place at Agastow, Suwalki, the Ger
mans have received achievements
and are taking the offensive.
A dispatch from %Petrograd says
that the Germans have lost 10000
men in killed or wounded and 10000
men taken prisoners in the fighting
in Russian Poland.
A message received in Rome from
Russian headquarters says hat Pre-
mysl, Galicia, the strongly fortified
Austrian town, has been attacked by
Russians on all sides. Two of the
forts, it is stated, already have been
| taken.