Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-08-27
Allies Again Press
Back the Germans

PARIS, August 26.-Terrific fight
ing RACES all along Frances eastern
frontier. Heaviest is at Meubeuge,
Givet, Montmedy and Luneville. The
crown prince said to be in command
of Kaiser's soldiers. Theyyare charg-
ing desperately in face of hurricane
of shrapnel and rifle balls. The
slaughter is frightful. In places Ger
man corpses are piled breast deep. 1t
is simply a renewal of the struggle
which marked the German advance
westward. Tuesdays lull but gave
the combatants breathing spell.
The refreshed Germans came on even
more savagely. Paris is their goal.
PARIS, August 26.-Following the
deep gloom caused by the reverse
The Allies suffered at the hands of
the Germans Tuesday, Paris is wild
with joy today over the reports OF
successes by Allies in mighty bat
! tie on the Belgian frontier. The AL
lies are more than holding the gate
way to Paris. They repulsed the
Germans at Maubeuge and Givet,
slaughtering them wholesale and
pushing their own lines back into
Belgium. The fight along Lorraine
frontier is reported as going north
kagainst the Germans.
LONDON, August 6.-Reinforced,
the Germans in Belgium and along
| the French frontier are again attack
| ing The Allies furiously. Fall of Os-
tend expected shortly. This will
menace Great Britain directly. Ger
mans believed to contemplate mount
! ing big guns to resist naval attacks
and making Ostend the base for raid
ing British Isles by dirigibles. Brit
| ish reinforcements being rushed to
continent.
PEKIN, August 26.-Japanese
troops landed on Shantung Peninsula
close to Kiao Chau Bay. Landing
effected under cover of lombard
ment by British cruisers. Forts re-
piled vigorously, damaging ships and
killing ten men.
Reports from the European war
are appalling. Since the last issue
of this paper Brussels has fallen to
the Germans, who demand 100000
600 was tax. The Belgian capital is
moved to Antwerp. Since Saturday
along the French frontier in a zigzag
line $50 miles long from Mons to Mo
selle the Germans have stood off the
French and British and gradual!
gained ground in four days fighting
The Allies lost heavily and great gaps
were torn through the German from
only to fill quickly with fresh men
The tide of battle swung to the Allie
today.
Russia is pouring troops across tn
German border and Cossacks hav
crushed the Austrian frontier cav
airy. Russian soldiers hold a stri
fifty miles wide inside the ,Germa
border with Berlin as their goa
German forts oppose their progres
and can stand them off for month
while German soldiers fight on t
ward Paris. Four towns in east Pru'
sia are in the hands of the czar
troops, which cut the. twentieth Gel
man army corps to pieces.
A Paris dispatch Monday says MOI
casualties than in any other bait
of history are already piled up. Tt
third day of the conflict shove
points where The Allies defensiN
walls were broken, but reinforc
ments were rushed forward and i
variably filled the gaps. In plac,
the German infantry was compellt
to retire. The Germans were emo
mously strong. Experts declare the
are a million reserves behind Il
kaiser's three main armies.
London dispatches on Tuesday co
i firmed the fall of Namur and sal,