The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-09-10

,,,es around Paris tighten and
a forces draw nearer to the
the asn,tal. the official statements
fsncn The progress OF the war grow
md are more and more lacking
s.tails. So far as the PUBIC Is con
"a little is actually known as to
~ armies in the field are faring.
y. ~ the information made public
no' official quarters is Of negative
tar as. for instance. the an
cn..roant of the French war office
-. there had been no contact with
w nsrman forces in the region of
,,sgne and Salines since Wednes-
ana the situation in the northeast
. not changed. With the removal Of
=. government to Bordeaux all efforts
Ds,,rd Paris have been directed to
s-.,srations for the threatened invest
80 If the capital by the Germans.
= aadition. the French authorities have
.ssarAd aeroplane patrols to guard
ss.inst any further raids by German
.viators. Several French aeroplanes
=. continually flying in the neighbour
hood of Paris and others are kept In
badness with guns to attack any of
~ Germans who appear in the sky.
rhs attitude of Turkey is still awaited
nth anxiety and a Petrograd dispatch
avs she is mobilizing on the Persian
houndary, but slowly. Another list Of
british casualties officially reported al
London numbers 522S, of which 40 are
Killed and wounded and 1858 are miss
ing The list shows a large percentage
Of officers Russia is pressing forward
IN the Austrian province of Galicia, aft =
or having taken the strongly fortified
capital. Lemberg. The Germans are
admittedly victorious In east Prussia
The japanese are said to have occupied
seven islands near Kia-Chow and tn
have landed additional troops within
marching distance of that German
stronghold in the face of protests by
China. King Nicholas Of Montenegro
Is reported as determined to occupy
scutari. The governor and other Ger
man officials Of Samoa have been made
prisoners by the British and sent to
the Fill islands.
SEPTEMBER s.
While the official announcements by
the British and French authorities are
to the effect that there had been no
change in the situation of the belliger-
snt armies, unofficial reports said that
the German right wing had been check
ID and forced to retire on st. Quentin
On the river Somme, thirty miles north
vest of Laon. The British official press
bureau in its statement said a German
movement was developing in an east
ward and southeastward direction. The
,xact geographical location of this move
nent was omitted. Further confirma-
ion was received in New York tina,
many thousands of Russian troops had
zone into France to join the allies
lgainst the Germans. Their number
vas estimated at between 10000 and
1000. Newspaper reports to London
asst night said the Germans were oper-
ting in the district between Alost and
Belgium. and that the latter
own was being bombarded. That an
.ther !. naval engagement In the Nortl
'ea has occurred seems possible from
! statement issued by the London Of
icial press bureau. 1t said seven Ger
nan torpedo boat destroyers had ar
lived at Kiel In q damaged condition
and that others were understood to hav
been sunk "in the vicinity of the Kie
canal" In some quarters, however, Il
was suggested that the vessels may be-
long to the German force that was en-
gagged in the recent fight with tn
British off Helgoland. The official Rus
shan statement concerning the captur.
Of Lemberg. capital Of Galicia, says tina