The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-10-02
Allies Check Fierce
German Raids.
FRENCH CLAIM GAINS
Big Guns Brought Up and Bat
lie OF AISaa Resumed.
JAP Wl3GE!I.25 SHELL GERMANS

Bordeaux crorts French Progressing
Slowly on Left-Germans Repulsed
On Center and Defenders Gain on
Heights of Meuse-Si-uation on
Right Unchanged-German Supply
Base in Belgium Afire-Kaiser Pre-
pares to Besiege Antwerp.
The activity along the Belgian frontier
indicate that the Germans are plan
ing for siego eff Antwerp within a
few days. More than $4,000 of the
German naval reserve have been
brought up to Brussels.
German ZeppeIins dropped bombs in
Deynze and ThieIt, northern Bel
GUM. The convent of St. Vincent de
Paul, in Deynze, one of the oldest in
Belgium, was badly damaged. Zep-
peIins have been reported at many
points in Germany, and apparently
they are being massed for offensive
operations.
Bordeaux reports that the French con-
tinue to make slow gains on the left,
where the general thanking move
ment is in progress.
Paris Declares the allies loss is 100,-
600 men and 10000 Germans. have
fallen in the battle of the Aisne.
Both sides have brought up big guns
and resumed the fight at long range
after charges have proved futile.
An official announcement concerning
the progress of the campaign against
Kiauchau, the German port in China,
says the Japanese fleet has attacked
the IItis fort, effectively aided by
the army.
PARIS = The official communique
is as follows:
1.-On our left wing the reports
received on the situation are favor
able.
ON the center our troops have
successfully resisted several violent
attacks. We have gained slightly on
the heights of the Mouse. In the
Woevre a heavy fig has brought oper-
atiOns to standstill.
"3.-On our right wing Oorraine
and the Vosges) the situation remains
unchanged"
Germans Again Defeated, Says Paris.
PARIS Germany met with
still further defeat in a series of at
tacks in full force against the French
and British designed to avert the i'm
minent disaster that threatens in the
conclusion of the battle of the Aisne
with victory for the allies.
From the River Aisne on the west
to the ArgOnne region on the east the
Germans left their trenches in a Sc
ries of determined assaults to break
down the French resistance by the
sheer force of numbers. The on
slaught was met by the French in a
series of counter attacks in which tt
Germans were defeated and driven
back with heavy losses. An official
statement by the French war o.
in the afternoon says:
'The general situation remains un.
changed. There is a lull in the fight
ing along part of the front. At GER
tain points, however, particularly
tween the River Aisne and the Al.
gonne ridge the enemy has made sew
eral violent attacks, but has been re-
pulsed"
Germans Gain Nothing, Says London.
LONDON = French and British
troops have progressed in their
attacks. while the Germans have
failed in onslaughts of the utmost VIC
lence. The official statement issued
by the British war press bureau, says:
Last night the enemy attacked our
line with even more vigor but no more
success. There is no change in the
situation.
1.-THE Germans. have gained nc
ground and the French have advanced
here and there"
German Supply Base Burns.
Dispatches from Ostent report that
Mons, Belgium, base of operations and
supplies for the army of General Won
Kluck is burning. Mons was the or
ganization center Tor the sending OF
reinforcements to the firing line in
France.
BeIeians Claim Victory.
A dispatch from Amsterdam says
that the Germans, in again lombard
ing Malines and at the same time at
tacking Grembergen, were repulse6
by the Belgians with heavy losses.
Prussian Guard Wiped Out.
BORDEAUX The PrussiaT
guard, the picked soldiers of the Ger
man empire and the kaiser's pride
has been cut to pieces in the fighting