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NEED COAST ROAD.
Is only Way Possible for Heavy
German Guns.
by BASIL CLARKE,
Special correspondent Of Tar suN aud ~
London "Do3y Man"

Special correspondent Of THE suS and tho
London "Doiiv MdN'
FRENCH COAST. oct. 20 Thursday, mid
day. A British battleship and some
dozen smaller war craft are doing great
work on the coast line near Newport les
Bains. The Germans are determined to
get through near the coast, having failed
elsewhere. and are again within range of
the heavy sea guns.
II Dunkirk and Calais are TO be of any
use they must have the coast road unless
they go to the trouble OF making a new
road. 1t Is the only road existing III to
bear the heavy weight of siege guns.
Therefore they need the coast road badly
and are making great bid for IT, Last
night they replaced the coast batteries
which had been piled over by the fire of
the British fleet earlier in the week They
have some fine big metal there too and
nave brought along German sailor gun
ners
The fast moving mark presented by
torpedo boat destroyers. monitors and the
rest which fire at top speed had proved
100 elusive for the Runners OF the German
army, whose shots for the most part were
yards out Of the way. Now the German
naval Runners have come and are doing
rather better. They got the Falcon yes
terday. but the German fire has an insig-
HlItdHt erect az compared with the Brit
ish battleship which stands well back and
with Its long range guns IL battering
mercllessly at the shore batteries and the
shore road behind them.
Change after change has been made
by the smaller and more easily movable
German guns, but the British naval gun
ners have found the range every time
\ number OF guns have been toppled
right over. One was caught dead amid
ships and skittled just az II 1, had been
a toy.
Firing began Mt o'clock this morning
and Is still going on.
How the Germans are getting informa-
ton II point OF naval and military dis
cusslon. II the German fighting forces
were az efficient ms their spy forces, the
allies would be In a bad way. The
hattleship Venerable was not half an hour
of the British coast before n German
submarine was lodging along after her
passage deleted by censor)
one of our naval boats had n little
mishap one day last week mishar
which was not seen even by the mer
accompanying the ships. but II was re-
ported that night TO Germany The move
ments OF troops here Is known almost
simultaneously In the German lines and
n German counter move often Is begun
at almost the same time ms our move.
passage deleted by censor)
The news Of the Venerable's arrival, al.
though good piece OF German intelli,
i gence work. did the Germans no good
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GERMAN REPORTS DENIED.
DailIeuI tnoccupicd. Nerdun HASN'T
Fallen, Say French.

PARIS. oct ga note appended to the
official Cummunque this afternoon en-
phaucally denies reports inspired by the
Germans and published in Sweden that
the Germans had occupied Armentieres
and Bai.leul that the allies flank at
Newport had been turned and that the
Governor Of Calais had ordered civilians
to leave the city.
Denial was made also OF reports circu-
lated in Rome and throughout Italy that
the French had been obliged to abandon
their lines along the Aisne and retreat
To a fortified position to the southwark
The note characterized as false the
statement Of the North German Gazette
that England had ceased sending troops
20 the Continent hecause she was menaced
at home, and likewise the assertion In
German newspapers that Nerdun had fall
len.
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BlOqv TO Germans in East
WRIST Since Marine Defeat
Berlin Must Recognize Now That Russia, Having Added
Genelashp and Organization to Numbers, Has
Become Really Terrible Foe


eastern warfare to date IL not incidental
huctuation. What bulks Is the fact thai
the Russians after preliminary and fro.
mendous defeat at Tannenbefg have \,
turn defeated and almost DESTROYED Aus.
trian armies in Gdllcia. have driven the
German armies advancing from Eas,
Prussia Into Suwalk province, back
across the frontier. and are at this mo
ment pursuing the main German army
in the east after long and desperate
battle
Not the Russi" of Japanese War.
In word, Russia has demonstrated
that she IL not the Russia 81 tho
japanese war Her soldiers fought VOL
even then, but her Generals were either
timd or inefficient. Kuropatkin, retreat
ing deliberately until he should have u.
perior numbers. lost the will 10 STRIKE
when the numbers came. But the battle
OF the Nis,ula has proved the RussIon
Generals having retreated can advance
More than this the manner in which
troops have been moved. concentrated
sent north and south to the decisive poin,
proves that Russian high command IL
skilful and possesses ncccssaf resources
II IL natural 70 compare the eastern
and western positions and there IL real
resemblance. Thus. as Germany rushed
forward to Paris. only to b. halted nd
thrown back to the Aisne. she has sUnn.
east 10 the gates OF Warsaw, only to mi
herself ou'"ankcd outnumbcred. com
PEELED 70 retire. Her thrust have ho,n
marvellous demonstrations ~ skin az
Eeneralship. Of bravery Trey have hcen
marked by great preliminary success
But east and west they have failed N
deal fatal blows Al the critical moment
It has been the opponents Of Germany
who have hpen able 60 strike harde.-.
Thus while the battle Of Flanders an
proaches deadlock there Is ,verv indics.
ton that German retreat in tho east may
not halt until German frontiers ere
reached. Russian invasion ~ Gnlicia viii
then he continued. Austrian nrmicH viii
again he subjected To the blows they could
not withstand in september
Beyond all else even Berlin must recog.
nlzo now that Russia has become tho te,.
rible foe Germans always know she would
be II to numbers and resources there
should ever he added generalshn and or
ganizaton. Moreover, since Russia is adj
vancing in the east 1t will hardly he pos
, sible to send more reenforcements to
Flanders untI the Cars troops are halted
on Silesian and East Prusslan matchea
Naturally and inevitably there must hs
the suggestion OF the campaign OF 1914
when Napoleon, marching VIGOROUSLY
against one foe after the other. was I'M
able to deal n decisive blow TO any, nj
though he defeated all. and was therefore
In the end despite his genius. never so
splendidly displayed, compelled to sheat he
his sword. Such a day is still plainly re-
mote. but II is fair to say that Russian
1 victory i'm Poland Is the severest blow 10
German hope since the Marine. FROM
THE EVENING SUN Of yesterday.
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WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

The Russians after driving the entire
German centre and right back from
warsaw have now sent fresh troops
against the left wing. between the
Pilitza and Bsoura rivers. The decisive
blows against the centre OF the line
were struck on Tuesday. and that night
the Germans retreated past Radon and
1tzha. In Galicia the Russians are I'D
vancng along the San River because
they have been able to send forces TO
this part Of their limo which had been
engaged along tho Vistua and around
Warsaw
GREAT BRITAIN Louis OF Bat
tcubcrG, the First Sea Lord Of the Nd
mlralty. has resigned and his reslgna-
ton has been accepted. Much criticism
had been directed against him because
of his German birth, although he was
a naturallzed Englishman.
BELGIUM. According to the report Of
Capt. Lucy, the American commissioner
for relief In Belgium, there are 3,000,-
600 Belglans near starvation. Many
refugees are returning to Belgium, and
Cardinal MERCER has had "A conference
with Gen. Won dor Goltz regarding the
treatment OF Belsians returning TO their
native land, one OF the stipulations r.
that in case the German occupying
force is fired upon only the persons
actually responsible shall he punished.
TURKEY Messages received AT petro-
grad say that Turkey has begun ag-
gressive action against Russia, the
cruisers Breslau and iIamldleh bonn
harding respectively the Black Sea
ports Of Theodosia and Novorossisk.
the feet at laramie. The trials with
the news big guns were successful. the
gunners scoring hits on the target
which was m old battleship. des.
patch from Rome says Avlona Ia not
yet occupied by the Italian marines and
hluejackets, These land every day
without arms, but return to tho ship al
night The Turkish nag 10 flying over
the Government building and the Italian
over the hospital
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FRANCE Tho official communique yes
terday afternoon reported that the allies
made progress on the battle line around
Ypres and south Of Arras and that be-
tween the Asne and the Argonne they
captured some OF the German trenches
and wthstood the attacks attempted by
tho Germans An advance in the forest
OF Apremont. near st. Mihle, was also
reported. President Puincare, accom-
panied by several members OF the Cab-
net. started on another trip to the battle
front yesterday,
German Heroplanes dropped two
bombs in Dunklrk, killing woman and
child. TWO bombs were also dropped at
Rcthunc The first failed to explode,
tho second fen In a group Of women In
the market place, killing nineteen and
Wouuding forty others
GERMANY. The German cruiser Emdtn,
according to a despatch received at the
British Embassy in Toxic, entered the
harhor Of Penang, in the Straits Settle
ments, diving a japanese flag and sank
the Russian cruiser Xhemtchug and a
French destroyer The Emden then
escaped by tho Strait Of Malacca. she
Is reported TO have sunk twenty British
merchant ships and one small japanese
merchant ship.
According TO an official statement is
sued At tho general headquarters in
Rer.in the Bclgians have received con
siderable rccnforccmcnts on tho lines
near Nl"upurt and DiXmude and sixteen
British warships Joined In the attack
W the German right wing. West OF
if'lo German attacks were repeated
with success, and In the Argonne woods
French trenches have been carried and
THO defenders captured
Nl'SSIN--Roports from Petrograd said
that tho Russians are advancing al
along the line from the Baltic to tn.
ca rpathians and that the Germans ar.
IN retreat before them. The report
indicated that the hcavies, hghting I!
now about twenty miles east OF LODI
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FIRES ON HIS OWN CHATEAU.
Comte de Chpmbrun Tells Ills Amer
lean wife He's Glad.

PARIS. oct. 29-Wrltlug to his wife.
who was Miss Clara LonEworth OF GIN
cinnati. a sister OF Congressman Nicholas
Iongworth, the Comte de Chambrun. for
mer French military attache at Washing
ton and now an artillery officer at the
front says:
81 am now having the great pleasure
OF directing the artillery fire against our
own chateau. and | take great enjoyment
in sccing piece after piece come down"
The Chateau de Chambrun Is near st,
Mihiel and was occupied by tho Germans.
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nude, which has been held so long and
so stubsOrnly by the German extreme
right has now an omlnous bulge. In
formation gained from the frontier to-
day suggests that We shall be back at
Ostend very soon. The German head
quarters STAFF has already moved out.
Yesterday the big naval guns which
tn, Germans had planted at Heyst were
hauled out Of their positions and packed
eff by canal inland toward Bruges Be
tween Bruges and Client the Germans
are intrenching themselves along the
canal The squares and public places
Of Bruges are damned with automobiles
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POINCARE ON ANOTHER
VISIT TO BATTLE LINE
President and Minister'S Will
Call on Belgian Gov
eminent.
Spccn Cabi> D,spatcb 10 Tav srx.

PARIS. oct. 30 President Pulncaro. ac-
companicd by several members OF tho
cabinet, started on another trip TO the
front tonight.
Tho President IL anxious to visit tho
armies on the fighting line as often as n
duties VIII permit He left Bordeaux or
= SPECIAL train at 80 yesterday evening
accompanied by NJ Alexandra Ribot
Minister OF Finance. and NJ Marcel Sem
bat, Minister Of Public Works The party
arrived here at 3 o'clock this morning
and were Joined later by NJ. Alexander
Millerand Minister Of War, after which
they proceeded to the front.
The President and tho members Of tbs
Cabinet who are with him expect to bs
absent eight or ten days They will 70
20 lIavrc 10 visit the Belgian Govern
inont before returning.
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USER FIGHT STILL on.
Germans Are, However, Intrcnching
ms n For Rctreat
Specia, CaJie Despo,ct 10 Tnr SIS.

Special Cdbie Dcsp0ich 10 Tnr SIS,
AMSTERDAM, oct 99.--AlthouGh the
combat on the User has slackencd II has
not ceased. German rccnforcl mcnts are
continually going 20 the front and the Ger
mans are intrcuchcd behind tho Newport
Dixmude limo "a II preparing to retreat.
with the intention of cOnCoaling a
scheme to use Zeebrugge ms a base Of
operations submarines have been sent
overland, the port has bean isolated and
all traffic forbidden and orders have been
issued 10 shoot interlopers Mt sight.
Tho scheme Is said TO have leaked out
through the boasting OF German officers.
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WAITING AT AVLONA.
Turkish Flag sim Floats over Town
Marines Land Daily.

ROME. oct 29.-Avlona, the Albanian
seaport commanding the AdriatiC. has
not yet been occupied by Italian marines
and bluejackets These land every day,
but they do not carry arms and they re-
turn to the ships every night
The Turkish nag is stlll flying over
Government buildings, but the italian
Tag has been hoisted over the hospital.
This does not imply occupation, however.
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Dispatches From Front
Are Heavily Censored
Special Cable Despatch TO THE sus.

LONDON, Oct. 20.-Some slgnifi-
canoe may be attached to the fact
that THE Sun and the DdHV MdTs
dispatches received tonight from
correspondents in northern France,
rhe scene Of the heaviest fighting,
are heavily censored.
From one despatch one passage Of
500 words was deleted. go words
were cut out OF another, while in
all these dispatches passages have
been deleted here and there.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-30
Says Greeks Hold Corfu Channel.

ROME, oct. 2G-Greecc Is reported TO
have landed 200 troops at SAINT Qua
ranta, which amounts to an occupation 81
southern Albania, giving them control 81
the Corfu Channel The report has caused
concern here. AZ the supposed occupation
is opposed to the sentiments OF the Lon
don conference.
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FLOODING COAST LAND.
Belgian Operation Entails Los. OF
s1O,OOO,OOO.

Bv THE suS's and me london "Ddiiv NaTs'
War Serpfce
Special Gable Despdtch TO TnE STU
LONDON, Oct. ga severely censored
despatch from Fumes, near the Bel
gian coast, south of Newport, dated
yesterday, says:
ITO prevent a German advance on
the left wing It Is proposed TO lnundate
low lying tract of land bounded by
Newport. Furnes and Hoogstade Loo.
This was begun last night. but did not
entirely succeed. 1t will probably be
completed tonight. 1t will make II
impossible to cultivate the beet fields
for ten years and the loss entail d
is estimated at 100000 $4,000, O0O).
Further sections OF the country on the
road to Dunkirk are prepared for in
undation, II necessary"
Here a passage has been deleted by
the censor The despatch continues with
the story OF the dropping Of two bombs
on Dunklrk. and It's conclusion also has
been deleted.
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DEAD COVER THE FIELD.
Thousands OF Jnburied Bodies Near
Niddelkerkr.

AMSTERDAM. oct 29,-An Ostend cor
respondent of local paper sends this
despatch:
Thousands Of wounded are lying on
the battlefield or are heaped in all kinds
Of vehicles, sad procession Of which is
moving rorthward. Thousands OF un-
buried dead cover the battlefield Nobody
has any idea Of the awful number OF VIC
Tins falling every moment in the mad
fight between Leke and Middelkerke The
German guns are no longer in action. as
their shells would kill Germans as well
as enemies. only hand to hand fighting
remains"
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ITALIAN KING SEES
WORK OF NAVAL GUNS
Old WarShip, a Target, Sunk by
Fleet i'm laramie
Review.
Sp.ciai cahle De.patch 70 Tnr SLY

TARANro. oct 29.-king Victor EN-
manuel reviewed the Italian feet here to-
day. but the eAt.otscs had to be curtailed
somewhat owing O. a rough sea.
The new heavy guns were tested sue
cessfully. The old warship Conhenza,
which was used AS a target. was sunk at
range of eight miles.
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MUCH ENTHUSIASM IN ATHENS.
Queen sophia Is Honorary Com.
mander of Greek Guards

PARIS. oct. 29-Thc Athens correspon-
dent of the Havas Agency says that the
departure of the Greek troops for south
ern Albania was accompanied by great
popular enthusiasm.
Queen Sophia Of Greece has been AIMED
honorary commander of the First Rcgi-
mcnt of the Guard.
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SAYS HOWITZER EXPLODED.

PARIS oct 29-The Impartial OF
Madrid. according 20 despatch to tho
Journal, publishes q story that one OF tho
huge German az centimeter how'tzers
which were being used on the German
right wing has exploded through the use
OF a too heavy charge and that the gun
ncrs and ESQ other men were blown 10
pieces.
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The allies made several points the line of battle
eday according the official
Ypes and the south which
the map.
Between
Of the German defences have
1t believed Germans having
coast around Newport by the battep will fight their
direct to Boulogne keeping
fire of British and French wahp
has been
the Duke of Wurtemberg for this supreme effort
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10000 CIGARS FOR SOLDIERS.
Colony 10 Send 100000 Cigarette.
Month 90 French.

Special Cdbis Despatch 10 TuE SUN
RoRpEAUx, oct. 29--The French colony
In Porto Rico has sent "A gift Of 1000
cigars to the French soldiers.
The colony is collecting funds to sup
ply 100000 cigarettes monthly to the
soldiers at tho front.
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METAL FOR GERMAN ARMY
Sp,ciai cable D,spafch 10 TuE SIS.

RoRpEAUN. oct. ga metal company
has been formed IN Berlin with "A capital
Of 5000 900 marks Sl,500,000) to acquire
metal and raw material for the army.
Leading firms, including Siemens-
Schuckert. which was implicated In the
recent Japanese naval scandal, have taken
shares.
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SYDNEY, n. s W. oct. 2a-Reports
have been received here that the Germa n
steamship Komet has been captured nv
Australian warships off New Guinea and
that DR. Hahl. Governor-General ~ Ger
man New Guinea, a passenger, was taken
a prisoner.
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in the end. The submarine was duly
spotted and message was licked Off to
the destroyers. passage censored) Four
other German submarines were about yes
terday (passage censored).
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Germans Press Forward.

Al the opening moves suggested Su'n
nurpose. Toward Warsaw and lvangorod
vast masses Of Germans flowed steadily
and VIGOROUSLY forward. From Warsaw
itself came the hint that the Germans.
whose cannon were already audible in the
ancient Polish capital, were likely TO cap
ture the city. East and west German
advance seemed again moving on irresist-
IDLY.
berlin. while Pctrograd took up the cry.
Abruptly, il appears. Russian retreat
halted Fresh Russian corps were flung
from Warsaw upon the German right
outnanling Il. Cossack regiments reached
beyond the flank. frontal attacks met the
advance Thus briefly the offensive was
boaten down, turned back. II reached the
suburbs of Warsaw and now German
allies are standing seventy miles back.
LODI and Radon are again reported In
Russian hands. and these cities are half
way noints between the Nistula and the
Sllesian boundary.
Il is not necessary to believe extreme
| pstrorrad claims To- perceive that the
rand retreat OF tho Germans must he
extensive ana may he dangerous. Snow
has begun to fan in Poland, roads are
no longer to he relied on. The country
on which the Germans advanced has been
I wasted Is served by few railways. pre-
sumablv destroyed. Finally. the inhahi-
! tants are reported 10 ne carrying on
guerrilla warfare in the German rear. to
he making another Belgian resistance,
No one imagines the German centre will
he destroyed But its losses In material
as well az men must he heavy, The strain
upon the soldiers Of an unsuccessful cam
| paign in Russia in the first days OF
winter must he great. Already the Ger
man left toward the Baltic In East prus-
STA. after approaching the Niemen and
VIGOROUSLY invading Russian territory.
has been defeated and thrown hack on the
| frontier. Now it II the centre which Is
suffering n similar reverse.
Now the main thing to note about the
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ALLIES GAIN ON COAST.
German Guns Practice by Firing
scavard

Spscsai correspondent Of Tur suN and the
london "baiy Mda"
Spe-i1f cable Bssp1tcB 70 Tup grS

FLysHlSG, oct 2g.--The allied troops
are advancing steadily UP the coast The
German front on the seabOrd is now at
Ravorzydc a little bathing place near
Nariakcrk". Fighting has been going on
ut Heyst and German guns are now in
stalled all along the dunes from Ostend
10 knocke The Germans have been en-
gagged IN practice. firing seward with the
guns which have range OF approx
mately four and half miles
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Out OF the fog that has surrounded the
operations In Poland for several weeks
there now energies the solid bulk OF Rus
sian achievement. What Petrograd has
with ever growing insistence proclaimed
for a week Berlin in part to-day grudg-
ingly comedies The great German inva-
sion of Poland Is over. the invading army
In flowing back steadily. is already half
way back to German territory and stu
retrcating
Now. examined with reference to the
purpose OF the German advance, what
does this mean? In the narrowest pos
sible conception the Germans suddenly
thrust their troops east from Posen and
Broslau to relieve the pressure upon the
Austr an armies. which after series OF
defeats in Galica seemed breaking up
wholly.
From this point OF view the Polish in
vasion has been mensuraby successful.
When II began Russian troops were at
Tarnow and approaching Cracow. NOW
they are behind the San. and Przemysl
closely invested three weeks ago. may
have been relieved. In the same way the
Cossack squadrons which were swecpinS
down into the Hungarian plain are again
east of the Carpathlans and Bukovina mas
been reuccupied by Austrian troops
To meet the German offensive IN Po-
land thnt IL. against the Russian centre
the Russians were compelled TO weaken
their left, which was in Galcia. But al
ready II IL plain that even In Gallca the
rescued Austrian army has ceased 10
make prurgess Vienna has begun TO re-
port superior Russian forces and Petro-
grad to claim renewed Russian progress
south and west OF the San. accompanied
by new Austrian disaster.
Only in limited degree, merely for
the moment. II would seem. has Germa0
advance into Poland helped the CA car
campaign Of the ally. But what OF TINS
advance itself? TWO weeks ago II was
widely suggested that Germany con,cm'
Mated SELLING the west bank OF the Wis
tula. soiidly occupying the barrier ~ she
holds the Aisne IN France and stand
ing on the defensive a hundred miles
within her foes territory on the east a.
well as the west.