The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-17
Late war news Summary

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fensive movement against the Russian
center.
In Servia the Austrian advance is
being carried on according to Vienna
reports, with further success.
Accounts Of the fighting in Belgium,
official and otherwise, dwell upon the
frightful hardships which the men In
the water soaked trenches are called
upon to endure and the great loss of
life. Regarding this latter phase, ofEicial
reports have little to say, and although
private accounts of the extent of the
slaughter must be accepted with re-
serve it is evident that both the Ger
mans and their foes have suffered
greatly.
One such report comes from a Brit
ish correspondent who estimates the
German casualties in the last four days
at 100000.
If similar reports from the east are
to be credited the slaughter in that ter
ritory is no less terrible. A letter writ.
ten by a Galician priest describes a
grave more than four miles long. In it,
says the letter, 10000 Austrians, the
dead from one days fighting, were
buried.
The most that is bsing accomp'ishe !
in the west by this sort of warfare, as
the latest British communications indi-
cate, is that the allies have been able to
hold their lines in the main with here
and there small retirements before the
German assaults. The British losses, it
is acknowledged, are very heavy. An
Official narrative of the fighting given
out in London to-day pays an unre-
served tribute to the bravery of the
Germans.
The French official communication
of to-day after emphasizing the violent
character of the cannonading new in
progress, mentions few localities in
Belgium and along the Aisne where
German infantry attacks were made.
These attacks, it is said, were repulsed.
The fighting along the eastern bound
ary of Germany is of different char
acter. There is nothing there to cor.
respond with the endless lines of
trenches which stretch across France.
Movements of troops are more mobile,
and the main battle line is shifting con-
stantly. In France an advance of a few
yards is worthy of mention. In Galicia,
Russian Poland and East Prussia, they
measure movements by scores of miles.
Little news of an ial character
was received from the Russian fields
of battle. Private advices from Pc
trograd, however. dispute the German
claims to success in Russian Poland, as
serting that the German offensive
movement has failed. The Russian
squadron is said to have left Helsing-
fors. Finland, with the supposed inten-
tion of engaging the German Baltic
feet
Russia admits the truth of recent
Turkish statements that the invaders
from the north had been driven back.
The Russian advance guard, it is an
nounced officially, has been forced to
halt its march on Erzerum, the Turkish
town near the eastern end of the Black
sea.
British claims to victory in fighting
with Turks at Fac, town in the Per
sian gulf, are disputed at CONSTANT
ncple, where it is announced officially
that the English were repulsed with the
loss of 900 men.
The latest Austrian announcement.
concerning the fighting in Servia is
that the advance in Servian territory is
being continued with success and that
5000 prisoners were taken in one bat
tie.
General Christian De Wet, one of the
rebel leaders in British South Africa,
is reported to have been wounded in
the head. His followers, it is said, lack
arms and are dispirited.