The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-09-05
Kaiser Checked so
Miles from Paris.
TROOPS ARE EXHAUSTED
French Government Is Moved
TO Bordeaux.
HINT JAP MOVE TO EUROPE

After Marching to Within Fifty Miles
Of Paris German Right Wing Meets
Two Defeats-Twelve Thousand
Germans AnnihlIated at Compelgnle,
Says Paris-Brltlsh Capture Ten
Guns-Japs Occupy Seven Islands
About kIauehau-German Alrmen
Reported Killed.
Reports from Paris declare that the
situation at the front shows Inn
provement. The terocity OF the
German assault on the French-Brl-
fish left wing ls decreasing. The
long-drawn.out struggle Is having its
effect and there are evidences OF eN-
haustion on the part of the enemy.
The Swedish steamer St Paul, dur
Ing the voyage from oothenburg,
struck a North Sea mine and found
cred. The crew Of twenty-five men
escaped Injury and cot away safely
In the ships llfeboat.
Japanese forces have occupied seven
islands about the German province
Of kIauehau. Landings were made
without resistance and troops took
full possession. The klauchau wa.
tiers had been heavily mined by the
Germans and mine sweepers are
now engaged clearing all passages
for ships.
ANH ~
the German aeropIanes Of the Taube
type, which recently dropped bombs
on the City Of Paris, has been
brought down. The two German
avIators on board were killed.
The communique Issued by the French
war office says: 1.-THE Russians
have won an important victory over
the AustrIsns In oalicla. No de.
tails are known"
PARIS The president and
members OF the government and all
embassies OF the allied nations left
ut 1880 Wednesday night for Bor
deaux, where they will remain during
hostilities.
J PARIS Worn 20 exhaustion
On their huge battle line by many
days OF continuous marching and by
their appalling losses, the Germans,
under orders OF the kaiser, who IS
now at Charleroi, Belgium, concentrate
ed all their strength TO crush the left
wing OF the army Of the allies. AT
all other points on the firing line the
Germans halted. Only thin curtain
OF Germans remain at Belfort. The
kaiser's forces appear TO have left
southern Alsace and the French re.
port a renewal Of their victorious
progress in Lorraine.
Germans Meet TWO Defeats.
The German right has forced the
niles back as far as Compeignie only
fifty miles from Paris. But at Com
peignie the Germans met with two
crushing defeats. Twelve thousand OF
the kaiser's cayalrymen were ami
hilated by the French artillery near
the town OF Compeignie while Eng.
lish cayalrymen met a second corps
OF the kaiser's horsemen In battle az
tho forest Of Compeignie and defeat.
cd them. capturing ten German guns
The allies lines have been strongly
reinforced and reserve forces have
also been stationed behind the British
and French troops In the positions
they have assumed to halt the German
advance.
Another German aeroplane up
peared above Paris.
An Amsterdam dispatch says that
several German army corps have been
assigned for the defense OF Berlin
against the Russians
This Looks Like a Bluff.
THE HAGUE - The quays and
wbarfs intended for the embark
alton OF the German troops to invade
England have been constructed at
Emden.
Says Germans Lose Officers.
PARIS - The Petit Parlsien
says fourteen German stan officers
have been captured and sent 10
Mines. in the department Of Gard.
Believe Japs Moving TO Europe.
PICKING Japan has landed
between 10000 and $4,000 troops from
eighteen transports al Lung-Kow, a
newly opened port about 100 miles
north OF Tsingtau. This Is declared
here 10 have been done in violation OF
China's neutrality. Travellers arriv.
Ing at Shanghai say fifty transports
arc loading 100000 japanese soldiers
81 Nagasaki and that some OF the
troops believe their destination TO be