Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1914-10-01
TitantiC Conflict Re-
mains Undecided.
TREMENDOUS LOSSES
IN LONG STRUGGLE
nd-to-Hand Fighting Now Rag
ing Expected to Deter
mine the Result.

London, Sept. 30.-The eighteenth
day of the battle of the Aisne thus
far has brought no decisive result,
but all indications continue to point
to an approaching end of the Homeric
struggle. Hand-to-hand fighting now
raging with tremendous fury is GER
tain, it is generally held by military
experts, to decide the issue.
All that the public is permitted to
know from the allies side is that the
British and French armies hold their
grip on their positions and have con-
sistently thrown back the masses of
Germans who have been bravely and
necessarily hurled on them in an ef-
fort to break through the human bar
rier. In Berlin it is asserted there
has been no change in the situation
and the claim of the allies that the
scales have turned slightly in their
favor is stoutly denied.
The losses of the opposing armies
in the last few days have been colos-
SAL Even the official reports contain
a gruesome picture of thousands of
dead and wounded lying in the fire.
swept zone between the two armies
and every fresh assault is adding to
the CHASTITY litter.
Germans Attack Left Wing. u
The latest official communication
from Paris says the Germans have
delivered several attacks day and
night on the left wing to the north
of the Somme and between the Som
me and the Disc, all of which have
been repulsed. To the north of the
Aisne there has been no change.
On the center, in Champagne, and
to the east of the Argonne the Ger
mans have restricted their activities
to heavy cannonading. Between the
Argonne and the Meuse the allies re-
port slight progress against the Ger.
mans, who are holding strong posi-
tions.
On the right wing in Lorraine and
Vosges the official statement reports
no change in the situation. The off,
cial report asserts the allies have
taken many prisoners in the last
twenty-four hours.
The French official communication
says the allies line runs from the
east to the west through the region of
Pont-a-Mousson, Aprement and the
Meuse, through the region of st. Mi
hiel, along the heights to the north of
Spada, and through portion of the
heights of the Meuse. Between Ver
dun and Rheims the general front is
indicated by line passing through
the region of Varennes, to the north
of Souain and the Roman roadway.
which runs into Rheims, the road from
Rheims to Berry-au-Bac.
On Right Of the Aisne.
On the right bank of the Aisne the
line draws near to the Aisne and con.
tinues in the region of scissors. Be-
tween scissors and the forest of
LAigle 1t runs over the first plateau
of the right bank of the Aisne. Be-
tween the Disc and the Somme the
battle line runs along the front from
Ribecourt (held by the allies) to Las
signy Occupied by the Germans). to
Roye, (held by the allies). and to
Chalons lin possession of the Ger
mans). To the north of the Somme
the line continues along the plateau
between Albert and Combles.
Paris advices say the comparative
calm on the battle line Monday was
surprise after Sundays storm OF
shot and shell. 1t was supposed the
extreme violence of the German at
tack meant a determination to finish
the campaign on the Aisne by break
ing the allies lines at all costs and
pressure. The center, however, was
the only point seriously attacked.
probably on the supposition that the
line here had been weakened to rein.
force the left.
One theory for the lull is that an
armistice of four hours, granted by
the French for burying the dead, was
not sufficient, and that the Germans
needed the entire day to get rid OF
the bodies encumbering the trenches