Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-10-30
HAISER'S LINE SMASHED AT CRU.
ciAL POINTS; ALLIES HURL
100000 REINFORCE
MENTS INTO
FIGHT.
NEWPORT FIGHT CENTER
vERITARLE MASSACRE OF INvAO.
ERS SOUTH OF ARRAS DE-
ScRIBED IN REPoRTs.
BODIES WASHED
ASHORE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
that thousands of Frenchmen were
| killed and wounded in the days fight
ing, the Paris war office declares the
French now occupy positions which
will crush the new offensive move
ment of the Germans.
The announcement adds that all at
tacks from the sea to the region south
of Arras were repulsed. and describes
the fighting as a veritable massacre
of the invaders.
The German host, despite the 60O,-
900 reinforcements, which have been
thrown into the thick of the fighting
in the last three days, has been COM
PEELED to retire at many points, and,
because of the terrific fire of the Brit
ish and French naval guns. the invad-
ers have left the coast clear and are
centering the attack toward Lille.
The fighting between Lille and Dun
kirk is described in Berlin dispatches
as the most furious of the campaign
and Germans assert that upon its out
come hinges the fate OF the war.
Around Nieuport Saturday the
slaughter was terrific, and again the
big guns from the ships of the
allies played havoc with the Germans.
At this place hundreds of bodies were
washed upon the beach by the waves
and the condition of the wounded is
declared to be pitiable.
In the excitement caused by the re-
peated attacks from the defending
army the Germans in many cases are
said to neglect to care for their
wounded, and many deaths are attrib-
uted to the lack of attention.
In their supreme effort to break
through the allies line the Germans
are reported to have stripped Brus-
sells and Antwerp of their garrisons
and to have even drawn reinforce
ments from the line before Rheims.
Zeppelins also are declared to have
been used in bombarding the allies
line after having practiced dropping
bombs at targets from a height of
1000 to 5000 feet.
The Germans have taken the offens-
i've against both the right wing of the
allied army, which rests on the sea,
and that portion of the French army
which is defending the line Of fortifi-
cations between Verdun and Toul.
Petroarad Announces Success.
London.-Having defeated the first
German attack on Warsaw the Rus
SLAMS are rushing reinforcements to
crush back the German invasion. Fur
ther south the Russians have failed to
make the Austrians, who are now
commanded by German officers and
stiffened with German troops, give up
their attempt to cross the San river.
In the great eight-day conflict be-
tween Sambor and Przemysl the can
nonading has been continuous for
eight days. Here the Austrians began
the attack, and, after being hurled
back, concentrated in an advance
against Lemberg, in an effort to cut
the Russian line. It is declared they
were defeated with loss of 5000
prisoners.
The German-Austrian forces are
also said to have taken Jarosfau, but
to have been ousted later. The Off
cial report from Vienna claims that
the Russians, after being allowed to
cross the river San, were pressed
back. and that the Austrians defeated
two Russian divisions at Ivangorod.
The Russians apparently are en-.
gagged in offensive operations on the
East Prussian frontier, as the Ger.
man official report refers to a Rus
sian attack at Augustowa which, it
says, was repulsed.
The following official communica.
ton was issued by general headquar.
ters in Petrograd:
"Our troops beyond the Vistula are
pressing the armies of the enemy in
retreat North of the Pilitza river the
Germans are offering only feeble re.
sistance. They have been driven back
as far as Skierniewice. South of the
| Pilitza on the roads to Radon we
have forced the Austro-G German troops
to engage ina serious battle. On Oct.
23 the fighting line extended 40 versts
| (26 miles,. AT certain points the en-.
gagements took on the character OF
hand-to-hand encounters.
Violent Conflict Is Raging.
"In the forest around Radon sew.
eral of our infantry regiments success.
fully carried out bayonet attacks. AT
other points We have taken prisoners
and rapid firers. Above the river II.
janka the Austrian troops are seeking
to establish themselves on the vistula
but our troops have crossed the river
and are offering strong opposition
Along the river San and south OF
Przemysl desperate engagements con,
tinue, but the advantage is with oul
troops"