New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-10-24
BOTH SIDES CLAIM SLIGHT
SUCCESSES.

fighting continues in west Elan
deIs and northern France be-
tween Germany armies rem
forced by Virtually all her forces
IN the occupied portions Of Be-
gum and the French, British
and Belgian troops, aided by
British WarshipS.
/ Along the coast. the User liver
still divides the contending for
ces. Neither SIDE, apparently.
has been able to advance but in
the interior according to a Ger
man report Issued tonight the Al
lies are retiring from several i'm
nortant positions.
This statement Of the Germans
.s contra dicted. however. fy the
French communication issued in
o"a'ie his atterHoon which says
the allies have not been moved.
utNDitt 'lottilt dtldNhS VI tlit III
vaders, all along the front f,om
the North sea to the Swiss border.
In fact, each side claims to have
repulsed the attacks of the other
=, or to have made slight progress
at various points.
!he contending armies seem
ngly are so nearly equal in
, strength that neither can force
or Get arc"rd the wing.
Tn Poland the preliminary bat
! tie. ut least. has moved a little
more swiftly. The Russions re
mort that they have been able to
drive back the first German OF
{ eensive move against Warsaw, !.
the Polish capital and the Toy
tress of Tvangorod. All the F,s-
/ sian accounts refer to this as
great victory. Thev say the
! Germans. besides losing manv
prisoners and guns, have left
LARGE quantities of ammunition
and provisions in the trenches
they had prepared for theid de-
! fenSive.
German headquarters hereto
fore had made no reference to
this struggle but today it says
that after several days of battle
no fighting was reported yester-
dav.
Apparently there has been
more fighting on the east Prus-
sian frontier where the situation
has been quiet for some times az
the German report says:
"Orr troops are pursuing the
retreating enem yin the direction
of Ossowetz.
Ossowetz is the fortress which
was a range Of the German guns
several weeks ago when their ad-
vance when their advance on the
Niemen failed.
The hattie aroun1 FRI emysl and
south Of that city continues, but
further south the Austrians claim
to have cleared the Russians out
Of Hungary and are advancing
toward Bukowina, a erOwnland
in eastern Galicia with the same
object in view.
As thOr'gh the Belgians had
not already suffered sufficiently
from the war the villages along
the coast north os Ostend are suf-
fering severely from shell fire.
Lying as they do between the
German lines and the British
warships off the beach some of
them are reported to have been
wiped out. 1t is believed, how
ever, that the inhabitants fea
when the Belgian army retired be-
hind the User river.
Lord Creme. secretary Of state
for India. officially disclosed in a
speech delivered last Tuesday,
but made public only today. that
the Indian troops in France have
not vet taken part in anv Of the
battles. The men and their hor-
ses required considerable time to
become acclimated. But the be-
lief here is that they soon will be
ready to take their places at tn.
front The hospitals have been
advised to, get ready for their
wounded.
Again today it was reported
that Italy had landed marines at
Avlona, Albania. Such step, it
is believed here. would not be re-
sented by any power at the pres
ent moment, when the str alton
in Albs2ia is so serious because
of the warring tribes and the
strife between the contenders fer