The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-06
N|lH RUN|AN ARIV|I
FRENCH CRITICS REFUSE TO At.
TAcH IMPORTANCE TO YES
rERDAYs EVENTS.
FRENCH TROOPS NOW WELL
ESTABLISHED IN ALSACE
Eyes or World Will Soon Turn TO
Eastern Theatre. Where Battle Of
Greater Magnitude and Importance
Than That In France is About to
Be Waoed. s@
(By Associated Press.)

> tBy' Associated Press.)
The official silence which has been
maintained for twelve hours over the
operations of the allies in Northeast
ern France was broken this afternoon
by statement from Paris.
This statement sets forth that the
left wing of the allied armies is ex-
tending more and more widely; that
strong forces of the German cavalry
have appeared in the vicinity of Lille;
that between the rivers Somme and
Disc there have been alternate ad-
vances and Withdrawals; that the Ger
man attack near Lassigny had failed;
that north of Scissors the allies have
advanced; and that the rest of the
front shows no change.
Despite the fact that the allies were
wing yesterday, confidence in the ulti-
mate success of this flanking move
ment in favor of the allies is described
| in Paris dispatch as undiminished.
French military critics, indeed, refuse
to attach Importance to the setback
OF Yesterday, Great Britain is also
described as optimistic. -'--
| There has been no confirmation
from German, source of the reported
removal by Emperor William of Field
+, Marshall Won Moltke from the post of
chief of the general staff and the sue
cession by General Won voights-Rhetz
to that position. General Won voights-
Rhetz recently was appointed quarter
master general. nat -
French In Alsace.
I The French troops are now well es-
tablished in Aisace, according to a
news dispatch from Belfort, France.
German forces are before them, but
are not numerous. Another newspa-
lper correspondent telegraphs that the
French are excellently fortified in
Vosges - .-lt-i .-s-i siAA4-----. *. -
| The second Russian army is threat
ening the town of Huszt, according to
news dispatch from Rome. Huszt is
forty miles from the Galician frontier.
Until late in the day no news was
received from the eastern war theatre
along the Russian German frontier. A
battle of greater importance and mag.
nitude than that now being waged in
France is about to begin there, with
Emperor Nicholas at the front with
his huge army, but details as to the
troop movements are scarce.
: A force of ninety French architects
, and 5000 workmen assembled in Paris
l today, ready to go out and repair the
v damage done in the war zone by shot
r and shell.
8 An official statement issued today
# at Vienna, says the situation in Rus
s sian Poland and Galicia is favorable
e according to a Reuter- dispatch from
,. Vienna via Amsterdam.
|. THE combined German and Aus
# trian forces" it is officially announced
It have forced the enemy from Opatow
S and Klimontow toward the vistula riv
l. er. In the Carpathian mountains the
Russian were completely beaten al
q Uzsok Pass
Germany Claims Victory.
Berlin, Oct. (By wireless direct to
the Associated Press at Sayville).-
An order of the day written by Gen
Y eral Won Hoehen and published off
cially today says that Fort Champ
H. des Romaines, on the river Meuse
lie near Stmisiel, after a number of hare
al fights, was taken by the Germans
e. Five French officers and more than 50l
ly men were taken prisoners. The re
I'd mainder of the French force perishet
of in the casemates.
or 1t is officially announced that tn
Russians were completely defeates
lnear Suwalki and Austustowo on tn
= East Prussian frontier on October firs
. and second. The Germans took 500
. prisoners and eighteen cannon ami
= many machine guns. The situattol
. everywhere is hopeful for the oe<
emans and AustEians.