The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-10-30
ALLIES ADVANCE.
INTO LORRAINE;
TOWNS SAVED
German March on. Dunkirk and
Calais Halted.
AUsTRlANS REACH BELGIUM
Francis Joseph's Troops Strengthen
kaiser's Line-French Move to
Relieve verdun-Dead lying
In Heaps.

| graph correspondent on the DulcH
| frontier reports that the allies cap
tured Thourout after it had been oc-
cupied by large force of Germans
from Bruges.
Paris, Oct. 2S.--A statement given
out by the ministry of war tells OF
| French successes on the right wing
It says:
In the region to the east Of Nancy
between the forest of Bezange and
the forest of Parroy we have assumed
the offensive and driven the enemy
across the frontier
Is London, Oct. 28.-Out of battle
swept Flanders come short announce
ments, laconic in the extreme, which,,
pieced together, seem to indicate
that the Germans are defeated in
their desperate final effort to capture
Dunkirk and Calais.
AT the same time, the combined
French garrison of Toul and Nancy
have fallen on the German army OF
Lorraine and pushed it back toward
Metz.
And in Alsace the French troops
who took Altkirch and Thanh at the
point Of the -bayonet, have been re-
enforced BY large detachments sent
from the army that shielded Belfort.
1t appears to be victory for the al
lies arms, from Belfort to the sea.
Kaiser Orders Towns Capture.
The capture of Calais had been or
dered by the kaiser, according to the
correspondent of the Times at Copen-
hagen. With Calais as a base the
Teutonic troops were to swoop across
the channel and desolate England
This correspondent learns from Berlin
that the kaiser sent message to
General Won Beseler demanding the
seizure of the French channel city
! irrespective of expenditure of life
or materials.
That the kaiser's command failed
to give the Germans the necessary
momentum to break through the line
of Belgian, French and British troops
that stood in their way, is indicated
by dispatches detailing the further
bombardme1lt of Arras, the continued
Smelling of Dixmude and Nieuport, and
the check the Germans received when
their decimated advance legions that
led. the attack on the Belgian line
were thrown back across the User.
Germans Lose 5000 Men.
The 5000 Germans who crossed the
User on bridges in the night have
either been killed or taken prisoners.
The 3,0O0sGermans who occupied the
char-heaped cemetery which once was
Dixmude, have been driven. out and
hunted down in tire nearby wood.
Thousands more have swept down
upon the Belgian trenches and en-
tanglements In solid masses only to
betmet by the bayoLet. Many hum
dreds have been captured, but eully
1,500 will be accounted for as missing
their bodies are floating In the
User, which is red with their blood
About Ypres the fighting has been
fully as. furious as that from Nieu-
port to Dixmude; and west of Roulers
the destruction Of life and property
has been frightful.
The left wing Of the allies has been
REINFORCED, until it is now believed
that the Germans between Ypres and
the ocean are outnumbered by the al
lies opposing them.
Austrians Reach Belgium.
Paris, Oct 28.-Ten thousand Aus
TRANS have arrived at Client, herald
Ing the arrival Of strong bodies Of
fresh troops : hurried TO the aid of
Germans. Thousands upon thousands
of wounded have been taken to the
German rear. Cstend and Antwerp
are now filling up, and Bruges, Client
and Thielt can hold no more.
Shells Destroy Arras.
Reports from Arras declare that the
Germans are continuing a furious
bombardment of Arras and that the
entire city has practically been de-
stroyed. Arras is the capital of the
department. of Pas-de-Calais, 100
miles north by northeast, of Paris,
and is a fine example of Flemish arch
itecture.
"On to Ostend" the Cry.
The general opinion here is that the
allies will soon be in Ostend again.
Ostend, like Bruges and Client, is
overhowing with wounded, and Ant
werp is filling up. This unceasing
flow of wounded men is calculated to
destroy the morale of the German
troops in Ostend.
Reports from all sides tell of terri
bic carnage around Rouiers, where
the dead are lying in heaps: On the
sea front there the naval shells
worked havoc Carts come and go
the day long with wounded. Large
farm wagons with their sloping sides
are packed. with masses of wounded