The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-10-29
OCTOBER 2a.

There has been no cessation of the
battle in Belgium and northern France.
All the official communications declare
the fighting is of the fiercest charact-
or and that the British warships con-
tinue to aid the allies on land with
heavy shell fire from their guns. One
report has 1t that the British fleet Is
being assisted by a French squadron.
The British admiralty praises the work
OF the warships and reports great dam
age to the Germans from their fire. 1t
adds that the naval losses have been
small and that the German artillery Is
having difficulty in finding the range.
The Germans report. however. that one
OF the British torpedo boat destroyers
has been put out of action by their shell
and refers enthusiastically to the prog
ress Of the battle along the whole front.
Evidently the Germans are taking
strong offensive because the French Of
ficial communication, In referring to the
violent engagement which has been 60
ing on for several days, says the Ger
mans have not been able to force back
either the Belgian army or the Franco
British troops. From Petrograd comes q
redteration of the official reports that
the Germans are continuing their hasty
retreat from Warsaw and that desper-
ate engagements are being fought in
Galicia. Emperor william and the Ger
man headquarters staff have retreated
from Czenstochowa, Russian Poland, int
Silesia, according to London Daily
News dispatch from the Russian capital.
The Prussian diet has passed war bills
carrying an appropriation aggregating
$375, 000, 900. In an address before the diet
Herr Del Brueck. the imperial vice chan
cellor. after declaring that Germany had
been forced into the war by the hatred
and envy of her neighbors, said that
Germany will not lay aside her arms
until she has gained a victory that will
guarantee lasting peace"
OCTOBER "a
After days of incessant fighting dents
have at last been made in that part of
the battle line which had run virtually
straight north and south of Ypres in
Belgium to the bend in the elbow of
the line in the vicinity of the forest of
Aigue in France. Just a short distance
above its center this line now curves
like an inverted letter s, the allies vav-
ing pushed back the Germans at the east
of Armentieres in an endeavor to press
on to Lille, and the Germans having
forced the allies to give ground around
La Basse, probably hoping to obtain con
troll of Bethune, an important railroad
center about seven miles due west from
La Basse. That ground has been won
and lost In this district is admitted In
the latest French official report. 1t
seems improbable, however, that either
engagement was decisive, as the report
declares the actions near La Basse and
Armentieres, near Arras on the same
line short distance south Of La Basse,
continue to grow in violence. In fact,
the report says that generally speak
ing, the situation on this part of the
war front remains the same, OF the
fighting near the coast where British
and French naval vessels are endeavor-
ing to aid the allied troops in holding
back the German advance, nothing was
vouchsafed in the report. Altkirch. in
upper Alsace, short distance from the
Swiss frontier, has been taken by the
French at the point of the bayonet.
Since the outbreak of the war this
town has been a scene of much fight
ing and several times has changed
hands. Petrograd asserts the Germans
contiue to retreat and that the forces
of Emperor Nicholas have crossed the
ans are given credit in the Russian
report for continuing to fight stubbornly
at the yistula, on the San and south
of Przemys No reports were received
from Germany or Austria, and Servia
likewise was silent regarding the opera
ton in the south. The British admiralt
has issued a statement saying that the
necessity to use its warships for convoy
duty having passed, British cruisers,
aided by like vessels of the Australian
JAPANESE, French and Russian navies.
will now search the seas In an endeavor
to run down the eight or nine German
cruisers, including the Emden and the
Karlsruhe, which have been playing hav
ov with the shipping of the allied coun-
tries Great Britain has prohibited the
importation of sugar In order to keep
the German and Austrian product from
being shipped in from neutral countries
President Wilson has approved the de-
mands of the state department on Great
Britain for the release of the steamers
Platuria and Brindilla. The president
took the position that every right of
shipping must be protected.
OCTOBER rs.
The continuation of the great battle
which has been In progress ever since
the Germans essayed their advance on
the coast toward the French seaports Is
in official dispatches and appar
emily the fire of the opposing forces is
becoming more desperate than ever. Ger
many is said to have sent many thous-
ands of reenforcements to aid the right
wing in forcing Its way through what Is,
rom strategic viewpoint the most i'm
~ In har
3eIgium. But the Belgians are fighting
lard and there is no doubt that French |
endorsements, and possibly British, |
ave been brought up to aid the allied
rmies. The latest French official COM !,