The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-03
ALLIED ARMIES FALL BACK UPON. PARIS DEFENSES Continuous Fighting Is Report ed Along Whole Line
 of Battle. FRENCH CAPITAL IS
 MOVED TO BORDEAUX Great Victory of Russians In Galicia Adds to Con
 fidence.

London. Sept. S@The battle whose issue is destined to decide whether his tory will repeat itself in a. second siege of Paris is still in progress, according, to the latest official announcement here.
 Future military historians may write hundreds of volumes about the details of this battle but all the British pub lie knows officially concerning this titanic strugg1e-the most momentous one the British soldiers have fought since the Waterloo and the fiercest one ever fought-iS contained in one sentence of an official report issued last night by the official press bureau. This sentence was that continuous fighting has been in progress along most the whole line of batt1e.''
 To this generally the French official communication tells the fact that the allied forces have fallen back toward the southwest which might have been engaged under favorable conditions. How far and to what line the allies have gone is unknown.
 There can be no revelation of mili- tary secrets nothing which a patrfo- tic censorship could criticise-in stat l ing these facts, because the German | army, which is engaging the allies,
 knows, precisely where their first line
 is drawn and the purpose of the cen-
 sorship is only to suppress facts which
 might enlighten the enemy.
 The brief official bulletin of last
 night is the first word the British people have received from their gov l ernment concerning the battle. ] In spite of the fact that the French capital has been removed to Bordeaux and that the German army of the
 west is within 30 miles of the outer I Notifications of Paris, strange air e3.J- | the allies. The main feeling seems
 to be the German attack is wearing itself out in hammering away at the allied lines which give but do not break President Po1ncare has issued
 a proclamation to his people telling l them that military necessity alone has | led him to remove hds government to
 Bordeaux. Military experts agree that Paris will soon be the pivot of the
 hostile forces operating in the area of | the west. Even the downfall of the French capital is not expected to end l these opera ations.
 1 The feeling of confidence was great
 ly increased by the news of the great 1 victory of the Russians in GaIicia
 The Austrian army in Galicia was
 acting in close cooperation with two German army corps facing Breslau and seeking to enveIop the Russian 1 forces in Poland. Their plans, how | ever, met with a series of disasters, 1 ending in a complete route when an | attempt was made to pierce the Rus
 sian frontier. Tn the west the line
 now held by the left flank of the allied I armies in the valley of the Oisee runs dia gonaIly from a point northeast of Paris to Conpiegne and thence l through Noyon GA miles northeast) to
 LaFere- LaFere, one of the weaker
 of the French Actresses, evidently is E.,, +Ioo hands Of the Germans HYarhher l east and north the allied armies ap- parent1y 71pld their own in the neigh
 iborhood of Laon and Bethel (21 miles l northeast of Rheinns). The right of
 the allies rests on the fortified Franco 1 German frontier.
 The names Of the British who fell l in the four days battle last week will rot be announced until they have been l communicated to relatives. The heavy Eioss of officers in proportion to the
 men is the story of South Africa over | again.