Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-22
ALLIES WIN FIGHT
Two Attacks by Germans on
City of st. Die RepuIsed.
SURPRISE INVADERS IN FOG
Latest Reports Received Are From
Paris Only And State That ksis-
er's Forces Have Been Driven
Back Near the Coast.

Paris, Oct. 19.-What in previous
wars would have been called great bat
ties we're fought yesterday on the
eastern wing of the fighting line
stretching from the Belgian coast to
Switzerland.
In this great battle of nations,
however, these fights are regarded
merely as incidents. The fighting al
ways has been OF the most fierce ma
ture in this district, owing to the
strenuous efforts Of the Germans to
obtain possession of the strong fort
resses OF verdun, Toul and Epinal in
order to open a way from Metz into
France.
ST. Die. on the Meurthe, thirty-two
miles northeast OF Epinal, was the
center of Sundays attacks, which re-
suited in repulse OF two violent Ger
man assaults with heavy casualties.
The borders OF both Alsace and Lor-
raine also felt the shock OF battle and
in the Vosges the famous French AL
pine regiments were in contact with
German columns. These mountaineers
continually keep the Germans busy by
utilizing their remarkable mountain
guns and battling their efforts to drive
them out
Their greatest achievement in the
recent operations was the cutting OF
railroad communication between Col
mar, capital of upper Alsace, and
Muelhausen, Prussia, thereby increas-
ing the difficulties of the Germans in
sending their wounded to the rear
and bringing up supplies.
The Germans have brought up ten
inch mortars in this district, suppos-
eddy for an intended eventual siege
OF Belfort. In view of this possibility
the French have renewed their at
lacks from the south and again ad-
vanced beyond Altkirche. A great
part OF the theater Of operations in
southern Alsace is illuminated at night
by forest fires along the Swiss from
tier caused by shells falling across the
border.
War News Condensed.
Fighting is still going on between
the Austro-German and the Russian
armies near Warsaw, and the Galician
fortress of Przemysl continues to hold
out against the attacks Of the Russ
ians.
Commandments representing all the
Congo Free state north Of Bloemfon-
tain have placed their services at the
disposal OF General Botha, commander
in chief of the forces of the Union OF
South Africa.
In the sinking of the British ,cruis-
ar Hawke by a German submarine
only one officer and 81 enlisted men
of her crew ofabout 400 are known
to have been rescued.
The king and queen of the Belgians
are at the headquarters OF the Belgian
army.
The German army that successfully
besieged Antwerp has swept victor
iously westward along the Belgian
coast until now with its right resting
on Ostend It forms the extreme right
of the German line stretching from
the North sea to the Swiss frontier.
A great battle to determine wheth-
err the advancing German hosts will
be stopped in western Belgium or
push ON into France, seizing Dunkirk
and Calais on the strait of Dover,
must come soon. and quite possibly
is being fought today.
OFFICIAL intelligence is markedly
meager today and this Is invariably
the case when the belligerents are
particularly active.
The French official statement this
afternoon says that the German
troops occupying western Belgium
have not crossed the line running
from Ostend south to Menin. The
allied troops have occupied Fleurbaix
and the immediate approaches to Ar,
mentieres, II is announced. while fur
Their gains are claimed In the region
Of Arras and the vicinity Of st. Mi
hiel.
Berlin announces that gigantic
battle is preparing in the eastern the
alter where the Austro-German forces
have taken positions along the Vistula
and San rivers.
Vienna states officially that fighting
continued Thursday along the entire
battle front from Stry and Sambor,
both to the southeast OF Przemysl to
the mouth of the San.
The most recent advices from Pc
trograd claimed Russian successes in
Russian Poland. All sources agree
that there is lull in the struggle on
the East Prussian frontier. following
battles in which neither army won
decided advantage.
A correspondent at Flushing. Meth
erlands, reports that the greater part
of the German army after the occu-
patton of Ostend. left for the east
German naval forces have scored
again. The British admiralty an
nounces that the cruiser Hawke was
sent to- the bottom in the North sea
by German submarine. The loss
of life on the Hawke is not made
known but the warship belonged to
an older class OF vessel that ordinari-
ly carried about 800 officers and men.
Only fifty OF her crew are known to
have been saved. A sister ship, the
cruiser Theseus was also attacked by
submarine, but escaped.
Toxic announces that Japanese ara
British warships bombarded two forts
at Using Tau Oct. A.
Vienna on the contrary announces
the commander OF the fortress at
Przemysl brusquely refused a request
to surrender on Oct. and that since
that date the Russian besiegers have
| been defeated and the city relieved.