Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-05
Little is Known of Fighting
Around Paris Except that
Allies are Losing.
INVADERS WITHIN
20 MILES OF GOAL
Defenders Unable to Check
Advance of the Kaiser's
Enormous Forces.


under thursdays date indicates
that the Germans are less than 20
miles from Paris. He says:
"All day yesterday the head OF
the wedge which now forms the
German right was furlousIy fore
ino its way to Paris, batterin9 the
rear OF the retreatIn0 French
through crell, Senlis and Creepy
En-Valois. The eannoding broke
windows in chantilIy, which 10
only seventeen miles north OF
Paris. The Germans are also near
Soissons."
Berlin, Sept. a., (By Wireless via
sayvilIe, L. I.)-Beriln 10 perman-
emily decked With flags. Conf
dencs prevails that nothing can
stay the victorious advance Of the
western armies. Major Moraht.
the Military expert Of The Ysgs-
blatt expects that the armies Of
Duke Albrecht and the crown
prince will soon reach chaIons and
Verdun which can easily be mask.
Cd without delaying the advance.
London, Sept. 4.-The armies Of
Germany, Austria, France and Grea'
Britain are still at death grips In four
colossal battles. A few brief bulle
tins convey all the important facts
that the peoples OF Europe know
about the war. yet the interests of
their armies far overshadow all indi
yidual affairs that they wait with
spartan patience for information.
English newspapers in the lack OF
definite news Of battle are filled with
stories about the wounded soldiers
who saw some scrap of the conflict
and with reports from correspondents
far behind the fighting lines.
The election Of Pope Benedict XIV
at Rome obtains few lines on the
inner pages of London papers. The
past twenty-four hours has yielded no
definite news OF the progress of the
battle in northern France. The pub,
lie is prepared to learn that the Ger.
man advance continued to the outer
lines Of the defenses of Paris. There
II is expected that the allied armies
will make stand on the line from
yerdun east to the sea and attempt
with all their might to stay the Ger
man avalanche.
The British public has turned hope
f,,l eyes toward the east where the
triumph OF Russian arms in the Aus
trian province Of Galicia has been
amply confirmed. In addition to the
battle Of Lemberg, in which the flower
OF six Austrian army corps were de-
etroyed. it is evident that there has
been a simultaneous victory at Tomas
zow. town Of some Importance thirty
miles southeast of Lodz in Russian
Poland.
The veil OF secrecy over the western
area of the f1ghting-the country north
of Paris-never has been harder to
penetrate than during the past twenty
four hours. There is no evidence at
hand to show that the persistent ad-
vance Of the Germans has been ap-
preciably checked, on the contrary, at
Ic8SC OQG pOluL llG SOAeoSt ~
now within 20 miles of the outer forti-
fications Of Paris
Late news dispatches from Dieppe
describe the German right as on the
rear Of the retreating French through
Creil, Sentis and Crepy-En-Val
towns distant "a, 20 and 35 miles res
pectfully from the boundaries of Paris
proper. The fortifications Of the
French capital extend roughly ten
miles beyond the city limits. The
allied armies probably now occupy a
line of siege both to the east and west
OF Paris.
Recruiting has improved in England
and the military authorities are now
prepared to form some ten or twelve
new divisions.
Battle Call Greatest.
London, Sept. 4.-Telegraphing from
Copenhagen the correspondent Of the
Central News says that Berlin news
papers, which have been received
there describe the battle which was
proceeding Wednesday between
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