Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-08
KAISER NEAR DEATH
Emperor With Troops in East
ern Field Has Narrow Escape
Won KLUCK is PUSHED BACK
Both Sides Claim Gains In Aisne Bat
tie, But Agree That German
General Is Gradually Moving
Toward the North.

way of Rome to the Central News
says: The Germans are evacuating
Russian territory. Whole regiments
have been drowned in the Niemen
river and have lost their siege artil.
lery The emperor, it is declared, es-
capped with difficulty"
Directly opposing reports OF the great
battle in Franch are furnished by the
official statements made public In Par
is and Berlin. Only on one point do
they agree, and that is in the announce
ment that General Won Kluek, who
commands the German right, contin-
ues to move northward at a snaips
pace.
So powerful, however, is General
Won Kluck's army. which has been
REINFORCED from the center, that Cen
eral Joffre, commander-in-chief OF the
allies, is obliged to admit that the
German commander has been able to
make French detachment debouch-
ing from Arras fall back.
Further south, in the neighborhood
OF Roye, says the German staff, the
French have been dislodged from
their positions. but the French COM
munique declares that all the German
assaults there were shattered.
Experts Predict Long War.
London.-The military expert of the
Times says:
However much we may bend back
the German right wing and relieve
Antwerp, whatever confidence we
have that the shock of the Russian
masses in the east will prove deci-
sive, we must not entertain the slight
est illusion regarding the hard and
trying condition which awaits all the
allies in the future in operating
against Germany reduced to the de-
fensive.
Germany is still united. All her
might in arms, all her arsenals are
working at full pressure. Her fleet
will strike when the hour comes.
probably in cooperation with the
army.
THE line OF the Aisne, when forced,
may prove to be only one OF many
similar lines prepared in the rear Of
1t. 1t may take a very long time for
the allies to compel Germany to feel
a weakness. 1t therefore devolves up
on the allies to look forward to
long war"
War News Condensed.
The Russian emperor, according to
an announcement from Petrograd. has
left the capital for the war zone. The
German emperor is now said to be at
Thorn, West Prussia. close to the
Russian frontier. Thus 1t would seem
that the swift developments in the
eastern theater of war during the
past week or two have demanded the
personal attention of the heads Of
the two countries.
The determined efforts the Germans
are making, not only, to hold their
lines in the north of France, but to
win back some Of the territory which
the allied forces have succeeded in
taking from them since the great bat
tie OF the Aisne began, are indicated
in the official announcements from
the French war office.
desperate resistance OF five days, have
been obliged to fall back to the River
Nethe, so terrific has been the Ger
man artillery fire.
The turning movement of the allied
armies in northern France has
brought the extreme of their left
wing within about thirty miles of the
Belgian frontier.
Fierce fighting continues en- the
allies left wing, according to the
Paris statement, the most severe
struggle being the region of Roye, a
town twenty-siX miles east of Amiens
and about midway on this battle line.
Here the Germans have concentrated
strong forces, probably with the pur-
pose of breaking through the front of
the allies and isolating their forces to
the north.
The Paris statement adds that the
Germans attempted to bridge the
Mouse near st. Mihiel, but their pom
toons were destroyed. French claims
of slight progress in the Woevre dis
trict are recorded as are minor en-
gagements at various points on the
front extending east and west
In a statement received by wireless
from Berlin, the German headquarters
announced that the great battle in
France remains undecided. The Ger
mans with their heavy artillery are
hammering the positions OF the allies
at many points. The allies are re-
pulsed in their attempts to break the
German lines. The German state.
ments say the heaviest losses have
been in the Argonne region.
The Idea Nazionale OF Rome, the
nationalist party organ, declares the
minister OF foreign affairs. Marquis Di
San Giuliano, who is reputed to be OPP
posed to Italy entering the conflict,
has resigned from the cabinet
Interest in the attitude of Bulgaria
Is revived by dispatch from Rome,
saying that all Bulgarian army officers
in Italy and Switzerland have been
ordered home at once.
A Petrograd correspondent says
that the Germans, from four points
are attempting to concentrate on
southern Russian Poland, where de-
cisive battle is expected.
Nothing is made known OF the fight.
ing in the eastern theater OF the war.
A news dispatch from Petrograd says
a German squadron bombarded Win
dau, Russian seaport in the Baltic.
The forts replied to the fire of the
ships, which after destroying the
lighthouse. withdrew.