TheGermansHave Taken French
Town of Amiens, 70 Miles
North of Paris.
———————
The Austrians Suffer Enormous
Losses—Danger of all the
Moslems Rising.
With Paris declared in a state of
wlege and the French capital formally
moved to Bordeaux, the fierce battle
between the Germans and the Allies
continues with unabated vigor.
According to the latest reports the
Germans have occupied Amiens, 70
miles directly north of Paris, and their
right is within 40 miles of the forts of
Paris.
The Austrians lost 100,000 men and
87 cannon in an overwhelming defeat
at Lemberg, the occupation of which
by the Russians will likely have a far-
reaching effect upon the campaign in
Eastern Europe. The battle line ex-
tended over 200 miles, with 1,500,000
men engaged.
The Japs have landed 4.500 men at
Lung Kow, 100 miles north of Tsing-
Tau, in Kiao-Chau.
The rush of recruits for the British
Army is phenomenal. No fewer than
60,000 men have Kitch
ener's second past few
days.
According to officers and passengers
of the unard Line
Mauretania, which just arrived in New
York, a Russian army of 72.000 men
* transported from Russia,
was landed at Aberdeen, Scotland, on
the night of August 27. Aber-
deen, it con-
veyed on Harwich,
Grimsby and Dover, where transports
were waiting to take them to Ostend.
Every precaution was taken by the
military authorities to keep the trans-
portation of the
through England
known.
would be joined at Ostend by
British marines and that these
bined forces would co-operate with
Belgian Army at Antwerp
joined Lord
army in the
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Northern
From
is said, the men were
special trains t
oO
foreign soldiers
from
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com-
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The most dramatic event was the
removal of the French seat of govern-
msnt 16 Bordeaux for the second time
in history. In 1871 the capital was
moved to Tours, when the Prussians |
besieged Paris, and later was moved
to Bordeaux,
In Paris the military is in full con-
trol and martial law had been de-
clared™ The 17 forts around the city |
were manned with picked troops and |
entrenchments thrown up between the |
forts. It was officially decreed that!
the city was considered in a state of
siege.
Fighting continued in East Prussia |
and Austrian Galicia between the Rus- |
slans, Germans and Austrians, while |
another battle was reported between
the Austrians and the Servians.
engagements the Austrians were re-
ported to have lost 240,000 men, killed,
wounded and prisoners.
A Holy War.
Turkey, it was reported, either had
or will declare war against England,
France and Russia.
The Sultan of Turkey is looked on!
by the Moslem world as its head.
Egypt, which now is a British protec- |
torate, is peopled almost wholly by
Moslems, who believe that England
broke a solemn promise when she |
failed to relax her grip on Egypt. |
These Moslems would be almost cer-
tain to rise up and ald Turkey against |
England. |
France, too, has to deal
with in Algiers. They would also be
likely to join Turkey in the event of
Such a contingency would
force both England and France to send
large armies into Africa, which would
be a great risk to both, in view of the
way the Allies are being pressed on
the continent by Germany.
Should Turkey get into the war
against the Allies it would be a master
stroke on the part of Emperor Wil-'
Turkey's participation in the |
war on the other hand would be almost |
Moslems
War.
liam
certain to draw Italy into the fighting |
on the side of the Allies, as the Italian
government has been reported as say
ing that it would declare war on Aus
tria and Germany if any other power
d, France and
Russia.
Paris the Pivot.
Whether Paris is besieged or not it
surely will
pivotal operations that are planned to
the Allies’
become the center of
follow any further retreat of
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a sortle from Koenigsberg and were
repulsed.
The latest statements forthcoming
line.”
Petrograd (Bt. Petersburg) .-
issued by the Russian War Office:
“After a battle lasting seven days
the Russian Army seized heavily forti
fied positions around Lemberg, capi
tal of Galicia, in Austria-Hungary,
The Russian troops then advanced to-
ward the principal forts.
“After a battle Wednesday, which
was flercely contested, the Austrians
were obliged to retreat in disorder,
abandoning heavy and light guns,
parks of artillery and field kitchens.
"Our advance guard and cavalry pur
sued the enemy, who suffered enor
mous losses in killed, wounded and
Three Corps Badly Beaten.
“The Army operating
the of Lemberg
Austrian
neighborhood
in
WAS
and Fourteenth Corps.
have been
This army ap
completely de
leated.
‘During the pursuit by the Russian
abandon an additional 31 guns. Our
voys loaded with provisions of various
kinds.
“The total number of guns captured
the Russians around Lemberg
Another official statement:
“We repulsed the Austrians, inflict.
Ing severe losses. We buried on the
battlefield 14,800 Austrian dead, CAD-
tured a flag and 32 guns and a quan
tity of supplies and made many prison:
including a general
“On the south front, in the Warsaw
district, all the Austrian attacks have
been Assum-
on our right wing, we
strians retreat, cap-
nnon, 10 rapid-fire guns and
over 1.000 prisoners
The general staff announces that the
Fifteenth
ted
rout
ers
repelled with success
ing the offensive
the
forced to
turing 3 ca
division was com.
pletely near Lustchoff on Au-
gust 28 and that 100 officers and 4.000
soldiers were taken prisoners
The official statement adds that the
of the Austrian division,
commander of a brigade and the
chief of staff of the division were kill-
ed. Of the 4.000 men made prisoners
600 had been wounded
"es ¢ ia
commanaer
the
GERMANS FORTIFY BRUSSELS.
- A dispatch the Havas
on d that the
Paris
Agency Ir
io
Osten SAYS
Vise
fNghting
INP
was occupied by
INTEGNAT IO
(SA Mp Lh
a
kalser's warriors were resting
The huge Krupp siege guns, which
of Paris, has been occupied by the |
‘Germans after three days of flerce |
fighting, according to a dispatch from
that city dated September 1. |
A French dispatch says: “The Val |
Jey of the Somme has been aband-!
oned. Lafere has been taken after a!
‘bloody combat. We were obliged to!
Fetire, |
“The right wing of the Germans”!
ways the correspondent, “is too far |
advanced and there is a chance that |
dt will be cut and caught between two
fires if the British should be found in!
dorce. Our centre is resting very well |
and the right wing of our army ap-|
Pears to be taking the offensive.”
Terrific Onslaughts,
» Another report says the French left |
bas been pushed back some miles |
nearer to Paris, but that the Allies’
center has held ground in the face of
Rerrific onslaughts, and that their line
was unbroken at any point. The
French left extended from Montdidier
through Roye to Noyon.
ENGLAND ADMITS
5,000 CASUALTIES.
Few Killed and Injured Given Out.
Bulk Of Names Being Missing.
London.-—The official casualties suf
fered by the cavalry brigade and of
three of the divisions, less one bri-
gade, of the British force in France,
follow ;~-
Killed-~Thirty-six officers and 127
men,
a
ing moved south, and it is evident that |
the Germans were making prepara |
ions for a siege.
A dispatch from the Russian Em-
bassy at Rome sald that in the con. |
flit around Lemberg, in Austrian!
Galicia, the Austrians lost 100.000 men
killed, wounded and prisoners, to
A previous re- |
port placed the Austrian losses at 43.
000 men. In this battle 800.000 Rus-
sians and 600,000 Austrians were en-
gaged,
A Rome dispatch sald that a tele
gram from Nish, provisional capital of
Servia, told of a fierce battle at Jadar
A Petrograd dispatch said that the
Russian check in East Prussia was
only temporary and that the Russians
would take Berlin and Vienna within
a month. It was said by the Russian
General Staff that the Germans made
Wounded—Fifty-seven officers
629 men.
Missing—05 officers, 4,182 men.
This report was received in Lon-
don from the headquarters in France
of the expeditionary force.
Ag regards the men, as distinguished
from officers, it is known that a con
siderable proportion of the missing
were wounded men who had been sent
down country, and regarding whom
particulars were not available at head.
quarters,
and
_ uh dy
Independence Belge. of Brussels, is au-
thority for the statement that the Ger
mans are fortifying the environs of
The
Agency, says the Germans have given
the English in Brussels 24 hours in
English have protested to the Ameri
can Minister,
300 BRITISH WOUN
DED HOME.
One Gunner Was Stricken Blind While
Serving Cannon.
London.—One of the 300 writish
Was a gunner, who was stricken blind
while serving his gun.
slaughtered them.
throughout the long hours the fighting
took him thousands of Germans had
fallen.
Among the missing are included
those who have not ‘been accounted
for, and the list may comprise prison.
ers not wounded and stragglers, as
well as casualties.
A
MINE SINKS BRITISH BOAT.
London. ~The steam drifter Eyrie
engaged In mine-sweeping operations
in the North Sea, struck a mine and
went to the bottom in three minutes
Six members of her crew are missing;
five were saved,
AND MONG TOL
(Special cable to “The Chicago
Tribune” from a correspondent whose
information was obtained from Brit
| Ish and French sources.)
Boulogne.—When the history of the
tremendous struggle in the neighbor
hood of Mons and Charlerof—a titanic
combat lasting five days—is written
historian will pen perhaps the
| most glorious chapter which has ever
been or ever will be added to the his
tory of British and French arms.
FROM ALLIES SID
today. He has found that breaking a
British line of steel is not such cany
work as harassing a countryside shorn
by murder of its men folk.
German cavalry, estimated to num
ber 5,000 men, may have overwhelmed
a little British force of 700 which was
hourly awaiting relief, but not before
its own ranks had been sadly thinned,
nor yet without having recourse to
the base expedient of mounting quick
locked the vast stern forces of Prus-
British and French
the forces of freedom: when we know
the gain and loss the tragedy and hero
ism of it all, there will shine resplen-
but
went
Gathers Story From Soldiers.
From the lips of those who took
part in it, from the wounded out of
the battle of giants, from the refugees
who fled from their blurred and black-
ened homesteads and their villages de
little which way the
Supporting Force Falls.
was not for the 700 to reason
why. The supporting force never ap
peared. They just stood their ground
to a man, and it seems that only 200
remain. When all was lost there en.
Calmly har
assing thelr pursuers with a murder
ous fire, all that was left of them re
treated with the wounded of the con-
voy intact
It is a simple story, a last stand one,
that should thrill every British heart
It
I have during the last two days heard
enough to be able to together
the story of a struggle which dwarfs
all the decisive battles of the world.
It was a fight against
horts of the kaiser, endeavoring to
crush their way through the allies’
lines by sheer weight of numbers, ald-
ed by all the strength of the artillery
that could be brought into action
Meets the British Wounded.
{Here the correspondent takes up
his story of a meeting with the Brit
ish wounded.)
It was all so quietly said I eculd not
help casting my again over the
trim, khakiclad re the little
soldier who through that
ghastly ordeal, come through it to tell
me in a few afterward
that he was eager with the
forces at the front “And,” he
added, “1 shall have to 3 to England
without a apnel
knocked mine
I turned is companion
he said, “that's the story. It
first & the German art! 3
Bot at As their big gun
fire was mighty though they did
go in mw trenches
we used to walch the German gunners
trying to hit conspicuous parts of
Mons, and every time they missed we
gave them a cheer which
bear
pleca
eves
figu
come
of
had
hours
be
short
io
anoalsr
again
ca bullet
” i
» darkness.”
“Yes,”
wns the
lHery really
10
tim
a rule
poor
quantity
us
the
¢
ior La
they
Work of the Artillery.
They are not ghots, either
really astounding what
mise
at marksmanship.’
“And the British artillery? I asked
“WN hy, it was If there
had been of it But
the
Was |
they «
they
magnificent
more there
got us
good
Onis
$
was, |
than
: nr 0%
(sermans is
erhaps a more
ver expected
ink
a
One OCCASION} it was
Monday —we position
} or 800 rds from the Ger
Ya
ld sed
YY were mostly
We ¢ them quite
The
in standing
ug Fresh troops, | think they were
being brought up for another attack
“The order was given us to fix bay
It to be a charge
thin had
it our bay
ted or
vas evidently
Oonets
the gE
- rE been
me
in
and
especially
the & g
wa
we for
Hall of Bullets Comes.
“The Germans must
bayonets flashing, for they
on their faces, If there
they fear it is « bayonet attack There
developed suddenly a hail of bullets
and the order to charge did not come
“We retired a little
and before night fell
much the same porition again
darkness came could
ground well in front of us simply lit
tered with German dead It cost us
a lot, too
"AL one
have
went down
advanced
Just as
we see
time early next day we
had taken up a position slightly in the
rear of the town (censor forbids name
upon high ground On the
extreme right of a semi-circular posi-
tion two high guns of garrison
of town)
were
artillery
At first these found an excellent
range, dealing death by wholesale to
the invaders, were some miles
Then with the steady German
the range was toward
who
advance
m
Position Becomes
The fight had begun
The position
heroic British
minute slipped by
back the
Was never to oc
Even at a
i
to one Infantry and
lost
1p
Critical,
at 11:30 a m.
for the
critic
defenders. every
eves
became al
AS
vital anxious
looked for
that me
terrible disadvantage—at
artillery
holding its own,
idden.
the
when
ly to
They
gard
muzzies of the
There
alone A
artillery was
hordes of uhlans seemed
sweep down
galloped,
¢
Or
town,
+5 "mele
themselves,
field guns
000 of them
th
Lhe
enemy's
must have been
here
survivor tells me
1 saw was one of our off.
Iver in either hand,
by the
guns. He
1ust have accounted for a dozen
sides
ing on all
Towards 2 p. m. the 200 gallant sur
vivors, the majority of them wounded,
began to fall back. Th reached a
safe position by nightfall
Keep Up Continuous Attack.
The uhlans kept up uous at-
and at midnight hostile alr
men began dropping bombs on the
British ] ithout
causing Perhaps 1
oy
8 contin
toe
camp, but fortunately =
ita destruction
from
legs
the next
eloquent summing
be
won't be so cocksure
3 . give
1
I have been able
following up
» was shot In th
them hell
to gather details of
in British
were concerned { Wednes.
#evere engagements which
LPOO ThE yn
day mt etachments
reed
ming at 6 o'clock 4
3.000 strong bivouacked after a fc
* -
h of 1% Througl
miles
utes (I am asked
nt) the exact posit
*
worhood of he
Bill Box
yijie
nbers was no
Leave Wall
an hour
the way, the Gern
r fatigued
60 yards
ie indoad
iB UCReq
of Dead.
th uhians
ans swarmed
approach:
the quick
British positior however
the
w
GQOwWEn On ou men
ing within With
firerg the
was strong. and the
Germans were re
leaving a wall of dead
counts the German plan of
is being carried out regard.
less of human life. The German artik
lery epoken as deadly, but
the infantry is beneath contempt
After repulsing attack after attack
and not suffering considerably, the
British was able to select and
a base five miles distant. That
pulsed
By all a
campaige
fire is of
foree
of their dead
of us”
Fight Rages Furiously.
From others | have gathered how fu.
riously for days the fight raged against
the French forces on the right of the
The English soldiers speak
in highest praise of the coolness un-
against whom the everfresh forces of
the enemy were hurled.
Lauds Conduct of French,
An Amiens dispatch to the Dally
Chronicle says
“The French retirement before the
down the valley of the Meuse was
masterly. The Germans won their way
at a cost in human life as great as In
defeat: vet they won their way.
“For France that retirement is as
~-weight of regiments and of artillery.
held their positions,
dous cost
prepared to pay it, and pay it they
did.
The final order to retire came. Slow.
ly the French positions on the right
of the British were given up through
out Tuesday.
700 Hold Back 5,000.
London.--A British correspondent
from Boulogne writes:
It has taken the British expedition.
ary force just four days to shatter the
fllusion which has been drummed into
every German that the fighting qual
fties of British troops are negligible
beside the mighty race whose busi
ness is war,
The uhlan is at least a wiser man
{
annals.
“It was nearly a fortnight ago that
the Germans began concentrating
their heaviest forces on Namur, press
After the battle of Dinant the French
army was heavily outnumbered and
time for reenforcement to come to
its support.
of fire.
infantry was intrenched, supported by
field guns and mitralilenses,
fantry did deadly work, holding the po
sitions with great tenacity and drop.
ping back only to occupy new posi
tions just as doggedly.
“The fighting extended for a consid.
erable distance on both sides of the
Meuse, and many side line engage
ments were fought by the cavalry,
There was a memorable encounter
near Mezieres which was evacuated
last Monday the Frevch taking up
magnificent pbeitions commanding the
town and bridges.”
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