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Show i oo I TROOPS ARRIVE I ON TRENCH SOIL HI London, Aug. 31, 4.47 p. m Taken Hj ft its face value the French official H announcement iBsued this afternoon. Hj which mentions that the progress of the German right wing has forced the allieB to yield further ground, would H seem to indicate that the Germans. notwithstanding repulses, are making daily advances toward Pans The statement Sunday of Field Mar shal Sir John French, commander of the British troops, however, spoke I of fighting on the French left, but this, according to one report, resulted .n the German right being slightly; turned. The Austrian invasion of Russia, in the Lublin district, which aroused the apprehension of the allies, has, if Russian dispatches are to be relied upon been blocked, and the Muscovites Musco-vites claim to have turned the Russian Rus-sian defensive into an offensive action ac-tion There is no confirmation ot the report that the Russians are in Koenig6berg. ii suence means mat more is notn-ing notn-ing doing. Sir John French's state ment Sunday that the British had not been molested since Wednesday still holds good. Nothing is known by the public in London of new fighting, either in northern or eastern France. From Canada. India, Australia and South Africa, the British army front will soon receive large reinforcements. reinforce-ments. Some of these troops are reported already to have landed in France. In England the recruiting fever has not abated. At Liverpool today i battalion of a thousand business men was filled within an hour, and there was Buch an overflow that it was decided de-cided to enroll a second battalion. The government has started neqo tiatlons. through the American consul con-sul at Berlin, for an exchange with Germany and Austria of noncom batant prisoners London, Aug. 31 -The French em-1 bassy in London tonight announced that desperate fighting had been renewed re-newed along the Vosges and in Lorraine Lor-raine A regiment of German cavalry cav-alry was completely destroyed. The Germans are progressing in their attack on the allies' left wing The Russians are moving forward to the south of Lublin. rr |