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Show BERLIN REPORT OF WAR NEWS Allege No Decisive Battles Fought and French Are Victoriously Defeated. General Staff Outlines General Gen-eral Situation as "Favorable," "Favor-able," But Do Not Tell of Retreats. Berlin, Sept 15, via Amsterdam and London, 12:05 p. m. The German; general staff today gave out the following fol-lowing announcement: "In the western theater of war the right wing of our army has been engaged in heavy but undecisive battles. bat-tles. The French, who endeavored to break through our lines, were victoriously vic-toriously defeated. "At other points where there has been fighting, no decisive remit! have been reached." Berlin, via Copenhagen and London, Lon-don, SepL 15, 6:30 a. in. Another day has passed without news of the, great battle near Paris, concerning which no reports or details nave been available since a week ago The general staff, in response to a query, characterized the general situation sit-uation as "favorable" but refrained from any comment whatever over the course of events since the first days of the English and French attacks and the withdrawal of the German riaht wing on September 6. A report which was in circulation In parliamentary circles last night, that the operations had already resulted re-sulted In a great victory, found noi confirmation On the contrary, It ap-pears ap-pears that the battle can still last some time. A contest of such great' extent and from which so much de l pends will not be decided In a short time The Belgian army, which is quite surrounded according to statements here has been attempting, througii repeated sorties from Antwerp, to play at least a part In the war (The censor deleted further reference to the operations around Antwerp). Reports come of small battles with Scattered French forces in southern Alsace near Thann Gebweiler and Sulz, but with the exception of these there Is no news from the west. The Germans presumably are push-j ing reinforcements forward, and the announcement that their armies, with; a united front, have resumed the of-tensive of-tensive may perhaps be expected in ; two or three days Much probably depends on the rap-1 Idity with which the armv, under the crown prince, completes tho Isola tlon of Verdun and shakes itself loose from this obstacle in order to be in a position to resume major operations oper-ations on |