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Show SUBMARINE SENDS GERMAN DESTROYER TO BOTTOM ALLIES MOVE 10 RELIEVE AIIPP Battle Line Is Drawn Across Belgian Frontier Fron-tier and Some Sharp Engagements Have Taken Ta-ken Place in Belgium. GERMAN WEDGE DRIVEN BACK Von Kluk Succeeds in Holding Off Flankers and Is Getting Reinforcements; Rein-forcements; the French Win on Their Right. LONDON Oct 7 7 p m A d spatch to the Exchange Tele graph company from Ostend says Numerous skirmishes occurred this morning hetween the advance posts in the environs of Ypres In Belgium twenty miles south of Os tend and in the northern part of west Flanders The Germans threw themselves on the forts and lntrenchmenta. LONDON Oct 7 9 55 p m.-A dispatch to the Central News from Amsterdam says A message received from Ghent says fighting of a violent charac ter has taken place hetween Aude narde (fifteen miles southwest of Ghent) and Leupeghem (a small town about a mile south of Au denarde) After an hour s engagement the Belgians received reinforcements and threw hack the Germans with heavy losses (Spe af Cub e bv Arrangement wi h London Dal J Te efiraph and Id erna ooal Newi Serr ee.) PARIS Oct 7 The German right w ng ca airy has succeeded in pushing ts ad ance from Tnrco ng west to Ar ment ere Here t is engaged with eav airy from the all ed arm es which s reported to be made up in large part of troopers from the British Indian regi ments Th s Go man cavalry is bel eved to ho part of tho screening force of a large body of art llery and infantry which was reported yesterday by aviators of the all ed arm es o have set out for Arment ere v-hich is about nine miles west of Lille That the art llery and infantry have succeeded in following the advance of the cavalry to the Armentiere is prob leinat cal for the reason that another screening body of cavalry operating north of L lie is reported to have been held in its or ginal position by the al 1 ed attacl s Extends Into Belgium Further ev dence that the Germans have undertaken the movement of vast re nforcements to the arm es of Von Kluk and Von Boehm is found n a re port from Ypres twenty m les south of Ostend Belg um and about fifteen m les north and west of L He, that Ger man soldiers ha e made a determ ned attack on the ad a ced outfiipj&ty hurl flg themselves in large numbrVajgainst the fortB and lntrencnn ents Jf Beports from the center where the s tuation rema ns unchanged w th only desultory fighting go ng on n various places along the Fne and from the Ger man left w ng where the French are advancing desp te all the resistance the Germans can bring to bear indi ate that these re nforcements to the Gor man left are be ng taken from the cast ern end of the 1 ne nstead as had been supposed from tho forces nvesting Ant-we Ant-we p Tl s bel ef strengthened by reports rea h Of hp b a of Lon Ion tha the atta o ntwp j r go ng on wi h (Continued on Page ThxeeJ, PC GARRY FIGHTING BACK i iNTOJBELGIUM o Battles Occur North of t Border and m One : the Germans Are Defeated gottOMifsa f om Page One ) -TS or and that tho Germ ni 1 .of d ert ng n o to tho aid of 1 ,1 von I lul c n to ha e mo a " a ton tlan tho ha a tow (Fman Wedge Stopped rn M s off a v. ar off e ttato 't Sd cstes that the Ce man atte npt 7 e a ed,e thro Rh the elbov at .Vincton of the north and south 'rjrom Noyon to Armont ero and t and est 1 no lro n lo on JTto the all ed enter has fa led m The ground lost betwoou Chaul , jnd Bo e vas rega ned today the N tl statement ajs Except at the t vo w ngs w here the ,man a tacks have boen repulsed al a complete calm preva Is along the ' 'flhe Cern an oa alrv has been 1 et foe north f L Ue to v, el po nt t A pushed back Betnocn Uiaulucs J Ro e the ground pre ousl j elded s been retaken , the center we have ad anced at rtan po nts - J)n our r ght it ng there s noth ng announce Woubted 7 the fight ng n th s Mtaestern theater ot war -was the lest today ot any of the act ons Ejj. tho al ed front The n o ement f he derman cavalry art llery and tan y f om Tur o ng -b est was a Vena menace to the Br t sh 1 ne ot jnnuin at on w th the coast t es as ell as the a ed 1 ne into the northern irt of Belgium Therefore the allies r ;nto act on aga nst the ad auc ng ians the pk ot the r ava lable cav iy The Br t sh Ind an troops the 1 1? ca airy reg nients of General Amade and to nforce nents from rth r down the north and south 1 ne e tor ed nto the fraj n tho region jm Lens to Labassee around Ar (iTto Relieve Antwerp Xbe Ce n an mo ement ot t oops ist from Turco ng s construed he e a iespe ate dash to prevent the al i arm es from cross ng the Belgian m er and w nnmg the r way to the lef of Antwerp The p eparat ons r hastening the bomba dment of that 7 and the weaken ng of the German is and left to strengthen the r ght e all taken to md cate that the Ger ins recognize that the all ed advance n d the Antwe -p object ve has been steadily successful to be further mponzed t th Assuming that th a rel ef of Antwerp is the actuating mot ve back of the irthward advance of the all es left aig there seems to be ample reason : , he p oress of the line of battle mnj the last fortn ght for the Ger iiapp ehension that unless Antwerp ! e soon taken it m ght be top late The all es are push ng the r northern i e line from the elbow of the Aisne id 0 se further and further toward Be "ian ob ect ve w th a speed that . a e oked amazed commendat on from i ary obse vers Onlv a little more n a week ago the f ghtin- was hot !ta ound Albert north of the mme aisers Plans Fail V th the passage of a very few days eert al po nt of contact has been il d to Arras twenty three miles rtbe no th Then the line was ad P ed f fteen m les further to Douai m ye&te day the line had crept up Me while today it s announced the Ge man ca airy ope at ng ph of Lille has been held w h le the fed troopers are paralleling the Bel W f out er and are almost across it tU merit ere Still further north r DS s n pro" ess at Ypres and t ena de n Belg um between Belg ans i Ge mans jjld ary strategists ton ght po nt out ft th s steady advance of the al P eft taken n coniunct on w th the pifa tness of the r center and thcTr p y reported victor es alon the $ e and n the entire "Woevre dis f ti nd cates that the German planB P gone adly astray all along their P cnlarly s gn f cant to the expert P era are the repeated reports of P n successes n the Woevre d s Pin was through th a local ty that t ser expected to ma e h s real f mphal ma ch to Par s It was here ?' he sent the crown pr nee expect f hat h s heir would add glorv to f succeed ng Hohenzollern re gn by jauij a v ctor ous army nto the o cap tal f days accord ng to the off e al f Si the Germans nave been stead IWslied back f om the advantageous f'ons thev had ga ned Weakened fcge necess ty of s nd n re nforce ments to General von Kluk they are re ported n one of today s- statements to ha e failed once more to arrest the French progress Ton ght Par s s asking If the Toad th ough the Woevre d str ct was to have been the path of a conquer ng army from Berl n to Par s may It not be made the path of a conquer ng army from Par s to Berl n? 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