Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-03 | Page 9 | Germans Making a Determined Effort

GERMANS- lil IS DETERMINED EFFORT Allies Make Fresh Advance Which the Enemy Is Unable Un-able to Check, (Special war dispatches of the International Interna-tional News Service and the London Times.) t LONDON, bet. 3. The London Times in its news summary of the war developments says today: , T4ie Germans aro making a determined deter-mined effort to stem the advance of the allies in the district between Peronne and Noyon, where they apparently have massed a large number of men. In Berlin it is claimed that this effort ef-fort is being crowned with success and that certain positions near Koye have been recovered. On the Meuse, however, the Germans fcave failed to cross near St. Mihiel, their temporary bridge, being destroyed by the French. Further east, in the Woevre district, the French have been able to record fresh progress between St. Mihiel and Apremont, a few miles to the south- j east. j Apart from these there has been no ; movement of note along the battle front in France, hut that front is being be-ing steadily stretched northward. Antwerp reports that the German attack at-tack is still too far from the city for the sound of the firing to be audible in the streets. The Germans have failed to break through the Belgian defenses and, according ac-cording to other advices, their artillery fire is inaccurate, Ig the eastern theater of war everything every-thing points to the Cracow district as being the scene of a battle on an immense im-mense scale. In this troops of the Teutonic Teu-tonic powers, apparently uDder the command of General von Hindenburg, will endeavor to prevent the further : advance of the Russians under Generals j Kuszkv and Brussiloff and the Bui- i garian general, Radko Dimitrieff. I From the northeastern area comes the : news of an important Russian advance, i Not only have the Germans been thrown ; back from Niemen in the direction ot : Suwalki and Augustowo, but the Rtts- : sinus have again invaded the Mazariau i lake region (Prussian) by way of Crap kewo. An attempted German offensive I movement near "Wlawa was repulsed bv ! the Russians. i At sea the admiralty has taken an important step in laying down a. de- i f ensive mine field which will have an i effect upon the course of shipping in ! the narrow seas. Premier Asquith, in the course ot a 1 recruil ing speech he made at Card iff i last night, disclosed a remarkable pairoi of secret history. In 1012 he said the; British government communicated to the German government a declaration 1 that Great Britain would neither mn nor join hi any provoked attacks upon i Germany. Germany. however. de- : niamled a pled?'1 of absolute neutrality on the part of Grea t Britain lit I even t of her being engaged in war. ;l : pledge which could not bo given.