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Show FORWARD Hi ILOIG THEFMT French Troops Continue Their Advance and Attack At-tack the Germans With Great Vigor; Kaiser's Soldiers Forced to Re-cross Re-cross the Meuse River in Great Haste. RUSSIA IS READY TO ATTACK ENEMY Muscovite Cavalry Defeats De-feats the Austrians in Galicia and Troops Are Also Moving Against Germany; Position of the Latter Regarded as Insecure. P4.RIS Aug: 16 II 40 p ra The fol lowing official eta t em en t ft us sailed to night A forward movement developed to day all along the front front from RechI court (RIil gen n Lorra do eleven miles southwest of Sa&rburg to Salute Mane Aux Mines We car tied the lat er and ad anced Into the region of calnt Blaise The Frencl troops who occupied Doruui Saturdaj continued to ad vance their progress being espec ally rapid In the Schirmeck valley We have taken 1000 prisoners In addition to the 600 on Friday Large quan titles of equipment were abandoned by the Germans we ha e also cap tured this. We pushed as far as Lorquln height, captur ng a convoy belonging to a ca airy division con slstlng of nineteen automobiles Germans Give Way The Germans attacked Dinant Their force cons ated of a guard dl vision and the First cava ry dlvis on supported by several battalions of iofaJry and machine gun companies. When these forces appeared on the left bank the French attacked with great vigor The Germans soon gave way and recros ed the Meuse In great d sorder Many who failed to reach the bridge si pped down the steep bank and fell Into the rl er and were drowned Profiting by the d sorder a French 1 ght artillery regiment fo lowed -over the river and pursued the Germans for many miles This regiment put to flight and dro e before It greatly superior forces of German ca a ry Russian Army Ready The Russian raobll zation has been carried out with remarkab e rap d lty The army is now ready to as flume the offens ve, wl lch soon wi 1 make 1 self fe t Already in Galicia Russian cava ry has crossed the fron ler driving back the Austrians Farther east an Austrian detach ment which penet ated south of Tarnopol has been defeated Troops are also mo ing against Germany Tl e Germans made super human efforts last jear to strengthen the fortresses on the Vlstu a no ably at Gaudens and Thorn Isevertheess the r s tuat on s lnsecu e They have been obi ged to call up a 1 k nds of reserves to back up the f ve act ve army corps and it s doubtful whether these for es wi 1 be able to res st the Ruse an attack as ong as the Ger mans hoped |