Show I i RHEIMS IMS MAY SEE MOST DECISIVE BATTLE BITTLE B OF THE THE AMR WAR Germans Likely Will Destroy De De- j f stroy Entire City to Remove Remove Re Re- move It From Path of Important General General Gen Gen- eral Fighting v TO DISPROVE THEORY Allies Believe Believer as Napoleon Did That Heights There Are Arc Not Impregnable as Blucher Thought LONDON CONDON Sept 2 22 R a a. a m. m m The The dearth of official news this morning from the Jon long Jong battle front in tho west western ern arena of tho the war has raised the I usual crop rop of rumors These attract interest and in the min minds s of some peo pro plo arc important from the fact act simultaneously at widely distant points tho they seen seem more or Ie lets less to confirm con firm each other The Thc unsubstantiated report from Crom Antwerp Antwerp Ant that General von ton Kluck tho the commander of or the German right win wing has bas removed his lua headquarters back to lions lons completes these rumors The latest communication from Paris even more laconic than usual declared that the silica allies arc making progress between be bc tween and Argonne though tho the fighting durin during tho the da day t time mc yesterday was as less lees violent A woun wounded ed British officer who nho has hits returned to Paris from the front has bas supplemented uJ tho news s with t the declaration that the allies onu on au u their left lell have advanced seven sc miles milca Berlin however reports that the German counter r attacks about have re resulted in their capture of the thc strong straus hill bill positions at Craonne ej eighteen t miles northwest cst of Rheims and antl the occupation of the village of or Venay three miles north of the thc French city Berlin Derlin claims al also o a successful attack on the line of forts south of ot ti Verdun defended b by eight French army corps corp as a result of ol which German troops have c crossed the cast border of Lorraine Berlin reports fu further the thc defeat of a sortie from east of Verdun but declares declarer that there has been no important irn im engagement elsewhere on the i battle tittle front i 1 J The rhe city cit of or nay map be razed to 1 toe me ground round it is it felt in in London not because in itself it has any strategic I jUlf importance but because it yap happens ens to be bo in in the WR way of the tho operations directed I a against tho tho plateau above the tile city I There where tb allies un undoubtedly will en eu I deavor or again nain to di is as disprove C did Napoleon Na Xa the theor theory of Blucher that th these le heights freights are arc J impregnable even if defended b ooh only n by 2000 non mono Tho The walls walla anti anif the tower toner of oC the Rheims cathedral according to latest reports are still standing but it is not ilOt believed cd the they arc are strong enough to en cn I dure much more marc bombardment Nowhere else along the battlo lino is isau au any er great at effort being mad mado to carry earr a n I frontal attack and unless one side aide o or orthe the he other executes an outflanking g Movement may witness th the e most decisive e battlo battle of tho the war Belgian sorties orties continue from th the e shelter of Antwerp rp but neither tho the Belgians nor tho Germans have havo brought brough t about any real chan change e in their relative e positions in rrt this s district From Petrograd como come stories of ot con conn tinned flight ht of the tho broken Austrian n armies armie in Galicia while at the same sam e time Vienna declares that these armies armie s arc reorganizing for offensive action It ItI I t I would seem clear however that only onh- 1 is today standing out t t the e total occupation of ot Galicia by r Rus Rus- sia KIa Petrograd rad reports further farther that the tho populace is ia fleeing front from Cracow Cracow Cra Crato Cra- Cra cow cow- from which city a portion of the unique library has bas been removed for Jor safety Reports received in the Russian capital cap ital are arc that Austrian Polish volunteers arc are declining to serve ser against the tho Russians Rus Hus- Rian Fians These give I tho the Russians hope that Cracow Craco ma may be bo delivered to them without a struggle le Tho The Russians claim still I further v vic victories ie ie tories s o against aint the Austrian forces attempting attempting at at- tempting to reach Cracow Craco and they predict that thero there is no DO chance chanco of ot the Austrians resuming the tho offensive before next spring That the tho Austrian army um was not bad bad- Jv h demoralized and disorganized as at ot t first reported in indicated by bJ the tho admission ad ad- mission sion from Petro Petrograd rari of tho de mined nature of the four lour days days' assault olt which preceded the recapture of Lcm Lcm- Lemberg berg |