Show BATTLING WITH BIG GUNS ANU bayonet BAYO NEf TERRIFIC onslaughts DIRECT ED DY GERMANS AGAINST THE ALLIES NEAR CRAONNE invader invaders charged desperately with bayonets fixed and ferocious hanato hand to hand fiand combats ensue in which doth both side aides suffer A report from paris says tho the gep ger man right vine wing under general alex under tinder von kluk haa has been forced back covon beven milea miles it has been drivon driven back onto nyo where it has boon been forced to see defensive strongholds to the sout boutho hokA oa on tho loft left bank of the oise general on cral von kluk la is now exposed to the flanking movement of the allies loft left which has been progressing up tho right bank of thu the oise in an enveloping maneuver the french and british have driven forward until they occupied the of las signy west of noyon boyon have swept by noyon boyon itself on tho the north and have advanced their lines toward laon tho fighting on monday and mon day night might was furious most terri ferrino flo were tho the onslaughts directed by the germans against the allies lines line la the region of Cra onno hero here th the invaders charged desperately with bayonets fixed and ferocious hand to hand combats ensued in which tho the germans were hurled back but came on again until the carnage wa was a appalling P the bombardment of Sols son sone c con on with undiminished and deadly effect while into rhiems already practically laid waste a steady stream of german projectiles still fell the germans havo have received reinforcements for cements at several points along their front but these have been met by bir detachments in strength being brought up from tho the french reserves in tho the center west of the Arg onnes and in champagne the french have taken alestia les hurlus and mas eiges alges t in the the germans are reported to be bombarding hasson chatel they also hold the territory in the vicinity of Thi Th acourt lacourt the situation for the allies right wing aing in lorraine Lorr alne and in tho the remains unchanged at so some m ePo points ints at it least fierce on gage ments havo bavo been fought with the ido flowing first in one direction and then in the other bother the allies have von on a position hero here and tho germans have gained one there but all reports ports off official iclal and otherwise agree that there 13 1 much fighting yet to be dono done before material advantage can be claimed by either side the BrItIs british bL in the trenches eay cay we are slowly beating them back the french official statement declares that though furiously counter attacked by superior forces and obliged to yield somo some ground this was regained a almost most immediately berlin officially announces that tho franco british forum have been obliged to take the defensive in entrenched Posit positions ious and that therefore the result of the german attacks arc are slow unofficial advices from the german capital say that members of the general staff manifest implicit confidence in a favorable outcome of the fighting in franco their armies are being reinforced and through lines of communication reformed it is dispatches from vienna reported officially fici ally tha the austrians and germans in galicia have formed a new defense line and are awaiting a russian sian attack on the strong fortress or przemysla fifty miles west iest of lent lemberg from petrograd it Is announced officially fici ally that the russian troops have hae captured the fortified positions of and sambor in galicia Gall cla ino line austrian rear guard has been hopu sed beyond the san river and the rus rug have taken prisoners cases of ammunition and some guns the russian official reports also say that t there has been no fights fight ing on the german frontier some observers estimate that the total of the germans and 1 lies to date are in tho the neighborhood of IsO 1 interesting information has been given out by the british admiralty tj regarding british successes and misfortunes in various waters the brit ish tall in merchant erchant cruiser carmania has german merchant cruiser supposed to be either the cape trafalgar or the berlin off the colst of south america but the german cruder koenigsberg completely disabled the british cruiser pegasus while the latter was overhauling her machinery in zanzibar harbor killing twenty firo caen anon and wounding more than three times that number ind the german cruiser emden has bunk ax british merc merchant bant steamers in the bay day ct denial dengal |