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Show KAISER'S MEN STOP ONRUSH OF ALLIES FRENCH AND EN0LI8H FORCES BATTLING DESPERATELY TO DRIVE OUT THE INVADERS. Oermans Occupy Favorable Country and are Woll Entrenched and are Putting up Bitter Fight Against Allied Forces, Krench and irngllsh forces nro bat tllng desperately to drive the German Invndors from French soil, and from tho most reliable sources comes the iiows that a desporat battle, even moro fierce than tho battlo of Mnrno, in In progress, and has been for a week past. While no direct reports havo boon received from the battle front In northern rYance, It Is apparent from the meaner official statements thnt tho allied forces mid tho German nrmles aro again drawn up for a great bat tie, which, In tho opinion of military observers, may last several days. The Germans occupy f.ivornblo country coun-try nnd nro well entrenched. Tho nl-Has, nl-Has, as well as tho Germans, aro receiving re-ceiving reinforcements and both Urltlsh Urlt-lsh nnd French nro using tholr utmost endeavors to Improve tho advnntngo they Rained during tho retirement of the Germans beyond tho river Alsno nnd Into the hills north of Rhclma. Tho ofllclal statoment issuod nt Paris merely announces that thcro ban been no change In tho situation. An earlier ofllclal stntemont showed that tho Germans wero offering strong resistance re-sistance on the French left wing, while In tho center thoy continued to fortify forti-fy themselves, and In other districts wero woll ontrenohod. That the Germans aro in Btrong forcn and have behind them plenty of artillery la admitted bylho French officials of-ficials and Is further emphasized by tho fact that they havo undertaken sovcral counter attacks in tho past day or two. On the lato operations tho DrltlBh war office Is silent, but an official account ac-count of tho operations of the Urltlsh rmy during the, poriod from September Septem-ber 10 to 13 has been Issuod by the official press bureau, showing that though tho British troops had hard llfhtltiB thoy made a steady advanco In co-operntlon with the French, through a territory wlilch was crossed by numerous rtverB and offered many obstacles to n forward movement. florman official statements from Berlin, by way of London, report that tho Gorman dlrlglblo airships havo fulfilled all expectations; that none of them havo bean destroyed or captured, cap-tured, although some of thorn have been damaged; that tho subscriptions to the German war loan have succeeded succeed-ed nil expectations; that Gorman colonial colo-nial troops havo suocoasfully attacked thu Uganda railway and that the Servian Ser-vian forces which crossed tho Rlvor Savo have been repulsed ovorywhero. In Gallcln and Kast Prussia, Austrlans, Aus-trlans, Germans and Russians contlnuo their stupendous conflicts. |