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Show ALLIES AND ENEMY IN SUPREME STRUGGLE GERMAN CRUISERJWO GUNBOATS AND I TORPEDO BOAT REPORTED SUNK GENERAL VON KLUCK ATTEMPTING , TO OUTFLANK THE ALLIES' LINES Counter Stroke of Wily Commander Considered Supreme Feature in Western Theater of War Violent Fighting Rages With Heavily Reinforced Germans Attempt At-tempt to Cut Through French Lines at Las-signy Las-signy Fails Fate of Antwerp Hangs in Balance. NEITHER SIDE CLAIMS DECISIVE RESULTS Fight Grows More and More Violent in Unprecedented Struggle Strug-gle Germans and Austrians Claim Victories Over Russians Rus-sians Muskovite Reports, as Usual, Fail to Agree and Claim Steady Advance France Lays Mines in the Adriatic Germans Lose Enormous Number of Horses. Paris, Oct. 7, 3 08 p. m. The following official communication com-munication was given out in Paris this afternoon: "On our left wing the battle still continues with great violence. The opposing fronts extend into the region between be-tween Lens, (nine miles northeast of Arras) and La Bassee, (13 miles southwest of Lille) and are lengthened by masses of cavalry which are in grips as far as the vicinity of Armen-tiers, Armen-tiers, (nine miles northwest of Lille and virtually on the Belgian Bel-gian frontier). "On the front, extending from the Somme to the Meuse there is nothing to report. "In the Woevre district the enemy made a new effort to stop our progress, but his attacks again failed. "In Russia, the German army defeated in the battle of Augustowo, which lasted from September 25 to October 3, endeavored to arrest the Russian pursuit at prepared positions along the line of the Wirballen frontier. At Lyck the Russian Rus-sian troops continue their advance and at several places they have penetrated into East Prussia. To sum up. the German offensive on the Niemen has been brought to an end by a complete com-plete check, accompanied by very considerable losses." Peking, Oct. 7, 7:45 p. m. According to a German news agency dispatch, Japanese forces have occupied the Island of Yap, the most important island in the Caroline group, or New Philippines in the Pacific ocean. The Caroline Islands are east of Philippines. The group is very extended and comprises about 680 small islands. Yap is about 1 ,000 miles from the Island of Mindanao, one of the Philippine group. The Caroline islands were sold by Spain to Germany in 1 899. Berlin, Oct. 7, via Amsterdam and London, 1 1 : 50 a. m. The following communication was given out by the headquarters head-quarters staff of the German army the evening of October 6: "Continuous French outflanking movement against oui right wing have extended the battle front until it is now north B of Arras. West of Lille and west of Lens (nine miles north east of Arras our advance guards are in touch with the enemy'; ravalry. "No decision yet has been reached in our counter attacks along the line beteen Arras, Albert and Roye." "The situation remains unchanged along the battle front between the Oise and the Meuse in the vicinity of Verdun and in Alsace-Lorraine. "There is no news from Antwerp. "In the Eastern theater of the war, the Russians advancing advanc-ing against East Prussia through the province of Suwalki have been checked. We have been successful in our attack against the enemy near that town of Suwalki. This movement move-ment began yesterday. "In Russian Poland our troops, on October 4, dislodged a Russian brigade of the Garde Fusiliers from an entrenched position between Opatow and Ostrowiec. The Russians lost 3,000 prisoners and several machine guns. "There was an engagement, October 5, in the vicinity of Radom, between our forces and two divisions and a half of Russian cavalry together with portions of the Ivangorod reserves. re-serves. The enemy was repulsed and driven back on Ivangorod." Ivan-gorod." The reference to Radom in the foregoing dispatch shows military activity in a region that has not figured as a field of operations for some time. Radom is about 60 miles south of Warsaw and 50 miles west of Lublin. The province of Radom borders on Galicia. Ivangorod (Demblin) is on the Vistula river 30 miles northeast of Radom. London, Oct. 7, 1 :45 p. m. It is officially announced from Huzet, Marmaros county, Hungary, that Austrian forces have been heavily engaged with Russians since Monday Mon-day at a point near Tecso, telegraphs the Amsterdam correspondent corres-pondent of Reuter's telegram company. The Russians retreated. re-treated. The battle came to an end near Kricsfalva, with complete victory for the Austrians. Tecso is about 20 miles southeast of Huzet, on the railroad rail-road and Kricsfalva is about the same distance east of Huzet. Marmaros county is in the extreme east of Hungary, between Galicia and Transylvania. London, Oct. 7, 1:53 p. m. The Amsterdam correspondent correspon-dent of Reuter's Telegram company says unofficial news has reached Amsterdam from Budapest to the effect that Austrian troops have attacked the Russian forces in Marmaros county, Hungary, and that the defeat of the Russians is imminent. Austrian reinforcements have been dispatched to Beszterzen-azod. Beszterzen-azod. All the passes are occupied by the Austrians. Tokio. Oct. 7, 5: 10 p. m. The belief was expressed at the war office today that the German cruiser Cormoran and two other German gunboats had been sunk in Kiao Chow bay. The Japanese army has occupied the Shan Tung railway rail-way as far west as Chi Nan. Berlin, Oct. 7, by wireless to Sayville, L. I. The German Ger-man general staff, on its report today on the situation in the western arena, says the fighting on the German west wing in France has been successful. London, Oct. 7, 3:13 p. m. The Central News has announced an-nounced that a British submarine has sunk a German torpedo boat destroyer off the Ems Estuary. London, Oct. 7, 2:10 p. m. A dispatch received here i from Amsterdam says that a German torpedo boat destroyer - is reported to have been sunk by a mine off the Estuary of 5 the river Ems, between the Netherlands and east of Friesland, I in the North sea. ( |