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Show FRENCH SINK AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE I RUSSIANS REPORT ENORMOUS LOSSES OF GERMANS; RIVERS FILLED WITH BODIES ! , BRITISH NAVY IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE ALLIES' LEFT WING Further Attempts of Germans to Turn Opposing Armies in Northern France Seem Blocked German Torpedo Boat Destroyers Seen Off Dutch Coast Only Alternative Alterna-tive Open to Kaiser's Troops Is to Hack Away on Trio of Armies Confronting Them Belgians Repulse Enemy ALLIES DRIVE GERMANS BACK THIRTY MILES London Observers Believe Climax Cannot Be Far Off "Germans "Ger-mans May All Be Back in Fatherland Before Leaves Fall" English Hope to See Alleged Words of Emperor William Come True Paris Reports Advances in Direction of Lille, Strong Counter Attack at Chaulnes and on Paris, Oct. 19. 2:52 p. m. The French war office gave out an official announcement this afternoon as follows: "In Belgium the heavy artillery of the enemy has cannonaded, cannon-aded, but without result, the front from Nieuport to Vladsloo, to the east of Dixmude. "The forces of the allies, and notably the Belgian army, have not only repulsed further attacks on the part of the Germans, Ger-mans, but have advanced as far as Roulers. "On our left wing, between the river Lys and the canal of La Bassee, we have advanced in the direction of Lille. There has been very stubborn fighting on the Iront from La Bassee to Ablain and to St. Nazaire. We are advancing from house to house in these localities. "To the north and to the south of Arras our troops have been fighting without respite for more than ten days and with a perserverance and a spirit which never for a moment have been relaxed. "In the region of Chaulnes we have repulsed a strong counter attack delivered by the enemy and have won some ground. A "On the center there is nothing to report. "On our right wing in Alsace to the west of Colmar, our ad-l ad-l vance posts are on the line between Bonhomme, Paris and Sulzern More to the south we still occupy Thann." Petrograd, Oct. 19, via London. 3 50. if p. m. A newspaper correspondent at I Lemberg, referring to the German losses In the attempts to cross the up per San river telegraphs that thle stream is filled with the bodies of German soldiers floating down to aug nent similar flotsam on the Vistula, where other German troops have met the same fate. The correspondent says that none of the repeated at tempts to cross the San yet has been successful. Several of the outer forts yt at Prremysl are reported to have fj been captured, but these are not con- Wj sldered Important, Insomuch as Przcmysl already has been isolated t. and surrounded. Berlin, Oct. 19, via London, 5:45 p. m. German army headuarters has given out an official announcement under today's date as follows: "The attacks of the enemy to the vest and northwest of Lille have been repulsed by our troops with the Infliction In-fliction of severe losses. , "In the eaBtern arena of the war the situation remains unchanged " u Toklo, Oct 19. It is announced that a typhoon has struck Klao-Chow, destroying the landing pier. Twenty Jrpanese sailors were drowned. London, Oct. 19, 4:58 p. m. The correspondent of the Central News at Rome says a telegram ha6 been rc ccivcd at Bucharest, Rumania, which Declares that a German train composed com-posed of 150 trucks laden with munitions mu-nitions and other war material for Turkey has been stopped by the Ru maman authorities on the railroad be twetn Bucharest and Giurgevo on the Danube. The German government protested, but the train wa6 not al lov.'Cd to proceed. Constantinople, Oct. 19, via London, 3:50 p. m The porte has declined tc discharge the German crews of the Cruisers Goeben and Breslau which hac been In Turkish waters since erly in the hostilities and which arc siild to have been sold by Germany to the Turkish government Cettinje. Montenegro. Oct. 19, via London. 1:46 p. m. An Austrian nub marine was sunk in the Adriatic today to-day by a French cruiser. Two submarine vessels went oul from the Bay or Cattaro to attack a French fleet which was making Its way along the Dalmation coast They were quickly sighted, however, by the French lookouts and a well directed shot sent one of them, the leader, to the bottom. The other submarine escaped. The French fleet subsequently subse-quently recommenced the bombardment bombard-ment of the forts of Cattaro An Austrian aeroplane dropped several bombs In the neighborhood of the fleet, but no damage was done. London. Oct 19. 1 50 p. m By reaching their tentacles out to the s( aboard, the allied forces have established es-tablished close contact with the British Brit-ish navy which is now wi the extreme j left of the line and seems from the London view for the moment to block effectually a further German ef-Eort ef-Eort to turn this wing That the Germans may have grasped this Is crhaps Indicated in tl.e otherwise unexplained appenrnnee of four of their torpedo boat destroy is Saturday off the Dutch coast southward bound. It Is suggested that the object was for the destroyers to convoy submarines winch would dispute dis-pute the command of the sea on the Belgian littoral. Should the German navy undertake this venture H would be confronted villi much the. same proposition as has met the British fleet since the commencement of the war, and it would assume the same risks of colliding col-liding with mines heretofore faced by the British alone, because the British mine field stretches rtu'ht along the Belgian coast from Ostend southward Only German Alternative. If. as the allies claim, their left cannot now be turned, the only alternative al-ternative left the Germans is to hack away through the trio of armies con-I con-I fronting them, and General Von Kluck or General Von Ainim or whoever is in command of the German right, seems In no way loath to make the attempt. That they have made a forward move Is evident not only from the newspaper dispatches, but from a confirmation of these dls-pctches dls-pctches in Saturday a official com mnnlcation from Paris, which stated that the Belgians had repulsed several itn mpte of the Germans to cross the river Yser. which is ten miles nearer tlv coast than is the Thourout. Roulers and Menin line which they occupied on the previous dav As an offset to this, the British official of-ficial information bureau. In one of its rare communications, says that the allies in the northern area have drlv ; en the Germans hack more than ' thirty miles The precise locality of his advance and retreat is not indl-j indl-j cated, but it can have been only at 'some point on this western wing, where the Germans are trying to re-BUme re-BUme their interrupted dash on Paris by way of the coast towns. Climax Seems Near. These however are only two points on tin h 1 1 ma ii barriers which are fac Ing one another for hundreds of miles. Observers here think that a climax i i not be far off and the London papers pa-pers are quoting approvingly, though not in the ?mse intended the words attributed to Emperor William, who, in addressing his troops somewhere in France on October 3, is reported to have said : "Before the leaves fall from the trees here, we shall all be back In the dear Fatherland." 1 he probability thai the emperor never expressed tins opinion does not detract from its value In the British construction Paris, Oct. 19. 6 45 a m An uninterrupted un-interrupted offensive movement by the allies at certain points in northern France was predicted here today as ' the battle a resumed The rr-tak-ing of Armcntlerles, on the river Lys, on the Belgian frontier, and the occupation, ten miles west of Lille, of ; the right line leading towards Douai via Givencby and Promelles, was considered con-sidered as constituting an excellent advance guard position by reason of its numerous places of support This with the progress In several sections notably Arras, gave the allies hope of a continuance of their advance. Lieutenant Colonel Rousset, the military critic, in reviewing the situa- r tion, refuses to concur in the statement state-ment made that the battle of the Aisne has been definitely won by the allies. Battle of Alsne Not Won. "One never knows what will happen," hap-pen," he says, "and while the enemy will not take the return route, a revival re-vival of its activity can be produced in another vicinity, especially if the Germans see that their maneuver in the north Is endangered. But it is certain that on the horizontal line, j going from the Ol6e to the Meuse the allies have nothing to fear, as ery effort of the Germans from this side would certainly be stopped. "At. to the new -Jbattle, that of Flanders, it is clearly offenshe on the side of the allies The circumstance circum-stance which Inspires us Is that It win develop on ground more favorable favor-able for attack than for defense and that It Is undulating land widely spaced, where troops can easily de file for aggressive movements." The Socialists of France have do "lared as inopportune and premature the suggestions made that their comrades com-rades in the United States hold an interfnatlonal Socialist peace campaign cam-paign The officials of Paris were greatly pleased that Sunday passed without a visit from German aeroplanes and today it had much praise for the activity ac-tivity of the aviation guard. London. Oct 19. 10 SO n m From the point of view of the allied armies, so far as could be learned from dispatches dis-patches reaching London today, the situation in West Flanders and In France as far south as Lille, seemed on this, the 77th day of the war per haps more hopeful than at any time since the German advance on Paris w as checked. Though the news reaching England Is meager and to an extent delayed, as always, all tidings seem to indicate indi-cate that the German :idance from Ostend on the French coast towns has been blocked temporarily at least while further south In a region that was a week ago the extreme German Ger-man right, the invaders have been again compelled to give ground before be-fore the allies' wedge force which has been concentrating on Lille. Several reports contend that the Germans have withdrawn from this town, but this is not confirmed, nor is the report that they evacuated Cour-trai, Cour-trai, nearly 30 miles northwest It seems plain, however, that the men ace here grew marked and that the German army operating alone; the const of Flanders found Itself in porll of being cut off from the main body. What opposition they met along the sea Is ouly gues3 work, for It has never been disclosed in Oreat Britain what forces the allies have or at what point they face the coast Ml reports seem to agree that the city of Ostend is practically clear o! Germans, who apparently are reforming reform-ing to the south with reinforcements and the siege guns used to batter the Belgian forts and that they now propose pro-pose to hammer on toward Dunkirk and Calais. One report says they are beyond Furnes, less than ten miles from Dunkirk. Reinforcements from Brussels. Further south in France, reinforce ments from Brussels are said to have be. n brought up before Lille, which the Germans are reported as bombarding bom-barding In a desperate attempt to re take the place The Belgians themselves have been putting 1n some hard knocks According Ac-cording to last night's Paris official communication, they have held the Germans in an attempt to cross the river Yser. southwest of LMxmude. Belgium This was the first heard of the Belgian forces since the evacu atlon of Antwerp, and now they are found defending thai little splotch of their own country that the Invaders have not taken King Albeit unheard un-heard of for some time, Is said to hae cheered the men lu the field Some of the London papers describe the German evacuation of Ostend as a retirement to the east on the theory that the allies' progress to the south threatened to isolate tho Ostend gar rison, making a retreat imperatle. The dispatches are far from unanimous unani-mous on the direction of the retirement, retire-ment, however, most of them describing describ-ing it as a passage to the west and any attempt, therefore, to analyze it is but conjectural. From various sources come reports, none of which are confirmed, that some sort of naval craft are being pressed into use by the allies in the canals of Flanders and perhaps from the sea. Sunday a dispatch direct from Dunkirk said that heavy firing could be heard there and it was believed be-lieved that gunboat6 were being used In the canals It was added that , heavy fighting was progressing south of Ostend which, if true, meant the presence of allied forces at a point further north than heretofore sus-pected. sus-pected. This Is contradicted by the report that the Germans are west of Furnes Though there was a sporadic recurrence recur-rence of the anti-German rioting in parts of London early this morning, police protection has been Increased and no serious outbreaks were report ed during tho forenoon in h? city, but at Saffron Walden, in Esse an English lawyer's house was attacked and the windows smashed because it was 6.iid he had been harhoriug two Germans. In the continuation of the rioting at Deptford last night, a German Ger-man grain dealer's house and store were wrecked and then fired In the eastern war area the great battle of Poland appears to be progressing pro-gressing In favor of the Russians, who claim to have checked decisively decisive-ly the German forces In their at tempt to cross the Vistula. The Russians Rus-sians in and artiund Warsaw are be Ing temporarily protected from fresh German artillery aggression by reason rea-son of the impassable condition of the country through recent rains and owing to the destruction of the only railroad from Lowicz to Warsaw on which the Germans could transport their hea y guns. Around Przemysl. the Austrians claim to have killed and wounded 40, 000 Russians and also to have crossed the Carpathians, but on the other hand the Russians repulsed an us-frian us-frian attempt to croSG the river San That the Austrians are meeting with lgorouB opposition i6 admitted In the latest ienna dispatch which Bays that "our troops are advancing as against a fortress." oo |