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Show Continuous Fighting' Say Official Reports THREE AEROPLANES OVER PARIS. London, Sept. 3, 4:08 a. m. A dispatch from Paris to the Mail states that one of the three .German aeroplanes which made flights across Paris on Wednesday was brought down by rifle tire and landed in a deserted spot outside the city. The wreck of the machine was found, but the aviator had disappeared. London, Sept. 3, 12:10 a. m. The official press bureau has issued the following statement: "Continuous fighting lias been in progress all along almost the whole line of battle. The British cavalry engaged with distinction the cavalry of the enemy and brushed them back and captured ten guns. , "The French army has continued the offensive and gained ground in the Lorraine district. In other regions of the war the Russian army is investing Koenigsberg. The Russian victory, which is complete at Lontberg, has already been announced." an-nounced." GERMANS FIFTY MILES FROM PARIS Paris, Sept. 2. Another Gennan aeroplane appeared above Paris, circling above the city at a great height for forty-five minutes between 5 and G o'clock. Machine guns mounted in public buildings fired at the airship steadily and a constant rifle fire was directed skyward. It was unknown at 3:45 p. hi. whether any bombs had been dropped. "In the north there are no signs of hostile troops at Arras, Lille, Betliune, Douai and Lens," according to an official announcement an-nouncement made today. "Parts of several German arnry corps in Belgium," the statement continues, "are moving eastward into Germany. "In Lorraine our advance continues on the right bank of the Sanon. In the south the situation is unchanged. In upper Vlsice the. Germans appear to have left. Before Belfort there is only a thin curtain of troops. "Another German cavalry corps has pushed as far as the line from Soissens to Anizy le Chateau. In the region of Eethel and of the Mouse the enemy is inactive." An earlier official staement says: "A German cavalry-corps cavalry-corps marching toward the forest of Comgiegne, on the lef wing of the allied forces engaged the English Tuesday, September Septem-ber 1. The English captured ten guns. " Saissons and Compiegne are both northeast of Paris and ubout fifty miles away. Commenting on the war situation today, the Temps says: Germans 'Out of Breath.' "It is not the few troops' which the Germans can send J tliead that can besiege Paris. The important point is the cen-j ter, where we perceive a hesi- j tation. The Gennan troops; are out of breath, and one of their army corps has been transferred toward their eastern east-ern frontier. It is probable that we have in front of us on the center forces diminished by fatigue, by our fire and by withdrawals to reinforce the East Prussia army. "In any case our contingents have had their vacancies filled and their ammunition replenished, replen-ished, while the enemy is en countering great difficulty in geting supplies." The Petit Parisien today says that fourteen Gennan staff officers have been captured cap-tured and sent to Nimes in the department of Gard. The exodus of Parisians continues con-tinues from the d'Orsay and Des Invalides stations, but it is not greater than the influx at the north stations of refugees from Belgium and northern France, mingled with returning return-ing wounded. Nearly the total population of the departments of l.'orth Oise and Seincet-Oise haw lied at the first sound of canon. The (continued on last page) FRENCH MOVE CAPITAL CAPI-TAL TO BORDEAUX (continued from 1st page) crowds became so great that :he police were obliged to clear lie streets adjoining ihe anions, an-ions, which, howe.'cr, did not prevent an enthusiastic manifestation mani-festation at the sight of two English generals who had 3ome to Paris for instructions. Emigrants from Crepy-en-valots, in the department oi )ise, twenty three miles south ast of Compiegne, report that he Germans were crushed lear there and that piles of odies were lying yards high. V sergeant wounded in the leighborhood of Compiegn leclares he witnessed the annihilation an-nihilation of an entire German 'ivision by the French artil-jiy. artil-jiy. At the eastern station the efugees are nearly as numerals, numer-als, but there are few woundec mong them. An injured ar-illeryman ar-illeryman who arrived there poke mysteriously of the ter ible effects of certain Frencl rojectiles. The arrival of 140 woundec English soldiers at the north .tation yesterday was made ;he occasion of a great manifestation mani-festation of sympathy. All wore flowers presented by the Red Cross ladies at Chantilly, who had also distributed refreshments re-freshments to the contingents. At medical sendee station the Englishmen passed a number num-ber of wounded Belgians and stopped to shake hands while the crowd applauded. |