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Show LATE BULLETINS FROM SEAT OF H ALLIES ABANDON OFFENSIVE. BUT HOPE TO CHECK The ADVANCING GERMANS. French Commander Has Withdraw, His Forces From Territory Re. centiy Ooeupied, Massing Then, Between Maubeuge and Donon, The allies, having abandoned thi offensive, will, according to official announcement, assume a purely fensive attitude, in the hope 0 checking the advance of the vast masses -of German troops endeavor ing to break through the line. The French commander in has withdrawn his forces from territory ter-ritory recently occupied and j, massing them, along with their Brit-ish Brit-ish allies, in a strong line between Maubeuge, on the north, and Donou on the south, a distance of about 2-ij miles. A combined French and British force is holding the front near Givet, along the river Meuse, about thirty miles below Namur, while French troops command the roads out of tha great forest of Ardennes. Upon the ability of the allies to hold the Germans, the French war office of-fice admits, depends the fate of France. A British official statement an-nounces an-nounces that the position of the British Brit-ish troops is in every way satisfactory. satisfac-tory. Announcement is made, however, how-ever, that the British casualties fa the recent fighting numbered 2,001 Field Marshal Sir John French, commander com-mander of the British forces on the continent, reports that the withdrawal with-drawal of his troops to their new position was successfully effected. Earl Kitchener, secretary of state for war, announces that the 100,000 men asked for in the first instance have joined the colors, and declares that the reinforcements to the British Brit-ish army will surely and steadily increase in-crease until there will be an army in the field which "in numbers will not be less than in quality and not he unworthy of the power and responsibility responsi-bility of the British empire." Reports from The Hague say that the Germans who have been massed in large numbers along the Dutch frontier have disappeared and thai the mobilization of the Dutch armj has ceased. Muelhausen has again been evacuated evac-uated by the French. One dispatcil says four of the nine forts at Namur hold out. A wireless dispatch from the foreign for-eign office in Berlin to the German embassy at Washington records s severe defeat of the French troop; by the Germans in a battle which raged from August 17 to 21. Austria and Japan have severe! diplomatic relations. In other parts of Belgium -fighting is still in progress. Germans attacked at-tacked Malines, thirteen miles fros Antwerp, in small force and were driven to retreat. Russian reports related the advance ad-vance of the Russian armies in eastern east-ern Prussia and surprisingly rap;l movement of the troops. A German dirigible balloon which flew over Antwerp was brought don by Belgian artillery. Fifteen of its occupants were taken prisoners, according ac-cording to a newspaper dispatch. Another teelgra-m says, ton15' dropped from the balloon caused twenty-six deaths. One struck hospital. |