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THE EVENING TELEGRAM—NEW YORK. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, Im*. 3 GERMANS DRIVEN TO WITHIN 35 MILES OF BELGIUM AS ALLIES ON NORTH FORGE LAST LINK AROUND RIGHT WING 4rmy Operating Separately Is Fast Closing In En= have had scarcely any rest, and have often been called upon to make marches of thirty miles for several days in succession. GERMANS DESERT tirely to Surround VonKluck —French War Office A despatch frdm Bordeaux quotes the Berliner Tageblatt’« military critic as noting that “the German army in the Verdun region is menaced on three sides by the French.” So Confident it Publishes Detailed Troop Stories of encounters between the Allies and the enemy at various points along the line TSENGTAO FIRST show the fury with which the fighting is being carried on. The increased violence in the Ger- Positions Along Whole Front. man attack a few days ago, especially along the Somme, is credited in French military circles as being the result of the desire of the new German commanders in the field to distinguish them- DEFENCE FORTS selves by doing what their predecessors failed to do, break the lines of the Allies and resume driving home the finishing blows Paris, Tuesday.—French and British armies are rapidly the march to Paris. Kaiser’s Troops Evacuated Wai- to Paris. on the great German force that invaded France and sought capture At one point in the struggle the Germans and the Allies held positions only a quarter of a dersee Garrisoon and Retreat rapidly, with all indications The battle of the Aisne appears to be drawing to its close mile apart. The Allies were well sheltered from both shrapnel and machine gun fire, and the to Outside Defensive Line. pointing to decisive victory for the Allies. Germans tried to dig them out of their trenches with the bayonet. power of his soldiers in France for three weeks, The Kaiser, after exerting all the 2,000.000 In heavy force they swept up to the trenches, the greatest fury of the attack being directed CHINESE BLOW UP RAILROAD attacks on the French, concentrating first at one zone of contact and then another for desperate against the British trenches. The British waited coolly for the charge and then mowed down the its , BRIDGE. has failed signally to gain ground or to extricate his right wing army from peril. enemy with their machine guns and rifles. had gained some ground, the French On the banks of the River Meuse, where the Germans The Germans, though shattered, pressed the charge home with resolute vigor, and were not: i Pek sg, China Tuesday,.—The Ger- have returned to the assault and won back all that had been lost. beaten back until the British bayonets came into action. Elsewhere on the line the Turcos and /mans in Kiaoehou have evacuated the Wj aldersee line of defence before an over- North of the River Somme a force of French and British of unknown strength has driven French charge and territorials, with some regiments of first line soldiers, received the enemy's I whelming force of the enemy, and Tsing- back the Germans to a point within thirty-five miles of the Belgian border. threw it back. tao is now completely invested. The Ger- This operation is of the utmost importance, indicating that the Allies have been able to di- man losses were small. from the main battle line to threaten the pathway of retreat vert an effective marching column This information is contained in a de- of Genera] Alexander von Kluck along its entire length. spatch received here from a German Aviators Greatest Aid to source at Tsi-nan, Shantung, which evi- FRIGHTFUL LOSSES IN GERMAN DEFEATS. dently a wireless communication from Tsingtao. It adds that the Japanese arm- French and British have Violent attacks by General von Kluck against the left wing of the Army, British War Office Says ored cruiser squadron bombarded Tsing- been repulsed, with frightful losses to the Germans. General von Kluck sent forward large col- jtao Monday without doing any damage. Japanese of artillery fire to _assail the positions of the Allies. official /reports corroborate umns of infantry under cover the foregoing explain Loudon, Tuesday (3:15 P. VL). —The British Official Press Bureau to-day gave out a state- and that the en- Furious hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets marked this portion of the struggle, which ended gagement oeeured Monday morning. They in the rout of the Germans. ment which says:— declare further that the Germans are was shatter the lines of his opponents at the extreme ‘‘The following descriptive account, which has been communicated by an eye witness at now back on their main line of defence, General von Kluck’s hope clearly to five Tsingtao, jjresent with General Headquarters, continues and supplements the narrative published yes- miles from and that western end of the firing line, to compel a cessation of the manoeuvres of the Allies ocmpletely to Japanese troops occupy heights command- ing surround him. > terday of the movements of the British force and of the French armies in immediate touch with it. the lines which the Germans now His failure has the effect of intensifying the peril in which be finds himself, with the French “Wednesday, September 23, was a perfect autumn day. It passed without incident as hold. Three German war ships inside Tsingtaoj harbor and two regards major Japanese aero- and British now on three sides of him and with a separate force to the northeast rapidly closing operations. planes participated in the fighting. in entirely around him. “Although the enemy concentrated their heavy artillery upon the plateau near Passy, noth- Evidence that the present situation is most favorable for the French and British is given in ing more than inconvenience was caused. The welcome absence of wind gave our airmen a lAPANESE SHELL most convincing form in the fact that, for the first time since the war began the French War Office chance, of which they took advantage by gathering much information. J TSINGTAO FORTS “Unfortunately one of our who had been particularly active in annoying the to-day made public a statement showing the exact locations of the various forces of the opposing aviators, Tokio, Tuesday.—Bombardment of the armies. enemy by dropping bombs, was wounded in a duel in the air. Being alone on a single seated German fortress of Tsiugtao was begun by Japanese The French battle front begins on the east, at Pont-a-Mousson, near'Metz, and stretches west- monoplane, he was not able to use his rifle, and while circling above a German two seated ma- the fleet, co-operating with the allied land Japanese chine in an endeavor to get within pistol he was hit by the observer of the German ma- forces of and ward through the Meuse region to St. Mihiel, thence along the heights to the north of Spada, a shot, British, which swept the defenders from few miles distant, and through a portion of the heights of Meuse to the southeast of Verdun. chine, who was armed with a rifle. the outer works of Kiaoehou. The attack From Verdun the battle zone passes through the region of Varennes to the north of Souain, “He managed to fly back over our lines and by great good luck he descended close to a began on September 27, continuing day night. w hich once conveyed him a hospital. and which was captured by the French after a severe engagement, to Rheims and the outposts of Rehims. motor ambulance, r at to The Japanese casualties were 150. The Frbm Rheims the French hold the ground to Berry-au-Bac, also wrested from the Germans “Against thi smay be set off the fact that another of our flyers exploded a bomb among German losses are not known, bub, fifty men and guns after a sanguinary struggle. On the right (north) bank of the River Aisne the line draws near some led artillery horses, killing several and stampeding the others. four machine were cap- tured. This action, which was speedier Aisne and continues into the region of Soissons, also held by the French. to the MANY FLIGHTS BY AVIATORS. than anticipated, has accelerated the gen Between the River Oise and the River Somme the French bold Ribecourt; Lassignv is eral attack. “On Thursday, September 24, the fine weather continued, as did the lull in the action, the held by the Germans; Roye is occupied by the Allies and Chaulnes is in the possession of the heavy German shells falling mostly near Pargnan (twelve miles south southeast of Läon). enemy. SOCIALISTS GAIN IN “On both Wednesday and Thursday the weather was so fine that many flights were made SWEDISH ELECTIONS by the aviators. FRENCH WIN POSITION OF VITAL IMPORTANCE. Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday. Tho The French. British and Germa nairmen produced a corresponding activity among the Probably the most important statement in the official announcement is that the French final results of the general election for anti-aircraft guns. So still and clear was the atmosphere toward evening on Wednesday, and members of the Swedish Parliament have and British hold heights between Albert and ComblCs. during the whole of Thursday, that to those not especially on the lookout, the presence of aero- been announced. They show that the so- This position is only thirty-five miles from the Belgian border and the fact that the French cialists have fifty-seven seats, the con- planes high up above them was first made known by the bursting of the projectiles aimed at servatives eighty-six and the liberals fifty- lave reached such an advanced position portends grave danger for the German lines.