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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1914)
f $ i " WKMk BBG -" ' GERMANS WAGE SBKMTMPBB DEFENSIVE RGHT Ff "S" ON AISNE RIVER 0F 1 m StEDFORtf MAITi TttrBUNHTC, ansmrOTTOi, OKTCCION". WEDNESDAY, SKPTEMIYRT? In. 1011 Battle Line of 110 Miles Stretches From Nayon to .Point North o(, Verdun Reinforcements Arrival From Main Body of .Kaiser's Troops Counter Attacks iRepulscd LONDON, Sept. 10, r:2S i. in. Tin' official preps liurcnu totlny gave out n statement which sny.s: ''The general jMxsitiou nlonp tho Ainiii rivtT cntiliiiiirs very fiiviimlilc. The enemy 1ms delivered several ntnntcr attack!, opeeinlly against the fiivt tinny corp. Thee have heeii repulsed and the German have given way olightly hefore our troops anil the French nnaies on our right ninl left. "The enemy's loss is cry heavy." Defensive lUtllo Wk1 I'AIMS, Kept. UV:t-24 p. m. The following offieinl publieation wm maile puhlie teday: "Danng the days cf the 1-tth and lAtli of September, the rear guanls nf the enemy, with which our iursu ing forces wem in contact, wens rein forced from the luain body of the Dennanx. "The enemy is engaging in n defensive- battle along their entire front, on which certain of their positions show strong organization. This front is bounded by tho region of Xoyon, the plains to the north of Vic Sur Aisnc and Soissons, Lnon, tho heights to tho north and to tho wet of Hhciuia, and it lino which run Iheneo to tho north of Villo.Sur To.trb, to tho west of tho Argonno region, and which is continued thence beyond tho Argonne by another line, which passes north of Vnrenncs, a point that has been evacuated by the enemy, and reaches the river Jleuse in the neighborhood of tho forest of Forges, which is north of Verdun. Many lrlMners Taken "During the pursuit of the enemy executed by our troops during the battle of Miirne the Germans aban doned numerous prisoners to our hands. To these, men there has been milled n large multitude of stragglers who were hidden in the forests. "No exnet nceoun; of thece pris oners, or of the war material captured by us so far has been possible. It is for this reason that the minister of war, iho does not want to give out figuroH which might be considered fnntastie, refrains fnmi announcing tho details of these capture." PAINS, Sept. 1C, 3:40 n. in. Announcement Is niatlo that glgnltl cant papers were found In tho pos session of tho (Icrmnn general, jKrlcso, made a prisoner ami brought to Paris September 14. Ono was a letter, It Is stated, Inflicting punish ment for not replying Immediately to tho mobilization order and was dated July 10. Another paper was a dispatch ad dressed to General Von Kluck dur ing tho retreat, advising him that General Krieso's troops had no am munition and that It he did not re ceive some at once, ho would b lost. The report persists that General Frlcso attempted to commit sulcldo before he was made prisoner. w STATION AT TUCKERTON PUT OF BUSINESS AUSTRALIANSSWEEP JAP AEROPLANE GERMANS FROM AUGUST MPORS RETREAT TOWARD METZ REPORTED WASHINGTON, Sept. lit -An of ficial dispatch today to tho Kronen embassy from Nordeaux says: "On our left wing yeitcrday the Germans resisted north of the river Atsno on a line formed by tho forest Lalgne and the Craonne. "At the center their line of resist ance yesterday was north of Ithetms and the camp of Chorions towards Vlenno (a town at the western bord er of tho Argonno.) Tho hostile forces south of the Argonno have ac centuated their movement, retrea' Ing between tho Argonno and tits River Mouse. "They wero holding yesterday evening a front at Varcnnes an1 (Jonsenvoye. On our right wing tho Germans are retreating toward Metz." TIVERTON; X. .!.. Sept. in The big wireless station here, one of the two plants in the United Stales in direct touch with Germany, was closed today. It was said that tho generator had broken down, but information as to the exact nature of the breakdown was refused. Lieutenant Kelix flygux, V, S. X., in charge of the station, said later that one of the generators of the plant hn'd burned out lnt midnight, lie said there was no evidence of any tampering with the machinery. The station is out of opciation for an indefinite period, Lieutenant (l.v- gax said, iw the extent of the repair to be made has not yet been deter mined. It mnv lake a week or more to get the machinery in condition to ilenite the wireless. There was a large amount of pri uitc and government business on hand to be flashed across the Atlan tic when the breakdown occurred. SOUTH SEA ISLES E IN RIOT FOR WAR ROME, Sept. 1C, via Paris, 2:20 p. m. Tly central portion of tho city of Rome was occupied by military forces until after midnight last night In or der to prevent demonstrations on the part of the Roman populaco against Italy's neutrality In tho present war. It was necessary for tho troops to chargo tho demonstrators several times and a number of arrests wero made. I.ON'DON, Sept. Ill, 8:43 n. in. A dispatch to the Times from Sydney, dated Tuesday, says that Hear Ad miral Sir (leorge 1'atcy, commander of the Australian Heel, reports that the flennan losses at Herbertshoehe, in the Uisiiiarck nrehipolugiv were twenty to thirty killed and seventeen (lei man officers and non-commissioned officers made prisoners. "Cousidenng the utnse bush, the trenches and tho marked ranges," snvs the repott,'"our casualties, were slight." The Australian fleet left Sydney immediately following the outbreak of the war, acconliiig in the dispatch, and co-opemtc.d with the ( hinn Miuadntu. It seaiciiul for the en emy's cruisers, put out of action the icneinx's wireless station in the Pa cific, covered the New Zealand expe ditionary foice to Samoa and the Australian expedition to Herberts hoehe and imtrollcd the trade route. The cruiser MVIhtmrne, it is slated, covered oxer 11,(1(11) miles, mostly in the tropics. TEXAS TOWNS BUILD DROPS MB UPON T SIN TA BARRACKS . Ll' !. vestlgntlon wa rondurted, tho suc cess of tho commission's work, and tlm bill which It recommends, which, i s-?si J , j In my Judgment, if adopted by run Kress, will snltli) ttiu question of railway mall pay for many years." TOKIO, Sept. 111.-II Is officially announced that a Japanese aero plane dropped bombs on the hauueks of the (leimaus at Tsing Tao niul that the machine relumed sufely to its headquarters. The deslio.M'r flotilla operating from Laoshau bay, near Tsing Too, drove in the enemy's patrols. TOKIO, Sepl. 1(1.-- The railway station at Kino (.'how, fixe miles fiom the bav of that name, and opposite Tsing Tau, the (lennau fortified wrt, was occupied nit September W h Japanese scouts, according to un f ficial uuuouticcmi'ut made today. iraw OF E DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 1C. Within less than a month Texas will have built enough additional warehouses to store a total of 1,700,000 bales ot cotton, according to Information reaching hero today from 420 Texas cities nud towns. These cotton ware houses are now being erected or hava been financed. WASHINGTON', Sept. If.. Al though disagreeing with soma views expressed by Hon. Jonathan llourno In his report as chairman of the. mm mlttco on Railway Mall Pay, Con gressman Llod, democrat, from Miss ouri, Is warm In bis praise of tho work dono by tho former senator from Ore gon. 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