Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1914 — Late War News Summarized. [ARTICLE]

Late War News Summarized.

The seat of the French government is to be removed frqm Paris to Bordeaux, which lies 358 miles southwest of Paris. The proclamation announcing this action refers to it as a temporary arrangement. Regarding the progress of the battle which the Germans arfe waging on French and Belgian soil, both French and British governments are virtually keeping silence. The movements of the troops are meagerly reported and it has been impossible through these reports to form any adequate idea of how the tide of battle is flowing.

Direct advices from the Russian capital give the official report of a battle lasting seven days between the Russians and Austrians near Lemberg, capital of Galicia, in which the Russians werf successful, forcing the Austrians to retreat and seizing heavily fortified positions. The Russians captured 150 guns and the Austrians are said to have suffered enormous losses. In this battle three full Austrian army corps and parts of two others were engaged. French aviators have pursued a German aeroplane over Paris. There was an exchange of shots in the air, but the German succeeded in getting away.

Russia admits a serious defeat in East Prussia at the hands of the Germans. In this battle two Russian army corps were badly cut up and three generals and a number of staff officers were killed. An official report from Paris says that a German cavalry corps, marching toward the forest of Compeigne, engaged the British and the British captured ten guns. Japan has landed thousands of troops at the Chinese port of LungKow, 100 miles north of Tbing-Tau, and the German legation at Peking has protested to the Chinese foreign office against the alleged infringement of China’s neutrality. The United States cruiser Tennessee Is to be utilized for the transportation of Americans from Havre to England.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eger have jctumed from a ten days’ sojourn at Ghewano, Wis. John M. Qtt and fatally, of Remington, are here today to attend the carnival. Mr.s Kate Billings, of Chicago, who has been visiting in Remington, came here today to visit Lyman Zea and family