Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1914 — TERRIBLE LOSSES IN EUROPEAN WAR [ARTICLE]

TERRIBLE LOSSES IN EUROPEAN WAR

Neither Side Has Material Advantage Bat Daily Conflicts Result In Many Deaths.

Terrific fighting between the Germans and the Allies continues and there is nothing to Indicate material advantage to either side Heavy artillery continues to play an important part in the battle, the Germans using 'their siege guns, it is believed, to halt the French and English.

The following summary gives the latest reports in brief. While the battle of the allies and the Germans continues along the entire front in France, there has been relatively no change In the positions of the armies. The hardest fighting apparently is proceeding on the eastern and western ends of the lines, the allies on the west endeavoring to encircle the Germans and on the east the Germans are. trying to break through the allies’ line in the vicinity of Verdun. The Russian advance guard is said to be before the Austrian fortress of • Cracow. In the far east a British force of 1,209 men has landed at Laoshan, China, and is expected shortly to attack the outer defenses of TsingTau in conjunction with the Japanese. A Franco-Brittsh blockading fleet is sfiid to have isolated the Austrian seaport of Oattero tfrid to be