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sioner of public service, which will be read at the city council tonight. Ferry wants the aldermen to lower the gas rates. Ferry is strong in his denunciation of the Illinois Public Utilities Com mission for their ruling Tn -which they -& gave permission to the gas trust to reduce the heat units from 600 to 565 in every cubic foot of gas. Ferry contends that the gas trust can make this cheaper gas at a lower cost and could be sold for 60 cents or even 50 cents. o- PORTUGAL BELIEVED ABOUT TO GET INTO THE WAR BRITISH BOATS GETTING TROOPS Berlin, Oct 5 (via Wireless Through Sayville, L. I., to the United Press). Portugal is believed here to be about to take part in the war at the demand of Great Britain on the side of the allies. Advices here show that a number of British steamers have arrived at Lisbon and it is believed there that they are to be used to transport Portuguese troops to the battle line in France. London. Believed certain here that Germans have made a breach in the southerly outer chain of Antwerp defenses. Constantly growing belief that unless siege can be lifted by allies co-operating with the Belgians within a short time Antwerp must inevitably surrender. Berlin, via The Hague. The Ger mans are gaining decisively in the fighting in France which involves the right wing of their army, according to the official statement issued today. The flanking operations essayed by the allies have been checked and at several points along the line on the west the Germans have pierced the French columns and have driven them from their trenches. The investment of Antwerp, the statement says, is proceeding with vigor and as planned. Paris. That the battle between the German right and the French left north of the Oise river continues to increase in vigor was admitted in the 3 o'clock official communique issued this afternoon. It was also stated in decisive terms that the outcome of this violent bat tle continues uncertain because of the fact that both sides are being constantly reinforced. In Russia, in a battle which lasted six days, the German army, which was operating between the east Prus sian frontier and the Niemen river, has been defeated along its full line and forced to retreat, abandoning large quantities of supplies. Paris. The northern flanking movement continues. The allied armies, constantly reinforced, are steadily extending their lines north beyond Arras. By sheer force of numbers they are pushing the Ger man right steadily eastward. Every attempt of the Germans to break through in the neighborhood of Roye and Lassigny and so relieve the pressure on the extreme northern line has failed. The outcome, the military experts here say, will soon be the long-looked for German retreat to the new line of defenses in Bel gium. The pressure is becoming so