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-4 RESULT UNDECIDED IKR SI1>K CliAIMH VICTORY IN BIO FIGHT. . EXPERT GERMAN RETREAT CAPTURE TRENCHES HOW ATxI.IKS TAKE ••IMPRK<iVAp BliE" GERMAN. POSITIONS. 'A Dispatch From Ix>ndon Says Ger- maas Are Heavily Fortifying Posi tions Around Brussels and Ixtuvain —Allies Look for German Retire ment in Belgium if Defeated. NEW FIANCE NATION ELECTRIFIED BY DE- Neither Germany nor the Allies yet lay claim to any decisive outcome in the battle of the Aisne, where the supreme conflict of the war, up to the present timfe, has long been raging. The engagement, taken as a whole, seems to be partaking of the nature of a siege. Doth sides continue to hold a majority of their strongly en trenched positions^The German lines for 100 miles, are described as vir tually a continuation of forts and heavy entrenchments. Artillery fire exchanges go on day and night, and under their caver are sorties of in fantry. | . t'ounter-attapks follows attack and occasionally one side or the other gains ground. It would appear to day that nothing but a successful flanking movement could have any serious effect on fither army. But neither front has been broken and ^Mfher side has been outflanked. ‘^Htfa^ims appears to be the center of « i most persistent fighting. It is be- fen the lines of battle and has suf- ed heavily. The Germans are de scribed as most anxious to recapture it. A dispatch from London ta the N'ew York Sun says there is a growl ing belief that the Germans are pre paring to retreat from the Aisne for a father determined stand in Bel gium. - —- . In addition to fotifieations already prepared the Germans are establish ing a huge line of entrenchments which run through Mons to a point near Valenciennes. They have erect ed a semi-circular line of fortifica tions to the north of Brussels and I^>uvain. Heavy siege guns are be ing mounted upon these fortifications and troops are arriving in large t num bers from Germany every day. Such preparations are not neces sary merely for use against the com paratively small forces of Belgian troops, because the two, possibly ‘ three German army corps in Belgium have been adequate to keep the Bel gians in check. The new defences, therefore, must be designed to pro tect a retreat. Tnusuafly heavy rains are flooding the country and will greatly handi cap the movements of such heavy guns as the Germans depend upon. A great part of Belgium is a veri table swamp and general military operations are regarded as impos sible. On account of the strength of the German forces and positions in occu pied territory the Belgian armies have been unable to mlntain any im portant offensive.' They have been successful in preventing the Germans from sending at least two army corps to the relief of their armies in France, and tlkey. have kept up series of raids upon German munlcations. further indication that the eyes Ihe world, will shortly turn again to Belgium, as the center of main operations lies in the attitude of the German military governors. Fortifi cations are being thrown up to the northwest of Liege and the people have been ordered to leave the city. Regulations affecting travellers have increased in severity. Without ques tion the apprehension of the Ger mans has increased. They have evac uated Termonde and Londerzec There is a report from Amsterdam that German troops who guarded Brussels hpve been withdrawn and that Austrians are now garrisoning the capital. They have seven heavy siege guns. Brussels is reported to be quiet, d)ut the price of food is high com- Big fion.s of Kaiser’s Forces is the I Chief Obstacle in the Advance of the Allies in thd Aisne Struggle. Writing to the London Chronicle Philip Gibbs, an Englishman, gives the following -account of the first days of the battle of the Aisne. For four dgys, he says, there has been an incessant artillery duel under carver of which both sides are entrenching themselves like armies of and rush ing over open ground with rifle, fire and bayonet charges in order to at tain advanced positions for further entrenchments. It was in this battle of trenches that we have shown our superiority and gained good ground, though at somewhat heavy cost. With the experience of the Boer ‘ war behind them, our troops are far better than the German in taking ad vantage of every scrap of cover and fighting in open formation. As a re sult of this we have been able to cap ture positions which seemed secure to the German, and with dogged per sistence and fine pluck our men on several occasions during the last for ty-eight hours have taken possession of trenches which, according to all rules of war were impregnable for an infantry assault. In this part of the fighting we have been assisted by the reckless valor of the^ Zouaves. I have already de scribed iq previous dispatches the gallantry of this famous regiment but in the battle around Soissons they covered themselves with new glory. They charged again and again under the most deadly fire and were successful repeatedly in reach ing the enemy's positions. German soldiers fired before them but not until the trenches were filled with their dead, slain by the Tong bayonets of the Frenchmen, who tossed them out of their pits .“as though they were haymaking,” as one of them said when they returned with twisted and broken weapons. I’nfortunately. the German artil lery has been very effective during the present battle in the neighbor hood of Soissons “As so< n as one of our men puts his head above the trenches," said a soldier who had just left them for a spell, “it Is blown off by shrapnel. We have to lie low and hug the earth." , “The accuracy and rapidity with with the German gunners find their range Is quite remarkable, and is due largely to the skilled work of their aviators who Indicate the positions by dropping scraps of paper and bombs, whicn act as smoke signals. The great 11-inch guns were par ticularly distressing, owing to their formidable projectiles and length of range, and it was a joyful thing to the Allies’ gunners when three of them were located and put out of action by successful rushes of infan try. “The Germans had to retire from the positions which had been taken up by this heavy artillery, and as it was impossible for them to shift the three guns Imbedded in cement, they abandoned them to us. “At the time of writing the great battle is beginning to slacken down, while each side is engaged In strengthening its position, but the German shrapnel is still busy, espec ially where they see the flicker of the heliograph or locate wireleRs sta tions, so that this work has to be done under heavy fire. FEAT OF GERMANS. i -ZI France no Longer Cowed by the Prus-1 C ate the positioh of the withdrawing Allies. Then along the splendid DANIELS' IN COTTON. SUIT. Navy Secretary Sets Patriotic Fash- _^l_ioh for the Cabinet. - . Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels has set a new fashion fgr cabinet officers when he appeared at his office in a suit of white cotton and announced that as long as the war lasts he' would wear only cotton clothing. •* “The way to help our cotton grow ers and cotton "manufacturers since they have lost mirJoreign markets is to make a broader American mar- -ket," Mr. ftaniels/ said. “And the way to help in this is to wear cotton .clc&tiing.’’ Guilty of Manslaughter. Josepli. G. Sullivan of Laurens was . Saturday found guilty ol ^’e?*T6rThe of John M. Yan- nan last May. Zeppelins Over Denmark. Zeplpilin airships, supposedly on reconpoitering duty, were observed Thursday from various places la Jut- ' land. . ‘ CONFIDENT OF SDCCES movement by Gen. von Klpck was a failure. Slowly, stubbornly, always Inflicting gi^at losses upon the Ger mans, the lines of the Allies had fall- |en back until the AnglccFrench left had Its back to Paris, while the line of the Allies reached eastward south I of the M&rne. Until that time the German ad vance had been automatic, apparent,- ly. irresistible. The great horde in gfay had moved southward like a vast cloud of locusts. Always before their advance were aeroplanes to lo- sian Army—It Can be Beaten—| How the Army of Paris .Sallies! Out I Catching von Kluck's Corps in Deadly Position. A new France has been born. The! French roads rolled countless auto- mobiles carrying advance detach ments of infantry, squadrons of_Uh- lans and light cavalry, and finally, column on column, the close pressed masses of infantry. Their artillery and supply trains shame of Sedaii and the bitter humil- stretched for many miles, for no array iations of 1870 have been blotted out, I that ever took the field was more utterly obliterated by the battle of perfectly and completely efhipped the Marne. There is not a Frenchman from Poincare to peasant whose spirit droops before Prussian menace. HoWever long the complete triumph of the allies may be delayed (and no intelligent Frenchman un derestimates the resources of German courage! the armies of the republic ADVANCE ON LEFT SHELLS KILL WITH GAS ALLIES MUTE lid GElNAN IIG1T IN SUV GAMS FW CENTER WEAKENS I EXPLAN ATION OF GREAT FATAL- ITY AMONG GERMANS. ^ American Soggeets That Turpin’s In vention May Have Been Used to Destroy Troops. A possible explanation of the ter- Bertin Claims That Terriflc Assaults I rible slaughter among the Germans I described in a cable dispatch from l pon French Center Has lorced 11 1 Dieppe has been furnished by a prom- to Give Ground—Rattle Continues I * nent American, long resident in ' , • 7. Paris and widely acquainted In gov- to be-Made Up of Attack and Conn-1 eminent circles. • . , The dispatch referred to describes ter Attack Result Still l n e< ^ an entire company of Prussian intan- Foot by foot,' literally, by old fash- try lying dead as If surprised by the ioned bayonet charges, the Allies arelUv®! officers with playing cards in outflanking the German right wing, I their hands, a group of sixty dead while at the center, in the Rhelms- Craonne line, the deadlock Is un broken. The eleventh day of the battle of the Aisne discloses _the Germans Guns, "ammunition, maxims, field kitchens, food supplies were trans ported rapidly by motor car, and even the great guns were drawn by motor. To the French peasants the advance had been terrifying. Their I maintaining their desperate grip on minds were awed by the never endihg French soil, but with a line so bent masses. at their right that vott Kluck’a army B<y September 7, Gen. von Kluck,| mU9 L retreat unless von Buelow can will fight with the confidence of the j comprehending the impossibility of cru8 ^ lb® Allies’ center, soldiers of the Napoleon of Auster- i nveB ting Paris, undertook to sweep The fate of the German army de- litz and Jena, the irresistible confl-lp as t, the British lines in an attempt pends u^on the operations at the cen dence of the years when French L 0 strike the French army of Gen. ter within, the next day or two, since I by Eugene Turpin, the Inventor of armies were unconquerable and when von Buelow. Until that time the the Allies, by methods old in I ' ,a P°l'I melinite, which liberates deadly gases the roads to Paris were choked with | charade,. 0 f the German advance had I eon’s time, are hammering back theLjj a t asphyxiate all within range of lying around a haystack, a trench a mile and a quarter In length, beyond the Ourcq River, filled with dead for its whole length, and on none of these corpses was there the slightest mark of a bullet or piece of a shell. It was suggested*'by the corre spondent that the Germans might have been killed by the shock of the explosion u.but the American referred to Is inclined to believe that in real ity the damage was done by shells filled with a new explosive Invented and trophies of ^100 the prisoners battles. ‘ This great thing has been accom-| been as follows: Gen. von Kluck, on the right of the German advance, had swerved plished by the gigantic 8tra 8:gle p ast p ar j^ n ^ tia( j a( j vance( j Mont . which extended from Paris to. Vitry le-Francols from September 1 to Sep tember 12, and which was composed of a series of tremendous battles along a fighting front of 127 miles. In these battles much more than Paris was saved, much more than material triumphs gained. The self- respect of the nation was the real trophy of the victory. France stands rehabilitated, no longer cowed by forty‘years of “Prussian swagger ing.’’ Von Moltke was an ’accident. The Prussians can lie beaten. Victory Has Made a New France. U Is, necessary to write of this up lift of French spirit, of the new-in spiration which has sent the confi dence of France swinging in a wide arc because it explains and illumi nates the material and physical ad vantages of the great battles In which the German armies were first check ed, then attacked, then hurled back mirail. He had traveled further and faster than the German artillery to the east, as the Anglo-French forces on the left of the Allied had been right wing, losing thousands as they the B heiu. take a trench at a time, advancing no At the beginning of the war the more than five-eighths of a Paris newspapers mentioned a new explosive of Turpin’s invention which The main battle line now from Las- had Just been tried out, and predlct- signy to the-ridge of the Argonne, ed that It would annihilate whole 100 miles, is a double row of for- regiments. Bombs charged with It tresses, from which Allies and Ger- were dropped from aeroplanes upon compelled to withdraw more rapidly I mans sally In attack and counter at- U field containing several hundred than the»4irinies of the Allies to the tack, while great guns devastate by| B |teep. and, according to the report, east. Gen. von Buelow, having occu-Iday and night. The government com- all the animals were killed by the pied Rheima. had proceeded in a pares this extended siege to the slow fumes. So deadly was this explosive slightly southeasterly direction and operations in Manchuria between | that the French government at first had readied Sezanne. Still further Russians and Japanese, eastward the third German army. Government reports and military commanded by Gen. von Hausen, con-1 critics avoid premature congratula- stituting the German left, where the tion, but insist that the Allies are Grand Duke Albret-ht was present consistently succeeding In the all Im- wRh a fourth German army, had pen- portant, endeavor to hold fast at the etrated to Vitry-le-Francois. East of center while beating back and enclr- the Ardennes the crown prince was | cling the German right wing, essaying the capture of Verdun, and still further removed from the Marne field was Gen. von Heeringen in tbe| German a tt ac ks at and east of the long battle line. The. , ._ , ^ Grand Duke of Wurttemburg and the in the *[ l K™* 1 Ml K e German Crown Prince have 8truck h^ *Quite a. chwing for them, once they get to cloee gripe; hesitated to use it on the ground that | the slaughter would be too terrible. In bis connection attention is call- led to a dispatch published in the New Rork Times just before the be ginning of the battle of the Marne, In which the correspondent, after re ferring to Gen. Kallleht’a encourag- vicinity of Nancy. The Beginning of the Battle. On the night of Sunday. Septem over the roads thev had travelled so] ber 6 - there had been furlo" 8 fight-1 blow after blow, but are incessantly triumphantly lnK P rett y much along the whole hurled back. East of the Argonng It is essential that this spirit be ,4ne ’ notably at Coulommiers, where and In the Vosges and Lorryne the understood because of the effect it the Fifth French army captured sev- French armies are a little mJre than can not help but have in later phases eral villages at the point of .the bayo- holding their ground, of the war in the west. France is nol n ® 4- ^ b ® morning of Monday. I The German Embassy Wednesday longer uncertain. She is calmly con- September 7*. Gen. von Kluck. having, received the following wireless: Simultaneously the Allies are pro- P"* ProcUmation to the people of tecting their operations by repulsing F* 1 ] 1 *- contl uues: - the east center! I mention an open secret. If the Germans are rejotc- in their great aelge guns, we and we are all asking ourselves how far their extraordinary sense of hu manity will prevent the French from making use of their great secret ’’ Some of the Paris papers said at that time that if the Germans ever attacked the city there would be un- fident. She is no longer feinting on 88 he no doubt assumed, passed the -The French offensive spirit Is he . rd _ off B i« UK hter’ so annarently It the defensive; she Is striking boldly | Anglo-k rench line at the extreme left | enlng. on the attack It is now possible to describe gen erally, comprehensively, the vast it erations of September 1 to Septem ber 12 which have already been The French losses are enor- of the Allied line, attempted hislnious. Their center Is retreating, great stroke of combining with von I Verdun is being successfully bom- Buelow for a terrific attack upon the barded, the effect of German mortars I French center. Having had to remodel their plans grouped in the sweeping title of the the German general staff had staked battle of the Marne. The details of everything upon this essay, hoping to [bein* rgain tremendous.” Thursday the following official I statement came from .Berlin: was supposed that these shells— which, presumably, are used In the 75-mlllimeter field guns—would be reserved as a last reeort for the de fense of the capital. But now, ac cording to the theory, the French have at last overcome their humanl- these operations will have to be left to the coming of peace, and history will have no small problem in an alyt-1 ing the movements of troops whose] numbers stagger the Imagination. The people, depressed for morel than three weeks over the constant withdrawal of the allies, hearing of nothing but a succession of reverses, were hardly prepared .for such full- split the Allied line and drive part westward upon the fortifications of Paris and catch part between von Kluck's and von BWICfVs forces on the one hand and von Hausen’s and the Grank Duke Albrecht’s op the other. The commencement of the six d»ys battle was the general advance of the “On the right wing of the German tartan scruples and decided to uso army beyond the Oise the battle has I the shells. _ -t come to a standstill. Flanking I movements of the French army have had no succew. Between there and the forest of Argonne, no serious fighting took place. East of the Ar gonne, Varness was taken by the Ger-1 mans. GERMAN WARSHIP* SUNK. Ruasiaat Cruiser Sinks Cnrieer and Two Mine Laying Torpedo Boats. The news of a Russian naval rie- “Their advance is continuing. Theltory in the Baltic in which a Russian Allies, foreshadowed by Gen. Joffre’s Q erman . arm y,-nbich Is attacking the cruiser sank a German cruiser and NOVEL WARFARE. How Sailors Cure for Helpless Enemy After Fight is Over. ness of rictory B>’ degrees the full order of the 6th, and shrewdly de- forts of Verdun, repulsed sorUes meaning of the long retreat from the signed t0 wreck the German plans. f rom Verdun and Toul. Many pris- ron ler- as ecome um ers oo an h nquestionably the declining factor oners and machine»gune and cannon there is the most enthusiastic praise of the w hoIe series of battles was the we re taken. The heavy German ar- aCCla ' m -1 * rand 80rtie by tl,e Paris army of tillery has begun to bombard suc- defence. • I ceBB f u iiy the French forts of Tryon- The 600,000 men of that army, les-Paroches, Camp-des-Romaine and fresh vigorotis and moved by fighting | Lionville. spirit, had been held ready for just such an opportunity. The moment it became certain that von Kluck’s army had swept southwestward past ed as another Napoleon. From reports to the government It is clear that upward of 2,600,000 men on both sides swayed backward and forward in the Marne country before the certainty of utter ruin compelled the Germans to flee north- ' An incident in the recent naval fight near Helgoland is described as follows: The Defender, having sunk an enemy, lowered a whaler to pick up her swimming, survivors; before the whaler got back an enemy’s cruiser came up and chased the De fender, and thus she abandoned her whaler. Imagine their feelings; alone in an open boat without food, twenty-five miles from the nearest land, and that land the enemy’s for tress, with nothing but fog and foes around them. Suddenly a swirl alongside, and up. If you please, pops his Britannic majesty’s submarine E-4, opens his conning-tower, takes them all on board, shuts up again, dives and bring them home 250 miles! wafld. Kliminating troops that guard- the Anglo-French forces the Paris ed communications or were left to garrison important towns, the Ger mans were able to drive 900,000 men against the allies in the final, desper ate endeavor to smash the French center. Including the Paris army of de fence, whose brilliant sally on Sep tember 7 made the plans of the Ger army of 500,000 sprang from the fortifications. Interposed itself be tween von Kluck and von Bueiow (who was hammering at the French, center) caught von Kluck in one of the most cunningly baited military traps of the centuries', I' The German commander was be tween two millstones. On his right KILLS GERMAN. J Vedrlnes, Freach Aviator, Attacks German Aeroplane. Jujesi Vedrines, the noted French aviator, was credited with a courage ous fight in midair with a German aviator whom he brought to earth. The German was daringly reconnolt- ering the position of fhe Allies when Vedrines ascended. ,^n¥ing-.aiviJlty.j»iisf8rifc tutlH i-hm man General Staff so much waste were the Anglo-French forces. On his paper, the Allies In the battle of the left were the Parisians. The mill- Marne numbered 1,600,000. With- stones were closing upon him. For out the Paris 500,000 nearly 1,100,- two days he fought terrifically and 000 of French and English troops just managed to squeeze out of the hammered back the German attack, trap, although suffered immense Of the number of Britislf troops that losses in killed, wounded and pris took part in the six days fighting it oners. Is impossible to speak accurately. It Almost simultaneously with his is estimated here that Gen. French | movement Gen. Pau. with a compara- commanded about 250,000. Casualties Unequalled. I successful raid upon the German line Modern accuracy of rifle and a rtil- co,nmun4ca44on9 a ^ their right, a lery fire, the persistency of the Ger- ra ' d wb4cb bad ^ ar reaching conse mans in adhering to close formation dUence ’ G®n. Pau seized a long wagon and the character o.f their withdrawal tr . ain supplies that the German through unfavorable country made 4r0 ° bs d ® s P® Ta tely needed, ammuni- ihe casualties of the Marne unequal- tio . n and dood led probably in the history of the Von Kluck Barely Escaped world. The most conservative js that Von Kluck, barely escaping from from 20 to 25 per cent, of the armies the French trap, was compelled to engage^ were killed or wounded. It turn his face to the north and move is therefore believed that nearly 500,- with all speed to extricate himself. 000 men were eliminated in the con-j This • was retreat. There was no H| j t “In the French Lorraine and on the frontier of Alsace, French troops were repulsed., “A really decisive action has taken place nowhere.” . The news from the Battle Front, via Paris, Thursday, contained the following statement: The German offensive was extreme ly vigorous at the western end of the long line stretching along the Rivers Oise, Aisne and Woevre. The allied troops, whose gaps had been filled with freshly arrived rein forcements, . not only repeatedly thrust back-the German attack, but eventually carried out a successful counter attack, which resulted in the gaining of considerable ground and the definite capture of Peronne, about which town the fiercest engagement occurred* Further to the east there appears two torpedo boats has lessened some what the dismay felt by the British public o*ver the destruction of three British cruisers off the Hook of Hol land. •*' The Russian armored cruiser Bayan, a ship of 7,775 tons, encoun tered the German warships in the Baltic, It Is reported from Paris, while they were mine laying. No de> tails of the engagement are yet known, but thq Bayan apparently es caped serious injury. The Bayan was completed in 1910. .Stye Is of twenty- one knots speed and carries an arma ment of two 8-inch guns, eight 6- inch guns and smaller batteries. AEROPLANE STRUCK. None of British Machines is Badly Damaged, However. .1, lively small force of cavalry made a I b ® concentrated a large German - ' ‘force occupying strong ^ entrench ments from which it Is difficult to dislodge them, ’fhe fighting there has been of a desultory character, with, however, slight advantage in favor of the Allies.- On the eastern wing the Germans are throwing enormous masses of men against the French troops, pro tecting the line of defensive forts above Verdun, but up.to the present their efforts, although costing im mense sacrifices, hare been vain and The Admiralty issued this state ment Wednesday: “Yesterday the British aeroplanes of the naval wing delivered an attack on the Zeppelin shed at Duesseldorf. The conditions were rendered very difficult by the misty weather, but Flight Lieut. C. H. Collet dropped three bombs on the Zeppelin shed, approaching within 400 feet. ThjB extent of the damage is not known. Flight Lieut. Collet’s machine was struck by one projectile, but all the machines returned Safely to their point of departure.” Sailors to Return. -The British sailors who were res cued from the sinking cruisers and carried to Holland, will be returned to England. Filibuster Wins Fight. was. above 4l~-- the German, Vedrines gave chase and as he skimmed along fusiiytT&d and*air scout with the automatic guns. The German ma-r chine was riddled and the as^afor killed, both falling td the ground fif teen minutes after Vedrines took the . alt. .—- . —, '■ The, situation attained by three hurled ba fh to the between weeks of constant - retreats by ‘the|F ar l s a nd the sea, there to be sur-lihere could have-been nothing more French and British bad been produc- rounded and captured. HIf defeat impressive-In *11 history. Jlundreds ed. The German drive southward! was * great triumph for the plans of of thousands of gray uniformed men had failed to destroy or envelop, a th®’French General staff and for[*®re rolling back northward, not single army ef the Allies. Since the|French organization., ( [merely over the roada but through determined filibuster on the ot several senators ha? forced * Democrats to reconsider their river and harbors.bill. . t- 28,000 Thus far. says a Berlin first days of September it had bo-1 Aviators who observed, the retreat | fl ^ds and forests, all In a desperate J 060 persona have come evident that the ercat turntngl the Germans have reported that hurryr'-ry - - Ithe Iron Cross. — -- -