P YEAR SINCE BIG BATTLE. ir
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^ September 7. n
jos~ On the morning of 'the 7th Mau- a
noury found in front of him, not only tl
|V; the single corps of the preceding day, d
but 120,000 men; Von Kluck had h
?1 . skilfully accomplished the conversion
(of his forces and for tile moment ois- v
, engaged his flank and saved the en- 1<
tire German army from disaster. I
Several villages were retaken by t;
the Germans and the pressure every- c
where was severely felt. The . day i<
was saved for the army of Paris by fl
the 2nd Zouaves around Etrepilly, 1<
where the most violent attacks were h
repulsed, at such a cost to the Ger- a
mans that they found it necessary v
to burn their dead. The British b
troops accentuated their advance, A
punishing severely the cavalry di- t
visions of the Prussian Guard by remarkable
charges of the 9 th Lancers n
and the 18th Hussars. f
rEanprev took at the C
: . point of the bayonet Vieux Maisons h
and Pierreby on Von Kluck's left, ^
and after several violent combats t
; * crossed the Grand Morin, occupied S
Jouy-sur-Morin definitely and took v
up position on the Petit Morin. A
Foch, overrun by numbers on his v
right, held good until the 11th corps o
weakened, then established his line ^
a little in the rear of the front of s
Salon-Gougan'con-Counatre-Allemand. f<
The 12 th corps of Gen. Langle de o
Cary's army, heavily punished, was A
\ sent to the rear to be reorganized.
Sixv battalions of this corps?the v
least 'tried?sustained alone the at- c
tack of 25,000 Germans all the even- n
I':, ing.
The German attacks were arrested
around Sompiers by the 13th di- v
vision of the 21st corps, which lost ii
its chief, Gen. Barbade, as well .as n
Gol. Hamont and a great many bther n
officers. 4 tl
The army of Gen. Sarrail and that o
of tlie crown prince of Prussia con- d
tinued their duel, without result. sj
Coetolnfln hofnro Nflnov. ti
I having lost the Plateau of Amance, tl
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retook it and held it while Dubail in a
the Vosges maintained his advance, e:
ff:,- , j September 8.
The morning of the 8th found the t<
position of the wings little changed S
from the" beginning and -the allies' a
v success limited to the gains of the h
British forces and the army of Lan- E
gle de Cary. The fighting had con- *1
tinned all night. The army of Paris d
at the extreme left weakened, but ^
the centre held firm by grace of the c]
jp. . furious charges by the Algerian and ?
Moroccan itroops that created gaps in n
0 the enemy's ranks, in each case im- ^
v Mediately filled. The day passed in A
attacks and counter-attacks. Vil- n
lages were taken, retaken. At the e:
Cemetery of Chambry, a great many }(
officers and soldiers of the 3rd P
I Zouaves were killed, and finally the 0
line began to bend back in the direc- ^
tlon of Neufmoutiers. ^
, The 4<th corps, commanded by Gen. ^
Boelle, brought from Alsace and re- d
tarded en route by the exodus of ci- ^
Lilians from Paris, arrived?one di- ^
vision went to the support^ of the
British troop6, the other reinforced a
Maunoury. The situation - of the a'
army of Paris became critical as theij
result of ithe retreat of the 14th di- p'
vision of the 7th corps.
The British forces, reinforced by 0
one division of the 4th corps, made ^
further gains, taking many prison- CJ
.v ers and several cannon. The army a
oj Gen. Franchet d'Esperey, after
eight hours hand-to-hand fighting, ^
entered Montmirail and the army of
Von Beulow, leaving 7,000 dead and ^
a large number of prisoners, was in Ci
retreat all along the line. v
* Gen. Foch, at dawn, declared to 11
> his troops:
"The situation is excellent. I or- ^
der again a vigorous offensive." ?
German Line Broken. ^
The retreat of part of Von Bue- ^
low's forces before Franchet d'Esperey
broke the German line and fa- '
cilitated the efforts of Foch's army
|||?3< on his right. They key to the heights c
of Sezanne, the chateau of Mondement,
where the Prince Eitel Freidrick
of Von Kluck's staff had con- ^
ferred and dined with Von Buelow,
was the centre of attack. The artillery
drove out the staff, after which
* :v the: Moroccan riflemen penetrated 11
the park of the chateau?were driv- a
en oat, -attacked again and were re- T
pulsed. A third assault succeeded V
and in the park lay 3,000 dead Ger- ^
mans, including two generals. Whole
battalions of .French troops were an- 0
nihilated there.
Fere Champenoise and Sommesous, a
ti
after Sexanne, fell into the hands of
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Foch's army. Sommesous, counter- ;
attacked by the Prussian guard, re- H
mained in their hands only the time ^
necessary for the French forces to
? reform. T*he regiments of the 11th G
, ? , o
corps cnargea ana arove out tne 4tr
regiment of Grenadiers of the Queen ^
Augusta and the 4th regiment of (
Grenadiers of the Emperor Francis. ^
A vital development of the day's v
fighting was the discovery, by avia- fl
I o
\ tors, of a gap between the armies of
Von Buelow and Von Hausen, the _
effect of Von Buelow's retreat, leavftv'
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lg Von Hausen's right flank exposd.
By an audacious and opportune
n niopca/l 1*11 C
ictliUtJU VItJ, uren. X' uiaoocu ***?
ight in this gap under cover of the
ight, before Von Hausen's flank,
nd threw his adversary back upon
tie marshes of Saint-Gond in disorer.
The German losses there were
eavy.
The army of Langle de Cary was
ery heavSiy engaged around Vitry2-Francois,
where the forces of the
)uke of Wuerttemberg counter-atacked
fiercely. The artillery fire
rossed'here over the town of Vitry3-Francois,
which was partly in
ames. At Pargny and at Maurupt5-Montay
both sides lost heavily in
and-to-hand fighting. By a night
ttack the French infantry took the
illage of Etrepy, almost entirely
urned, and the surrounding region.
l little progress was made also to
he lpft of Vitry-le-Francois.
Serrail, menaced with envelopnen.t
by a combined attack from
orces coming from Metz and the
rown prince's army in front, sent
is cavalry against the forces from
letz and continued his infantry at
acks in front. rresn troops num
trassburg resumed the violent but
ain attacks upon 'the heights of
imance. The German losses here
rere extrefnely heavy, but less than
n the Heights of Sainte-Genevieve,
rhere de Castelnau's troops inflicted
uch losses on the Bavarian reinorcements
from Metz that they were
bliged to retire upon .the village of
itton.
Dubail, obliged to abandon Lune?
ille to the enemy, held them in
heck elsewhere and retook the sumiit
df Mandroy and Fourmeaux.
September 9.
The position of the army of Paris
hich had become critical the evenig
of the 8th, had not improved the
lorning of the 9th. Heavily outumbered,
it Appeared little likely
aat the position could be held withut
reinforcements. , Gen. Joffre orered
Maunoury to resist just the
ime to the last man. The forma- on
of the.line had been so modified
lat the army of Paris described an
ngle, one side of which faced the
ast and the other the north. Three
iousand men of the 7th corps, pit3d
against one entire division, bean
an attack at Marville, and the
ction became general. During nine
ours the battle waged incessantly.
Incouraged by news of successes of
le other armies, Maunoury's men reoubled
their assaults. Gen. Mangin,
ith the 5th division, by a desperate
harge near Asy-en-Multien, hurled
ack the forces in front of him,
early destroying the regiment of
[agdeburg. Bayonet charges by the
frican troops relieved the pressure
ear Hayden-Multien, and toward the
ad of the day the Germans, having
>st nearly half their force, were reulsed
all along the line of the army
f Paris. The 4th corps of Landwehr
as signalled coming to the relief of
on Kluck's flank* from Bethel,
[aunoury's army was exposed to a
ecisive attack by fresh troops,
[aunoury appealed to Gen. Gallieni. .
he governor of Paris requisitioned
,000 taxi-automobiles, drays, etc.,
udi sent 20,000 men to his support
cross Paris. .
Nanteuil-le-Haudoin and its vast
etroleum stocks were in flames. The
oops, qiost of them, had been withat
food for three days?only- the
toors,. habituated to fasting,.seemed
lpable of further effort. The Gerlans
seemed equally exhausted, for
leir attacks weakened with the
arkness.
The British forces, continuing
leir progress, threw ' Von Kluck's
5ntre back upon the Marne from
areddes to Chateau Thierry; they
ad gained twenty miles in two days,
iking prisoners and booty every
our. After seventeen failures the
British engineers succeeded in >throwlg
a bridge acros^ the Marne at
areddes threatening Von Kluck's
2ar. They crossed at La Ferte-sous^
ouarre, at noon, in close pursuit. A
etachment of cavalry, meeting two
juadrons of German cavalry, toward
hateau Thierry, charged through
nd charged back again. After traersing
both squadrons, then charged
!ie mangain in front.
Germans Retreat,
Von Kluck's entire army was now
1 full retreat, abandoning wounded
nd material and losing prisoners,
'he British forces discovered that
ron Kluck's troops lacked ammuniion
for their Mausers. Many canon
and prisoners fell into the hands
f the British army during the day.
The army of Franchet l'Esperey
dvanced in unison with the British
roops' close upon the heels of the
nemy, and only the German batter*s,
posted on the slopes north of
'hateau Thierry, saved the retreat
rom developing into a rout. The
rerman losses pn this front exceeded
ven those of the left. At Esternay
hov loft 5J OHO unhnriorl rlonrl aftpr
3ur days' fighting. Near Chateau
hierry they had emptied the reseroir
that supplied Paris with water
rom the Nesles, filled it with dead
nd covered the bodies with earth.
Foch pushed ahead also with the
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