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FOR RF LEAST—*1 MONDAY Morning
PARIS, Sept. 5.—~The Battle of the
Marne began in the late hours of to
upon his left, Generalnb‘mith Dor-
ing ground. Such was the beginning
of the fourteen days" retreat, during
which the.Atlies,Ico1'ering 1i0 miles
distant, on the left wing'fought con-
tinual rear guard actions and some
important engagements that checked
the advance of the Germans and pre-
pared the Battle of the Marne accord-
ing to the plans said to have been
definitely fixed August 27th by orders
in Joifre's own hand. I
General- Langle de Qar1 obliged the
Duke‘of Wuerttembergfb recrosa the
blouse and held-him there twenty-
four hours, retiring only under orders
from Joffro that 'he moat 1be at Lau-
nois on the 20tl1.At Lounois and Re-
tl1el he held the same forces from
August 28 to 31. before continuing
his retreat. From his position facing
the Ardenncs to the front. of the
Marne, he had fought ten whole days
and covered 60 miles with his forces
intact. '1
Generifi Lanrezac attained a. auc~
dessptfluiee. but was ordered not to
follow it 'up', thoI.situ11tion was‘uot
yet favorable 0811 resuming a general
offensive. V
The. retreat of General li‘rench was
night a year ago, yet some of its dc-
taiis will be. cleaned up only when all}
attended with the greatest difficulties.
The Ge11nans,aendi11g ever increasing
official reports and documents amt numbers of soldiers by forced march-
available.
The respective strength of
armies during the battle of Charlcro
and the retreat, the number and posi-
tion of General Maunoury' a forces'
during the ret1eat,11nd the prelimin-
1:111 maneuvres, and the number and|
origin of the reinforcements sent to
Jim during the battle, are disputed forward called the Army
The reasons for the and i‘flmi'
.den obliquing of you Kluck's forces Amions and popularly supposed not to; rails "in
on alliii'otuhing Paris are also in have been in action until September \eidun iu the krizonne
questions.
doubt Little by little, how'e1er, tho'
principal developments of the battleIport of the B1 1111111 contingent the 20m,
have been established approximately. Im the region Of the 50111
Though the execution of their plausladministexcd a severe c
had been retarded a fortnight by the.|
resistance encountered in Belgium.
the Germans, in their vast circular
movement, pivoting on Metz, reached
the. line of the Sambre and Meuse
,August )1 with at least 25 corps (900,-
000 men) while the Allies had assemb-
" led only 17¢ corps (080000 men),tn
'1 eluding two British corps. The Al-
:' lies, countiffg upon several days re-
sistance _by the fortress of Namur,
'took the offensive August 22, with the
4' object of piercing the German lines
' at the junction of the Sambre and
Ii the. Mouse and cutting the armies of
' von Kluck and 10a Buolow off from.
Ithe rest of the German forces.
(datum: fell in a few hours; the
army? of scent-.1111 Foch (1211.000 1111111)
concentrating behind the center Was
- ‘1; not yet ready to go into action, and
a; the plan of the 'Aliies was comprom-
pitted. “After partial successes around
1% Chariot-oi and on the Mouse, the first
'1: dIVIeibif or reeerves' at 1311111111 m
-. thrown back. and the Third corps at
«i ‘Marchiennoe sustained a grave ro-
,1;
kI
1“
1 oral Bangle do Gary on his right had
" .boert checked in the Ardonnes. 111111.
Ruffoy- .611”- the extremegright- mg 1111
,ditiioulbioo I-Mth- ~'tbo army of the
Crown Prince of Prussia at .the iron-
tier of " 11.1.1111 the gimme
1‘ floft the B fish 'troopf- nioun‘d .if'dns
. '“i-were violently 911W; tit M
drouportor anumbere, contagiy looms:
:ing and gravely r 111 toning their
.tenvetopmenf - - - ‘1
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“gammy with reading 111a.
I
me against his left,
11131101“ and desperate counter attacks. At
,It‘. ambml he sustained the fire of the; flank of the enemy which 111 manhing
lbelng disengaged b
I
-I verse, weakening the center, held by
f.- the army of General floured/ac,~ widen. 2""
necessitated v io-
artillery of four corps; he loot 6000
men from the 23rd to the L‘Gth before
1' 11 heroic chargeI
of General Allcnby' a cavalry.
The army of General Maunoury. af-
of Paris,
26111 nea1'5
(onstituted the'
6th, appears to have gone to the sup-
me, where it
heck to von
Kluck’s right. The superiority
numbers was too, great. however; at
for every‘ueffort the Allies foundgin-
creasing forces .on their left, and the
lines extended continually further
west. The Germans occupied Amlens
and continued on as far as Beauvais
-j'l‘his strengthening of thetlinel 31nd the
obliquing of the army of General
:FianIVchet d‘Esiierey (formerly the
army of LIani'ezao)’ to the left. created
'a gap between, that 111-1111,t and. the
army of General Langle do Gary,
which was filled by the new army’um
der .Goneral. Foch, in process of for-
motion during the battle of 'Gharlerol.
Von Kluck's army, whose objective
was supposed to be Paris, was offi-
clblly reported September 4th .s' as
obliduing to the southeast, with ,tho
apparent intention of neglecting Paris
and pursuing his- efforts to turn fiho
Allies left. IrAtIt the anus) me one
army of the Crown Prince 0112. the deft
.des‘conded along the 3131113111 edge of
the, Argonne. I-Thore were two
ioe‘of'the sudden change in the 01:06,-
you Kluck'sI' march. One that
pursuing5 the Ionvelg‘pih g
movement: the other that' he 11111130in
covered the Array- of 'Paris onztitlo
rightwflaok and tbyeouolovorrdedgw t9
the southeast avoided vucnntio Id!
Matti; Selina? udi‘G’oafliiogue r97
eii".1:..,ai" , nitrates-o ”'1‘
rien’s second‘corps was already giv-I
I
of.
I Darcy, Chambry trnd l’encbard—while
toot;
being enveloped himself. the t of-tiioibayonot. S01 oral villages were
at unrzmpsme- firiit whitewash «we “detachment
seems“ twin-1111i“ Lone. '1qu Wu”) 111- mooniiiht. the re‘gheti'
We movement. ”:11” aft .. troops, taking three moreevil'futil.
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army way of Beauvoir month. 49"“? fighting "’ tapeworm-the
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and 20 miles south of Menu.
The “trough" 101" semi-circle pre-
pared by .Joil‘re‘s orders was in poni-
tion, and the German armies had so
far marched into it the 5th, that Gen-
eral-in-(lhiof'Joffre was able to issue
orderir for 11. general attack'the next
morning. in order of battle as follows:
Maunoury northeast of Meaux,
ready to cross the Ourcq between
Lizy-sur-Ourcq and Nay-on-Muitien in
the direction of Chateau-Thierry.
I
lommlers, facing the east, ready to
attack in the direction of Montmlrailf
Fifth Army of French'at d‘EVsperey
'between Courtaconllsternay and Se-
of the north.
Seventh Army of General Foch cov-
.cring the right of 5111 army and hold»
British army on front Changis'Cou- '
zanne, ready for attack in direction,
' gaged his flank and saved the entire
meat. the illl army tilt! [Hi WIDE.
The British forces,
01 Bangle 11w
L111), though Jubt aiilveu, also muta-
bu 1igut'oue'1) 1110111, 1111' cutil‘e front.
The army of the Crown i'rlnce of
P1 usslu 111111 Just taken up its poetiiou
tic-1011: tin- Argonne and begun 1111 at-
tack, which Serraii repulsed.
Ilubhll, in the \‘osgeS, thushodback
the forces of you “common, and Do
Castelnau held the. Grand Bouronne
dc Nanc1 agolttst the attacks of the
Crown l'tince of Bavaria.
September 7th.
-()11 the morning oft. the 'ith Man-
awry found inzt‘uonttof him not only
.the single corps- of- the preceding day.
.bui'mwou man; you Kiuck had skil-
fully accomplished the conversion of
reinforced D)
and several cannon.
General b‘runchet d’Esperey, after
eight hours‘ hand-to—hnnd fighting, .eu-
treat all along the line.
his troops:
"The situation is excellent.
again a vigorous offensive"
his forces and for the moment disen-
his tight.
German army from disaster.
1111; southern issues of the Saint-Good
Marshes.
Offensive by these armies to be
taken September 6th in the morning.
The following day .Joffre. completed
Several villages were retuken by
the Germans and the'pressure every-
where was severely felt. The day
was saved for the Army of Paris by
the 2nd Zouaves around Etrepilly,
where the most violent attacks were
1cr of attack.
his disposition of the allied forces by
orders to the 4th and 13rd armies as
follows: - .
Fourth Army of General Langlo de'
Cary—stop movement southward turn
about and face enemy. combining list
movements with 311i armv, which wunI
to debouch to the north of llevigny
and take the offensive toward thei
west. 1
Third Army will attack the
t
l
to the west of the Argonne.
The formation of the position into
which the lemma armies marched}
was that of a wide trough: . .
Iand French formed the side toward
Paris, Franchet d'Esperey. Foch and
Langle de Cary the bottom. while Snr-I
1y formed the side toward
September 6111.
Mauaoury' s Zouaves and Moors be-
gun the Battle of the Marne in the
iearly hours of the 6th of September
by recapturing the ridges of \iarcllly,
the ith corps also advanced to tho
north
From dawn the British army and
the army of General Franchc'
porey were heavily engaged with von
Kluck and von Buolow‘s right. The
British facing a general northeasterly
direction. attacked the German line
in the angle of the trough.' After ten
hours continual fighting, the pressure
on the British front and that of the
5th army on. its right diminished.
Hard pressed on his flank by Matt-
tbreatenod,»von Kluck was obliged to
weaken his center by sending two
corps (80, 000 men) to the support of
the overwhelmed 4th corps on the
.Ourcq. The withdrawal of those
ttroops was concealed by a particularé
1y violent attack in which more sac-
rtficed a great number of men.
During the afternoon you Kluck was
obliged to ro’pass the Grand Morin
and abandon Coulommiero, but 3ch
coeded tauntintatnmgtmmseu on the
right ~-bank.‘ The army to! Frincbet
diasporoy 'alao gained ground. The
Senegalese riflemeii ”drove the Gor-
mans from the image and? thorou-
Mans offloayoufiltori‘d at the point
7th army: of 118Geneva The Softer ro-
hang tiie‘ proton; of tit first as-
‘ti'tunourYIol‘ "h“ un‘t‘ Morin. ‘ '
: .Vosges maintained his ndvadcos.
noury.tand..cwith his communications "
retarded on1 lroutp by
chateaumwere
again and were repulsed. A third as
repulsed, atIsu1h cost to the Germans
Ithat they found it necessary to burn
t'hch dead. The British troops ac
centu'tted their advance, punishinm‘
severol1 the cavalry divisions of meigenerals
Prussian Guard by remarkable "0°93 were annihilated there
charges of the 9111 Lancers and thel
'18th Hussars.
Franc-her d' ljsjorey
3.000 dead Germans. including
after Sezanne, fell into the hands 0
the “9011' s ar11111
took at
1911100011 of the bayonet \‘ioux Maisougiattacked b1' the Prussian Guard, roI
and l’ierrcbv on von Kluck's '.left and mained in their hands only the time
other several violent combats cream-d1 lloCEssar} for the l‘rench forces to re-
the Grand Morin, occupied Jou1- ”our form. Two regiments of
Morin definitely and back up position
Augusta .and the ith .
Grenadiers “of "the Emperor. Francis;
"'F‘o‘ch, "overrunxzby numbers on his
right, held good until the 11th corps,
weakened; then establlehed his line a
little in the rear of the front Salon-
Gougancon-Counatre-Allemund.
The 12111 Corps of General Langlo
dc Gary’s army, heavily punished. was
sent to the. rear to be reorganized.
Six battalions of this corps—the least
t.ried~~sustained alone the attack of
25, 000 Germans all the evening.
The German attacks were arrested
around Sompiers by the 131l1d dIvlsion
of .the‘ let é‘orpa, which lpst its chief,
General Barbade, as well as Colonel
Hamont andfltl greatmany other of“
floors. verv: heavily 9318““ “.m‘m“ vitry-le
The army, of General Serrail and
that. of the crown Prince of Prussia
continued their duel, without result."1a(-ked'fiércely.' The
.General de Castelnau, before_Nancy.IIc1-ossed here over the town of Vitry-
having lost the Plateau of Amance.x_e- le-l-‘rancois. which was partly
toolrit and hold it while Duball in the flames. At Pargny and at Maurupt-le-
fighting was the discovery, by avia
in this gap under cover of the night,
of Saint-Goad in disorder. The Ger-
man leases there were hour.
.1-
Duke of Wuerttemberg counter-at
hand to hand fighting. By a night at-
tatk the French infantry took the vil-
logo of Etrepy, almost entirely burn-
ed, and the surrounding region.
.> September 8th.
The morning of the 8th found the
poaltlon of the wings little changed
from the beginning and the Allies'
”success “limited to the gains of the
:British forces and the Army of Laitgle left of Vitry-lIe-Francois.
do Cary. .The fighting had'continued '
all night. The army: of Paris at the by a combined attack from forces com
extreme left weakened, but‘the center
held firm by' grace of the furious
charges by 016" Algerian and Moroccan
troops that created- gaps>m the on
wars ranks,'li1.eachicaso immediately
filled. The day passed in. attacks and
counter- attacks. Villages were taken.
retaken. At the cemetery of Chain-
bry. a. great many officers and soldiers"
of the 31d Zouaves were killed, and
finally the line began to bond buck .111
the direction of Noufmoutiere. . -' Bavarian reinforcements if?!“
The 4th C 5113. commanded by Gen-
eral Boone, rought from Alsace, and-
he exodus 9t.
civilians ffogi parts, arrived—one di-
union wont to the support of the
British 1.11.191, the other reinforced
,Mauno'ury. The situation of the army
of Perle became critical, as the result
Heights of Amanoe.
losses here were extremely heavy, bu
Genevieve, where de
.‘.l
the village of dftbn.
elsewhere and retook the summit o
Mummy and 1911mm.
' September 9th.
. I left anaemia»
of the».rot.reat. of the 14th division of
.,-
one division of the 4111 corps, maue1brred.
further gains, taking many prisoners
The Afiny of
tered .liontnurailand the army of von'
Buelow. leaving 7.000 need and ti
large numberof prisoners. was in vo-
Genoral i" och. at dawn, declared to
i order
The retreat of part of von Boo”
law's forces before Ib‘rancbet d‘Espe-
rey broke the German line and facili-
tated the efforts of Foch'avarmyron
The key to the heights of
Suzanne, the Chateau of MondementIMulIiPn.
where the Prince Eitel Friedrich of
von Kluck‘s staff had conferred and
dined with 1'011 Buelow, was the cen-
'l‘he artillery drove out
the staff, after which the Moroccan
riflemcn penetrated the park of the
‘driven'out1 attacked
sault succeeded and in the park lay
two
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ing of the 8th, had not improved the
morning of the 9th. Heavilyloutnum-
it appeared little likely that
the position could be held without re-
inforcements. General Joffre ordered
Maunoury to resist just the same to
the last man The formation of the
line had been so modified that the
army of Paris described an angle, one
side of which faced the east and the
other north. Three thousand men of
the ”lib corps, pitted against one on-
' tire division. began an attack at Mar-
villa. and the. action becamo , general.
Barium-nine ”urn-the battle waged
incessantly. --Encouraged by news of
'sucoosses of tbeother .armies..Mau-
‘ery'men rodoubled their assaults.
General Margin, with the 5111 division,
by a desperate charge near Acy-en-
hurled back the forces in
front of him, nearly destroying the
regiment of Magdeburg. Bayonet
'chhrges by‘the 'African troops reliev-
ed the pressure of Magdeburg. Bayo-
net charges by the African troops
charges bvt the African troops reliev-
the Germans, having lost nearly ,Ihalf
._,, ___,..—.—
into the Marshes of SaintGoud. A
stubborn resistance was ‘offered‘ there '
in the parts where defense works
could be organized. Foch succeeded
in taking these works in the-rear.
driving thousands of the‘ Guard so
precipitatelv from the safe routee that
they sank into the slime of the
marshes. Several batteries of .ttrtll-
lery were lost there and the 7th army _
took many prisoners.
The army of Langle de Cary, prese- '
ed by. fresh troops bronghtfrom Bol-
gium. maintained its positions. while
.Sarroil repulsed a violent attack .by
van Heeringen with the 46th corps.
As the result of the bloody bottles.
of 'Dioulouard and Saints-Genevieve.
Nancy was entirely diseases“! and
the Bavarians retired from Ponhflr .
Mousson into the Bots Le Petra-end
Dubail in the Yosges progressed 'do
the regions of I inevile and Baccarat.
September 10th.
The morning of the 10m General
Maunoury was informed of the son'-
"'“e‘ed ”‘8 ”955“” “e” M‘“ on MM 'Kluck,1'on Buelow and con Hanson.
‘tien, and toward the end of the dafli’areddes and Lizy- ““0“:ch evacu-
eral ’1retreat of the armies of von
ated in haste, were found ”WW
Whole battalions of Freud!
i‘erc (hampcnoise and Sommesous I
f flank from Bethel.
of their force. were ”Pulsed ““ a1°“I‘i'wnh German wounded. At Etreputv
the line 01' the army 0‘ PM“ The“piles of carbonized bodies were W.“
4th COI‘DS 0‘ ”whet" was Signalled and dead and wounded were found in
coming ‘10 the “3““ °f '0“ Klucks all the ravines and thickets. behind
\inunoury‘s army‘hedges and generally at every apot' . »
Sommesous, counterwafi (“bored to a
the 11th biles, dravs.e
corps charged and drove out the 4th to his support across Paris.
regiment of G1enadiers of the Queen
regiment of
A vital development of the da-VVSout
tors of a gap between the armies orIcapable of further efimt.
von lluelow s and 11m Hansen, the ef—' mans seemed eq'ualii exhausted, for Ions The 109,195 of van Buelowtg am
fect of von Buelow's retreat leaving their
voit’ Hansen's right-flank cxpobed. By
an audacious. and opportune maneu-
vre, General Foch massed his right
before you lia11se11‘s.tianfl, Iandthrew
his adversary. buckupon-the Marshes
The army of Langlo do em was
Francois, where. the forces ,on the
artillery fire
in
Montay iboth aides lost heavily- in
A
little progress was made also to the
Serrall, menuced with envolopment
Ins from Metz and the Crown Prince' 9
a1 my 111‘ f'rdni‘ sent his cavalry against
the forces from Meta and continued
his infantry attacks in front.- Fresh
troops from Strassburg resumed the
violent but vain attacks upon the
The German
less than on the Heights of Sainte
Castelnau’e
troops Indicted such losses on the
eti
that he; were obliged to retire upon
Dubail, mum ‘11: 5111111111111 thine-
ville to the enemysneiouiem In choolt
‘
.The position 'of the army of Paris,
which had become critical the even-
fresh troops. Maunoury appealed to,
GLneral Gallieni. The Governor
Paris requis
etc. and sent 20, 000 men
_-Nante11ille-iiaudoin and its vast,
hoops;
food ifor three days—«miy the
habituated to testing, seemed
The Ger-
I
\1 core .
attacks weakened with the
darkness.
The British forces, continuing their
progress. threw
back upon the Marne from V
to Cliateau- ~Thlerry; the_
twenty miles in two days taking
otters and boot1 every hour.
seventeen failures, the British engin-
cer's succeeded in throwing a bridge'
across the Marne at Vareddes,
threatening yon Kluck's roar.
crossed at La- Forte sous-Jouarre,
noon in close pursuit. A detac
of cavalry, meeting. two squadrons
German cavalry toward Chateau-
Thierry, charged through, and charged
back again. After traversing both
squadrons. then charged them again
In front. Von Kluck‘s entire army
eroddes
hment‘,
and losing
es discov-
wounded and material
prisoners. \ The British fore
ered that von Kluck’s troops lacke
ammunition for their Mausers.
cannon and prisoners fell into the
day.
t posted on the slopes north of Chateau-l
veloplng into a rant.
those of the left
days fighting.
I
. 13114113 bodies with earth.
7th army 'aftor the capture of Monda-
decishe attack b‘ 1v1'herc the soldier seek protection.
oft
itioned 5,000 taxi-automoI
petroleum 51001:“ were i“ “m“- “0' 1111: days 1121111111: after 14 amigo
’most of- them. had been with ‘treat, forced its advance and reached
you Kluck's conformal
1' had gainedl
”15.5 attacking
Aflermtiie of Wuerttenmerg. bangle do
Itoward Sermaize. The struggle Ibo- V
They tween the Crown Prince .'
athas still undecided. At Thrlaucodf‘t’.
of 1
4 mans completed.
{to cross
Iwerd .-Saint -Mil1iei. but the French 3-
was now in full retreat, abandoning;
I- The. 11th- army,“ of the Duke of; '
(1 W1 uerttemberg.
Many’ the center gave- way and retreatedgin
hands of the British army during thel
At
The army of Franchot d'EspereyI I
advanced in unison with the Britislnafi.on of the battle. though The A’un .
troops close upon the heels of the en-l of the Crown Prince held ”.5 5’9?“ ;
em" and my the German batter‘es‘ 1111111 the 12th when it began to rent-e,
Thierry saved the retreat from de-l
The German‘
losses on this front exceeded evenIand
At Esternoy theyvaench are said to have lost' 80.000. ""
left 8,000 unburied dead after four Ikmfld The Germans left 50.000 dead.
N9“ Chiteau'ThierWIwhne cannon-wounded of both armies
they had emptied the reservoir Ihflltwew picked no during and after the
“”11“ Paris with water from “‘0 Ibattle by the Allies’ stretcher bearers.
Nettles, filled it with dead and cover- .The number of prisoners taken is I‘m!
Innknown. ' -
Foch pushed ahead also with the
meat,- throwing the Prueslanwcuard he Third page and then try one.
_ , .,« _
The B1itish troops. continuing their
pursuit, took thirteen'moro cannon
and a few hundred prisonerul and
great convoys of supplies and am .
munition. The armv of F‘ranob'et
"dEsperev, in spite of the fatigue of
the line of'“i‘hatoau-Tl1ler1'y-+—-Dor-
mans. taking 4 cannon, 1.500 prison-
era, and a convoy of 50 baggage wag-
on this front were nearly equal to
you Kluck's.
Foch’s 7th army, marching on IIEper-
and Chalons sur Marne, took prie-
oners and boo‘t’v and supported the
army' of General Lapgle do ICary by
in {tank the forces of the
Cary entered Vinyls-Francois, which ,-
was full of wounded, and progressed .
and Sarto“
Sarrail captured ammunition and 0115': “'
the other side of the Mouse the Ger-
the destruction of the .
of Troyon and attacked Barrett's .
but were repulsed. They tried
the Mouse lower down to-
.fIt rte
rear,
inch guns destroyed each bridge .33.:
soon as thrown across.
vigorouslv attacked vin
disorder, while the armies of van
Kl11ck.von.,-Bnelow and von Hansen .
took up positions on the line of the
e .
This- was practically
slowly. _
The best estimates of the forces on- .
gaged placed the Germans at. 1.275.000 ’
the Allies at 1.125.000. Th8
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