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Show DRIVING GERMANS OUT OFJRANCE London, Sept. 13, 10 35 p m. The sixth week of the war between Germany Ger-many and Prance, Great Britain and Belgium has brought a vast transformation transfor-mation The pursued now are th pursuers. The Irresistible sweep of spvon German armies through Belgium Belgi-um Into France met an immoabb force at the Marne river. The army of General Von Kluck. which so long battled to turn the allies' al-lies' west flank, was Itself slowly and steadily outflanked. Its retirement before the small but hardy British army turned the tide of battle. Today, if the French official reporis are correct, all the German armies except that facing Verdun and a few miles southwest are retreating. General Gen-eral Yon Kluek's army, which a week ago was a few miles to the southeast of Paris, has rrtlrerl more than fin" miles to the northeast, shlle on the extreme right the army of tho Bava rla ncrown prince, which attacked the French eastern line from Nancy to Bplnal, has fallen back to the frontiers fron-tiers of Lorraine, permitting the French to reoccupy Luneville and several sev-eral other towns. General Jofrre, the French commander-in-chief, pictures the retreat as hurried. If not disorderly, with the dermans abandoning prisoners, wounded and supplies. Drove Wedge Into France. Last Sunday was the darkest day of the war for the allies. The Frccnii government emigrated from Paris to Bordeaux in a long sad procession of motor cars. An attack upon the capital capi-tal appeared imminent and I he German Ger-man main force bail hammered a huge wedge Into France between Par-Is Par-Is and Verdun, with its center some miles south of that line The French people trpmbWl with the question whether their army was not a beaten army; whether the history his-tory of 170 would repeat itself. The battle of the Marne, which was decided de-cided in a week. Is regarded by military mili-tary critics as the most marvelous reversal re-versal of roles of two armies known In their view, it appears to have decided de-cided the first phase of the war and to have marie impoasible the plan which the German staff is supposed to have had of smashing the French by one comprehensible stroke and then turning the bulk of the Oerinan forces eastward to confront the Russians. Rus-sians. Experts Still Cautions. The military experts however, are still cautious. While recognizing the posiuuny inai un- .i'rman armies may yet rally and draw a strong defensive de-fensive line, they recognize also the possibility of the almost complete evacuation of France and Belgium Paris announces that thj Germans have evacuated Amiens. The hereabouts of the German reinforcements reinforce-ments of 60,000 reported to be marching march-ing south on three roadfl in that neighborhood are unknown Cut Railroad Bridges. The Bplglan army is credited with the determination to reoccupy Brus sels and claims to have cut the railroad rail-road between Liege and Brussels, thus severing an important German line of communication, and to be pushing the scattered German foreej. composed com-posed for the most part of reservists, reserv-ists, towards the southeast Military authorities in France consider con-sider the position of the German armies ar-mies critical The army which was south of the Argonne forest, they argue, can hardly retreat eastward, owing to the danger from the strong ly held French fortress of Verdun, while the mountainous, wooded character char-acter of the Argonne district renders retreat due north impracticable. The left wing of the Germans, they believe, be-lieve, muat retreat in a northwesterly northwest-erly direction. Put Hopes in Belgians They also cherish the hope that the Belgians may succeed in clearing the Germans out of Brabant when the entire German army would be obliged to retreat on Luxemburg, an opera Hon whirli fhev UUrn tn the nnssini of a large stream through a narrow I bottle neck. ' The German version of the battle of Marne is yet to be heard. The German official vlreless is silent regarding re-garding the operations of the past week in that theatre. k records a local success by the army of the crown prince, which, it reports, took a fortified position to the southwest I of Verdun and the beginning of an I attack on the forts to the south of Verdun with heavy artillery No date Is given and the operations may have occurred at an earlier stage of the battle. German Right Falling Back. A statement In the French reoorts. is that the German right army is retreating re-treating beyond the river Vesle. which runs between Rhcims and Soissons; that the German forces in the center, cen-ter, which had penetrated farthest youth are falling back north of Vitry-Le-Francoi6 and Seimalze and have crossed the river Marne, and In the billy wooded country between Vltry and Verdun the Germans have lost Revigny and from Brabant Le Roi. The French appear to have taken the offensive along almost the entire en-tire front, as indicated by successes in the east between Luneville and Saint Die. where they have retaken several towns they evacuated a fortnight fort-night ago, while reports from Basel say hard flghtinq occurred yesterday yester-day in the Guebwlller valley In southern south-ern Alsace. Ninety thousand men are reported to be engaged. nother dispatch from Basel says the French artillery and cavalry have annihilated two squadrons of German cavalry In that neighborhood. Fighting has been proceeding con tinuously since August 25. and the Russians claim to be winning both in Poland and Galicia. Vienna says the Austrians were successful during the first stages of the fighting In Galicia and took 10.-U00 10.-U00 prisoners, but that they were obliged ob-liged to withdraw from Lemberg and concentrate In a better position be cause the northern wing of the Austrian Aus-trian army in Poland was threatened by greatly superior numbers. The battle of Rawa Ruska. which is now proceeding, apparently will prove the crucial test of the Austrian army-Archduke army-Archduke Frederick of Austria is with the army there. A message from sources unfriendly to Austria declares that the result of tho Gallclan opera tions will determlno whether the Aus trian army will continue to be a factor fac-tor In the war. Austria Is reported to be enrolling her last classes of reserves re-serves While there is deep satisfaction in England over the progress of events on the French battlefields, there are no slgnB of rejoicing or celebrations London today wore its usual Sunday-calm. Sunday-calm. Tho newspapers continue to counsel the people against over-op-timipm and any belief that the war will be other than a long and costly one The German general, Von Bue low, is giving the German people the same caution He tells them they are only at the beginning of sacrifices and suffering. oo |