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Show BATTLE RAGING WITHOUT LEAST SIGN OF ENDING (Special Cable by Arrangement with tendon Dally Telegraph and International News Service.) PARIS, Sept. 17. The greatest battle in the history of the world is being fought.' North of the Aisne about 1,100,000 Germans Ger-mans have been waging- a battle of "jrfve and take" with 1,500.000 allies. The battle bat-tle has been raging for five davs and still there is no indication of any definite result. re-sult. The battle of the Marne, before this the greatest ever fought in point of numbers num-bers and extent of its front, was over in six days. An indication of Its intensity Is the report that the allies during the two days just passed have lost more men I than, during any previous period of the i war. I On the allies' left Oenera! von Kluk , has inflicted severe losses In terrific as-' as-' saults on the British and French and has ! taken his defeats in turn.. In the center General von Buelow has refused to budge. On the right, where the German crown prince is in command, the invaders are in a bad way. Upon the result of the battle which is rolling along a line of 150 miles, from Noyon to north of Verdun, depends whether the Germans shall be able to again threaten Paris or shall be forced from France. The French have been reinforced near Noyon on the allies' left, and the Germans, Ger-mans, occupying strong intrenched positions posi-tions on General von Kluk's front, alsO' have received reinforcements. The heavy big-g-un fire of the Germans has had telling tell-ing effect upon the attacking allies, and, generally, the German line on their right lias held, the French war office admitting that they have "yielded only slightly at certain points." |