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Show IS CEFJTERDF ATTACK Battle Continues With Unabated Un-abated Fury ; Victory Hangs in Balance. LONDON, Sept. 2S, 2:25 a. m. The correspondent cor-respondent of the Telegraph behind the French front, sends the following: The great effort on the part of the allies to drive back the right wing of the German army continues with unabated un-abated fury. Both sides seem determined de-termined to fight the issue to a definite defi-nite conclusion in the northeast of France and to ignore for the time ' being Alsace-Lorraine. In the allies' center both sides are too strongly intrenched to allow any great offensive movement on the part of either toward the left wing. If the German right can be turned the Germans must abandon the fortified positions on other parts of the long line and withdraw their Immense force either through Belgium or Luxemburg. Luxem-burg. The armies cannot keep up the struggle much longer, and unless one side soon obtains a decided advantage, we shall see stalemate result all along the front. Then victory can be won only by the side which is able to bring up absolutely fresh troops which have not felt the strain of two months of continuous fighting. The strain of this modern righting is something never known before. The troops arc under fi re sometimes for days. If they escape the rifles and machine guns they are within reach of the deadly shrapnel, and if they are too far off for shrapnel they rome under the range of the howitzers and siege guns. One may be under fire anywhere within seven miles of the enemy. Officers from the front declare that the Germans are more formidable adversaries ad-versaries when on the defensive than when advancing to nn attack. They dig themselves In extremely well and they figure mathematically every range making thir rifle ffre deadly, while the field artillery finds the tar-pet tar-pet with precision. It Is worth noiinsr that officers from the front universally lament the absence ab-sence of accredited press correspondents correspond-ents at th front. Thev say the offi-Hn offi-Hn 1 hul lot ins only feebly convey an impression of Hie tremendous nature of the war nitrations while the fol-tlters' fol-tlters' letters and interview s with haphazard returners from 1 pointed fle'-tlons of the front give a distorted. Imperfect and often Incorrect idea of what is going on. |