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Show GE1! SOLDIERS ILMOenilSIO Come Into Allies' Camp by the Hundreds and Beg for Food. (Special War Dispatches of the Interna- 1 tional News Service and the London Daily News.) By H. COZENS HARDY. PARIS, Sept. 13. "Les jours de glorie sont arrives," in the words of the incomparable incom-parable "Marseillaise," have a now meaning mean-ing throughout France today. They have been sung on this historic Sunday by strong voices and brave hearts. After a painful though masterly retreat re-treat from points twenty miles south of the Ma me, the allies, neither disorganized disorgan-ized nor daunted,- assumed the offensive. They not only frustrated General von Kluk's designs, but cut off the German extreme right wing, and the whole allied front from Meux to the Argonnes Is driv-I driv-I ing the enemy back. Colonel Rouset, the best-known French military critic, says: "This magnificent feat of arms after such long retirements Is nearly unique in the annals of warfare." A British staff officer, who drove in from Solssons today, says: "The Germans are coming into the British and French camps by the hundreds, hun-dreds, falling on their knees and imploring implor-ing to be fed. "Ten men." he declares, "were seen sharing one loaf of bread while half the army was eating its horses. The German cavalry were to weak that they refused even to walk. The British horse trooops also have suffered. "The British capture of the Germans at Torcy has been paralleled by the surrender sur-render of Cronje at Paardeburg." This officer also tells me that, thanks presumably to the industry of the German Ger-man official news agencies, the most fantastic fan-tastic reports of wholesale French and British disasters on land and sea are widely current among the armies of the aJlies. The simultaneous success of the allies along the whole battle line grows with every war office communication. General von Kluk, who met his first defeat nearly a fortnight ago at Compiegne, seems to have suffered most. The enemy is retreating re-treating on an enormous stretch of territory. ter-ritory. The great point to notice is that the-allies the-allies have driven a wedge in between the army of Von Kluk and the army of Von Buelow. With luck the allies should intensify the defeat of the latter in the neighborhood of Chalons. |