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Show German Crown Prmce Still Battling Near Verdun? Germans Make Gams m Lorraine, but Evacuate Evacu-ate Alsace, French Repoited to Have Taken Muelhausen for the Thud Time, Victorious Allies Al-lies Capture Many Guns and Prisoners, Fighting Fight-ing All Night m a Tempest (Special Cable by Arrangement with the London Daily Telegraph and the International News Service ) PARIS Sept 11 The battle of the Marne has turned in favor of the French Not only on the German right but m the center the kaiser s army of invasion is retreating The enemy has been forced back from thirty seven to forty seven miles at different points along the battle front during the six days of the tremendous engagements and has lost 1500 prisoners many big guns and large quantities of supplies The retreat has become a disordered rout and the mvad ing army is demoralized Three great German armies "had massed against the French cen- ter The first was commanded by General Von Kluk It had been driven north of the Marne and west of the Ourcq and finally re treated m a northeasterly direction toward the Aisne and the Oise, where it recovered and proceeded southeast again and formed a junction with the second and third armies commanded respectively by General Von Buelow and the prince of Wurtemburg The fighting is proceeding in the region from the plateaus north of Sezanne to the immediate vicinity of Vitry Le Francois FRENCH CENTER LIKE STONE WALL. There are operating there part of the army of Saxony, the left wing of General Von Buelow s army and part of the army com manded by the prince of Wuerttemberg This is the force which the Germans desperately attempting to break through the Trench center and thus compel a division of the allied line has been hurl ing with alternate success at the flower of the French army, until finally battered and exhausted the German persistence and valor have been compelled to give way The heavy masses of troops were hurled forward with the greatest great-est vigor to the assault of the French positions But they wera hurled back as promptly the French following up their advantage by a tremendous and terrific counter attack, which the Germans were able to withstand ably Back and forth the two giant armies swayed m death grips until finally the advantage rested with tho French and the German line swayed then broke and quickly was in retreat But the French advantage could not be followed up too closely, for the incision in the German line was a death trap for any army which entered it The Germans took advantage of the failure of the French to puraue and quickly proceeded to reassemble for a continuance of the conflict FIGHT ALL NIGHT IN STORM. The fighting lasted all through the night m a rainstorm which became a deluge The fury of the elements was no greater than the fury of the combat It added rather, to the desperation of tha fighting legions In the marshes between Sommesous and Vitry the troops found the greatest difficulty m operating m any branch except the in fantry and the lighter guns Cavalry could not proceed through 'the heavy marsh land and the movement of the heavy guns was out of the question With the first evidence of the success of their offensive move ment against the German center the enthusiasm of the French troops spread almost out of bounds Despite the effort which the con tmuous fighting of the last five days had cost them, they vigor ously assailed the enemy and drove them from their positions The success of the allies on their left continues with every move ment attempted The British and French are continuously advancing advanc-ing taking prisoners capturing guns and supplies and picking up the wounded and burying the dead as they go Eleven German guns were captured by the British alone today GERMANS RETREAT IN DISORDER The enemy is retreating rapidly east of Soissons in some dis order Soissons is the first objective of the British attacks to cut the railway lines by which the German right wing has been receiv ing supplies from its base at Aix la-Chapelle The German right has been forced oack nearly fifty miles and the Brtish cavalry is now in full and persistent pursuit If the British are successful m this maneuver and are able to cut this line of communication the German r ghi wing army will be left (Oontjaned on Page Nine) SLAUGHTER IN GREA T BA TTLE IS APPALLING (Continued from Paga One ) I , lout supplies of food and ammunition and probably will be com id to surrender Vside from the operations on the allies left and the ineffectual mpt of the Germans to break the French center the Germans ) directed an attack against the fortifications at Verdun form the right of the battle front This is France s greatest fortress the eastern line and stubborn resistance to the German bom Iment is being offered xl Alsace the French have recaptured Muelhausen which had taken and retaken by the rival armies four times previously, e by the Germans and twice by the French. The Germans hoy L are reported to have gained ground m Lorraine rhe kaiser is having great difficulty in getting his troops out of lum to reinforce the wavering line m France A large body of nans which had started on the march for the relief of the army J Prance was struck by an overwhelming force of Belgians be-' be-' Oudenarde and Eenaix and forced to retreat The Belgians reported to be in pursuit he allies following up their recent successes today forced the l pan invaders to continue the retirement of their right flank center from the east of Paris The Germans abandoned much ipment and at the same time suffered many prisoners and left jr wounded where they lay The British were again prominent m the pursuit in which be 8 taking a large number of prisoners they captured eleven bod while the French took another German regimental flag lie German troops further maintain their positions but are g vigorously assailed by the allies Che government has ordered the commandeering of all automo I for the purpose of transporting troops and munitions to the t The commissariat of the allied armies is working without a h ill who have witnessed the combats agree that around the Marne Germans were killed for every ally The Germans tried des .ttely to cross the Marne near Meaux French engineers had ' fn up the bridges and when the Germans threw pontoons across j famous three inch guns of the French demolished the structures re they could be used Sixteen times the Germans repeated the ft under a raking fire of shot and shell ARIS OFFICIALLY REPORTS VICTORY. ARIS Sept 11 4 43 p m A review of the recent fighting east I ans from the standpoint of the French war office is made m an nal communication issued this afternoon The offensive move ts of the allies are described as successful The statement iws As we already have announced a battle has been taking place e September 6 over a front extending in a general way from s to Verdun From the very outset of this action the German right wing army commanded by General von Kluk, which on September id reached the district to the north of Provins was obliged to back because of the danger of being enveloped By its clever rapid movements this army was succeeding m escaping from allies grip and was throwing itself with the greater, part of its e against our en eloping wing to the north of the Mane and west of the Ourcq river But the French troops which were ating in this region powerfully aided by the bravery of our ish allies inflicted considerable losses on the enemy and gained June necessary to allow our offensive to press forward and at ent on that side the enemy is m retreat toward Aisne and the He has thus fallen back more than sixty or seventy five kilo rs (thirty seven to forty six miles) m four days In the mean the Anglo French forces which had been operating to the south he Fame have not ceased to pursue their offensive Starting b of them from the district south of the forest of Cirey and p from the region north of Provins and south of Esternay I opened out from the Marne on the left the army of General Kluk as well as the army of General Von Buelow falling back w our troops ' It is in the region included between the plateau to the north lezanne and Vitry Le Francois that the most desperate fighting irred In this region there have been operating besides the left of the army of General Von Buelow the army of Saxony and ft of the army commanded by the prince of Wurtemburg The nans have tried to break our center by repeated and violent Cks Our success on the plateau to the north of Sezanne enabled b our turn to take the offennve and m the couise of last night enemy stopped fighting on the front between the marsh of St Ede and Sommesous district and fell back m the region west of fy Le Franqois 'On the Ornam river between the Argonne forest and the river 'se where the armies of the punco of Wurtemburg and the )va prince of Germany were operating fighting was still going ith alternate advances and retreats but without any great ' ?e in the situation I Thus the first phase of the battle of the Marne is turning out in j r of the allied armies since -the German right wing and center resent are m retreat On our right the situation remains without notable change in pVosges and around Nancy which the Germans have tried to bard with some long range guns " The general situation has thus been completely transformed "g the last two days both from strategic and tactical points of , Not only have our troops stopped the Germans march h they thought was a victorious one but the enemy has fallen before us at nearly every point ; BELGIAN ARMY PURSUES GERMANS. jONDON Sept 11 2 10 p m A dispatch to the Exchange Braph company from Ghent says that Belgian troops are pur ? a German army corps which is marching toward France -"engagement had taken place on the right bank of the Scheldt rtjie triangle formed by Audenard Courtrai and Renais he Germans are said to have completely evacuated the region rie Scheldt between Antwerp and Ghent Many German soldiers c ched from their units are being made prisoners m the environs Ormonde I SUNKEN ROAD IS A SHAMBLES. ij ARlS sept 4 20 p m Some idea of how the Germans I harassed by artillery fire during their retreat was obtained on at to the fields near Meaux the scene of a severe fight yester The German infantry had taken a position in a sunken road ther side of, which were stretched in extended lines hummocks I of them natural and some the work of spades in the hands of iian soldiers Reside many bodies were forty or fifty emnty cartridge shells 5 fragments of clothing caps and knapsacks were scattered -P This destruction was wrought by batteries a little more than three miles distant Straggling clumps of wood intervened be tween the batteries and their mark but the range had been deter mined by an officer on an elevation a mle from the gunners He telephoned directions for the -firing and through glasses watched the bursting shells The sunken road was littered with bodies today The road is lined with poplars the branches of which severed by fragments of shells were strewn among the dead In places whole tops of trees had been torn away by the artillery fire ' ENGLISH CAPTURE MUCH BOOTY. LONDON Sept 11 3 25 p m The official press bureau today gave out the following announcement The general retirement of the enemy continues The British forces yesterday captured 1500 prisoners including wounded and several guns including Maxims and large quantities of transport The enemy is retreating rapidly east of Soissons irr some dis order In a later telegram it is declared that from furthei informa tion the captures of yesterday are highr than first reported Con siderable bodies of infantry are being found hiding m the woods having been left behind owing to the rapid retirement of ther forces These surrender at sight This and the rifling of villages and evidences of drunkenness point to the demoralization of the enemy The pursuit of the enemy is being vigorously pressed VICTORY GROWS EVERY HOUR. (Special Cable by Arrangement with the London Daily Telegraph and the International News Service ) PARIS Sept 11 The following official statement wa, given out by the war office at 11 o clock tonight On the left wing our success becomes more marked Our prog ress continues north of the Marne and in the direction of Soissons and Compiegne The Germans have abandoned a considerable quantity of muni tions with wounded and prisoners We have taken another flag The British army has captured eleven guns with other lm portant war material and has made from 1200 to 1500 prisoners At the center the enemy has given way along the whole front between Sezanne and Revigny He has not yet recoiled in the Argonne In spite of the heroic efforts of our troops throughout these five days of battle they still have energy to follow the enemy On the right wing (m Lorraine and Vosges) there is nothing new ' GERMANS ASSAIL FRENCH FORTS. WASHINGTON Sept 11 The German embassy today received the following wireless from Berlin Official headquarters reports that the German crown punce s army yesterday took fortifications southwest of Verdun The Ger man Pans army is attacking the fortress south of Verdun The other forts since Wednesday have been cannonaded by heavy artillery General Pmdenberg with the eastern army outflanked and de feated the left wing of the Russian army still m east Prussia The Russians gave tip fighting and are now retreating everywhere The eastern army is pursuing the Russians m a southeasterly direction toward the river Niemen GERMANS WITHDRAW TO FORTS. LONDON Sept 11 4 50 p m A Central News dispatch from Rome says that telegrams from Berlin state that the evacuation of upjJer Alsace by the Germans continues They are withdrawing to Strassburg and Metz It is admitted that the German army in France is extremely fatigued whereas the enemy is continually re ceiving fresh troops NOT TO MAKE PEACE SEPARATELY. COPENHAGEN Sept 11 via London 4 10 p m The Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin declares that previous to the outbreak of the war Germany and Austria H mgary agreed as now have the parties to the triple entente not to make peace separately |