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COZENS HARDY t ctf, 0 br ArraDgaraeat w h London Dally t graph and In ema onal News Serrloe.1 AKIS Sept 11 The left or west 1 y, na of the all es continues to jw the enemy further back up the of the Marne and the center is loperat ng in the ne ghborhood of Sun more than hold ng ita own Je are excellent prospects that the legate German object ve the iunc VTof ts retreat ng army w th the Wiot the crown prince may be flirted "he 6 tuat on in the opinion of jch mil tary critics is most reassur for the communications of the en - are becoming mcreas ngly pre !us Not only has he left the forts JJaubeuge unreduced but he sees of h s principal arteries of revie ik ng the Pans Cologne 1 ne ly ng ess beh nd him Eve though Liege biamur are in his hands the heavy h guns upon whose arnvel from n he calculated have not come mans Almost Succeed e a n y of the north succeeded in jng almoBt with n the range of the fal, but the army from Luxemburg of the crown p nee and the army jjr the Vosges could not keep the r eivous thanks to the form dable acter of the front er defense oreover so far as the extreme r ght of the enemy s concerned there j denco I have obta ned t at f rst '1 that the supply of ammun t on 'ireatened The enemv has lost val ve t me and t me lost is not read ly lined espec ally when the other s de strong fresh re nforcements upon llh to draw ittween Montm ra 1 and La Ferte sous nrre the Trench who hold the r ght Jc of the Ourcq have done extreme j ell Their vigorous work bas been 4 wed up by the br 11 mt ach eve It of B t sh ca airy wh ch forced J derable numbers of the enemy to MS the Marne m the ne ghborhood 1 hatean Th erry w th n th rty t ve s of Eh ms wh ch the Germans are ors ly o cupy ng I sal y th Germans cont nue to gaze j ancy from afar Nancy one of the jt mpregnable barr cades of the j front er fiane; which the enemy r unced he would occupj on the th rd 1 of the war witness Stones r 'e tnessos of scenes on battle -AH on the banks of tho Marne Tues an 1 Wednesday came into Par s A M aux today One a fr end of M Ignaco one of tl e deputies for iffif. atted w tl dozens of o r 587 alert Zoua es tcrr ble Turl os sold ors f om half a lozen d t ferent icnts Th greatest opt n sm IBJaw the emans of blown p f esf7nu,dreds of 1 feless lorses Indies lay n dose to I trenches Seal oil ers hal been b d and wou led cared for a 1 so e f 'Jerethrowing bla7 ng b ush wood on the carcassos n the blaz ng sunsh ne Jot far away I saw a 1 ttle bov the son of a Turko The Turkos often bring the r wives and ch ldren as near to the battlef eld as they are allowed. He had a rifle from some wounded sol dier which he was hugging in h s lit tie arms as if t were a toy He was perfectly happy surrounded by evi dences of death destruct on suffering and blood His father was lying wounded m a v llage close by and the ch Id had strayed Make Germans Bury Dead A little further on Moroccan sola ers w in po nted rifles were superintending a dozen German prisoners digging deep graves for the r own dead In a house not far off were fifty wounded Germans stretched on straw They were wedged together and co ered w th blood and j perspiration There was only one rea bed and a very young officer was dying pn It ho fewer than seven bullets had torn his breast and shattered his side. As, for the German retreat, there Is not the s ghtest doubt about It The po tiona t ey occup ed they deserted on every side Another Parisian speaks of the ettraor a nary number of dead horses to be seen on the north banks of the Marne He came across three -nounded Moroc can sod ers a of whom spoke of the terrific nature of Tuesday s flghtin Describes the Shell Fire We could still hear the cannonad n? In the d stance said the Paris an wh e ever and anon convoys of ammun tlon and all k nds of suppl es some d awn by horses and some by motors rolled past us In the d stance we could even see the she s bursting Somet mes It was a puff of black smoke Th s presumably was the me nlte she 1 Somet mes It was a very tiny cloud and a sold er near me said it was shrapne Then the e ap peared four white separate clouds obvl ous y heavy artlllerj It was about two and a ha f ml es away Then in the pla n below we came across scores of German bod es which the enemy 1 ad not had t me to bury The r faces were turned to the g ound and they were a 1 horr b y wounded by our famous 7 5m lmeter guns On y one had his countenance turned toward the sky It was no time for tears one must conquer or d e Oddly enough two or three minutes later an old peasant came out of an inn wh ch Is cal ed Aube ge de la Be eidee What irony I thoug t He had fought in the campaign of 70 and his face lit up with joy as he saw ev dence of the apparent rout of the Pruss ans Pessimistic View COPENHAGEN via London Sept 12 2 15 a m The Berl n Vorwaerts the So c a st organ takes a pessim stic view of the German sltuat on so far as the eco nomic pos ion Is concerned The greatest danger )t says is not that Germany may be defeated but that the war wl take a long time Cer many s economic danger Is that the En 1 sh f eet v, prevent the 1 nportatlon of cotton s k copper ol ead eather rubber and other raw mater a s wh ch are necessary to the cont nuance of Ger many s industr a 1 fe and that therefore she v, 111 be compe led to c ose her fac tories Already the number of unemployed is immense If it is not possib e to he p this army of starving It wi 1 become a greater .danger than the danger of the mil tary army's defeat |