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Show BRITISH ARTILLERf DOES IIDTABLE WORK Heaps of Dead Germans Litter the Ground in the Vicinity of Lagny. LONDON Sept 12, 1 a m Eeuter s Lagny France correspondent in a dis patch sent Thursday says A tr p along the valley of the Marne today brought evidences of the real ty of the German retreat On Sunday the Br tish and Germans were at gripe east of this place Since then the Teuton has been dr ven stead ly back beyond the Tnlport and Cre cy en .Br e I ue where the hardest fight ing occurred beyond Meaux -where the Germans now are In this movement o General Von Kluk s army rearward along the Marne valley the British army has played a leading role General 1 rench s army advanced to meet the German emperor s hosts w th What must have been forced marches from their temporary base to the so east of Par s The whole Br t sn army except cavalry passed through Lagny and the incoming troops wee so wear led that many ot them at the first op portunity lay down in. the dust and slept where they were The Brtsh aitillery dd notable work in those days according to the French military Burgeons who were Bta t oned at Laguy At points near here the bodies of slain Germans who fell before the Br t sh gunners stll 1 tter the ground and the grim crop must be still heavier on the soil farther up the valley where the fighting was more desperate 'As far as poss ble the bodies are burled at n ght each s de attending to ts own fallen Sanguinary nc dents are plent fu n the week of fighting to the south of Marne In an engagement not far from here our men captured th rty Germans who had g ven up the r arms and were stand ng under guard when encouraged by a sudden forward efiort of the Ger man front they made a dash for their rifles They were cut down by a volley from the Br t sh guards before they could reach the r weapons Close to Meaux the Germans seem to have stayed their retreat last n ght and even to have made a si ght ad vance It was apparently merely a rear guard covering movement All along the valley the confidence of the people has been restored and they are return ng to their abandoned homes The Br t sh army no longer forms the left w ng of the all es On its left s a French army one of seven wh ch are no v m the field |