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Show 3ERLIN CLAIMS RESULTS ARE FAVORABLE Troyon, Twelve Miles Southeast of Verdun, Which Was Isolated and Repeatedly Stormed in Last Few Days, Is Again Protected by the French Field Army; Germans Appear to Be Making a Stand Along the River Aisne. PARIS, Sept. 14, 11:05 p. m. It is officially .announced that the Germans are making a stand on the Aisne. The statement is as follows: "On our left wing we have everywhere caught up with the rear guards, and even the main body of the enemy. "Our troops have re-entered Amiens, abandoned by the German Ger-man forces. ' "The enemy appears to be making a stand on a prepared front along the river Aisne. "On the center, similarly, it would seem as if the enemy intends in-tends to resist on the heights to the northwest and to the north of Rheimsi In the region between Argonne and the Meuse he continues con-tinues to retire. "On our right wing we have succeeded in relieving the fort of Troyon, which has been stubbornly attacked time and time again during the last few days. (Troyon is twelve miles south-southeast of Verdun). "In Lorraine our pursuing detachments are keeping, as everywhere every-where else, in touch with the Germans. "The morale and sanitary condition of our armies continue excellent." TRAINLOADS OF BOOTY. LONDON, Sept. 15, 1:22 a. m. Twenty-one trainloads of booty collected on the Marne battlefield have been brought into Vincenne3 since Sunday morning, says a Reuter dispatch from Paris. The spoils of war include eleven guns, seven motor wagons, filled with ammunition, four mitrailleuses, three aeroplanes, two large flat cars piled with helmets, rifles, swords and cartridges, besides gun carriages and wagons of different kinds. It is estimated that since the beginning of last week about thirty guns, thirty mitrailleuses and forty wagons have been captured cap-tured from the Germans, in addition to a considerable quantity of ammunition. GREATEST BATTLE EVER FOUGHT. (Special Cable by Arrangement with the London DaDy Telegraph and th International News Service.) LONDON, Sept. 14. An Exchange telegram from Bordeaux says that the battle of the Marne will go down in history as the most important ever fought. Forty-three army corps, comprising more than 2,000,000 men, were engaged. The Germans in their hurried retreat are endeavoring to cross the Franco-Belgian frontier at the unfortified opening at Stenay, on the Meuse, eight miles southwest of Montmedy and thirty miles southeast of Mezieres, at which point it was previously reported they were attempting their retirement on Belgium. NO RUSSIANS IN BELGIUM OR FRANCE. LONDON, Sept. 14, 11 :25 p. m. The official press bureau issued tonight a denial of the reports that the Russian troops have been landed in Belgium. "There is no truth whatever," says the bureau, "in the rumors that Russian soldiers have landed or passed through Great Britain on their way to France or Belgium. The statements that Russian troops are on Belgian or French soil should be discredited." NEW BATTLE PLEASES GERMANS. ROTTERDAM, Sept. 14, by way of London, 7:30 p. m, A dispatch dis-patch from Berlin says that the German general staff announced on September 13 a plan of campaign in the western theater of the war, of which no details had been made known, had led to a new engagement, which so far is favorable to the Germans. KAISER HASTILY REMOVED. (Soecial Cable by Arrangement with the London Daily Telegraph and International News Service.) LONDON, Sept. 15 (Tuesday). The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in a dispatch from Pontoise, says that during the fight- (Con tinned on Page Seven.) ' I GERMANS STOP RETREAT AND BEGIN NEW' BATTLE ; V. . - BOOTY FROM BATTLE I IS TAKEN TO PARIS (Continued from Page One.) ing in the Nancy district Kaiser Wilhelm was hurriedly removed . from the scene of action by members of his staff. J CROWN PRINCE MAKES LAST STAND. ) (Special Cable by Arrangement with the London Daily Telegraph and the International News Service.) ; BORDEAUX, Sept. 14. The last stand of the Germans is being made by the crown prince's army to the south of the Argonnes. NEW BATTLE PLAN PLEASES GERMANS. Ql ROTTERDAM, Sept. 14, by way of London, 7:30 p. m. A dispatch from J Bcrjn gays that the German general staff announced on September 13 a plan nf campaign in the western theater of the war of which, no details had been wane known, had led to a new engagement, which so far is favorable to the Germans. MAY JOIN THE ALLIES. I! (Soecial Cable by Arrangement with the London Daily Telegraph and the 1 International News Service.) ' ' BUCHAREST, via Rome, Sept. 14. The cabinet has resigned, a new min-'i-trv is being formed and it is strongly rumored here that the change will be nteiude to a Rumanian alliance with Russia. The feeling of the Rumanian people is distinctly pro-Russian. FOMENT IN ITALY. ' PARIS, Sept. 15, 1:20 a. m. A dispatch to the Havas agency from Rome ia"S the committee of direction of the radical party in Rome at a meeting vesterday which was participated in by members of parliament, adopted a resolution' which is considered of great significance. I t The resolution, after declaring that Italy's interests in the Adriatic must 'he safeguarded and that Italy should co-operate to prevent the conflict being wttled In a manner that will determine the predominance of military tendencies tenden-cies calls upon the government "to consider whether the grave but inevitable itask is not imposed to change from neutrality to active participation in the conflict." |