| Show FUll MEANING OF BIG DRIVE IS EXPLAINED EXPLAINED Joffre Told His Men That r r France Could Get et Rid c j f I fG rj lIis 4 i. K no C B BERLIN O tt t. t 4 By 4 By wireless to io Tuckerton N 1 J. J Jt Oct 6 The The war var I office which yesterday made public publican I an or order er iS Issued 3 ed b by 1 Ge Geher-aI Geher General ral Joffie Joffre In i connection with the recent atta attack k of i the France and Belgium s sUpplemented sup supplemented sUp sUp- p- p it toda today with the following statement On September r 14 14 before the beginning begin begin- ning of ot the great attack on the western west west- em ern rn front General Joffre issued an army order ordera a a copy of which has b been en found General Joffre gave instructions to the officers to tell the men that the Intention was to drive e the Germ Germans Germans Ger Ger- m mans ns from tram Drench soil and that this would influence ence nations hitherto neutral neu neu- to enter the war with the entente powers powers General Joffre Jofre then told about the exceptionally y favorable conditions for forthe forthe the attack were to be used in the trenches thus freeing the younger men for the assault The landing landing- oi or British tro troops ps en enabled en- en abl d the commander In chief to hold several armies ready for tor the attack The number of ot machine guns had been doubled and the heavy guns re replaced re- re pla placed ed by new ones The amount of or ammunition on hand was was unprecedented The moment was favorable for tor the movement General J Joffre said for tor all 11 of ot Kitchener armies had hail been landed in n France whereas the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans had withdrawn troops for the Russian front The commander command r added that the situation called for an effort on the part of or the soldiers to end erid the war at once mice Moreover a British order was found telling the th soldiers that on the coming battle depends the fate tate of coming British generations The German official report a and d the Fren French h and British orders prove how little truth there Is in the pretense pretense pretense pre pre- tense of the enemy that It was not Intended to continue the attack which began on September 25 and was stopped by the Germans The object of ot the attack was ws to drive tho the Germans from French soil soli but the only results obtained on the entire front were In one place to the extent of ot twenty three kilometers and andIn andin andin In another of ot twelve kilometers and these results were were not obtained by bythe bythe bythe the military achievements of the at- at at attacking attacking tacking British but by a successful surprise e resulting from an attack with gas In these sections the first German line Une was WaB pressed Into the second line Une which is by no means the thelast thelast thelast last line According to conservative estimates estimates esti esti- mates the French losses in dead wo wounded and prisoners were and the British losses This last portion of ot the German report was received from Berlin yesterday Report Is I. Sarcastic The German losses were not one- one fifth of ot this number The remaining portion of ot the war office communication is summarized as follows by the Overs Overseas as News agency The headquarters statement says further that such local successes as were obtained were gained with sevenfold sevenfold sev sev- enfold numerical superiority prepared for by war material from the factories of ot half halt the world and that they cannot cannot cannot can can- not be called brilliant victories Army Ann headquarters says lays further that only one German Gennan division which was on It Its way from the western 7 Continued on page 4 t FULL MEANING Continued from page 1 front was retained kt tt t the beginning of the enemy's attacks and that other divisions were assigned to take the place for tor which the detained division was destined Otherwise the plans of I the German army were not influenced in any way by the attack which at no place penetrated beyond the second secona line and nowhere rendered impossible movement of reserves Just as was done In May when the offensive movement at Arras was made |
