The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-21
AS Was Expected by England
and Period Of Anxiety and
Suspense Begins.
Al LIES ARE STILL GAINING
Backward Movement Of Crown
Prince Gives the British
Some Encouragement.
(Bv Associated Press

W. OOtICf GttOONL e1SClltVtt&s &
(By Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. d.
England waited in vain to-
day for confirmation Of the
report that the bulk of the
German army had begun to
retire from France and pre-
pared for another period of
anxiety and suspense which
must last as long as the
great battle of the Aisne,
now in its tenth day, remains
undecided.
Though British official re-
ports say that the allies still
are gaining ground their
progress necessarily is snail
like and the public here is
beginning to feel that the
turning point of the battle
never will be reached until
one side or the other has been
outfanked. The suggestion
that the allies would accom-
plish this Saturday or Sun
day on the German right was
not fulfilled and apparently
their efforts are being COM
tinued today.
Fer days the British press re-
|fers to won Kluck's peril" but
$50 far the German commander
has been able to check what must
have been terrific pressure from
the British and French left.
Naturally there has been no
intimation from German sources
in; corrob oboration of the reports
that a comparatively small part
of the German army propos ITO
maintain merely q defensive po-
|sition in France while the main
body makes q stand on the from
tier but optimists among the al
lied adherents believe it extreme
II improbable that Emperor
Williams troops again during
the present war will assume q
general offensive on French ter
ritory. They contend moreover
that retirement of the German
forces from French soil must
shortly become inevitable unless
the offensive is assumed.
British eyes see further en-
|couragement in the backward
movement Of the army of Crown
Prince Frederick William, which
it is argued, means the failure to
establish for the invaders new
and shorter communication by.
way of Metz and the Rhine.
Hardly less discussed today
than the battle itself is the de-
|struction or at least the partial
destruction of the Rheims ca
thedral. This edifice has been
called the urn of French history
and its loss perhaps will be q
greater shock to historians and
worshipers of antiquity than was
the destruction of the library in
the Belgian town of Louva1n.
The Germans were quick to.
issue a formal statement from
Berlin saying that the damage IT,
the cathedral was unintentional
and was incidental to solutely
necessary operations.
Vienna dispatches say that the
newspapers of the Austrian cap
ital continue silent concerning
the operations in the Austrian
province of Galicia and against
the Servians but they are ap-,
pealing daily for more nursen.
doctors and medical supplies to
be sent to the front. The Aus
trian hospital equipment is sald
to woefully inadequate, the
wounded often lying on the field
from % to 48 hours, greatly in-
creasing not only the suffering
hut the mortality.
From Trieste, the principal Austrian
seaport on the Adriatic sea, concern
ing whose attitude In case OF an at
tack. there has ben much speculation,
came statement today from the gov
ernor that In case of being attacked
he would not evacuate the city.
Trieste" he said. will resist the
fleet, however, before
attacking Trieste must deal with the
Austrian feet at Pola-"
Throughout the British Isles enlist
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