The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-23
ALLIES IN PURSUIT
FRENCH and ENGLISH VIGOROUS
LY FOLLOW foes.

A DISPATCH FROM BERLIN
Capitals of Armies Engaged Tell Sto-
ries of Their Fortunes-Berlin
Tells of New Battle and Claims
Decisive Defeat of the Russians
Allies Pursuie Retreating Army.
Pursuit of the retreating German
armies by the British and French
forces continued Monday with vigor,
according to the French view. De-
spite their great numbers, the Ger
mans withdrawing movement is be-
ing carried out with rapidity and
cleverness. The main body appears
to be approaching the Belgian from
tier, while the German left wing
seemingly is gaining shelter in Ger
man Lorraine.
So far as known the feeting in
vaders who, after wonderful forced
marches into France, made such a
stern attempt to break through the
lines of the allies defending Paris,
have abandoned more than sixty can
non of various caliber and thirty
machine guns because their exhaust
ed horses were unable to drag them
fast enough to keep UP even with
the foot-weary infantry. Enormous
amounts of ammunition and war
stores also were left on the route of
the Germans, which is through a diff
icult, marshy country, rendered al
most impossible in some places by
heavy rains which threaten to con-
tinue.
The allies, it is asserted, display
no signs of fatigue. They are repre-
sented as stirred by Unexpectedly
great victories to such state Of Ella
ton that they are able to keep close
on the heels of the retiring enemy,
harassing them day and night, cut
ting off detachments and attempt
ing to interpose between them and
the frontier.
It generally is believed that the
next phase of the gigantic war will
take place in German territory. The
allies, according to the military ex-
perts, doubtless will endeavor to pre-
vent the German armies, should they
succeed in eluding capture, from
taking strong defensive positions
near the frontier.
Large bodies Of fresh troops are
understood to have been sent for
ward to assist in the pursuit and
many more are ready to share the
chase, it is said. Some portions OF
the allied armies who, through the
heat and sunny days interspersed
with deluges Of rain, bore the brunt
of the fighting, are taking a brief
rest in preparation for. future move
ments which may call for equally
great efforts
The London official press bureau
says .all day Sunday the enemy
subbornly disputed the passage of
the Aisne by our troops, but in spite
of the difficulty of fording the river
in the face of strong opposition
nearly all the crossings were secured
by sunset.
.sOn our right and left the French
troops were confronted with SINH
lar task in which, like ourselves
they were. successful. Many more
prisoners we're taken"
A wireless dispatch from Berlin,
in speaking of a new battle, says:
"a battle is in progress between
Paris and the River Marne, over a
front of 125 kilometers, stretching
from Nanteuil, in the west where
the English forces are, to Vitry. The
crown princes army is separated
from the main battle by the forest
of Argonne.
Sunday nights official details OF
the battle to the east of Paris can
not vet be made public. A new bat
tie is in progress which, up to the
present, has been favorable to the
Germans. Reports from Paris and
London of a German defeat are de-
clared untrue"
In East Prussia, says the Berlin
wireless, Gen. Hindenburg has de-
feated the Russians, has crossed the
Russian frontier, and up to the pres
ent time has taken 10000 prisoners,
and captured eighty guns and many
machine guns and aeroplanes.
.The retreat of the Russian army
in East Prussia appears to be de-
veloping into fight and demoraliza'
ton. Gen. Hindenburg reports that
capture of $50 guns and between 2O,-
900 and 10000 prisoners.
The allies, according to a London
dispatch, are pushing their advan-
tage and doing their utmost to turn
the retreat into disaster by stern
pursuit on perhaps the broadest
scale yet known in war On the
right they are in good position to
continue the offensive, if the men
and horses are not too tired for fur
ther effort. They are based on
strong line, running from the Marne
to the fortresses through the hilly
country south Of Argonne.
While the allied left, composed
largely of fresh troops with heavy
force of cavalry under Gen. Pau, is
wheeling around so as to drive Gems.