The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-16
ALLIES ADVANCING
BRITISH TROOPS FORCE TIE GER
MANS ACROSS RARNE
START BACKWARD move
left Wing of Allied Armies Forces
German Right Backward-Ia Cen
ter and Left, However, Situation
Remains Unchanged-Fight in Bel
siun,-So News From East

sium-No News From East
While the latest official statements
Thursday give few details OF the
great battle being waged in France IN
which 100000 men are engaged,
It seems apparent that the German
forces are still falling back from the
announcement that the allies have
gained about 81 miles Of territory IN
their advance, an increase OF II ID
the past "a hours operations.
Field Marshal Sir John French,
commander of the British forces. re-
ported that the Germans had been
driven back all along the line; that
the British had crossed the river
Marne; that the Germans had suffer-
ed severely and that their men were
supposed to be in an extremely ex-
hausted condition.
s Notwithstanding this report, mill
xary experts do not rush to sweeping
conclusions. Military writer's IN the
London papers repeat that from the
conservative terms of the French Of
Hicial statement it is too early to an
ticinate the result of battle extend
ssns over front Of nearly 100 miles.
Faree million men, is the numoer
estimated to be engaged actively ana
reserves and three great battles
at least are in progress.
Z Probably the fercest struggle Is
against the French center, between
Rheims and Terdun, while the Brlt-
ish army is contesting the second
hard fought engagement against tAe
German right. The Germans are be-
,ieved to be still attacking the
French right from yerdun to Nancy
Lesser fighting is in progress IN
a3saee, from which province tee Gef-
mans apear to have drawn away part
ne their army and the French are
taking advantage Of this opening:
The great battle may continue iol
5ays when it is remembered etnat
smaller operations in Manchuria N
wb;ch hundreds of thousands only
we're concerned. lasted a fortnight
From Holland comes the news that
eo ono German reinforcements are
marching south. These troops naas
hive an effect on the tide of battle
Sbnt there is reason to believe the al
ned armies also are receiving a couh-
terhalancing accession OF strength.
{ That the Germany navy has not
heen without enterprise is reVeaieo IN
the announcement Of the British ao-
-oiralty that the cruiser Pathfinder
was DESTROYED by German suoma-
r;ne not by mine, as was hrst sup
1,ose6 The German craft which ven
tursd so far from its base IS gwen
credit for its enterprise.
A dispatch from Paris says tne
fonrth day of the gigantic battle 10
the east of Paris, which is expected
70 last two weeks and to decide tae
preliminary stage Of the great war
ands the LETT wing of the allied ar
mics yirogously pushing back the
cerman right wing which had maze
rsnio advance southwark from the
Belgian frontier. i,
y The allies are said TO nave 4oeceo "a
+be;ry adyersaries back nearly 7or's
miles northeastward since the oesih-
n;y., of the contest. The hard strns-
Z aIasaatYeen the enormous masses OF
troops extends from near Paris 10 as
far as Nancy, close to the Lorraihe
border. An action is proceeding
wi,h the utmost violence in the nelsh-
borhood of MaiIly and Virty-le-Frau-
c,;s- but it is not also IN the cen'ei' ;
rbe-e both sides are holding tnelF
nositions with great tenacity.
An ostend message says the BEL
o,sn army at Antwerp has taken the
egg-essiye and has driven the Ger
,.sns back to the environs OF Lou
,ain Another message says the sei'
rians have defeated a German garrl-
son at Aerscot, a short distance lfoih
.Louvain. +ar
- the news from the western theaeeI
os.ypar continues scant. The German
end Austrian reports minimize the
sn,ortanee of the occupation OF Lem
: herg A Vienna dispatch says the
occupation of the city was part OF
strategic campaign to draw the hus'
s;srs into Galicia. Petrograd re-
norts claim that Archduke freoer.
;cs,s army lost 10000 men, that the
or.cuation of Cracow has commenced