The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-09-24
GERMANS PUSHED
BACK SEVEN MILES
N FIERCE BATTLE
TeutonS Are Bombarding Verdun
Forts.
FRESH TROOPS ARE ON LINES
Exhausted Armies That Have Been
Fighting for over a Week Are
Relieved by Rem
forcements.


wing under Gen. Alexander Won Kluck
has been forced back seven miles dur
ing the past as hours. 1t has been
driven back onto Noyon, where it has
been forced TO seek defensive strong
holds to the southeast Of the city and
on the left bank of the Disc.
General Won Kluck is now exposed
to the flanking movement of the allies
left, which has been progressing up
the right bank of the Disc in an en-.
yeloping maneuver. The French and
British have driven forward until now
they occupy the heights of Lassigny,
west of Noyon, have swept by Noyon
itself on the north, and have stretched
their lines as far east as Laon.
Air Scout Sees Germans Flee.
An officer returning from scissors
TO Paris reported that an aerial scout
lust back from a reconnaissance of the
Germans position says the Germans
were seen retreating in large bodies.
An announcement from the war Of
fee at Bordeaux said that the lighting
ba6 become less violent II added that
obN us progress had been made by
the French troops operating between
Rheims and the Argonnes.
Allies RepuIse 5ayonet Charge.
This report indicates that lull had
come in the afternoon, for the fight
ing early in the day and during the
previous night had been furious. Most
enrxsnn mara tho apSIouvhtc diroctod
by the Germans against the allies
lines in the region OF Craonne. Here,
with the British troops under Field
Marshal Sir John French bearing the
brunt OF the attacks, the invaders
charged desperately, with bayonets
fixed, and ferocious hand-to-hand COM
bats ensued, in which the Germans
were hurled back, but came on again
and again.
The success Of the thanking move.
menf against the German right in.
spired the war Office, always conservs,
tive, to issue the following statement:
we are confident that the allies
hold a favorable position in the great
battle now progressing.
Towns Being sheIIed.
The great conflict, now entering
upon its tenth day. saw the titanic
struggle of the big guns fast reaching
a climax Thus far the artillery duel
has been a draw and the contest now
has resolved itself into one of human
endurance.
The bombardment Of scissors CON
tinued with undiminished and deadly
effect, while into Rheims, already prac-
tically laid waste, steady stream Of
German projectiles still fell, although
the bombardment lacked the energy Of
the previous days fusillade. The heavy
guns we're the only arms in action
around Rheims. the infantry still re-
manning in the trenches.
Fresh Troops Arrive.
The Germans have received re-en-
fercements at several points along
their front, but these have been met
by detachments in strength being
brought up from the French reserves.
In the center, west Of the Argonne
and in Champagne. the French have
taken Neutrality-suspicious. and Massiges
The crown prince appears to have
reached a position to the north OF
Montfaucon, where he has intrenched
in a defensive position against the
pursuing French column. Here he has
been driven to stand at bay TO protect
the avenues of retreat which are still
open to him through Luxembourg.
Won kIuek Undergoing Siege.
Colonel Rousset, the famous French
military expert, writing in La Liber
te, says:
THE German army in France IL
now undergoing a kind of siege
General Won Kluck has built a con
tinuous series OF small fortresses
along line of 100 kilometers (1Ot
rniles) long between the Disc anC
last for some days, but unless thu
Germans receive strong REINFORCE
nents they viii be compelled to qui
their present positions"
A German officer captured a
Rheims says that not a single off
Ger remains in the First battalion o
the First Guards regiment.
Another officer OF the Prussia
Guards says that OF the so officer
in his regiment only fiye are alive
And more than two thousand me
have been placed hors du combat.
A dispatch from the front declare
that the western wing of the Germa
line has been thrust back about seye
miles during the last 4S hours as
sequel to continuous fighting Nigh
and day.
Both armies, despite almost supe
human fatigue, show the utmost d
termination not 70 yield an inch I
ground without terrible struggl.
but the fresher troops at the dispos;
81 the allied commanders gradual
forced the Germans 70 recede.
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