The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-10
FIELD MARSHAL TELLS OF ENCL IS H
 AID ID 3 FRENCH B
Germans Now March Towards
 Poland. RUSSIANS ADVANCE
 TOWARDS BERLIN German Squadron Now Tn Gulf
 Of Bothnia.

London, Sept. 107-A despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Rome says: ssss,s
 "A message from yienia states. that it is offcialIy admitted there that Archduke Frederick lost 12o,0 ,0O0 men in the recent GaIician battles or one fourth of his entire command
 sfThe Germans are marching south towards Poland to assist the Austrian but before this aid can be given they must cross the Vistu1as river where the Russians are preparing to check them
 The text Of the report of Field Mar shaI Sir John French, in command. Of the British forces in France covering the British operations since they land ed in France, was made public in the EOdciaT Gazette, today. The report is l addressed to Earl Kitchener, the sec retary for war and it's publication ii1+ dicates that the government is re- l sponding to the public demand for: fuller information on the progress of operations so far as the British forces I are concerned in France.
 l The report is as follows FsA
 ssThe transp ortation4 of troops from England by rail and sea was effected 1 in the best order and weather. Action i was practically completed on the even ing of Friday, August 21- I was able l to make dispositions to move the force during Saturday to positions consid- I cred favorable in which they com l menced the operations which General Joffre requested me to undertake. Tie l line extended all along the line of the canal from Condo onlthe west through Mons and Binch on the east. q I During August 22 and 23 the ad- l vance squadrons did some excellent work, some of them penetrating as far as soignies Ca town of Belgium, 10 | miles northeast of Mons) and several Eencounters took place in which our troops showed to great advantage.
 lon Sunday. the 23rd,s reports be gan to come in to the effect that the l enemy was commencing an attack on the Mons line apparently in some strength but that the right of the position from Mons was being parti- cular1y threatened.
 | Et'The commander of the first corps had pushed his flank back to some high ground south of Bray and the fifth cavalry evacuated Binches moy- ing south. The enemy thereup pon Aoccu- ll pied Binche.
 @The right Of the srd division un- II der General Hamilton, was at Mons which formed a somewhat dangerous I salient and directed the commandel {I of the second corps, if threatened seriously. to draw back the centers be | hind Mons.
 e"This was done before dark. IT the meantime, about 5 o'clock in the
 
 pected message from General Joffre by telegraph telling me that at least thret l German corps were moving on my l position in front and that a. second 1 corps was engaged in 9, turning move | nent from the direction of Tournai He also informed me that the tive reserve French divisions and the 5t1 French army corps on my right were retiring, the Germans having on thu previous day gained possession of thu passage of the SaIn'bre between Char leroi and Nanur.
 ''In view of the possibility of m, being driven from the Mons position I had previously ordered a position il the rear to be reconnoitered. Thi position rested on the frontier O Maubeuge on the right and extended west to Jenlain, southeast of Va1en ciennes on the left.
 t.The position was reported diff lcult to hold because the standing crops and buildings made the dig. ' ging of trenches very difficult ana limited the fire in many other i'm l portant localities. It nevertheless af lords few good artillery positions. When the news of the retirement of the French and the heavy German threatening on my front reached mt IT endeavored to confirm it by aero