The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-31
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Other Writers Claim Allied Troop Can HaIt kaIseT's
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London, Aug. 31.ATfe Post today, 5edstoriaIly. calls attention to a state rnent issued by the French an1bassy as indicating that the allied forces have again been compelled to fall back before the German advance in the neighborheod of Iafere, which is over 20 miles nearer to Paris than the Cambrai-Le-Cateau Hne,s where the allies reorganized after the Germans also reported in the vicinity of Amiens. Iafere is only a few miles from Paris as the crow flies. The Post says: 8
 The statement issued by the French embassy dfscfoses a situatioa s Of much gravity. The German army was on Saturday attacking from the east the line on Launois-S -SAgny-1' Alp baye, while another German army was attacking from the west the line from Lafere to GIIise and though unsuc-s scessfu1 at Guise, was making progress at Lafere. There two German armies were therefore only 40 miles apart
 The German army attacking the front at Guise and Lafere has clear country behind 1t and sharp offen slve turning movement on the sozth- east by t1zs army will internose it be- tween the French Paris, ?,
 s.The French army and our Eng fish troops are now holding good pc sitions in much stronger and closer line and stenrning the tide of tue Ger man hordes rolIin g up to Paris says the Chronicles Araiens correspondent.
 enersal Tarls Pau, the hero of this war after his swift return from the eastern front where he repaired the deadly cheek at Muelhausen, has dealt a smashing blow at the German army corps which was striking to the. heart of France. Paris is still safe for the time being with the great army Of the allied forces drawn across the country as a barrier which surely will not be broken by the enemy.
 1T have been all through this war zone during the past fortnight and nothing have seen or heard from either the British or French leads me to believe that our army has been smashed or that the allies are denora-l l1zed. The retreats when seen close at hand, are not aIthogether disas- 5 f1-olls in effect when viewed from the proper perspective. 4As a matter of fact the German audacity of attack is lead ing them into a position from which there will be no retreat ff their lines are cut.
 hen ~tne Germans swept around Lille they found to their annazernent that this town surrounded by forts, had been abandoned This easy access to a town which could have been de- tended to the last gasp opened the way
 
 that the controlling brain of General Jonre the French conman der-in-. chief, and his headquarters staff, had decided that the northwest corner of France was untenab1e and that the. main army Of defense should be drawn into closer and stronger positions.
 stIt was then that the great panic among the popu1ace of the affected district began The flight of thousands of families was an enormous tragedy as they still are being hunted from place to place. finding no shelter and no permaEsnt safety. The railroad trains are choke1 with them. Long fugitive trains Of foed1ess persons spend weary days and nights on sid 1mgs seeking a rolte of escape.
 TO all these people it seems as though 1870 has come again " hen the troops marched away from Bou- Iogne leaving it silent and unguarded, the inhabitants were utterly dismayed ! Rum oFs were current that the enemy was very close Can one wonder that 1.-the popuIace rushed o1st. panic strick- en, to join the hordes of refugees travelling they knew not where2''