New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-13
KaiSer's Hosts, After Week-LOng Battle,
Fall Back from Naturally Strong
and Well Fortified Position.
LUNEVILLE RETAKEN BY FRENCH
British Cavalry Now Almost as Far North as
Rheims-ImperiaI Forces On ArgOnne
Ridge Give Way.

London, Sept 12-The German armies, which a
week ago to-day commenced series of violent attempts to
break through the French CENTRE have found their efforts
futile, and evacuang VitryleFrancois, which the
pivot of their offensive and where they had fortified already
strong natural positions have retired norhward with the
Allies in hot pursuit.
Reuters dispatch from Paris says that the French
occupied Soissons fifty miles northeast of Paris o'clock
ths evening.
- The speed with which the northward movement, an
nounced in earlier official communications to-day, pro-
crossing is shown by the following dispatch from the
French War Office issued late tonight:
"The German retreat is very rapid The pursuit is Wig
orous. The Germans have abandoned many mortars.
"On left wing the general retreat of the Germans
continues before the French and British forces which have
reached the lower courses of the Aisne.
Likewise in the centre the German armies are re-
treating We have crossed the Marne between Epernay
and VtryleFrancOis On our right wing the enemy has
in Ike manner begun to-day retiring movement, aban
doning the region around Nancy. We have reOccuped
LunevIe"
The retirement made imperative by the continued
retreat of the German right wing which is somewhere
northwest of Rheims and the defeat of an army corps which
operating just east of VitryeFrancos around Re-
vgny and Sermaize and which, in its hurry join in the
retirement left much war material behind for the French
to pick up.
FELL BACK ON ARGONNE DISTRICT.
The Germans in the Argonne district likewise have
begun to fall back that the pressure the forts the
southwest of Verdun which Berlin report said the Ger
man had commenced to bombard should be relieved
In Lorraine too the French claim to have won further
and to have been enabled straghen out their
line along that frontier They have occupied the territory
east of the forest of Champenoux Gerbever Resainver
and Saint Die thus getting in closer touch with their troops
which since the early days of the have held bit of Ger
man territory in front of Colmar
The progess of the battle of the Marne from its BEGINNING
described detail tonight in the following announcement
flom the official press bureaus
"a necessarily incomplete may be attempted of
The operations of the British expedonay forces and the French
army during the last four days.
ION September the southwark advance of the German
right reached the extreme point CoulOmers and Provn cav
airy patrols having penetrated south as Nosentsu-
Seine.
This movement covered by large Aan force west
of the line of the River Owc watching the defences
and any allied force that might from them.
The southwark movement of the enemy left his right wing
a dangerous position he had the CeSeps
pegne through which MS advance had been pushed
ALLIES ATTACK EXPOSED WING.
The Allies attacked this exposed wing both front and on
the flank September g. The covering force aSsaed by
French army based upon the Paris dences and brought action
on the line between Nanteul-le- -Haudouin and Meaux
The main portion of the enemys right wing attacked
Ontay by the Brth army which had been transferred from the