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TRACKS GERMANS
IN GREAT RETREAT
Sees How They Fight TIN
Last Moment and
Then Vanish.

London, Sept 2l The Paris co.,.
spondent Of The Morning Post" IL.
graphs:
have just trayersed the great \,
tlefield Of the Marne, where the -.
Of war are more marked even Ia. =
the plains further u the north.
On these rolling uplsnds the Germ,
positions were very strong, bot ~,
were attacked by the French ady,nSi.'
from Paris as their base and by a.
British on the west. Great trees a..
the roads were moved down bv E
shell fire. Some with trunks two fstS
diameter were severed b. the ~
The carnage must have been YER
heavy.
Many dead arc still lying IN A.
trenches. Those already buried Ar. 4
mounds. There has not yet been a..
to clean out the little spinneys By M.
roadside, and one hurries by them. \
is in places such As these where con.
PARSONS can be made and that tha A.
feet of the French 75-millimetre ~
can be appreciated. When it gets hor,
it kills inevitably all within its radiV.
Whether the deaths are caused By y,
or by fragments remains for seientisb
doctors and historians to say. The haI
fact is there, and ! have seen the Prs
evidence of il.
| also visited the emplscemepts q
the German mortar batteries, besut.
fully constructed, but now Uttered viii
unused ammunition. Here again I
proved the correctness Of the stat.
mcnts that the drawback Of the Ger
man artillery is that its eompliea,S
manipulation necessitstes considenAa
protected srace about the gun.
Forcing the heights Of Meaux mVs
have been a terrible task, but they wen
evidently evacust-j in great haste, n,
blowing up Of the aOan-oned ammuri
ton is an urgent task and is now BEN.
undertaken by French engineers. /
saw passersby carrying about melint
shells. These deadly missiles were eat
lily distinguished By their yellow band
The German tavtic5, in their retTal
upon the fortified positions they an
now defending upon the Aisne, are vi.
ible by the tangible traces left, ari
they agree with what have been told
They MASK their real retreat In eleue
fashic by apparently continuing to d.
fend their positions. Sometimes h,
guns are abandoned; but no mater
how quickly the attackers set up afp,
the last shot has been fired they fax
the defending force already mia
away.
All the bridges in this part Of b,
country have been blown up. fh
French in this respect seem inelinetn
grumble at the very drastic way 4
which the British deal with bridgA
Tn. B itish are not content with Asl
in the middle Of the bridge; they bs'
the whole thing clear away.
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IRy cable 10 The Tribune
London, Sept. 2O.-"The Daily Chron-
ic!e's" Paris correspondent telegrapheu
the following to-day:
Last night the official bulletin con-
tanned the following sentence: Tho
Germans, who, despite extremely vlo-
lent attacks, have not been able to win
the least ground before Rheims,
have been bombarding the cathedral
throughout the day
This afternoons official note adds:
The Germans persist, without mill
tary reasons, in firing on the Rheims
Cathedral, which is in flames.
"This news will be received not only
throughout France but throughout the
educated world with thrill of dis
gusted Indignation. The Cathedral OF
Rheims is one of the first glories OF
European architecture, its wonderful
west facade dating from the thirteenth
century, with its three deeply recessed
portals, containing more than five hum
bred statues of scriptursl personages
and kings of France, and its great rose
window being described as the most
beautiful structure produced in the
middle ages.
This church, which has almost COM
pletely escaped the hands of the enter
prising restoTer, contains much SPLEEN
did woodwork, valuable tapestries, reli-
ouaries and church plate, and several
pictures besides its superb old win
dows. II is the Cathedral of the Cape
tian and the later kings, an unequalled
shrine of faith, culture and the history
of the French people. With but little,
and pardonable, exaggeration a Paris
editor calls il The Acropolis OF
France.
"The glory of Rheims began fourteen
centuries ago, after the vandals and
Huns had left it, No war indemnity
can give back what these modern Huns
have ruined to-day, but in history this
outrage and the destruction of Louyain
will mark them through times to come
as indelibly as the memory of their
precursors Of that ancient time is
marked in our school history books"
The destruction of the Cathedral Of
Rheims is the greatest loss from an
historical and artistic sense Of the
present war. Begun on the site Of an
earier church erected Ey Robert de
Courcy in 1912, and continued at H.
tervsls down to the fifteenth century
it has been described as the most per
feet in grandeur and grace OF Gothic
style in existence
The west front, which WAS begun
about l241-42, is said to be the most
beautiful structure produced during the
Middle Ages, with its deeply recessed
triple portal ard the wonderful rose
window that surmounts it. This win
dow, more than forty feet in diameter,
was reported in cable dispatches vas
terday as having been destroyed by a
shell.
1t was in the Cathedral % "S[ims
that the successive King - PSAce,
from Philip II to Charles Z, were
crowned, and IL was there that the Maid
of Orleans, after her victorious career,
stood, banner in had, before the grea.
altar and saw the coronation of Charles
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City Has Witnessed Much
Severe Fighting Since
September 1.
EPERNAY A HIGHWAY
FOR HOSTILE ARMIES
Germans Repay Indemnity, but
Forget Other Debts--DOctOr
Bargains with Enemy.
Az cabIo 70 Ia TrIbune. J

London, Sept. 20. THE Daily
Chronicles" correspondent sent from
Epernay on Friday the following de-
ecription of the lighting in the neigh
borhoo1 Of Rheims;
"Rheims is one Of the mysteries OF
the war. Since the food Of Teutonlc
invasion reached the centre OF France
we have heard practically nothing OF
what happened in this great city and
its great crescent Of forsitications are
the great historical monuments which
make Rheims one Of the famous cities
of Europe destroyed or seriously in
iured? Il has suffered three separate
bombardment5- first, on the southwark
march of the Germans, at the begin
ming OF the month; second. when the
French returned, and, third, when thc
Germans had retired to the forts on
the north and intrenched themselves
above the Vesle Valley.
81 think the first bombardment must
have begun either on September J or
on the second day, when the French
retirement from the town itself began
Il was completed on the following day
The French returned at noon on the
nth, and since then they have been
engaged in holding their ground and
in recovering forts which had been
lost.
ain the first bombardment the de-
struction within Rheims was not large
and this was not surprising, for the
forts, which lie in semicircle from
the northwest to the southeast at a
distance of about four miles, were then
! the objective Of the German attack
The civil population was forewarned
and most of the houses and practically
/ Ell the business places were closed
Since the return of the French army
/ and the more desperate developments
/ of the struggle, however, there. has
been e great deal of damage, chiefly BY
/ shell fire.
Shells Struck Cathedral.
The cathedral, one Of the wonders
Of early Gothic architecture, which lie'
! in the very centre of the city, was
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GERMANS WRECK
RHEIMS CATHEDRAL
Continued from page 1

generation gandiosc We will them our fathers
lid in 1870"
Cathedral Of Rheims has aroused greater
popular than charged against the uer-
mans Sunday ptmendtrs parks and OF Bordeaux talked
Of nothing else In drawing rooms congregae Senator'S Deputies
~ and writer's who are temporarily exled from Paris nothing
discussed but the question satisfaction could be eXacted from
Germany the
All the newspapers to-day worded editorials con-
tradition and faith
lie Temps moderate all the newspapers III ITS attack say
themselves Tor their defeat by turning e
heavy artillery on the Cathedral OF Rheims
Premier Vyan to-day appointed committee headed by A. Mol
lard former Minister Luxembourg proceed to the territory
Gently occupied by the obtain all possible auhent evidence
regarding recent committed by the invaders The government
formidable number reports from local auhor
chat outraQe have perpetrated by the Germans
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After the German aviators aban-
doned their flights over Paris and the
invading army turned back at the
threshold of the capital, many Pari-
sian found life mOnOtonous. But now
they nave discovered a new object OF
interest.
This attraction is at the Pont de
pAlma, where tugboats are being armed
and fitted out to patrol the Seine and
Disc rivers. Thousands Of people
crowded the banks of the Seine to
watch the sailors put the cannon in po-
sition.
The Basel correspondent Of Lex
celsior" states that when the troops OF
the German Landwehr detiled through
Mulhausen they made u painful i'm.
preston. The soldiers were tatigued
and their faces were thin and drawn
from the sufforings they had under
gone.
Many pieces Of cannon we're missing
and in some cases the pieces we're with
out gunners. The police had ordered
the citizens TO decorate their houses,
but the procession passed through the
town amid deathlike silence.
Bordeaux, Sept. 20.--"I have four
sons with the army, and know Shall
never see them again. My husband
will come back alone; he has no right
to die" said Nine. de Castelnau, wife
O; General CuFieres de Castelnsu, com
mander of the second French army, to
a friend few days ago after her son
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BELGIANS WIN IN
FIGHT NEAR LIEGE
Beat Enemy at Lanaeken All
Replace German Flag
with Their Own.

Rotterdam, Sept 20.-An imporir
Belgian raid on the Germans ma
Liege is reported to have taken plin
this morning.
A dispatch from Macstricht says III
the Red Cross there was asked by ~
phone 20 send assistance to Laasets
and villages TO the northwest 4
Maestricht, on Belgian territory, sliA
TO the Dutch frontier. The Red Crs
was informed that lighting had tsia
place and that men had been wounds
and a member Of the ambulance con
was asked for
Ur. Brock went out, and on bis n
turn confirmed the report Of :he hg,
ing. He added that the Germans b.
taken away 'ncir wounded and no b
gian needed attention.
The Belgians have pulled down q
German flag at Lsrscken nolski
their own. At 1890 ocloca lis mon
ing the Germans had disappeared
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BERLIN ANNOUNCES
6,l26 CASUALTIES

Berlin, Sept. 20.--A casualty list
made up largely of the losses Of lew
regiments was made public to-day.
or the 6,l26 casualties reported 1915
of them fall to fifteen battallons OF
eight regiments. The l3lst Regiment
reported 1,141 casualties. Six of i.r
officers were killed and 90 wounded
The 1920 Infantry reported SO officers
and sci men killed, wounded or miss.
ing The 10th Grenaoiers lost 20 off,
GERS and s20 men, and one battalion Of
the 18th Infantry had 3 officers killed
and wounded
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1900 WAR PRISONERS
REACH PARIS DAILY

Paris Sept Atter having become accustomed good dds
ing the days OF the German withdrawal Paris made little nervous
through the silence OF the War Office capital
the steady ME OF prisoners arriving from the action
Yesterday 500 prisoners brought Friday 100 arrived
and on the preceding days the fell back 1000 ~
has been the daily average than 10000 prisoners S
here
1t insisted here that there indications that GeaH1
klucks army in a critical
British officers from the of battle silent under orders CO.
the details OF the lighting Speaking general o"s
of them said
truth This has been since the retirement the Germans
the region Of the Marine"
The bombadmcn of the Cathedral OF Rheims has raised "
protest declared that the action justified by any nS
siy OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-21
FRENCH ARMY REEVES
PRGUDEST TRADlTIVS
Rv,G. DRu.

By G. DRU. "a
Special Correspondent OF the ~
Tribune anI "LonJon s'ahSA
Paris, Sept. Is.-In the ~" !.
the Aisne all the French 'F's''
fighting superbly. n. 3
Let no man ever again -
the degeneraey Of the ~. -, -.
ton, on which the mlSEu'eI, -,
man theorists relied - ~
telling in favor Of Gsr'aa''
victory. hk
The French army has riss. y a.
occasion and hiss msia'. =. -,
'proudest traditions Of si' ~
cessors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-21
GERMAN GUNS BEST,
ALSO FRENCH GUNNERS
BY G. DRU.

Especial Correspondent Of New York Tribune and London Sndad
Paris Sept 10 delayed by censorThe battle of the Asn still
undecided going for whole week The total number
engaged approxmaes Million and the length OF the
fighting line more than The of the have
again been enormous the Allies hardly poporonate
the immensely titanic struggle thanks to their superior tactics
and methods conserving human material instead of wasting 1t
ayshy after the way the PoSdam war lords
gains and losses this moment Saturday slightly
British forces who have advanced on their own
the the right Moreover the
their favor On the whole there
every be satisfied with the immediate outlook
battle greater than that Of the Marine The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-21

Xsvier, sub-lieutensnt, h'd "
killed by his fathers side. a., a.
To-day news was received - d,
other son, Gerald. Lieutenant 49,.
7th Infantry, had been killed ~ W
and a third son is reported Weul-.-
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fed IL she gains in her warfare on the
sea. On the other hand, England
holding the supremacy Of the sea, if
she be defeated in the land fighting, can
yet held the command of a Germany
only victorious on the land.
In nearly all great wars naval vic,
tories have decided the issue. In bat
ties deciding the command of the sea
the worlds history has had it's turn
ing points. The naval battle of Sa-
lamis was fought B. c. $40 and its VIC
tory FOR the Greeks saved the Euro
pean continent from Oriental donin-
alton under the Persians. The naval
battle of Actium, fought B. C. 81,
overthrew Anthony and Cleopatra and
overohrew as we'll their plan to max ,
Alexandria, Egypt, the capital of the
Roman empire and shaping its destin-
les by Eastern instead Of Western
ideas. The battle Of Actium marked
the erd of the Roman empire with
many vicissitudes, which lasted until
Napoleon's time.
The defeat of the great Spanish
amanda Of Philip H., by the English
in 1899 when Elizabeth was queen, not
only saved England to the English.
but saved English civilization to the
Western world of America.
Great Britain was again rescued
from invasion and the domination of
the first Napoleon by the battle Of
Trafalgar in 1906.
1t vas on May 27, 1905, when Rus
sia and Japan were at war in Eastern
waters, that Admiral Togo began the
great naval battle of Tsushima, the
Japanese fleet reading his inspiring
message as the flags fiuttered up TO
the signal yards of Togo's flagship,
Mikasa, "The rise or fall of our en-
pire depends upon today's battle. Les
every man do his utmost" Japan on
that Cay swept the Russian fleet fror,
the sea at Tsushima and eventually
swept it from Eastern waters. The
Japanese-Russian war was practically
settled by that battle and Japan's
place along The great powers of the
world dates from that engagement.
Should Germany be able to obtain
in the North such naval victory over
the British warships, it would prob
ably win the war for her and rank
in Importance to Trafalgar or a
Tsushima.