The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-16
GERMANS fall BACK
PARIS REPORTS ENEMY's RE-
TREATING MOVEMENT.
IMPERIAL GUARD SLAIN

EME LAtAL uUAAD 0LhbW
French Commander Reports Remark.
able Success of British Arms
Emperor's Imperial Guards Conn
manded by Crown Prince Asked to
Surrender and Is Annihilated.
Apart from the announcement that
the German forces have fallen back
before offensive tactics of the Allies
on the line from Nanteuil-Le-Hau-
douin to Verdun, the most interest
ing report contained in dispatch to
The London Evening News from Bou-
'ogne in which the French eomman-
ier, General Pau, is given as authori-
ty for the statement that the Allies
have won victory at Precy-Sur-Oise
in which the Imperial Guard, under
The Crown Prince of Germany, is al
Legged to have been annihiliated by a
British force,
The Evening News Dispatch says:
"A telegram has been received an
| 1ouncing victory by the allied fore
IS under Field Marshal Sir John
French, commanding the British, and
Cen d,Ammade at Precy-Sur-Oiz,
about twenty-five miles north, OF Paris
"The allies were drawn across the
northern line with the centre at
Precy. The English troops were on
| che left and the French on the right
the former had in front OF them the
Imperial Guard under Crown Prince
Frederick William.
"On both wings, it is reported the
allies were successful. The German
left was held by the French and re-
tired to the north.
"The Imperial Guard, who were or
iered to surrender, were annihilated
by the British. It is reported that
the Crown Prince was in their.
midst"
| The British Official bureau has re-
Eceived no confirmation Of this mes
sage.
| The British official bureau says
that the plans Of French Commander
Iin-Chief, General Joffre, are being
carried out steadily and that the Al
lies have succeeded in forcing back
in northeastern direction the German
forces opposed to them.
| Paris officially reports that the AL
| les have advanced their left wing
without energetic opposition by the
| Germans and that several engage
| nents on the Ourcq Rives have fa~
5ored the French-British.
\ The following official communica-
lion was issued at Paris Monday
might:
| First. The allies have advanced
their left wing without energetic OPP
! position from the enemy.
Second. The situation is un-
changed on our centre in the region
| Of Verdun, our forces alternately ad-
5ancing and retiring. There have
Ibeen some partial successes on our
right in the Vosges.
| Third. The advancing troops and
allies defending Paris have had sew
leraI combats on the Ourcq River,
! with the results in favor Of the
tallies.'
| A general action is proceeding to
.he East of Paris from Nanteuil-Le-
| Iaudouin to Verdan according to an
| official communication given out
| Monday afternoon. The text is as
follows:
| "a general action has started on
the line through Nanteuil-Le- Hau-
louin and yirty- Le- Francois and ex-
lending to Verdun.
| Thanks to the vigorous action OF
our troops, strongly supported by the
| British, the Germans started retiring.
| "The Germans had advanced Satur-
| lay and Sunday into the region be-
.ween Coulommeirs and La Ferte-
| 5aucher.
In the Austro- Russian theater Of
| operations, - divisions of the Aus
rian army in the vicinity of Lemberg,
| Ialicia, has been completely destroy
ed"
| An earlier official statement given
| ,ut in Paris today said that gen.
| .ral action had started on the line
rom NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to Yer
Ian, distance of 120 miles. 1t was
hen said, thanks to the vigorous
| action Of the French troops, sup
,orted by the British, the Germans
| lad started retiring. Unofficial ad-
zices from Berlin also have indicated
hat a battle of tremendous impor-
.ance was being fought in the ter
ritory described.
The following official announce
uent was given out at Petrogad Mon
iday:
1.-THE Austrian army corps between
the River Vistula and the River Bug
are retreating with enormous losses.
"The resistance of the enemy has
been broken.
There are evidences of the posi-
bility of famine in Austria"
retary McAdoo, of the treasury de-
] oartment. All of this currency has
cot been forwarded, however. OF the
the s450,000 allotted three Columbia
national banks, only about s275,000