Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-15
BIG CHANGE
IN ARMIES DUR:
ING PAST WEEK
Onward March of the German For
ces Suddenly is Stopped at
Marine River.
PURSUED NOW PURSUERS.
Retirement of General Won Kluck's
Army Before British Turned
Tide of Battle.
PURSUED NOW PURsUERs.

London, Sept. IA Bordeaux
dispatch to Lloyd's Weekly News
says the line of communications US
ed by the Germans has been cut and
they cannot make use of the lines
east of the Argonne forest owing to
the rapid advance of the allies on
the center and right. They must
therefore try the line through the
Mouse valley and Luxembourg.
London, Sept. 1.-THE sixth
week of the war between Germany
and France, Great Britain and Bel
GUM has brought a vast transforma-
ton. The pursued now are the pur-
suers. The irresistible sweep of
seven German armies through Bel
GUM into France met an immov-
able force at the Marine river.
The army of General Won Kluck,
which so long battled to turn the
allies western flank, was itself slow
ly and steadily outfanked. It's re-
tirement before the small but hardy
British army turned the tide of bat
tie.
BUT ONE MAKING STAND.
Today, if the French official re-
ports are correct, all the German
armies except that facing Verdun
and a few miles southwest are re-
treating. General Won Kluck's army,
which week ago was few miles
to the southeast of Paris, has retired
more than sixty miles to the north
east, while on the extreme right
the army of the Bavarian crown
prince, which attacked the French
eastern line from Nancy to Epinal,
has fallen back to the frontiers of
Lorraine, permitting the French to
reoccupy Luneville and several other
towns.
General Joffre, the French COM
mander in chief, pictures the re-
treat as hurried, if not disorderly,
with the Germans abandoning pris-
oners, wounded and supplies.
LAST SUNDAY DARK.
Last Sunday was the darkest day
of the war for the allies. The
French government emigrated from
Paris to Bordeaux in a long, sad
procession of motor cars. An at
tack upon the capital appeared i'm
minent and the main German force
had hammered a huge wedge into
France between Paris and Verdun
with it's center some miles south Of
that line.
The French people trembled with
the question whether their army
was not beaten army; whether the
history of 1870 would repeat itself. !
REVERSAL OF FORM.
The battle of the Marine, which
was decided in a week, is regarded
by military critics as the most mar
velous reversal of roles of two arm
les known. In their view, it ap-l
pears to have decided the first phase |
of the war and to have made impos-
sible the plan which the German
staff is supposed to have of smash
ing the French by one comprehens-
i've stroke and then turning the bulk
of the German forces eastward to
confront the Russians.
The. military experts, however,
are still cautius. While recognize
ing the possibility that the German
armies. may yet rally and draw a
strong defensive line, they recognize
also the possibility of the almost
complete evacuation of France and
AMIENS EVACUATED.
Paris announces that the Germans
have evacuated Amiens. The where
abouts of German reinforcements OF
$4,000 reported to be marching
south on three roads in that neigh
borhood are unknown.
The Belgian army is credited
with the determination to reoccupy
Brussels and claims to have cut the
between Liege and Brus-
sells, thus severing an important
German line of communication, and
20 be pushing the scattered German
'orces, composed, for the most part,
If reservists, towards the southeast.
Military authorities in France
consider the position of the German
armies critical. The army which
vas south of the Argonne forest,
hey argue, can hardly retreat east