Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-09-16
Germans Trying to Make a Stand
Will Mass Alb .ut Fort Matz in Lorraine If
Not Previously Scattered.

Will Mass Alb ;u! Fort Metz in Lorraine /
Not Previously Scattered.
London, Sept. 13.-9:25 p. m
The battle ON the Marns hal
about coma to an end and al
though the Allied armies are keep
ing in touch with the r%etreatiue
Germans it is evident the latter
are taking up positions to stay she
northwsrd advance of the BRITISH
al d French.
General Klack's army has M d.
a stand north of the River Aisne
on a line marked by the forest 81
L'Aigle and Chaonne. while the
armies of Generals Won Buelow
and Won Hansen, the Duke Of
Wurtembnrg and the Grown
Prinoe are falling back to straigh.
ten out the front on which the
next big battle is likely to be
fought.
Although the Germans have
been punished badly in their long
retreat and have lost many guns
and men, they maintain COHESION,
and, unless the French sucosed ia
their attempt to get between the
army of the Grown Prince and
those operating west of him, EN-
peror Williams forces will present
a solid front when the time comes
for another clash which will be
fully as important as the recent
battle.
If the Germans can gain the
new position, it offers better OPP
porsun1ties for defence than the
ground they have passed over the
last 10 days. Their right appa-
rently extends as far west as St.
through a country inter.
sected by rivers and streams that
will embarrass the attacking
forces.
The main German forces under
General Won Buelow and Won Hau.
sen, the Duke of Wurtemberg and
the Grown Prince stretch along
the river Aisne to the hills behind
Rheims and then north to Verdun
thus securing the roads and rail
ways running north from Rethel
to the Belgian frontier and east.
ward to Luxembourg and Metz in
Lorraine.
Thus by bringing the army
of the Crown Prince of Bavaria
more into line they will be cover
ed on one wing by their own for.
tress of Metz.
Some military experts believe
thu Germans will offer their next
big resistance on the Neuse and
that another battle of Sedan will
be fought before many days.
Much must lass before this
takes place, however. The Allies
at last report we're keeping up a
keen pursuit with probably fresh
troops. The French left, with
large cavalry forces, some of which
ara reported as far North as the
Belgian frontier, continues to
harass the German right, while
British and French forces, which
gained passages over the Alsne two
days ago, now are somewhere be-
tween that river and the River
Disc and are trying to repeat the
o%utfanking movement which they
carried out on the Ourcq last
week.
Rheims has been reoccupied by
the Allies, but the reports make
90 mention of the neighborlng
fortresses of Lafere and Laon, the
of which should not be
difficult, as they r constructed
TO resist attack from the North,
and thu South front is relatively
weak.
On the French right the Ger
mans are falling back to Chateau
Sallns, just across the Lorraine
border, which has been the scene
of 50 many skirmishes since the
beginning Of thu war.
In Vosges AID Alsaoe the sitna.
tion remains Unchanged, both
sides reserving all their strength
for the more critical contest in the
west.
The Russians are said to be con.
tlnuing their success in Galicia
and Poland. The armies of Gem
eral Dankl, which had the support
of some of German divisions, have
been driven back across the front.
Ter, which they crossed while the
Russians were advancing on Lem
berg, and now. according to Petro-
grad reports, are IN the angle be-
tween the rivers San and VistuIa,
a trap into which Russian troops
had been trying for some days to
drive them. Their TANKS are sup.
ported by the %fortresses of Cracow
and Przemyst.
Przemysl is being appreciated
by the Russian army which cap
tured Lemberg and which now
will operate against the right wing
of Generals Dankl and von Auf-
fenberg Meanwhile the Russian
army is free to move west toward
Thorn, Prussia, a town of some