Arizona republican., 1914-09-25
Field Marshal Sir John French, Commanding the Splendid British Army, Gives Graphic Report of Last Few Days
HAVE FEELING
 VICTORY IS THEIRS
Advance Slow, But COntin- uous-German Aeroplanes Brought to Ground-Teu- tonic Losses in Officers is Frightful

LONDON, September 24-The off, ficial press bureau tonight is- sued a report from Field Marshal Sir John Frenchs headquarters, SUD- plementing the dispatch of Septem- Der P on British operations in France. The text in part follows:
 "The enemy is still maintaining itself along the whole front and in order to do so is throwing into the fight attachments composed of units from very different formations, the active army, the reserve, and Land Wehr, as shown by uniforms of pri- soners recently captured. Our pro- gress, although slow on account of the strength of the defensive posi- tions against which we are pressing, has in certain directions been con- tinuous, but the present battle may well last some days more before q decision is reached since it now ap- proximates somewhat to a siege of warfare Germans are making use of searchlights, and this fact. cou- pied with their great strength in heavy artillery, leads to the supposi- ton they are employing material which may have been collected for the siege of Paris
 The nature of the general situa- tion after the operations of IS, 19 and 20 is not better summarized than as expressed recently by q neighboring French commander to his corps Having repulsed the re- peated. and violent counter attacks made by the enemy, we have a feel ing we have been victorious
 50 far as the British are con- cerned, the course of events during these three days can be described in a few words During Friday. the 18th, the artillery fire was kept up intermittently by both sides during daylight At night the Germans counter attacked certain portions of our line. supporting the advance of their infantry as always, by heavy bombardment. But the strokes were not delivered with great vigor and ceased about ? a. m. During the days fighting an aircraft gun of the third army corps succeeded in bringing down one of the German aeroplanes
 News was received also that body of French cavalry had demol- ished part of the railway to the north. stopping at least temporarily. one line of communication which was of particular importance to the enemy.
 "On Saturday the 18th the bonn bardment was resumed by the Ger mans at an early hour and continued intermittently under reply from our own guns Some of their infantry advanced from cover apparently with the intention of attacking, but on coming under fire they retired. Otherwise the day was uneventful. except for the activity of the ar tillery, which is matter of normal routine rather than event.
 "Another hostile aeroplane was brought down by us and one of our aviators succeeded in dropping sev- eral bombs over the German line, one incendiary bomb falling with con- siderable effect on the transport park near Fafere. A buried store Of the enemy's munitions of war was also found, not far from the river Aisne, and ten wagonloads of live shells and two wagon loads of cable were being dug out. Traces were discovered of large quantities or stores having been burned, all tend ing to show that as far back as the