New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25

v;,h the German army before Metz,
gss. 20 INV courier to Holland, anu
msi,ed "a New York).--A tive-day UP
"a he front was taken by the CORE
,nondsnt Of The Associated PRESS
arougb the German fortresses OF
Nsyence, Saarbrucken ana 49,
through the frontier regions Oe'" ~.
Metz and the French fortress Inc rom
Vsrdun 10 Toul, into the actual Da'.eIS
positions from which German ana Auo
trisn heavy artillery we're pouhoIHe
their eight and twelve-inch sheils nv
a. French barrier forts and INTO me
nnks Of the French field army, Wnlch
has replaced the crumbling for'lnca
tons Of steel and cement with ram
parts Of flesh and blood. e
Impressions at the end are those o.
some great industrial undertaking. WIN
Powerful machinery in full operation
and endless supply trains bringing up
he raw materials for fabrication
rather than of war, as pictured.
From q point of observation on a
hillside above St. Mihiel the great
battlefield on which a German army Is
endesyoring TO break through the me
Of barrier forts between Nerdun anu
Toul and the opposing French FORCES
could be surveyed in It's entreIy' IN
the foreground lay the lever Eaiiey %
the Meuse. with the towns OF ~ NJ
hiel and Bannoncour nesting upon the
green landscape. Beyond and oenlho
the valley rose a tier Of hills, on Whlch
the French AZ this writing obstinately
hold an intrenched position, checking
the point Of the German wedge. whlle
the French forces from north and south
beat upon the sides of the triangle
trying 70 force il back across the
Meuse and out from the vitals OF the
French fortress line.
Armies Fight Under Cover.
Bursting shells threw up their col
INNS Of white or black fog around the
edge Of the panorama. Cloudlets OF
white smoke here and there showed
where position was being brought un-
Ger shrapnel FIRE. An occasional aero
plane could be picked out lowering
over the lines, but the infantry ana inc
held battery positions could not be ans,
eened even with high-power ield
glass, so eleverly had the armies taken
cover
The uninitiated observer would nav"
believed this deserted landscape
rather than the scene of great bat
We, which If successful for the Ter
mans, would force the main French
army to retreat from its intrenched
Positions along the Aisne River.
:. About three miles away, across the
Geuse, quadrsngular mound OF oiaeh'
Foughed-up earth on the hiilslue
parked the location Of Fort Les
faroehes, which had been silenced by
NE German mortars the night before
fiort Roman Camp, so named because
voc Roman legions had centuries ago
selected this site for a strategic en-
empment, had been stormed by Bava-
nan infantry two days earlier after its
heSvy guns had been put out Of action,
ana artillery officers said that Fort
Llonvllle, fifteen miles TO the south and
wv Of range of vision, was then prac-
asaliy silenced, only one Of rs ar
Inored turrets continuing 20 answer the
oombsrdment.
The correspondent mad spent the
ieNous night at the fortress town Of
~, sleeping under the same roof
WIN Prince Oscar Of Prussia, invalided
y from the field in a state Of physical
s.iiSsakdown; Prince William Of Hohen-
ss.netn, father-in-law Of ex-King Man
w and other officers either watching
n, engaged in the operations in the
Io and travelled by automobile 20
W. battlefront, thirty-fve miles to the
German Forts Masked.
,,,S S' tne first part of the distance the
Ar ied through the hills on which
&c the chain Of forts comprising the
csnless Of Metz, but. although the
s seaerai STAFF officer in the car pointed
tbi. sha then to hill as the site Of
tIos,V ', mat fort, traces Of the fqrtifca-
tut Seulo only occasionally be made
n,s, usually they were so skilfully
ana concealed by woods or