The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-10-25
AN ASSOCIATED PRESS coRRE
SPONDENT VISITS GERMAN
ARMY IN EASTERN FIELD.
BATTLE LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS
Says German Army Maneuvers Repre-
More Than the More Serious Work
of Making War.

of Making War.
With the German Army Before
IMetz, Sept 80, by Courier to Holland
and Mail to New Correspond
ence of the Associated Press. "A
five-day trip to the front has taken
the correspondent of teh Associated
Press through the German fortresses
of Mayence, Saerbruecken and Metz,
through the frontier regions between
Metz and the French fortress line
from Verdun to Toul. into the actual
battery positions from which German
and Austrian heavy artillery were
pounding their eight and twelve-inch
shells into the French barrier forts
and into the ranks of the French
field army, which has replaced the
crumbling Notifications of steel and
cement with rampant of flesh and
blood
Impressions at the end are those OF
some great industrial undertaking
with powerful machinery in full op.
Grafton and endless suppl ytrains
bringing up the raw materials for
/ fabrication, rather than of war.
From point of observation on a
hillside about ST Mhieg the great
battlefield on which a German army
is endeavoring to break through tie
| line of barrier forts between Verduu
and Toul and the opposing FrencG
forces could be surveyed in its en-
tirety. In the foreground lay the
level valley of the Meuse with the
| towns of St Mihiel and Bannoncourt
nesting upon the green landscape
Beyond and behind the valley goes q
tier of hills on which the French at
this writing obstinately hold an en-.
trenched position. checking the point
of the German wedge, while French
forces from north and south beat
upon the sides of the triangle trying
to force it back across the Meuse and
out from the vitals of the French
fortress line.
An occasional aeroplane or bursting
shell could be seen but infantry and
field artillery could not be discerned
ieyen with high-power field glass. so
cleverly had the armies taken cover
The uninitiated observer would have
almost believed this a deserted land.
scape rather than scene of a great
battle, which If successful for the
Germans would force the main
French army oretreat from its en-
trenehed positions along the Aisne
river.
About three miles away across the
IMeuse, a quadrangular mound Of
black, ploughed-up earth of the hill
side marked the location of Fort lie;
Paroches, which had been silenced by
the German mortars the night before
Fort Romancamp, so named be
cause the Roman legions had, cen
turles ago, selected this site for {
strategic encampment and had beef
stormed by Bavarian infantry twC
days earlier after it's heavy guns hat
been put out of action and artiller!
officers stated that Fort Lionville, /,
miles to the south and out of range o
vision, was then practically silenceo
only one of its armored turrets con
tinuing oanswer the bombardment
The correspondent accompanied
German officers on a trip from Met;
to the battle front. few miles be
yond Gorso the French frontier was
| M Il
countryside with its deserted farms
rotting shocks of wheat and unhar
vested fields of grain trampled down
by cavalry, covered with trenches fol
batteries and pits caused by explod
ing shells, showed wars devastating
heel-prints.
Main army headquarters, the resi-
dence and working quarters OF a
commanding geenral whose name may
not be mentioned, were in Chateau
|, Chambley, fine French counrtj
house. In the chateau the command
ing general made war as comfortably
as in his own home.
The continental soldier leaves tents
to the American army and quarters
himself whenever possible. comfort
ably in houses, wasting no energy In
transporting and setting up tented
cities for officers and soldiers. Nc
matter how fast or how far German
army moved, completely equipped
telegraph office is ready for the
army commander five minutes after
headquarters have been established.
At st. Benoit party of some 800