Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-29
ALLIES INABILITY
TO EXPEL GERMANS
BLAMED ON SPIES
Interpretation Placed on
Field Marshal French,
Lengthy Descriiption-Nu.
merous Battles in, Air
LONDON so,, =

LONDON, Sept. "a
Field Marshal Sir John Frerot,.
lengthy description of the moves !, ,.a
battle of the Aisne is interpreted as =.
excuse for the failure of the Al,ies !.
crush the German right wing The er.
cellence of the Kaser's espionage s,..
tenn is believed to have blocked the Au,.,
plans fa
The Allies undoubtedly have found voo,
spots along the German lines. but th.
preparations for massing troops thar.
nave not been secret. The only secrecy
has been the means of communication M.
tween the Grman spies and the Garr,ou
headquarters. Until this is oyercor,.
there will be no advantage to the Alr.,
in attack, and the Germans will stox
fastened in France.
The War Bureau today gave out an
addition to last nights report from ,h.
front, this one dealing with the opera.
tions of September % and a. II cor-
firmed the impression that the presan, !,
battle more closely resembled siege
than anything else at the time the r.-
port was written.
THE operations of the oath and 25thn
says the report, found a growing r..
semblance to a general siege in everv
movement against the German positions
Naturally the chief reason for this ia
the fact that the enemy is most stronslv
intrenched and his army Is euuipped
with plenty of heavy artillery, all we'll
mounted.
1t is very plain from observations by
the British Aerial Corps that this posi-
tion was not selected by chance In
fact, 1t is certain that the intrenchments
are of an almost permanent nature The
enemy had sufficient time soidly to in.
trench himself more than halfway
across France and the line along the
Aisne had been put in condition before
the battle of the Marne had entered its
decisive phase by the German sappers.
Because of this fact 1t is considered
certain that its selection was not a
haphazard one. Instead the Germans
knew just where they were going and
there are abundant evidences that the
position actually was located by the
German General Staff in anticipation Of
just what afterward happened
The report adds
"Wednesday was a perfect autumn ,
day. There was an almost compete ab-
sence of wind, of which the members Of
lne hOydI BTltlSn dVlatlOn corps TOOK
full advantage gathering much infor-
nation regarding the disposition of the
enemy's forces in our front.
Unfortunately, one OF our airmen, who
had been particularly active annoying
the enemy by dropping bombs in their
camps, was wounded in midair. He was
alone in a single seated monoplane and
was unable to use his rife. While he
was circlinG above a German two-seated ,
aeroplane, bearing the aviator and an
observer, in an endeavor to get within
pistol shot of the two Germans, he was
hit by bullet fired by the observer in
the enemy's machine
He managed to fly back over our lines
and by great good luck descended close
to motor ambulance which conveyed
him to field hospital
Against this mishap to the British
aviator may be set off the fact that our
fliers exploded a bomb among the ar
tillery horses of the Germans, killing sew !
eral and stampeding the others.
"On Thursday the fine weather con- 4.
tinued as did the lull in the action. The
Germans continued the bombardment ,
with their heavy guns, the shells falling
mostly near Pargnan.