Evening star., 1914-10-07

proud to be fighting side by side will
the gallant French army"
| The press bureau also issued a state.
ment declaring absolutely untrue" the
allegations made by Prof. Marnacl
| and other prominent Germans thai
Great Britain had stored quantities OF
ammunition at the French fortress o1
Maubeuge before the outbreak OF the
| war. The Germans claimed this wal
| evidence England intended to violate
the neutrality of Belgium. The state
ment adds:
mo decision to send British forces
| abroad was taken till after Germany
had violated Belgian neutrality and
Belgium had appealed for assistance
No British ammunition or stores had
been placed at Maubeuge before these
events. Any British ammunition OF
there after. and not before; the out
break of the war and the violation OF
Belgian territory by Germany"
Battle May Continue Long.
The correspondent OF the Times at
Epernay, France, telegraphing under
date of Sunday. says:
"The battle of the French rivers has
entered upon it's fourth week, and un-
less some fianking movement Is car
ried through there appears no reason
why the titanic tragedy should NOT
run.
Now that the perfection Of the Ger
man trenches is rivaled by those OF the
allies it has become struggle in Wnlch
who is never seen until he springs
suddenly from his hiding place. Ihe
countryside along the Aisne Is a vast
military rabbit warren.
Both sides are resolutely determined
not to give ground. The Germans are
continually delivering attacks and
counter attacks, but the allies are not
making any definite attempt to ad-
vance in this region. They are content
for the time being with beating back
all German attacks, and are not trying
to occupy the enemy's trenches.
"The forces of the Germans are worn
by hard campaigning and frequent at
tacks, while the allies troops are fresh
changed. One feature of the allies
stone-wall policy Is that the casualties
on the allies side have been very
slight recently.
to relieve the men from the strain of
waiting. Tobacco and newspapers are
provided and mail is delivered reg
ularly. The strain of waiting has been
especially severe on the African troops
"One of the most useful articles or
the German war equipment Is a sky
rocket which gives a powerful tlluml-
nation lasting forty seconds above the
ranks of the enemy, enabling the Ger
man artillery officers to obtain an ac-
curate range Of the trenches"
Movement of German Troops.
A dispatch to the Times from Ostend,
dated Monday, says:
"A very important movement Of Ger
man troops in southern Belgium was
reported this afternoon. A column 20.-
600 strong, of horse and foot artillery.
with commissariat convoy and
wireless apparatus, marched through
Templeuve, five miles north of Tournai,
in the direction of the French frontier
to the west. All the troopers were
young men,"
The Daily Mail correspondent in
France gives a new version OF the rea-
son for the German retreat from Paris
He says that the moment Gen. Jonre,
the French commander-in-chief, de-
cided to arrest his retreat and face the
Germans on the Marne the French
Gen. Foch. who was retiring south of
Chalons. discovered by an aeroplane
reconnaissance that two German armies
had failed to make junction and had
left a considerable gap in the neigh
borhood of Vitry-le-Franco1.
Gen. Foch thrust a large wedge OF
men. supported by strong artillery, into
this gap and had them well esta blished
before the Germans discovered their
oversight, with the result that there
was a German panic and retreat, in
which the Germans suffered very heav-
lily.
The Daily Telegraph's correspondent
in France says: For nearly three
weeks the casualties among the British
troops have been insignificant. The big
German shells do comparatively little
damage. The German infantry attacks
ceased long ago."