Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-10-08
GERMANS
FIGHTING
0FFE NSIvELY
EVEN FRENCH CRITICS AD-
NIT THAT GERMANS FORCE
ENGAGEMENTS.
MILITARY SCIENCE LOST
Kaiser's Forces Using Every
Means to Gain Advance; Awful
Night Battles.

Paris, Oct. 7.-Captive balloons to
discover and observe the movements
of the allied armies and powerful
searchlights to point out the positions
and to blind the defense during night
Attacks, are being used by the Ger
mans in the great battle to the north
and east of Paris, which still Is with
out definite result.
military science frequently Is lost
( >ight of and the contest Decomes
merely the hurting of forces against
one another. :.
Night cbrnbats have become an I'M
portant element in the action. Ihey
are frequently forced by the Germans
and as often are repulsed by the al
lies, They are telling on the stamina
of the troops on each side, many OF
whom already are worn out on the
firing line in the seemingly unendlng
struggle. The French public, who
throughout have shown calm, are pa
tiently awaiting a decision. me
changing action at various points
along the battle line as indicated by
the war Office statement, furnish op-
portunity for diversified comment as
to their significance.
Lieutenant Colonel Rousset, the
military critic of La Liberte, sees IN
the latest maneuvers of the Germans
an element Of daring. A large spread
ing movement on the flank Of an ad-
versary, he says, can have the incon-
venience, generally grave, OF enlargr
ing the space which exists between
the moving troops and those in front.
This must necessarily have a reason
able limit under. the risk OF trans
forming the plan into a detached op-
Grafton simply, which would be very
perilous for those executing It. .''
Such a movement, moreover, says
Lieutenant Colonel Rousset, has hard
" chance Of succeeding and only
so when not discovered, which does
not appear to be the case, Judging
from the war Office statements.
General Pierre Cherfils, in com
menting on the situation, declares
that the material organization Of the
enemy, really is powerful and that all
the French wounded are unanimous
in saying that the Germans have had
excellent practical instruction and
that from technical point of view,
they fight with remarkable method.
The Germans know, he says, how to
be patient and to wait. They realize
the ground with real art There they
make themselves invisible and have
many gruesome surprise to the i'm
petuosity Of the French. Their ma
chine guns are very numerous and
are sometimes grouped They have
one, company of machine guns per
regiment, They are always hidden,
often set at the edge of woods, seek
ing to have an oblique fire.
The Germans first lines of march,
General Gherfils continues, "are COW
cred with ,sheaves of corn or are we'll
concealed otherwise. In advance of
them are their elite marksmen. Near
ly all the French officers who lost
their lives, says the general, were kill
ed by. these frers, who always were
hidden. Their junction with diverse
units is complete and the accord be-
tween the artillery and the infantry
is of permanent intimacy. The in
fantry advances only when supported
10y the artillery. ~
If their technical Q supremacy is
manifest, their moral inferiority, he
says, stands out. They fight only two
or four against one and nearly always
f1ee IN front of the bayonet.