The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-05
ENGLISH ANGRY AT WITHDRAWAL
 BEFORE ENEMY
Soldiers Say Shooting of Ger man Means Score Talk
 ing His Place.
MOONLIGHT MARCHES
 RUSH THE ADVANCE
Six Miles of Auto Trucks Form Principal British
 Transport.

ing its way through the. AnSko-FTeIIch armies toward Paris, has made fur ther progress, according to the Ger
 man official report and has now driven the allies back behind Condo.
 La, sFere has been captured without resistance, says the German Statemenr and with the exception of - (name deleted) which is now being attacked, and MauIbeuge, which the Germans have marked, the outpost forts are now in the hands Of the invaders. Cavalry raids, too. are being made in the direction of Paris Qualifications which will if the German accounts are correct, be the next step of the al lied armies.
 The news was a great disappoint- ment here, where official reports from Paris to the effect that the Germans had suffered a. check near Verdun led to the hope that the advance at least had been stopped.
 In Lorraine and the vosges region.
 where the German forces were weak
 ened to strengthen their right flank the French appear to be holding their own, if not making an advance. The allies take some consolation from the fact that the Russian defeat Of the Austrians around Lemberg which town has fallen into the hands
 Of the Russians, with its immense stock of war material and provisions, apparently IS }COu1f31OlS1 L1AO POk>Se7S- sion of Lemberg gives the Russians a
 base from which they can work and from which they can attack in the rear the Austrian army which has been invading Ra1ssdan territory. Tn a battle lasting almost a. fort night, the Austrians. had suffered ter rfble losses, 12,o 600 having fallen in one
 place alone, while the Russian general claims to have taken thousands Of prisoners and 200 guns. The Austrian retreat it appears from official ad- vices, has been turned into a rout. Belgium, which saw so many bat
 ties during the early stages of the
 war, is again the scene of h9htlns-
 German advices indicate that the Ger
 mans are completing a half circle around Antwerp.
 Information has reached England that seven of the German destroyers which the British fleet engaged off Heligoland Eight and which escaped in dannaged condition, have reached KfeI Others were so badly injured that they went down before reaching that refuge.
 The speech of Premier Asquith at the Guild Hall, seconded by the cam paign of political leaders, has had at- most immediate effect, as the recruit ing stations have been crowded all evening.
 Besides the Prince of Wales fund
 for the dependents of soldiers, other funds have been raised Lady Strat- coma has contributed $25,0O0. Andrew
 Carnegie $5,oO0 and other prominent
 persons have contributed similar amounts. se London. Sept. 5.-The correspondent
 of the Reuter- Telegram company at
 Ferrieres, near Paris. sends the fol- lowing:
 Our men, though cheerful. are an- ery at the continued retreat They don't understand the necessity for 1t. They are all amazed at the intending
 number of Germans They say The more you kill of them the more there are of them; but if we ever get them in the open it's good night.
 .-rhe fighting along the line of the German advance has been incesSant and desperate. I sold a, horse the oth- l CT day to an officer of dragoons. I l showed him the only horse had for | sale with the warning that the animal 1 was not in the best condition. Hang it, said the officer, 'he VIII last four days and that's about my average since the war began ..He had already had -four horses | shot under him The war is very hard on the horses and, the condition of ! some of the poor beasts which I've seen passing southwark toward Paris | would better not be described NeV- | ertheless, the army is still fit in every sense of the word and. its transport IS 1 intact and fills the road with a column | Of motor vans nearly six miles long,
 stOur soldiers are all right, but the | people whom we pity are the thou
 sands of fugitives who have been | swept up and blown away by dne
 marching armies like chaf before the
 wind. The country through which the | ie | nanaited bridges and tunnels mark the retreat of the allies and blazing Vll-
 Iages mark the advance of the Ger ! mans The harvest is now almost 1n | and the French would do well to de stroy the crops themselves rarher than leave it to the enemy.
 .~The weather has ben splendid
 blazing hot days and perfect moon | light nights-idea1 holiday weather
 These nights of full moon have not
 been wasted by the Germans whG move forward by night as well as oy I dty Many a. kilometre has been lygained on the road to Paris under the | harvest moon but for whlcn cne men
 would have been sleeping.
 ''The war is already giving birth tc | numerous stories of unknown origin
 which are spreading like folklore | legends One current fiction IS Eha' l the French armies carry so-called tur- | pin powder which is supposed to | asphyxiate Germans by companies and 1 by battalions Another is the tale ol l the alleged treachery of an offlce1
 of (-). He is supposed to nave lied to his superiors regarding the
 presence of Germans in >AlSace where
 upon he was summarily shot by hl<
 own orderly as a traitor. Usually this officer is called a general and
 some times the storytel1er gives his nafne. At other times the story goes i with the name of famous French
 military aviator.
 l London, Sept. 5-A despatch4to the l Exchange Telegraph Company from 1 Rome contains a message from Petro- l grad est. Petersburg) in which a high Russian military official is quoted as