The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-08
PARIS BELIEVES
 GERMAN ARMY STOPPED AT LAST

STOPPED A1 LAST Paris, Sept s.-Paris is optimistic to-
 day. Even the surprise at finding that l the Germans have been able to trav-
 erse nearly the entire Champiegny
 country does not shake confidence in the outcome of the great battle which, after all maneuvers, is being fought
 on ground selected by General Joseph Jaffre, the French conmander-in- .chief.
 The famous turning movement of
 the Germans has finally resulted in a
 battle formation that puts their right in jeopardy, yesterdays advance of
 the allies left proved.
 AS far as may be inferred from the
 meagre official news, the army now
 called the army of Paris must be act ing as an independent force, holding g
 the convex side Of a curved battle line and free to menace the communities tions of the enemy.
 Bits of news already coming in from
 the wounded show that the allies
 gained a distinct success on the left, the enemy suffering greatly while try ing to cross the river Marne. As fast as pontoons were finished, the French
 three-inch guns demolished them be- fore they could be utilized.
 The wounded are being brought in by tramways. Among those arriving yesterday were two. Irish troopers who, separated from their regiment
 during the fight at Compeigne could give no other account of their wander ings than that the last they knew
 they were fighting at Copenha gen..
 The general opinion of the morning
 press is that the allies may lose the battle and still make the siege of Pa ris difffcult for the enemy while, if the Germans lose, the situation of their entire army in France would be crit ical
 London, Sept. s-ANailab1e news from Paris today indicates that the forward movement of the allies is only a feeler to ascertain the reason for the strange eastward swing of the German right.
 No matter, however, what the for. ward movement may mean, a decisive battle cannot be long postponed. Meantime the western valley of the Seine. recently overrun by Germans, has been cleared of the enemy and has been given a. breathing spell.
 The unexpected swing of the Ger mans has caused readtustment of the lines of the allies. The movement of the Germans was ascertained so promptly by the aeropla1es of the al lies that abundant time was given for the shift.
 It is evident that the Germans now have before the front or their wedge. like advance the veterans of the allies left wing which underwent a terrible battering along the Franco-Belgian border Another advantage enjoyed by the allies is the fact that their Hanks are protected by the great forti- fcation of Paris and Verdun, while, in the German territory. Maubeurge is still held by the French despite the fall of three. of it's fortresses.
 In the eastern war theatre, General Ruzslzy's Stonewan Jackson tactics have been checked by the strong for tress of Przemysd but this delay will not prevent the general forward move ment of the Russian forces along the border from Ti4sit to Len9berg. It is considered necessary, however, to cap ture Przemysl so that the Austrians may. have not a single stronghold left in Galicia-
 Remarkable reports continue to come in of the speed of General RHz-- sky's campaigp- The soldiers slept on an average of three hours nightly and made 35 mile marches daily.
 It is evident from reports received in Petrograd that the AustSians ex- pected to make a long resistance at Lemberg.
 AThe worlds great puzzle today says the Chronicles Paris correspond ent, ''is the disappearance southeast ward of the German host, which was to be ready to dash in against Paris. According to the close student, be to reach the southern and some what less strongly fortified side of Paris but I think on the whole it is larger and 'bo1der than this.
 ''In the first place, the official com munication of Friday reveals that there are three German armies nov ing soT1thward. Fridays communica.- ton stated that the enemy has reach ed IAFerte, passed Rheims and is passing along west of the Argonne. It is evident that it cannot be the same army which, reached LaFerte 55 miles from Paris; which passes Rheims, 85 miles from Paris and which passes the Argonne forest
 The chief necessities of the Ger man tacticians now are follows:
 First, to get out of reach of the Belgians; second. to keep so far as possible from the west because of the British contingent; third, to immobi- reduce the length of the line of com munication and to recover direct touch with Germany. fifth, while accom- these things, to smash the other French armies sixth, when the German armies are united, to be able to march directly on either Berlin or Paris as circumstances may direct.
 ''The present movement to the east ward is apparently with the object of l these things: the Ger man army which has come south from Mons will join at Fpernay, 1 miles southwest of Rheims, other German armies, of which we have so far feared nothing, but which evidently have been moving southward from L1xem- burg and the Ardennes. This immense strategical overturn may involve.the German abandonment of Belgium and northern France but it irnrn ediateIX threatens the French