The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-11

| declare the French left has taken thou
sands of prisoners.
They also insist that the losses OF
the French British on the offensive
are far smaller than were the losses
OF the Germans under similar circum-
stances.
The German rife FIRE. they declare,
is still poor.
Say Germans Retreat.
That the German movement is ac-
tually retreat and not a strategic
proposition. is indicated by the reports
from the front that there are thou
sands of dead and wounded Germans In
the territory now occupied by the al
lies.
Ii is stated that the German officers
deliberately sacrificed thousands OF
men In one supreme effort to break
the allied lines.
This was especially so in the case OF
the army of General Won KIuk. His
men swept up against the British ar
t'lery massed along a river bank a
score of times only to be finally COM
peeled to retreat. leaving hundreds of
their comrades behind.
In each instance the British infant
ry charged the retreating Germans
bayonetting them as they ran.
Little Sleep For Germans.
Prisoners who have been brought
here declare that for the last three
weeks hardly a German soldier has
had more than three hours sleep each
night. They have all been well fed,
however, as the earlier failure of their
commissary has been remedied.
The French are inhicting enormous
damage on the Germans who are re-
ported as fighting with far less vim
than in the earlier stages of the strug-
gle.
The French right is steadily advanc-
ing although very slowly.
Outcome Still Undecided.
London, Sept. 1l.-MIitary experts do
not rush to sweeping conclusions. The
writers in the London papers
repeat that it is evident that it is too
early to anticipate the result of a
battle extending over a front OF nearly
100 miles.
Three million men is the number es-
timated to be engaged actively and
three great battles at least are in
progress.
Probably the fercest struggle is
against the French center between
Rheims and Nerdun, while the British
army is contesting against the Ger
nan right The Germans are believed
o be still attacking the English right
rom Verdun to Nancy.
Fighting in Alsace.
Lesser lighting is i'm progress in
Alsace, from which province the Ger
mans appear to have drawn away part
If their army and the French are TAX
ng advantage Of this opening.
The great battle may continue for
lays, when IL is remembered that
mailer operations in Manchuria. in
which hundreds of thousands only
we're concerned, lasted fortnight.
The German western armies have
'een fighting almost continuously for
twenty-five days and. until the last
hase of the campaign, on the offens-
hat they are becoming exhausted
nds ready credence among military
xperts here.
German Reinforcements.
A German official wireless dispatch
ays that no report has been made
ubhc in Berlin of events in France
or the last three days.
From Holland comes the news that
O,000 German reinforcements are
south. These troops may
ave an effect upon the tide of battle.
ut there is reason to believe the allied
rmies also are receiving counter
alancing accession of strength.
That the Germans are concentrating
II their strength i'm the eastern field
warfare against the main French
ront appears to be confirmed by re-
orts which have arrived through Hol-
ind.
The hard struggle between the enor-
nous masses of troops extends from
Continued n, opd paos 1sf CnIurrn