Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-03
LINES STRETCHED
IN TURNING MOVE
Hand-to-Hsnd Fighting on Wings
Results from Efforts of Rivals
to Overlap Each other.
ENDS ARE HEAVILY REINFORCED
Allies Have Been Able to Bring
Much Greater Power to Bear
aud Have Thus Gained
Advantage,
AT THE BATTLE FRONT. Oct.

AT THE BATTLE FRONT, Oct. 2.
(via Paris0 The generals in COM
mand OF the allies are full of praise
for the corps OF dispatch riders, who.
since the beginning of the great
battle Of the Afsne, have kept up
communication between the various
corps along the line spreading from
the Somme to the Moselle and along
the frontier Of AIsace-Lorraine
The dispatch riders are mostly
volunteers from British universities,
many OF them very wealthy youths.
Night and day they have made dashes
through the country infested with
German cavalry, carrying messages
which have kept the brigades and
army corps in close touch and en-
abled commanders to send rein
forcements to the points where they
were most needed. e
scatter German Horse.
On many occasions these dispatch
riders. mounted on motorcycles, by
sheer audacity and speed, have scat
tered reconnoitering parties of Ger
man cavalry, some times facing en-
ormous odds in their dangerous
work.
The recent terrible hand-to-hand
conflicts in the western and eastern
wings arose from the attempts of
the German and the allied generals
to execute thanking movements in
great force at the same time in the
open country. The lines of the
armies have been growing even
longer in the last ten days in a
mutual endeavor to overlap each
other.
The wings have been heavily reinforced
but the allies have been able 20 bring
greater power to bear and not only have
prevented the Germans from breaking
through, but have gained ground steadily
and now have the advantage.
Fresh Troops Older Men.
German prisoners who have been taken
on the western end of the line in large
NUMBERS SNOW JnAt the TelniOTCeInenJS
which have arrived recently consist
largely of men who are nearing middle
age. Some OF them are fathers with fam
lilies, who have been away from the active
army service ten or fifteen years. This
seems to indicate that many corps have
been withdrawn to meet the Russian ad-
vance. r'.. Gcg,AsS ~ =,
The German practice of maintaining an
ncessant offensive appears, according to
military men, to be having the result of
wearing out their human material Some
OF their corps have been almost wiped
out. -v l.s..t
Fighting UnceasinR.
The fighting, II the beginning OF the
battle OF the Marine is taken as the COM
mencement, has been unceasinRt some
thing previously unknown in military his
tory, and before this fight started many
German regiments had fought all the way
down from Liege, Belgium.
The German attacks in the last twenty
four hours seem TO have become less en-
ergetc. The allies have been ahAo 10 re-
pulse them and follow them UP more
easily. There are signs that exhaustion
is setting in among the invaders, owing
to the hard fighting and the severe
weather conditions. Meanwhile the allies
are being given intervals OF rest in the
trenches between the periods of intense
exertion, as fresh relays can be brought
to the front at any time.