The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-09-16
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MILITARY MEN BELIEVE GER.
MANS WILL DEVOTE FULL
STRENGTH TO DEFEAT
RUSSIANS FALL BACK SOME
Siege Guns Are Moved Up to Nancy
and Vosges and Position There
Is Unchanged.

London.-The1 battle of the Marine
as the French have christened the
great struggle which has been In pro.
gress for a week in the territory be.
tween Paris and Verdun, with the
Allied armies Of France and England
on one side and the Germans on the
other, has not yet reached a decisive
result.
The German right in the face Of
superior forces and threatened with
an outfianking movement, continues to
retire to the North along the route
over which General Won Kluck made
his famous lightning advance on Paris
from the Belgian border after having
defeated the Allies at Mons and again
at Cambria and st. Quentin.
With General von Kluck also, ac-
cording to French official reports, the
right wing of General o Buelow's
army, which supported his left, is fall
ing back toward the Rivers Aisne and
Disc. On Won Buelow's left the army
Of the Prince Of Wurtemburg, which
had been trying for weeks to break
through the French line, also has stS0E
ped fighting and retired North. The
German left wing, however, composed
Of other sections Of the Prince Of
Wurtemburg's army and the army
commanded by the German Crown
Prince is still fighting with varying
success. These armies, however, APP
pear to have passed Verdun, as Berlin
reports. say they have been lombard
ing fortified positions South Of that
fortress.
A comprehensive French report Is
sued shows that General Won Kluck
got farther East and South Of Paris
than heretofore had been disclosed,
so that his advance was even faster
than he was given credit for making.
! It seems that had the German" armies
on his left moved anywhere nearly as
quickly as he did, the battle OF the
Marine might never have been fought,
However, faced by a British-French
force, and with another French force
advancing from Paris threatening his
flank and his communication, General
Won Kluck was compelled to withdraw
Northward and then fight the French
on the River Ourcq. In this fighting.
according to the British-French re-
ports, a humber of German guns, hum
dreds Of prisoners and part of the
German transports were taken.
The German report on the other
hand says "the war booty was rep
resented by so guns and some thou
sands of prisoners" In their retire
ment Generals Won Ktuck and Won,
Buelow had at their heels the French
army, which they went South to fight
and which, when the Germans start
ed to fall back, quickly advanced q
took the offensive. While this flight
ing must have been severe, the hard
blows of the battle appear to- have
been struck between Vitry-Le-Francois
and Sezanne. 81
r. Here the French were drawn up on
a. road over which they could move
rapidly. They were repeatedly at
tackled by Won Buelow's right Saxon
army and the Prince OF Wurtemburg'
right. These attacks which continued
until Thursday night, were of a most
violent character, according to the
French report, and were stopped only
when General Pau got possession OF
the hills North of Sezanne from which
his artillery could command the valley
down which the Germans would neces-
sarily advance on their way from
Chalons.