Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-25

battle of Ypres, an engagement des-
perate. furious and relentless. The
German army hurled its units forward
in dense masses without counting its
losses. But the effort was vain.
For close upon three weeks we
stood up against repeated frantic as
saults. Every one of them was re-
pulsed. =e
THE Belgian army having been driven
from it's own land. Emperor William was
not only on the point of realizing his
project to proclaim at Ypres the annex
alton of this courageous nation, but he
was also IN the poin. OF slcrying in the
annihilation of at least one of his adver-
saries. This double satisfaction was re-
fused him. II Dunkirk, Calais and Bou-
lcGne had been taken. Great Britain
would have been hampered in commune
cation with her army on the continent.
Finally France in maintaining impas-
sable the front of her armies. from the
sea to Arras, adopted the most effica-
cious guarantee against return to the
offensive movement of the enemy on
Paris.
THE foregoing is an outline of our sue
cess The result obtained is this:
I'VE have to our credit not a series Ct
momentary successes, but continuous
progress which has made vain the per-
sistent and uninterrupted effort of the
enemy. After our victory on the Marine
had, in the middle of September, obliged
the, German army to undertake a precip-
itate retreat, the enemy endeavored a.
once to win back its advantage, and al
ways by turning our left wing. At no
point were the Germans successful. Dur
ing this time, on the contrary, we sue
ceeded in extending our left as far as
Belgium, and even as far as the sea. We
then maintained our line impregnable in
it's new position. The successes won In
Flanders, in which the French troops
supported the principal burden Is, thus
seen to be continuation and extending,
and a development of the victory of the
Marine The glory of this success is due
TO our leaders and to our soldiers.
LAS for our troops. they have acquired
qualities which they perhaps lacked at
the beginning of the operations, particu-
larly the ability for rapid defensive or
ganization. However satisfactory these
evidences of success may be to us, they
do not by any means exhaust our rea-
sons for confidence. Along with the
progress Of our arms there should be OBJ
served the progress of our Russian ar
mics which have been becoming more no.
ticeable since the third of November. AT
the doors of Cracow and Kalisz our al
lies are now making their weight felt In
the scale of opposing forces. It Is in
this field that we should draw our con-
clusions for here il is that one may per-
ceive in the full light of day the failure
of the German plan. This plan was to
crush France in three weeks and then
to turn to Russia. Today the fourth
month of the war is drawing to its close
and still France has not been crushed.
Fifteen German army CORPS, united with
virtually all the forces Of Austria, are
facing Russia.
1--WE desire to emphasize that since the
sixth of September the formidable mass
es of troops who have assaiied US have
not been able, no matter how courageous
their attack, to make us give way any
place on the line. On the contrary, at
number of points the enemy has been
driven back before the strength of our
advance"