The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-01
SECRECY is
INDICATIVE OF
GREAT BATTLE
Fighting Today Is Thought to Be
Centered Around LaFere
Continued From First Page.

hammer for a heavy blow, and Great
Britain anXiously awaits word of a
great battle, in which her army may be
local point.
Although the country has known for
a week that many of the soldiers are
buried on French and Belgian soil, and
other thousands are in hospitals, there
is no cutlery for names, but general
willingness to wait If the interests OF
the army require il.
British officers believe their South
African experiences helped their in
fantry greatly. ON the veldt they be-
came experts at taking cover and en-
trenching themselves. There were
enough veterans in all the regular regi-
ments to show the younger men how
To take care OF themselves.
Stronger and Closer Line.
The Amiens correspondent OF the
Daily Chronicle says:
THE French army and our English
troops are now holding good positions
i'm much stronger and closer line and
stemming the tide OF the German
hordes rolling up to Paris" says the
correspondent.
Gen. Paul Pau, the hero of this war,
after his swift return from the eastern
front where he repaired the deadly
check at Muelhausen, has dealt
smashing blow at the German army
corps which was striking to the heart
OF France, Paris still is safe for the
time being, with the great army of the
allied forces which surely will not be
| broken by the enemy
Allies Not Demoralized.
| II have been all through the war
zone during the last fortnight, and
| nothing ! have seen or heard from
either the British or the French leads
me TO believe that our army has been
smashed or that the allies are demor-
allied.
| Retreats which seem fatal when
seen close at hand are not altogether
disastrous i'm their effect when viewed
from the proper perspective. AS "A mat
ter of fact, the German audacity Of at
tack is leading them into "a position
from which there will be no retreat il
their lines are cut.
when the Germans swept around
Lille. they found to their amazement
that this town, surrounded by forts
had been abandoned This easy access
to a town which could have been de-
Tended to the last gasp opened the way
To the west OF France. The fact was
that the controlling BRAN OF Gen
Joffre, the French commander -Chief
and his headquarters staff had decided
that the corner OF France was unten-
able and that the main army OF de-
Tense should be drawn into closer ant
stronger positions"
Feel Odds Are Too Big.
The Times correspondent at Ostcnt
records, at second hand, converse
ton with n German officer from Brus-
sells who said that frantic efforts wer,
being made to infict crushing blow
on the allies, especially on the Englisi
forces. Notwithstanding the success
achieved by the German army, the dis.
patch says. there is feeling amont
German soldiers that they are fightini
against too great odds.
|, Despite all efforts to conceal thu
news from Prussia, 1t Is stated, infor'
nation OF disquieting character re-
garding events there Is beginning L
circulate among the German forces ant
this feeling of anxiety was intensified
when two divisions, totalling $4,000
, men passed the Meuse by the bridg'
of Andenne at Settles, between Namu
and Llege, en- route for German Hol
land.
The emperor has made II known "
, every soldier that his orders are 4
, take Paris or die. the dispatch cen
| cludes.
Urges Sufficient Army"
II Paris. Sept. 1.-Gustave HeIye. one
} the man without country, who talke'
|. Of planting the flag In a dungheap, nov
. the patriotic editor of Guerre Sociale
; working in close touch with the au
D thorities, discusses a siege OF Paris Al
. an eventuality more or less close.
He says: THE Germans would no
D invest IA in 1870, losing six month
. time. They would mass all thei
heavy artillery before one or two forts
n without needing the others, and whei
] n breach was made would pour thei
c whole force into 1t TO enter the town
Therefore, the governor OF Pari
9 needs an army capable of defendini
4 such breach II IL is made"
NJ Herve recommends that the WON
len and children Of Paris be removed L