Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-09-16
Germans Getting Out of France.
(OontlLu ed from page3ne.)

defensive position on thu river
Aisne, between ComplegLe I'D
S lssons.
Farther west, the German de-
tachmeuts that held AmleAs have
moved noItheastWard to try to re.
,ln the German army of The rig t
at st. Quoutln. II is possible alI
tie Germans IN northwest France
havs doUe Likewise; otherwise they
would be lii danger of being cut
off III the center. Anothsr delen-
1 position behlud Rheims has
been gwen up and Ill the AlgonLe
region u general retreat is taking
placoe toward the forest Of BsI.-
noue and lrlaucoutt.
The allies are pushing their ao-
vantage aid dong their utmost
to turn the retreat Into d disaster
10y u stern pursuit Gu perhaps the
brohoest scA'e yet known III war
On the Fight they are In god pos i.
tlon to UontyL ue the offoLslve, II
the men aud bCrses are nCt too
tired for furth + effort. They are
based On a strong line running
from the Marne to the fortresses
through NE hllly country south
OF Arg4une.
Will the allies left composed
Largely OF fresh troops, with a
heavy lice ocavalry uuuer Gener.
al Pau, is whesllng around 30 as
to dive General Ven KIuck and
Won Buelow towards Ardennes and
Luxemberg, General Pau's army,
py q few ME marches by Lafere
aud Loan, might cut commuuica-
tious nesween the rstrsatlng Ger.
mans and Belgium.
The BRITISH, who yesterday
took nearly all the crossings on
the river Alsne and captured many
prisoners, are North Ct that river
and are pushing the attack that
would assist III forcing the Ger,
nuts 20 tvacuate Rheims. The
,.n.> ,omeah here between ChsIons
a-u Kaelms, Is making an effort to
recaptues thu latter city, which
would be one of the most popular
victories that could be announced
&c Frenchmen.
Should these movements he
crowned with success and Laon
and Rheims again fall into the
hands OF she allies, the Germant
would have only M line of COM
m@unlcaslon with G German y,
through Rothel, aud even that
might be cut.
General Won Kluck, however, is
locking for re!nforcements from
Belgium if they have not al
ready reached him, and with these
he might make another stand
against his pursueTs.
General French paid high com.
pllments to latest addition to the
British army, the flying corps,
and he also quotes a letter fri III
she French commander, Genera!
J9ffre. who congratulated him Oh
che accuracy OF the information
supplied by the aviators. These
men have done little or no Gcmt
throwing, but have confined tn. NJ.
selves to gathering Information
about the enemy for the genera
ststf
This i. the work that the mill
tary met alwa s have So d would
prove the greatest rvic in con.
l.ectl II with the use of the asro
plane. ln what conf ct they
nave had with German a~viatore,
the British flylng men, according
to f cid Marshal French, hav
''establlshed individual ascend
eLcy," ard, he adds, something
III the direction of mastery of tt {
air already has been established.
TIE Belgians. who have receiv
d new big quits ard reinforce
ments from somewhere, by a sor.
tie from Antwerp, have p%revsnt-d
the Gelmans from sending more
II their TIC ops cut of Belgium to
the south.
1t is reported that the G rmans
rad another army corps ready t.
dispatch to the assistance of their
right wing, north of Paris, tut
quickly stopped it's departure
when the Bvlglans showed their
strength and ability to cut COM
m%unication between Brussels and
Louvalu.
All the news coming in today
seems to confirm the Russian re-
ports that the Russians have in
flcttd another crushing defeat en-
the Anstliaus who, on the right,
were supported by some German
divisions. By the capture of
lomasz w, the Russians drove a
wedge between the Austrian army,
which had invaded Poland as far
as Opoie, Krasno stav aud Zameso,
and the army which they defeated
at Lemberg and which although
1t loss heavily ia killed, wounded
prisoners, and gune, managed to
reform 81 some txteut and under.
take the Cffenslvs.
The Germans who reinforced
the Austrlans according to latest