The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-09-18
DESCRIBED IN DETAIL FROM THE
MARINE RIVER TO PRESENT
STRUGGLE IN THE AlsNE.
BRITISH ARMl'S Big PART
In Conjunction With the French They
Pursued and Fought the German
Right Wing a Distance OF Eighty
Miles.

London, Sept. 17.-1O p.m.-An ac-
count of the operations OF the Brit
ISL army in France and of thel
French armies in immediate touch !
with IL during The period from Sep
TENDER 10 to 10, written by an Off |
Ger attached to Field Marshal Sir
John Frenchs staff was issued to-
night by the Official Press Bureau. |
The account follows:
"Since Thursday, September 10, the
British army made steady progress
in its endeayor 10 drive back the
enemy in cooperation with the
French. The country across whieh
it had to force its way and will have
to continue to do so, is undulating
and covered with patches of thick
wood.
within the area which faced the
British before the advance commenc-
ed, right up to Laon, the chief fea-
ture of tactical Importance is the fact
that there are six rivers running
across The direction of the advance,
at all of which it was probable that
the Germans might make resistance.
These are In order from south, the
Marne. Ourcq Vesl. Aisne. Aiette ana
Disc.
THE enemy held the line of the
Marne. which was crossed by our
forces September 8, as a purely rear
guard operation. Our passage of the
glts.-
east and west, was not contested
The Vesl was only lightly held, while
resistance along the Aisne. & both
against the French and British. has
been and still is of a determined char
acter
Son Friday, September II, but little
opposition was met with along any
part of our front and the direction of
the advance for the purpose of COOP
Grating with our allies, was turned
slightly to the northeast The day
was spent In rushing forward and
gathering IN various hostile detach.
ments. BY nightfall our forces had
reached line north OF the Oarcq. ex-
tending from Oulchy-le-Chateau to|
Longport.
ION this day there also was a gen
eral advance of the French along
their whole line, which ended in a
substantial success. In one portion
of the field Duke Abrecht, of Murt-
temburg's army. was driven back
across the Saul and elsewhere the
whole of the corps artillery of Ger
man corps was captured. Several |
German colors were taken.
1T was only on this day that the
full extent of the victory gained by !
the allies on September s, was appre-
ciated by them, and the morale on
this success has been enormous. An
order dated September aud :, is. |
sued by ihe commander of the Ger
man seventh corps was picked up. 1t |
stated that the great object OF the |
war was about to be obtained since |
the French were going to accept bat |
tie and that upon the result of this
battle would depend the issue of the
war and the honor of the German ar
mics.
1T seems probable that the Ger
mans not only expected to find that |
the British army was beyond the |
power of assuming the offensive for
some time, but counted on the French |
having been driven back onto the line
Of the Seine, and that though sur
prised to find the latter moving for |
ward against them after they had
crossed the Marine they were in no
wise deferred from making a great
effort
iOn Saturday, the 18th, the enemy |
were found to be occupying a very |
formidable position opposite us on the
north of the line at Scissors. They |
held both sides of the river and an
entrenched line Of the hills to the |
north of eight road~ bridges and two
railway bridges crossing the Aisne, |
Within our section OF the front. Seven |
OF the former and both OF the latter
had been demolished
Working from the west to the east
our third corps gained some high
ground south of the Aisne overlook !
ing the Aisne valley. east OF Soils
sons. Here long range artillery |
duel between our guns and those OF
the French ON our left and the enc
my's artillery on the Hills continued
the greater part OF the day and did
not cease until nearly midnight. The
enemy had many heavy HOwitzers in
well concealed positions.
The movement Of this army corps
was effected IN cooperation with the
French sixth army corps on our left
which gained the southern half OF the
town during the night
The second army corps did not
cross the Aisne The first army corps
got over the river yesl, south Of the