New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-25
new GERMAN ARMY
ALREADY WORN OUT
By Intercepted Wireless
British Learn of Rein
forcementS' Plight.
10y Gable to The Tribune. ]

London, Sept. PA correspondent
. Of "The Daily News" telegraphing
Tuesday from outside of Paris, says:
"The battle now proceeding is, of
course, beyond description. No one
man can see it. 1t would take a good
walker, for instance, at least fort
night to get from one end Of the line
to the other. You still come across
croakers who are convinced yet that
the Germans are playing subtle
game, that they have something w
their sleeve and will presently give an
alarming surprise, which they now are
carefully developing behind their lines,
! and come back to Paris.
"Thc common sense of the matter
is that the Germans went back from
the Marine because they had to, and
they do not advance now because they
cannot. There is nothing more mys-
FERROUS in their plans than that, and
the Allies cannot make quicker prog
ress because the Germans are very
many, are well armed, have strong po-
sitions and know that, if they break
now, they break for good. Their pro-
longed and formidable resistance is no
more mysterious than their retreat.
Luck is almost as important in war
fare as good soldiers. Admitting the
value Of that essential, it is safe to
say the Germans will never get back
to Paris. They will see Berlin first.
Even week ago it was almost i'm
possible to move by daylight. Most
OF the work of crossing and trench
! digging opposite went on at night,
while German searchlights were sweep
ing the land and directing the guns.
| 5" the desperate winning Of ground
continues. Nightly the Germans rake
| the landscape with sesrchlights and
shrapnel, while the French and Brit
/ ism are working in darkness and mys-
| terry. They muffe even the headlights
Of staff officers motor cars.
Several of the heavy German guns
/ have already been taken. As explained
/ in a previous message, it must be adj
mitted that it will be exceedingly diff
ticult to storm this position Of the
Germans, though repeatedly the
French, especially the Algerian troops,
/ whom nothing can restrain when they
see red, roll over the open recklessly at
| the enemy's trenches and make plenty
of German reserves at once necessary
for the firing line.
Some days ago wireless messages
from German reinforcements coming
through Belgium were intercepted by
/ the British. They showed that a new
German army approaching was eX-
hausted by long marches and little
food and that it feared it would be
1 cut off by the French hurrying along
from the west. Nothing but hard and
prolonged work will win ground here.
but it is being given cheerfully to the
/ JOB, and the spirit of our troops is
heartening to witness.
/ Numbers of lost Germans are hid
den in the woods which everywhere dot
this billy country. Three Germans
two days ago were discovered in the
: shrubbery of chateau. They suddenly
/ blazed away on everybody about, and
/ for few minutes there was a lively
| hunt. The Germans from their hiding
! places used up about a hundred rounds,
/ but it was rank bad shooting, for they
| hit nobody, and at last put up their
/ hands. The flight of a pheasant in
these silent woods behind the battle
| is rather startling. for small groups
of Germans, belsted, starving and des-
pcrate, occasionally show themselves
and sell their lives dearly.
eft is necessary to say something
about the Red Cross work here. |
| know Of surprising numbers of wound
/ ed and know that, as far as present
| facilities permit, the awful business is
being dealt with"