The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-12
BATTLE OF MARINE
 NOT YET REACHED
 DECISIVE RESULT
Review of Activities in War Zone Shows Neither Army Has Won Victory-Ac- tivities Yesterday

Londone September 11.-t10:25 D. m.) The battle of the Marne. as the French have christened the great struggle which has been in progress for a week in the territory between Paris and Yer dun. with the allied armies of France and England on one side and the Ger mans on the other. has not yet reached a decisive result f=
 .The German right. however, in the face of superior forces and threatened with an -flanking movement, con- tinues to retire to the north along the route over which General Von Kluck made his famous lightning advance on Paris from the Belgian border after having defeated the allies at Mons and again at Cambrai and St quentin.
 With General Yon KlucS also, ac- oording to French official reports, the right wing of General Won Buelows army which supported his left, is fall ing back toward the Rivers Aisne and oise. On yon Buelow's left, the army of the prince of Wurttemberg, which had been trying for weeks to break through the French line. also has stopped fighting and retired north. The German left wing, however. composed of other sections of the prince of Wurt tembergs army and the army com 1nanded by the German crown prince is still fighting with varying success. These armies however, appear to have passed Nerdun, as Berlin reports say they have been bombarding fortified positions south of that fortress
 A comprehensive French official re- port issued tonight shows that General Won Kluck got farther east and south of Paris than has heretofore been dis closed, also that his advance was even faster than he was given credit for making. It seems that had the Ger man armies on his left moved any where nearly as quickly as he did, the battle of Marne might never have been fought.
 Threatening Flank
 However, faced by a strong British ! French force and with another French force advancing from Paris threater- ing his flank and his communications General Won Kluck was compelled to withdraw northward and then fight the French on the River Ourcq In this fighting, according to the British French reports, a number of German guns. hundreds of prisoners and part of the German transport were taken.
 The German on the other hand say: ''The body was reduced by 30 guns and some thousands of prisoners"
 AS was reported. this report said the Germans admitted defeat and the loss of men and guns, but 1t later was explained that this was a telegraphic error. The English newspapers de cline to accept this explanation and insist that the admission was really made only to be withdrawn later by some superior officer
 In moi mt lc Kluck and Won Buelow had at their heels the French army, which they went south to fight and which when the Germans started to fall back, quickly advanced and took the offen- sive. While this fighting must have foen severe the hard blows of the battle appear to have been struck, be- tween Yitry-le- Francois and Sezanne
 Here the French were drawn up on a road over which they could move rapidly. They were repeatedly attacked by Won Buelow's right Saxon army and the prince of Wurttemberg's right. qhese attacks which continued until Thursday night, were of most yio- lent character. according to the French report. and were stopped only when General Pau got possession of the hills rear Seine from which artillery could command the valley down which the Germans would necessarily advance on tteir way from Chalons. It was for the possession of the hills that the French fought hard early in the battle and it was here that daily a fight