Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-26
s Fighting
Without Gain
By Either. Side

lIOTuOn, Sept -O-lh SpIle VI tiiS
fact there has been fishting on both
the lett and right wings OF the ailles
the last week. and these engagements
have been vigorous. no decisive outcome
OF the battle on the Aisiie Yet has peen
recorded. The British military experts
who predicted that Germany would
maintain the defensive in France only
while transferring troops to the east
ern arena or war have not, generally
speaking, been borne out. Altho the
position of the, invaders of France at
the center is suited for such tactics
siege warfare has prevailed there for
days-the fighting OH the ends con-
tradicts them
Germans Strongly Entrenched.
Correspondents te!esraphing today
from Amsterdam and dating their dis
patches from France an expedient
resulting from the expulsion of the
writer's from anywhere near the scene
OF operations, again dwell on the excel
dent character of the German ell
trenchments. 1t seems that in many
places along the Aisne battle front,
stone quarries dot the hillsides, and a
mapority of these workings have been
in German hands for years. 1t would
appear that during several weeks he
fore the opening of the war thousands
of tons of stone were cut from these
quarries, later to be used for the Con-
struction by the Germans of barriers
against which the heaviest artillery has
little effect.
Germany's Preparations.
An Englishman writing from the
k.fS l- of 4 nn
remarkable preparations which he al
leses were made by the Germans for tn
present war. This man, in his letter,
says
The Germans Installed. a long time
before the war, certain portions of
some of their big centimetre guns on i
farm on the preteX, ,ha: tl,cs were bor-
ing for water. They put in foundations
of concrete so that everything was
ready. AS their guns had a longer
range than those of the Maubeuge forts
it was not difficult for them to con-
quer."
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle confirms the foregoing
statement and adds that all the Ger
man heavy artillery was placed on
heavy concrete platforms, selected
several years ago as foundations for
factories never to be completed"
Long Prepared For Invasion.
Belated reports give intimate de-
tails Of the occupation Of Amiens and
Compeigne, from which cities the
Germans subsequently were driven
throws further light ON what in Eng
land u characterized as German ad :
vance preparation for, invasion. Ac-
cording@to these stories In almos t
every Erencfs town. thru which the
German army, swept some one in the
ranks would point out where he had un-
til recently resided. Thru such men great
quantities Of stores were found and
. this, with the knowledge of the coun-
try gained by such soldier residents,
has proved of great value.
Russians Gain in East.
The isolation Of the Galician strong
hold Of Przemysl. hithertofore en-
phasized in dispatches from Petrograd
as forecasting a triumphant Russian
march to Cracow and thence to Vienna
and Budapest. apparently has been
made complete by the occupation Of
Khrow, twenty miles south of Pre-
mysl, and close to the junction of
railroad lines connecting with Jaros-
lau, the important railroad center
taken by the Russian troops some time
ago.
On the British Isles the public is
awaiting with keen interest the out
come of Premier Asquith's appeal to
the Irish as voiced in Dublin last night.
With a Welsh army corps already in
a tentative stage of formation. Eng
lishmen believe that the Irish will not