The Sentinel=record., 1914-09-12
After Desperate Struggle He Holds Hill and
Places Artillery to Dominate the Ad-
vance of Germans, Who Retire.
German Right Wing Continues to Fall Back
with Heavy Loss and Center Has Been
Forced to Retire to New Position,

London, sept. 1l.-l0:25 .. nj
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 Verdun, with the allied ar
mics of France and England on one
side and the Germans on the Qt&r.
has not yet reached a decisive result.
The German right, however, in the
face of superior forces and threat.
ened with an outf,anking movement,
continues to retire TO the north along
the route over which General Won
Kluck made his famous lightning ad-
vance on Paris from the Belgian bor-
der after having defeated the allies
at Mons and again at Cambria and st.
Quentin.
With General Won Kluck also, an
cording to French official reports, the
right wing of General Won Buelow's
army which supported his left. is fall
ing back toward the rivers Aisne and
Disc. On Won Buelow's left the army
of the Prince of Wurtemberg which
had been trying for weeks to break
through the French line, aisS has
stopped fighting and retired north.
The German left wing, however. COM
posed OF other sections of the Prince
Of, Nuremberg army and the army
commanded by the German crown
prince, is still fighting with varying
success. These armies, however, ap-
pear TO have passed Verdun, as Berlin
reports say they have been lombard
ing fortified positions south of that
fortress.
A comprehensive French official re-
port issued tonight shows that Gen
eral Won Kluck got farther east and
south of Paris than heretofore had
been disclosed. so that his advance
was even faster than he was given
credit for making. 1t seems that had
the German armies on his left moved
anywhere nearly as quickly as he did
the battle of the Marine might never
have been fought
However, faced by strong British
French force, and with another
French force advancing from Paris
threatening his flank and his com
munications General Won Kluck was
compelled to withdraw northward
and then fight the French on the
River Ourcq. In this fighting, accord
ing to the British-French reports,
number of German guns, hundreds %
prisoners and parts Of the German
transport were taken.
The German report, on the other
hand says, the war booty was repre-
sented by so guns and some thou
sands of prisoners AS at first re-
ceived this report said the Germans
admitted defeat and the loss of men
and guns, but il later was explained
that this was a telegraphic error.
The English newspapers decline 10
accept this legislation and insist that
the admission was really made onis
to be withdrawn later by some supe'
rior officer.
In their retirement Generals Won
Kiuck and Won Buelow had at their
heels the French army, which they
went south to fight and which, wheh
the Germans started to fall back'
quickly and took the offensive. While
this fighting must have been severe
the hard blows of the battle appears
to have been struck between Vitry'
le4'rancois and Sezanne.
Here the French were drawn up en-
a road over which they could move
rapidly They were repeatedly at
tackled by Won Buelow's right Saxon
army and the Prince of WurtemDerg' S
right. These attacks. which contlh'
ued until Thursday night, were OF d
most violent character, according 10
the French report, and were stopped
only when Genera Pau got possess
sion OF the hills north of Sezanha'
from which his artillery could COM
mand the valley down which the Ger
mans would necessarily advance on
their way from Chalons. 1t was TOT
the possession of these hills that the
French fought hard early in the Dat
tie, and 1t was here that daily a fighu
n occurred which first went in favor Oh