Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-07
GERMAN LOSSES N
ATTACK IS 100000
MARch ON PARIS COSTS l<AdsER's
ARMY TERRIBLE TOLLS
IN MEN,
floSs OF ALLIES ONLY
IN oNE-FoURrR. OR 10000
Correspondent Describes Human Sac
rffess and Says Torrents Of Blood
Flowed inePathway,of' German Ad-
vaneenThru Beigiuns, and France
MISUNDERSTANDING.

London, Sept. TIA correspondent at
Gisors, near Beauvais, sends the follow
ing dispatch,
Il say without sreserve that It has
been sheer weight OF numbers which
has brought the Germans to their pres
ent position at the amazing rate OF
twenty-five miles day.
"A moderate estimate of the losses
of the kaisers troops places them at the
ratio of about FIVE to one of the allies.
Bearing in mind that the French and
i British losses have not exceeded 100000
at least five German army corps, or
200, 900 men, should now be out of
action.
Torrents Of Blood Flow.
Torrents Of blood will flow" Gen.
Eon Bernhard predicted in his book
Germany in the War of the Future,
but we can afford it, This prediction
has come to pass. but even German
blood will run out OF stock.
In no respect, save possibly with
light pieces Of artillery and transport,
have the Germans shown superior
training or equi pment The advance on
Paris has been made largely by motor
an up-to-date method of invasion
which has frequently made it necessary
for our men to march as much as TWEEN
ty-f1ve miles day at five or six miles
an hour with hardly a malt.
The British retreat is all the more
regrettable. seeing that our field ar
rangements have been perfect.
British Retreat StuhbornIy.
Lest England has pictured the army
in flight. let it be said this British trek
has been something quite new in re-
treats-something very novel. Retreat
ing units have not hitherto made il a
hobby of turning round at odd mo-
ments and shifting their pursuers hip
and thigh and then continuing their re-
treat
London already knows of the charge
! of the Ninth Lancers, an instance in
point. when they were supported by
the Scots Greys. They came back $40
short of the original 1900, but the
countryside thru which they rode was
lying thick with German corpses. Take
again the tname cut out)
Can't Kill Men Fast Enough
More came up than we could shoot
/ down, a survivor says. They could not
:, have lost fewer than a couple of thou
sand in under an hour, but 1t was
lucky for the English that little of their
deadly artillery was near. They hold
their rifles to their hips and pot away,
occasionally getting us in the legs.
Then what happens? We have to
retreat again. We have hardly been
able to pick up any OF our wounded
with this eternal retreating. The
British missing may number 10000 but
I,1 8 =
dead if the German Red Cross has been
doing its work
The Germans detest cold steel A
mass 10000 strong got it one day with
a vengeance. All of the wounded had
TO be treated while they We're laying
face downward. We lost 40 men all
told.
Tommy Atkins fails to understand a
retreat made for strategic reasons. One
British soldier said to me:
They haven't wasted any time at
home teaching US TO retreat All this
lis new to US chaps. II they don't tell
us to go for them pretty soon we shant
wait FOR the order
The British army is as much in It's
element in this ten DAYS retreat as a
negro at the north pole. For ten days
1.-THE officers have been drilling il into
the men that this 30 mile nonstop
/ trek Us piece ot strategy Thar an
/ swer, which is heard 1000 times day,
is set forth above.
Rouen Papers Praise British.
THE Rouen papers praise the British
troops
do not let US despair before Paris
oae of .hern says THE British are sec
onding us to a marvellous degree. Moth
ing upsets them. They receive the
German shock under fire with calm
self-confdence which leaves one CROP
ing for stronger word than admira-
ton The dash Of their cavalry leaves
the Chians blinking. Their artillery is
rarely at fault. Their infantry display
lndescribabie heroism and tenacy.'
"But all this IL lost on the British
soldier. He never gets more than two
hours sleep a night and then Is back
before the German troops. In vain l
tried in amateur language to explain
the strategy to the men, how the allies
are uniting the various units and how
presently they will get all the fighting
they desire south Of Paris, how Father
Time has to be permitted to have such
decisive say, how for the Germans be-
fore Paris, far from their base and
semi encircled. it is now case of all
or nothing. The private soldier re-
mains adamant.
DOUBTLESS Sir John French will ia
about the moment the odds shorten to
even three to one. They have been
near ten to one"
MEXICAN LEADERS RENEW FEUD