Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-14
ALLIES REPORTED To
HAVE LED GERMANS
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fought sternly on and slowly beat the
enemy back.
600 Dead Counted
The attempts of the Germans to
cross the Marine at MeauX entailed ter
| rihle losses. Sixteen attempts were
| foiled by the French artillery fire di-
rected on the river and in one trench
500 dead Germans were counted.
The whole country was strewn with
the dead and dying. When at last the
/ Germans retired they greatly slackened
| their rifle fire and in one place retired
| twelve miles without firing a single
shot. One prisoner declared that they
were short of ammunition and had
been told to spare it as much as pos
sible.
Monday saw a tremendous encoun-
ter on the Ourcq. In one village which
the Germans hurriedly vacated the
| French in large house found a din
ner table beautifully set. with candles
| still burning on the table, where evil
IDENTIFY the German staff had been
dining. \ woman occupant said they
| fled precipitately.
There was a great deal of hand
! to-hand fighting and bayonet work on
| the Ourcq, which resulted in the ter
rible Magdeburg regiment beating a
retreat. on Monday night General
Won kluck's army had been thrown
| back from the Marne and from the
/ NORM and to the region of Sezanne
and his position was serious Imme-
ddiate steps were necessary to save his
| line of communications and retreat
! To this end reinforcements were hur-
! ried north to MeauN district andd to
| Ourcq and TREMENDOUS efforts made to
| break up the French resistance in this
quarter. for MeauX is to Paris as Read
| ing is to London.
shares Fate of First
>"The second attempt on the Ourcq
shared the fate of the first. Through
Monday night and well into Tuesday
the great German gums doomed along
this river and resistance of the allies
could not be broken. Hold! was the
command and every man braCed HIM
self to obey. While the Ourcq was
being held the struggle of Sezanne
was bearing splendid fruit. The Ger
man resistance on Thursday morning
was broken. | heard the news in
two ways.
The wounded men were no longer
down hearted, but eager to rejoin the
| fray. On every French lip was the
exclamation that they arc in full re-
treat and they are brushing back
home. and in the same breath came
generdIs recognition of the great
help gwen by the British army. I am
convinced that the full extent of this
land. 1t was of truly terrific char
acter and such a blow will not fail to
have a lasting effect.
The number of wounded entailed
colossal transportation work. | myself
counted fifteen trains in eight hours,
a fine grim set of men, terribly weary.
but very amiable, except the officers.
The enemy crossed the Marine on
the return journey north under great
difficulties and beneath q withering
fire from the British troops, who pur-
sued them hotly. The German artil-
lery operated from a height; there
was again much hand-to- hand fight
ing and the river was swollen with
dead.
"On Tuesday night the British were
in possession of Laferte, Sous Jouarre
and Chateau Thierry and the Germans
had fallen back forty miles, leaving a
long train of spoils behind them.
Men and Horses Destroyed
con the same day, in the neighbor-
! hood of Citry-le-Francois. the French
troops achieved a splendid victory. In
cidentally they drove back the famous
imperial guard of Germany from Sc
Zanne toward the swamps of st. Gond,
where a century ago Napoleon achiev-
ed one of his last successes. The
main body of the guard passed to the
north of the swamps but / heard of
stroyed.
ION Wednesday the English army
continued the pursuit towards the
north, taking guns and prisoners on
that day | found myself in new
French. The good news had spread.
Girls threw flowers at the passing sol
diers and joy was manifested every
where.
THE incidents of Wednesday will
astound the world when made known
in full | know that two German de-
tachments of 1000 men each, which
were surrounded and cornered but
which refused to surrender, were
wiped out almost to the last man. The
keynote of these operations was the
tremendous attack of the allies along
the Ourcq on Tuesday, which showed
the German commander that his lines
of communication were threatened
Then came the crowning stroke.
THE army of the Ourcq and of
Meaux and the army of Sezanne drew
together like the blades of a pair Of
shears, the pivot of which was In the
region of the Grand NORM. The Ger
man retreat was thus forced toward
the east and IL speedily became
rout."
| Tomorrow will be the second regis
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