Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-12
BELIEVES GERMAN
ARMY ROLLED UP
Wounded French Officers from
Fighting Line Convey This
Idea, London Hears.
SAY CENTRE OF KAISER'S
FORCES MUST GIVE WAY
French Twice as Dangerous in
Attack as in De-
tense.

BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE Daily Tel
egraph's correspondent at Nanteuil,
department of Oise in dispatch,
dated Thursday. dealing with the
turn Of the tide in favor of the allies,
gives the impression, derived in con-
Versation, of many wounded French
olilcers from the lighting line, that
the German army, meeting for the
nfSt time troops almost equal in
number, has been rolled up and sore
~ troubled, and that the right of the
army, composed of some of the finest
German forces, has retired so far
tnat the centre must give way or risk
Inc line communications.
General Pau scored tremendous
advantage by capturing an enormous
ammunition column seven kilometers
Qour and and-fourth miles long,.
This he destroyed, leaving the Ger
mans very short of ammunition. The
correspondent adds:
Must Give Food for Thought.
"The effect of the long, barren
marches must have an enormous in
fiuence on the conscript army. The
huge losses in Xxi led and wounded.
the paralyzing spectacle of pyramidal
funeral pyres on the battlefelds each
night and the procession of long
trains of grievously wounded must
give the educated Germans in the
ranks food for thought.
at was all very well while the
Germans were marching forward but
the retrograde movement is trying
on the nerves. On the other hand
the French army, stiffened by great
reinforcements of men who are fight
ing for all they hold most dear, have
offered resolute and magnificent
front to the enemy for the French
are twice as dangerous in attack as
in defense"
The correspondent thus describes
the capture of the German ammuni-
ton column while the Germans were
feeling their way toward Paris:
1.-THE seyen-kilometer column was
winding its way along through
Crepy-en-V alois when General Pau
sent cavalry and artillery to inter
cept it, Thte column was too weak
ly guarded to cope with the attack
and so was captured and destroyed.
This capture had an important bear
ing on the subsequent fighting.
"A noticeable feature of the opera
tons has been the splendid march
ing qualities of the French troops.
This was displayed especially when
two divisions, which were sent last
week to intercept the expected at
tempt of the Germans to invest Paris,
covered eighty kilometers (491s
sniles) in two stages"
The Morning Posts correspondent
at Nantes. department of Seine-et-
Disc, France, writing under date of
Thursday, says:
Never since General Joffre began
his magnificent retreat from Belgium
has the allies' position looked SO
promising. At the same time we
should be cautious in proclaiming the
good news
THE Germans want repose. The
German prisoners / have seen are
dead beaten. and their case is gen.
eral. 1t therefore is possible that the
German commanders will, If they can,
remain content to hold the allies at
bay for time. Having cleared them
selves from the dangerous country
north and northwest of Paris tfe~
are in much better territory for just
such defensive work.
Have Erected Their junction.
Further, they have effected their
junction. l venture this suggestion
because there Is cessation of the
heavy battering ram efforts which
have characterized their efforts hith-
erto; they are also waiting for Maui
beuge to fall.
Prisoners confirm reports that two
Austrian army corps are operating
with the Germans in France. If SO,
they must be upon the lines of COM
munication, for they have not been
in action, since no Austrian prison
ers have been taken.
among dramatic incidents in the
recent fighting may be mentioned the
grim work at the ancient fish ponds
near Ermanonville. These ponds are
shut In by high trees. Driving the
enemy through these woods, Scotch
regiment hustled its foes right into
the fish ponds the Scotchmen jump
ing in after the Germans up to the
middle to finish them in the water.
which was packed with their bodies"