The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-29
Vital Issue of The War
Rests on Allies Drfve:
Mou Attack Third Line
Authorized British Correspondent Says Decision De.
pends on Whether Teutons Can Hold Out in
Champagne and Artois and at Lens


al s!N places. Ru; probably the most
important feat OF our dirmuu was their
"orH IN setting fire 10 the railway sta
tons At Nalencieunes Junction a poirt
ot vital military Importance TO the Ger
mans, As here lines from Brussels and
Mauoeuee meet the lines going 10 Lille
CdmOrai. Tournai and Doua!. our nght-
ing aeruplanes last week had twenty
seven encounters. on. German aero
plane i known 20 have been wrecked
and IN op!y one Instance did British
aefopiane come OFF second best.
l am informed 'at IN CunseQuerCt
OF the Nigur with which the a!rnlen car
rled the war INTO the enemNs country
NE GeiHau hN.r- w,a vii no longer
meet our men ia combat certainly |
have seen mo German mach,u, in the
vicinity o! the present front. while this
afternoon | saw At least half dozen
BRUSH aerupltnes soaring toward the
battlefield against a threatening sky"
wounded artillerNm3n who has ar
rived IA London from the british front
IN France says that the thl,- days and
four nights Of preliminary homhardmuut
u level the German ,ntauglements and
wreck the trenches We're 4 mere trire
compared to the fire which accompanied
the advance.
The din, he said. WAS iudesCribablc
some OF the biggest guns Net used In the
war We're III action. The high explosive
shells known as the Lloyd George sp--
Gals had tremendous effect As
result OF the fire the Germans were COM
plcisly demoralized.
tn" newspapers draw attention "a
somewhat cryptic paragraph in q news
agency despatvn from Paris which the
censor allowsSi them 10 print, The para
graph. which follows a description ot
the reception Of the news of the Cham
pagne and Artuts battle. -
Great optimism now prevails in
Paris. n would he much greater n the
public were told all the truth"
John Buchan. the correspondent OF the
Times In France. while admitting that
h. was unaware OF the Allies strategic
pan. says that tho summer brought cer-
tain facts cut ia high relief, one W them
being the futillty Of attacks ON nag
row front He gives as an instance the
attack a. Fcstuhert in May. after which
| the broken front was instantly closed
! From this 10 seemed probable that II thc
front Were rent on frort ot from
twenty 10 thirty miles it nigh, result
IN retreat OF the whole front. That
WAS the plan OF Field Marshal won
MaCkruseu At DunaJec. where he broke
through ON a forty mile front and af
terwari was not halted until he had
captured the whole OF GaliCa.
The correspondent says thar speedy
results should not be looked for and in
this connection recalls the three months
that PASSED after Won MaCkensen's first
, assault before the fail Of Warsaw. He
reminds his readers also that those three
months Included temporary reverses.
The correspondent says.
We have often been told that the
German lines in the west are WEAVING
him. We know within narrow limits
4 their numbers, and that these numbers
| are less than the Allies. but Germany
has believed that by the help OF her
, great war machine she would hold
her front and even take the OF
| fensiye with fewer troops than her op-
| ponents
The cal 'ulatiou for a long time seemed
Justified, but it looks .Gs II that day
Was past. Either the Allies have got an
I equally strong machine or have found a
way of giving their man power "a chance.
! The Allies are attacking all along the
! front Ia prevent the thin part OF the
German front from being strengthened
| from elsewhere. The plan So far looks
| Ike Succeeding.
The Germans would appear 10 have
INSULT lent reserves To- meet the attack
ON two adjoining sections at the same
! time II this conclusion is correct II
| encourages the Allies L. hope for the
best