Arizona republican., 1915-07-12
After Ten Months Way in Which Leader of French Forces Prepared for That Battle Is Disclosed for First Time
STRONG APPEAL.
 MADE TO TROOPS
No Moment to Look Be hind, Says Joffre, But to Attack and Push Back Enemy--Gromd Gained to Be Held
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHI

tO be Held
 ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHI 1 PARIS. JULY II: The way in | which General Joffre prepared for the ! battle of the Marne is now fully dis closed for the first time. although
 more than ten months have elapsed since the French and English sue ceeded in that battle in checking the German advance toward Paris. The 1 victory of the Marne remains the i outstanding success of the allies i campaign thus far and She official l orders with which General .Ioffre directed the movement, as they now l appear in the Bulletin des Armees. will form an important part in the 1 history of the conflict Hitherto that ! history has lacked detail as to the ] parts which each army was to play. i In addition to the formal orders. d [ dramatic feature of 'he preparations ] is the text of General Joffre's appeal 1 to the devotion of the troops, which. 1 the Bulletin des Armees says. was ] taken wrongly for q tactical order. | It urged courage upon the soldiers
 to stand still and be shot rather than
 retire an inch in face of the German advance.
 1 The documents now published be- gin with General Joffre's order cf
 August 25. as follows:
 l. The projected offensive ma ncuvcrs not having been possible of ! execution the subsequent operations will he rerulated SO as to reconsti- 1 t4te on our left. by the Junction of l the fth and 9th armies of the En- slish forces and new forces taken
 from the region of the east mass i capable of resumng the offensive, while the other armies will resist the
 efforts of the enemy during the time { that may be necessary.
 { "'The retiring movement is regu- lated SO as 10 realize the following | disposition of troops preparatory to { the offensive
 1 "1n the region of Amiens a new group Of forces, constituted by ele-
 ments transported by railroad C7th corps. ith division of reserve and perhaps another corps of the active aun) grouped from the 27th of Au- gust to the 2nd of September. This group will be ready to take the of fensive in the general direction of saint Pol. Arras or Assas. Bapaume' The same general instructions of
 the 22nd Of August fixes the zone of march of the armies. and pre- scribes:
 The movement will be covered i bv the rear guards left upon favor able ground so as to utilize all ob- stacles to arrest the forwarr mach
 of the enemy. or at least to retard
 him by short and violent counter-at- tacks in W hich the principal element will be the artillery
 "The object of the maneuvers is thus with the beginning of August clearly fiXcd- it is to prepare not only an offensive action. but an of
 fensive which will be taken as soon
 as favorable circumstances shall ar rive.
 From the 25th of August to the
 4th of September the orders for re- tircment were executed. but the ra- pidity of the advance of the left wing of the enemy. the time necessary for the British army to be compIet-
 cd and reinforced. certain difficulties
 in our transports arriving from the
 encumbrance of railroads by the | evacuations from Paris necessitated the disembarling of a part of the troops sent from the east to Gen.
 eral Manouri more to the south than had been foreseen the 18th of Au- gust. The offensive was retarded by that fact.
 "On the 4th of September the re- connsissances of our cavalry. those of the flying corps, of the British, i of the Mannoury army and of the
 military government of Paris deve- oped the information that the right of the German army (Von Klucks army) deflected it's advance toward the southeast (Meaux and Coulm- miers) abandoning the direction of Paris.
 By this time the original army of the French left Ghe 9th army) vas ready to face the German col umns in front. and it was prolonged toward the northwest by the British
 army and Maunoury's army directed to the northeast of Paris.
 The disposition sought by the in- structions of August 25th for the resumption of the offensive was then ' realized. The line escaped the pro-
 jected envelopment. and it was their own army that now assumed an en- Veloping disposition. The wings found strong support in their contact with Paris on the left and Verdun on the
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