Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-21
GERMAN SUCCESS
IS CELEBRATED
BY Won klUCk
Victory at scissors Causes
Hilarious Gathering at Staff
Headquarters Near Battle
Ground,

lsY aoRstNa JOURNAL sruclsl lttann uiNti
Before scissors, Jan. Is Thy courier
To Berlin. Jan. 90, via iond,n, Jai.
~. 1888 II. m. lat the headquarters
OF a certain German army Yesterday
evening, Gen. Von Kluck and his siait
celebrated the battle and TIER sue
cess az scissors In typical German
military fashion with simple SOL,
dier's meal, bowl Of punch brewer
ny the expert hands Of Won klutN hi'h-
self a graceful little speech Wy IN.
general and a silent toast To the aea'
both French and German,
The earth was still dropping ON the
graves OF the fallen. So MANY irrn
perished during the eight DAYS of the
bitter struggle for the heights across
the river from scissors that today.
the fourth after the close OF the ba,-
tie the plateau and gorges are sun
strewn thickly with dead, although
1000 members of the landstfum nave
been engaged without a pause IN
clearing up the dead
Field still strcwn With Dead.
Most of the German dead have been
given TO the earth, hut the French M
lantrymen in their far-lo-he-seen req
and blue uniforms swarthy-taced
turcos. colonials, Alpine riilemen anu
bearded territorials, still are sprawl
ing In attitudes along the heights IN
the deep-cut gorges OF the plateau ana
across the flat valley bed on the north
shore of the Aisne.
The battle Of scissors, so called in
default of better name, although IL
really was fought across the river
from that city. In the number OF men
engaged and IN the extent el losses
would rank with Bull ltan or Ante
tam OF the American civil war. or with
Woerth, IN the Franco-Prussinn war,
but in this war il passes as an incl
dent in the campaign, worth only
passing mention IN the official report
First Description OF Battle.
No newspaper description Of me
battle has been written from the GER
man side. The Associated Press rep-
rescntative was the first and. up 20
the present. the only newspaper man
t. inspect the battlefield and have op-
porlunity to supplement- the brief or
fetal reports with descriptive details
gathered on the spot.
The results of tbs GermaH success
are recorded bore as highly impoi-
tart, The ifrench We're expelled nom
Tie lmghts north of the Aisne--vant-
NHt EAN'ullU ttnill MlNiA hHNF ff,
hoped 10 launch A successful attack
aEainst the big elbow I'm the German
linc--and driven across the ;'ior,
which new runs brimful and ut mnlN
places is OVERLOOKING Its banks be-
tween the two armies.
Only One Foothold Left.
The French retain foOthold nurul
OF the river only az one polnt--Si.
PAUL. where the bridge from Solsscns
crosses. and hold ills apparently on
sufferanee. since tho bridge head -
completely commanded by Gel
artillery OH the heights
The river at this time forms an ei-
fective barrier 10 any repetition of
an attempted French offensive on this
section of the line. The battlefield
covers front OF approximately seven
mites. On the western side is q deop
valley running northward which II
bounded on either side by tufnpiites
from scissors TO la Fere and Loan
A high, level plateau rises steep, a
couple of hundred feet from the val
ley OF Aisne and from this side OF the
valley forms the center and eastern
flank or the battlefield The plateau
Is deeply notched BY three steep RAJ
vines running down 20 the Aisne, and
through which the French We're able
10 bring up supports unnoticed ana
without danger TO positions on the
plateau.