The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
GREAT BATTLE OF MARINE,
 BEGUN JUST A YEAR AGO,
 MOST TERRIFICALLY WACEO

I l covering the right of Fifth Army and holding southern issues of the 1 Saint Gond Marches.
 l Offensive by these armies to be taken September in the morning. The following day Joffre comp1et- ed his disposition Of the Allied forces by orders to the Fourth and Third l Armies as follows:.
 Fourth Army of General Lang1e de 1 Cary-stop movement southward, | turn about and face enemy, -combin- 1 ing it's movements with Third Army, 1 which was to dehouch to the north of Revi gny and / take the offensive to- ward the west
 Third Army will attack the left flank of the enemy which is march 1 ing to the west of the Argonne. l The formation of the position into which the German armies marched d was that of a wide trough; Maunoury and French formed the side toward Paris, Franchet d'Esperey, F'och and Langle de Cary the bottom, while Sarrails army formed the side toward Verdun in the Argonne.
 Maunoury's Zouaves and Moors be- gan the Battle of the Marne in the early hours of the 9th of September by. recapturing the ridges of Marcilly, Barcy. Chambry, and Penchard- while theESexth Corps also advanved to the north.
 From dawn the British army and the army of General Franchet d'Es- percy were heavily engaged with von Kluck and won Buelow'S right. The British, facing a general northeasterly direction, attacked the German line in the angle of the trough. After 10 hours continual fighting, the pressure on the British front and that of the Fifth. Army on it's right diminished. Hard pressed on his flank by sMaun- oury, and with his communications threatened, von KIuck was obliged to weaken his center by sending two the overwhelmed Fourth Corps on the OuFcq The withdrwaI of these troops was concealed by a particu- 1arIy violent attack in which were sacrificed great number of men.
 During the afternoon von Kluck was obliged to repass the Grand Morin and abandon CouIomnaiers. but succeeded in maintaining himself on the right bank. The army of Franchet d'Esperey also gained ground. The Senegalese rif1emen drove the Germans from the village and the environs of Jouy-suf-Morin at the point of the bayonet. Several villages were taken and retaken and the fighting continued by moonlight, the French troops joking three more villages.
 The strongestf shock of this first
 
 Seventh Army of General Foch. After resisting the pressure of the first as sauIt, rigorous counter-attack real ized a gain on his left before Monde nent. The Fourth Army of Langle de Cary. though, just arrived, also at tackled vigorously along the entire front.
 The army of the Crown Prince of Prussia had just taken up it's position before the Argonnet and begun an attack, which Serrail repuIsed.
 Dubail, in the Vosges, pushed back the forces of von Heeringen, and De Castelnau held the Grand Couronne de Nancy against the attacks of the Crown Prince of Bavaria
 September 2. y
 On the morning of the 7th. Maun- oury found in front of him, not only the single corps of the preceding day, but 12O,0 900 men; von KIuck had skill fully accomplished the conversion of his forces and for the moment disen- gagged his flank and saved the entire German army from disaster.
 Several villages were retaken by the Germans and the pressure every where was severely felt. The day was saved for the Army of Paris by the Second zouaves around Etrepilly, where the most violent attacks were repuIsed, at such cost to the Germans that they accentuated their advance, punishing severely the cavalry divis- ions of the Prussian Guard. by re- rnarkable charges of the Ninth Lan- cers and the Eighteenth Hussars.
 Franchet d'Esperey took at the point of the bayone1 Vieux Maisons and Pierreby on von Kluck's left, and after several violent combats crossed the Grand Morin, occupied Jouy-sur- Morin definitely and took up the po- sition- on the Petit a1orin.
 Foch, overrun by numbers on his right, held good until the Eleventh Corps weakeneed; then established his line a little in, the rear of the front Salon = Gougancon-Counatre = Ale mand.
 The Twelfth Corps of General Lan- gle de Cary's army. heavily punished, was sent to the rear to be reorganiz- ed. Six battalions of this corps-the least ltried-sustained alone the at tack off 25,0o0 Germans all the even ing.
 The German attacks were arrested around Samplers by the Thirteenth Division of the Twenty-f first Corps, 1 which lost it's chief, General Barbade, as we'll as Colonel Hamont and great many other officers.
 The army of General Sarrail anal that of the Crown Prince of Prussia continued their duel, without result l
 General de Castelnau, before Nancy, having lost the plateau of .0danC0, T0LOOh IL anu n61O It While Dubail in the Vosges maintained his 
 September 8.
 The morning of the 9th found the l position of the wings little changed from the beginning and the Allies l success limited to the gains of the l British forces and the army of Lang1e l de Cary. The fighting had continued l all night. The Army of Paris at the Left weakened, but the cen ter held firm by grace of the furious 1 charges by the Algerian and Moroc- l con troops that created ge ps in the | ranks, in each case immedi- | ately filled. The day passed in at | tacks and counter-attacks. Villages W ere taken, retaken. At the cemetery l of tCharnbry, a great many officers | and souaiers of the Third 'Zouvaes were killed, and finally the line be-