New Britain herald., 1915-09-06

September Sth.
 ] The morning of the Sth found the 1 position of the wings little changed | from the beginning and the Allies l success limited to the gains of the British forces and the army of Langle
 de Cary. The fighting had continued 1 all night. The army of Paris at the 1 extreme left weakened, but the cen l ter held firm by grace of the furious l charges by the Algerian and Moroc-
 can troops that created gaps in the 1 enemy's ranks, in each case inn l mediately filled. The day passed in l attacks and counter-attacks. Villages l were taken, retaken. At the ceme-
 tery of Chambry, a great many off,
 cers and soldiers of the 3rd Zouaves
 were killed, and finally the line began
 to bend back in the direction of Neuf- ] moutiers.
 1 The 4th Corps, commanded by Gen. l eral Boeue. brought from Alsace and l retarded en route by the exodus of l civilians from Paris, arrived-one l division went to the support of the British troops, the other reinforced 1 Maunoury. The situation of the
 army of Paris became critical as the l result of the retreat of the 14th di-
 vision of the 7th corps.
 i The British forces, reinforced by l one division of the 4th corps, made
 further gains, taking many prisoners
 and several cannon. The army of General Franched d'Espsrey, after
 eight hours hand-to-hand fighting, en- l tered Montmirail and the army of ! Won Buelow leaving 1000 dead and l large number of prisoners, was in re- 1 treat all along the line.
 ot declared his troops:
 "The situation is excellent. I order again a vigorous offensive" Won Buelow's Retreat. The retreat of part of Won Buelow's l forces before Franchet d'Esperey | broke the German line and facilitated | the efforts of Foch's army on his | right The key to the heights of | sezanne, the Chateau of Mondement, | where the Prince Eitel Friedrich of | Won Kluck's staff had conferred and
 dined with Won Buelow was the cen-
 ter of attack. The artillery drove out the staff, after which the
 Moroccan rifiemen penetrated the park of the chateau-were driven out,
  third assault succeeded and in the park lay 5000 dead Germans, in cluding two generals. Whole bat talions of French troops were an initiated there.
 Fere Champenoise and SOmmesous, after Sezanne, fell into the hand of Foch's army. Sommesous counter attacked by the Prussian Guard, re- mained in their hands only the time necessary for the French forces to reform. Two regim ents of the eleventh corps charged and drove out the fourth regiment of Grenad1ers or the Queen Augusta and the fourth regiment of Grenadiers of the Elm peror Francis.
 A vital development of the days fighting was the discovery, by aV1a- tors, of a gap between the armies Of Won Buelow and Won Hausen, the effect of Won Buelow's retreat, leav- ing Won Hausen' right flank exposed By an audacious and opportune manoeuver, General Foch massed his right in this gap under cover of the night, before Won Hausen's flank anu threw his adversary back upon the marches of Saint-Gohd in disorder The German losses there were heavy.
 The army of Langle de Cary was very heavily engaged around Vltry- le Francois, where the forces or the Duke of Wuertemberg counter-at- tackled fercely. The artillery ire crossed here over the town of Vltry- Francois, which was partly in flames. At Pagny and at Maurupt- 1e Montay both sides lost heavily in hand-to- hand fighting. By a night attack the French infantry took the of almost burned, and the surrounding region. A little progress was made also to the left of Vitry-le-Francois.
 Serrail, menaced with envelopment by a com bined attack from forces coming from Metz and the Crown Princes army in front, sent his cav airy against the forces from Metz and continued his infantry attacks in front. Fresh troops from Strass- burg resumed the violent but vain attacks upon the Heights of Amance. The German losses here were ex- treme1y heavy, but less than on the Heights of Sainte- Genevieve, where de Castelnau's troops inflicted such losses on the Bavarian reinforcements from Metz that they were obliged to retire upon the village of Alton
 Dubail, obliged to abandon Lune- vile to the enemy held them in check elsewhere and retook the sum- init of Mandroy and Fourmeanux.
 September 9th.
 The position of the army of Paris, which had become critical the eve ming of the 9th, had not improved the m orning of the 9th. Heavily out it appeared little likely that the position could be held with