Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-13


 (The following article by Stephane Lauzanne, member of French High Commission to the United States and editor of Le Matin, is from the New York Times):
 Gen. Franchet d'Esperey, command er-in-chief of the allied armies in the Balkans, is a happy man. Fortune has never yet ceased to smile on him.
 At Charleroi, where the French and English were beaten, he was the only allied general who won a victory He was then in command Of tine first army corps. made up for the greater part of men from Lille and Flanders. August 2l and 22, while the battle was raging, he was holding the bridges of the Mouse at no great distance from Ma mur. and it was only toward the ev- ening of the 23d that his troops charged. The issue of the battle, how ever. was already decided, and several allied corps, which had had a bad start and were in an inferior position both as to numbers and equipment, were forced back.
 It was left to General Franchet d'Esperey and to the first army corps to protect the right flank of the Franco-British army, and he achieved that formidable task with extraOrdi- nary dash Attacking the SaXons, who were pressing closely upon him, he threw them into disorder asd drove back to the Mouse an enemy division which had succeeded in crossing the river. So furious an attack, so va liant an attitude, were not to be with stood by the SaXons; they stood as if hypnotized, and during the night of the 23d and all of the day of the 2ith allowed the entire French forces to pass on anmolested, not daring to in- terfere.
 The enemy commander had to pay a heavy price for the brilliant work Oi the French general Von Hausen, one of the most famous generals of the German army, lost his command, and some few weeks later was crossed off the list of that army, the following reason being given:
 It was only on August g that
 Won Hausen's Saxon army crossed
 the Mouse If better plans had
 been laid. the crossing of the river
 could have taken place much more
 quickly. The delay was a cOntri-
 butory cause to the failure of the
 German army in the beginning of
 September, and the German forces
 marching toward Paris had to be
 grouped differently.
 KIRCHEISEN.
 On the other hand. the operation brought well deserved promotion to Gen. Franchet d'Esperey, sole victor of the Charleroi engagements. FOch immediately intrusted him with the command of an entire army-the fifth made up of the 18th, Sd, 1st and 10th corps. and Q cavalry corps.
 On the Marne. where French and English were victorious, Francnet d'Esperey, still the favored of fortune, was the first to win new laurels. He was holding the line to the north of Provins as far as Sezanne, between French and FOch. As early as the morning of September 6, when Joffre gave his famous order to attack. he thew himself with extraordinary fury on the left wing of Von Kluck's army and the right wing of VOn Buelow's army, which were both facing him. He pried a wedge between the two armies, took Esternay at the point of the bay -Onet, threw into disorder everything on his passage, and on the Sth entered Montmirall over a mountain of Ger man dead. The morning of the 9th his aviation service signaled that Kluck and Buelow were retreating. From that time all he had to do was to push forward.
 To him belongs the glory of having