EVE OF ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2258, 18 September 1914, Page 5

EVE OF ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE

GERMAN RALLYING MOVEMENT RETIREMENT OF CROWN PRINCE'S ARMYBy.Telegrapli—Frees Association—Oopyxicht . j • London; September 16. There is little news from the front. The indications are that the contestants are on" the eve of a great hattle. The Germans are rallying to resist ■ the rapid advance of the Allies. , .■■••••. .-. Paris, September 16. The Gorman Grown Prince's attempts to retire through the gap between lirgonne and the Mouse was apparently successful. ' . - ' ■■•, ' (Reo. September 17, 6.10 p.m.) '■' ■"■'■■'■ LOndori, September 16. 'A modified tone is apparent in the Berlin official statements. To-day's Dtilletra admits that on some portions of the -wide battlefield the Germans have ■ been partially successful, '...•'. ALLIES ENCIRCLING GERMAN EIGHT WING. (Reo. September 18, 0.50 a.m.) • Paris, September 17. It is reported that the German right has been heavily reinforced from Lorraine;. It ib stated at Amiens that the Allies' new army, marching from the west, encircled the Germans extreme right wing, The British are now supporting the right wing of the French left for twenty miles on the south bank of the River Aisne, east of Soissons, and will probably not cross the river until the French'left has advanced further. • General von Bulow'b armies, which were recently in north-west Franoe, are now on a line alongNoyon, Laon, and the hills north or Reims. The armies of' General von Hausen, the Grand Duke of Wurtemburg, and the Crown Prince stretch from Reims north of the Argonne, and Verdun, towards Metz.' . . The Allies' success was largely due to General Joffre's clever use of the French railways, enabling the Allies to ooncentrate huge forces of reserves, and to throw them swiftly where they were required. .:-,....■ ' \