THE VICTORY COMPLETE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 16 September 1914, Page 5

THE VICTORY COMPLETE.

THE GERMAN RETREAT. BECOMING A ROUT. London, Sunday. The Bordeaux correspondent of the Timaa Bays the retreat is becoming a complete rout. In the Argonne, a heavily wooded mountainous district, a serious problem confronts the enemy. There are no roads through the Argonne forest running north and south, and the Germans mu«t, therefore, choose between retreating on the east or on the west. If they choose the east, they will inevitably come under the fire of the Verdun guns. If the west, they Will join th 9 other retreating masses endeavouring to return,' as it were, through the neck of a bottle. If the Belgians can manage to clear Brabant, the Germans will have to change their lines of communication from Liege and Namur to Luxembourg. This will entail converging the retreat upon a narrowed front. IMPORTANCE OF VICTORY. WAR MACHINE COLLAPSES. Bordeaux, Sunday. A message from the battle-line states that the Allied troops are bearing lightly the enormous fatigue of weeks of titanic struggles. The importance of their victory cannot be exaggerated. It marks the collapse of the wonderful German War machine.

ENEMY ABANDON WOUNDED AND MUNITIONS. AN UNEXAMPLED PURSUIT. Paris, Sunday. General Joffre has telegraphed to M. Millerand, Minister of Defence: "Our victory iB confirmed as being more and more complete everywhere. The enemy are retreating and abandoning their wounded and materials of war, after a formidable struggle, lasting from the fa'th inst. to the 12th. All our arms, flushed by success, are exe cuting a pursuit unexampled for its extent, which will be continued with all its energy." ______