VON KLUCK'S FATAL BLUNDER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 27 August 1915, Page 8

VON KLUCK'S FATAL BLUNDER.

According to a very interesting “teude 77 in the Correspondant. General Manoury was given the command of the Array Corps on August 20. After Charleroi, at the moment Von Kluck was executing a big movement enveloping the French left, Geneial Joffre decided to send "Manoury's array in that direction. It reached- Monrdidier by rail, but the G' rmaa advance was carried on with such vigour that the whole battle frmt was forced to retire. Manoury receievd the order to direct himself towards Paris, whore he was to organise the siege garrison. Von Kluck thought it w-as not worth whilie to attack him. He avoided him, continuing his pursuit of the English in the direction of the east, and gliding as it were before Paris, which he left at his right. It was fatal to him. While the French Army Corps between Verdun and Paris wore ordered to attack in front, “coute qui coate, ” the army of Manoury marched from Paris on the Ourcq to throw itself on the German right. Owing to the way orders were carried out the German offensive was definitely broken at the Marne. From September (sth to September 10th the battle lasted, the victory being the greatest feat of arms the world had ever seen. General Manoury ad received the 3570 war medal in 1911, but he would not wear it. On September 10, 193-1, lie pinned it on his breast. The dream of fortyfour years was accomplished.