Battle of the Marne

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 5 October 1914, Page 5

Battle of the Marne

CONNECTED BUT BELATED REPORT. GENERAL VON KLUCK SEES HARD FIGHTING. BRITISH DELIVER VIGOROUS ATTACKS. COMPELLING GERMANS TO RETREAT. Received 4, 2.30 p.m. Paris, October 3. Le Temps gives the first connected account of the Battle of the Marne. On September 5 the Crown Prince was advancing in Argonne, the Duke of Wurtemburg between Aisne and Chalons, tho Saxons upon Kheims, General Buelow towards Esteraay, General von Kluck towards Meaux. On the first day we threatened the Hank of von Kluck's right wing. Then on the sixth we ordered a general offensive. The British moved against von Kluck's right, and the general army, advancing along the Ourcq, threatened von Kluck from behind. On the first day von Kluck's columns moving on Provins turned back, while the Germans confronting General retreated on Grandmorin. This enabled the British force to straighten its lines northwards of Ourcq, and attack the army confronting it. The forces on the British right supported the British vigorous attack, and threw von Kluck's left and Buclow's right back over the Marne. On the Bth tho general army, which had been entrusted with the task of holding the front, began the offensive. While, its right held the iPrussian Guard and three German corps at Le Fere and Champenoise in check, the left fell on the enemy's flank, compelling him to retreat to Rheims. Simultaneously General occupied Virtre, the for-

ward move relieving the army. The general army in the Revigny district was meanwhile being attacked on ttie right from Clermonten and Argonne, and from behind from the direction of the ileusc heights,'it was threatened with being thrown upon Verdun..

Nevertheless, we succeeded in maintaining our positions, and on the 15th September forced the Germans to retreat. Throughout, the activity of the Lorraine army assisted in the result.