Greatest Battle in History of World Fought in Fierce Fourteen Day Clash
Detailed dispatches recount a brutal fourteenth through seventeenth day struggle from Noyon to the Franco German frontier. German forces reportedly fell back seven miles after furious hand to hand fighting along the Aisne while Allied aviators exposed hidden German guns and mounted repeated counterattacks with heavy losses on both sides.
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Noyon
Aisne
Verdun
Meuse
Verdun and Maubeuge Battles Report from World War Front
Describes intense fighting as Allied lines hold against German assaults near Verdun and Meuse. Berlin announces Maubeuge fall with 400 guns and 40,000 prisoners as Wilson responds to dumdum bullet protests. Also notes German troop movements in Belgium and volunteer enlistment rules for youths.
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Berlin
von Hindenberg
East Prussia
William
Vilna
Maubeuge
Maub
German Front Shifts as Allied Pressure Drives Back Paris Advance
London reports detail Field Marshal Sir John French's account of the September 4 to 10 operations in France. Allied forces, reinforced, pushed northwest and east against the German rear along the Ourcq and Marne, forcing a German retreat toward the northeast and yielding prisoners, guns, and transport. The report praises Allied strategy and Royal Flying Corps aviators for locating enemy positions and shooting down German airmen.
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London
France
War Office
Ourey
Mons
Paris
Marne
French
Sir John French
Ourcq
Lizy-sur- Ourcq
Trisport
Sammeron
la Ferte Sous-Jouarre
Chateau Thierry
Fifth Army
Seine
Coulommiers
Oureq
Montmirail
Second
Royal Flying Corps
British Flying Corps
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Acypuiseux
Petrograd
Silouette
Guards
Emperor Williams
Wilson
Belgium
Antwerp
Waelham
Cecil Spring-Rice
Washington
Edward Grey
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
von Kluk
von Buelow
Joffre
Suippes
Rupprecht
Bavaria
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