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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1914
Page
5
The article notes that Joffre’s plans are obscured by strict censorship, making it impossible to gauge the Allies' ultimate intentions. It emphasizes how censorship limits understanding of strategic aims and actions.
Vienna faced severe strain as mayor reports city aiding 32 000 reservists at 60 000 dollars daily while also supporting 100 000 unemployed and another 100 000 Galicia fugitives. Funds total 1 million spent on fugitives as 49 000 unemployed work public projects and 60 000 remain hopeless. The Austrian Red Cross notes total gifts to date of 8 401 000 with wealthier classes slow to give.
Paris reports Allied forces push on in the west with Peronne held after stiff defense. Left wing advances toward Roye, slight northwest of Berry au Bac. Center between Rheims and Argonne shows little change while Meuse heights see continued violent attacks. On the right wing no major shift. Enemy detachments push into Nancy Vosges region but are repelled.
Heavy artillery remains central in the battle of the Aisne with continuous shelling across Oise Meuse and along the Franco German border. French left wing advances near Noyon Peronne and Berry au Bac. German reports claim some setbacks but no decisive breakthrough. Austrian and Russian actions widen the war’s reach with Przemysl, Cracow, and Sarajevo theaters drawing in forces.
Sir John French declared Germans in despair after three days of fighting on the 18th to 20th, with repeated German counterattacks repulsed and Allied artillery fire intermittingly breaking the German lines. British aviation claimed success, downing a German plane and bombing a transport park near La Fere as rain and wind affected reconnaissance and counter moves along the front.
The U S Red Cross hospital ship arrives in Falmouth after a twelve day voyage from New York. Rear Admiral Aaron Ward leads the party as nurses and surgeons prepare for service in the war zone. Units will be deployed to German British French Russian and Austrian forces with medical supplies and staff.
A long extract from German reports and prisoner statements details heavy artillery bombardment, stalled infantry assaults, and moral effects of Allied resistance. It notes British troops holding trenches amid mud and rain, German hopes dashed by Allied counterfire, and officers claiming strains of frontline fighting.
The Daily Mail correspondent reports at Rheims, under Monday’s date, a cathedral fire caused by shelling as German wounded were helped to escape. Fire consumed the nave while rescuers carried the wounded past hostile crowds, with rifle threats from civilians.
Berlin reports say the German west army right wing beyond the Oise repulsed French efforts to envelop it. East of Argonne little engagement occurred. Varennes fell as the attack progressed. French forts near Verdun repulsed a violent counterattack from Verdun Toul and across the Meuse. Heavy artillery at Tryon Les Parod ies Camp Des Romains and Lunaville reportedly successful. No news from Belgium or eastern theaters.
A Frankfurter Zeitung front published notice in Amsterdam argues war destroys but also creates. It claims German victories will foster new, stronger works than medieval churches, suggesting civilizations adapt by rebuilding after devastation.
Dispatches recount brutal fighting with French resistance stiff amid British air support and Austrian artillery at Maubeuge. German prisoners used as shields and red cross abuses noted. Attacks threaten Rheims Cathedral amid widespread artillery duels and tactical wounding of morale.
London reports from Amsterdam via Reuters that the German submarine U-9, credited with sinking three British cruisers in the North Sea, has returned to a German port uninjured. A Chatham correspondent quotes Albert Dougherty claiming five submarines were present and one was sunk. The article also notes a wedding of the submarine commander Lieutenant Weddingsen on September 18.
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