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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. MAY 5, 1929—PART 3. | the same on its left in order to help the British army, between these two |armies a gap had been created of |which a German army, under Von | Hausen, was threatening to take ad- | vantage in order to dislocate our ar- rangements. Gen. Joffre, having no available re- | serves to ward off this danger, had | adopted the bold plan of regrouping his | forces. Withdrawing from the 4th | Army the 9th Corps (comprising the 17th Division and the Morocco Division) and alsy the 1ith Corps in order to make up, with the 42nd Division, two | reserve divisions and the 9th Division | of Cavalary, an army detachment, he had: sent for Gen. Foch to take it over. Had to Find Troops. “I first had to find my troops. When, | on the 20th, I reached the 4th Army, Gen. de Langle cried out at the sight of me: ‘It is Providence who has sent AT o he | you’ ‘All right! All right!’ I replied. ed of Commandans 23 | “We shall see. real P Thereupon he put himself at the head BATTLE OF MARNE RECALLED BY FOCH Emotions Ran Riot When He Took Wife Over Scene of Famous Battle. Commandant Bu the late hal F 1 the generalissimo’s 00k, “Foch Talks, sations . aide de camp t n from June, death, of contingents which already had been | exhausted by severe battles as well as by several days of retreat, and which even that very morning had been in | contact with the enemy; and at once | he gave them the crder to attack, know- |ing the constructive and inspiring ad- ¢ CON DAN' 5 | vantages of taking the offensive. D NI | "In a few days the new army was com- Writfen exclusively for The Star and the pleted and full of enthusiasm. Indced, rth American Newspaper Aliance. © | on geptember 5, it was occupying the One Sunday the marshal wished to|line Somme Sous-Fere-Champenoise- show Mme. Foch, in company with | Sezanne, in contact with the (wo Gen. Weygand, the Marne battlefield, | armies which supported it on either where, from September 6 to 10. 1914. |side, and ready for action. between Sezanne Fere-Cham- | In the order for the general rencwal penoise. at the head of the 9th Army.|of the offensive, on September 6, the he held the invader and thrust back the German Imperial Guard into the | wing of the armies attacking Von marshes of Saint-Gond. | Kluck. But events, or rather the en- We had hardly left Paris when the | emy, gave to this position a consider- names of the villages began to recall | able importance. the war communiques. Had to Sustain Bitter Attack. While we were crossing the frontiers | of this domain, where the marshal Was| 1 had to sustain the bitter attack of for a moment master. the land Which | the army of Von Bulow, pivoting on its i Breiris e € | right flank in order to confront Paris, rd him. and that of the army of Von Hausen, Memories Crowd Mind. | vhich airected against it an ambitious ; A attack. So the success of the battle His eyes were looking far away: ywas going to depend on its resistance. memories crowded in upon his mind.| “Tne whole nation shared as one man e e e hat % in the agony of suspense. Behind the different mood—that st the end of|batticline emotioits ran riot. The local BB, L T T e s | Inhabitants were asking whether the eaving his command of the 20th Atmy | attle, whose violent cannonade they Corps on the outskirts of Nancy, 0 |hearq’ drawing nearer and nearer every this fleld of battle toward which’ We | dat was mot going to end in & revorse were speeding and where ia those days | Say Was Mot 908 (0 bnd n A Teverse the destinies of Prance were at stake. | ol d YO 6 S eIy Quite naturally the marshal began to | %y Gl r g v days at my recall that drama: ¢ o'clock in | OUtPOst in Pleurs. Every morning after o | my departure from Plancy, where T had the evening, that T received the order | ¥ LERATUIRR Trom, TIRACY, WACHe L tad fire calling to G. H. Q. from Joffre calling me t0 O Varimony |1 was billeted were seized with fear Wood, at the inn called ‘Les Oeufs dur. They were giving me Cols. Devaux and Weygand as my staff. Weygand was with the Huzzars in the wood. I sent for him and my first order was a fa well to the 20th Corps: ‘Gen. Balfouri will take over command.’ “On the next day, the 28th, we left at noon for Vitry-le-Francois, where we reached G. H. Q. at 5 o'clock. We crossed Nancy during a squall. Wey- gand took the opportunity to s d-by to his wife, who had not yet left Luneville. I had picked up. on my way to Vitry, Majs. Naulin and Tardieu. Army Shortened Line. “On the 29th_they gave me Requin, & captain, and I had with me Farras- son, my A. D. C. I fought at the| Marne with an incomplete staff.” Actually, in the course of its retreat | after the battle for the frontier, th!. 4th Army had shortened its line cn its right to defend the crossings of the as the 5th Army done | t it was inspired is t of a_series of I 2 exclusively t Jicd newspaners o ewspaper _ Allfance, incorporating most important parts of “Foch Talk: h ET. turn to my lodging they unpacked their trunks. By the next day they began again. That lasted until September 15, the day I left to set up my headquar- ters fyrther forward, at Fere-Cham- penoise.” We were reaching the edge of the plateau and the chalky plain of Cham- pagne, h its innumerable little fir | woods ich extended before us as far as the horizon. The marshal pointed glllt the direction of Plancy and that of eurs. | Bystanders Are Demfonstrative. At the bottom of the slope Sezanne suddenly appeared. The cars descended tor lunch. ‘The rumor of our arrival spread. It was impossible, on leaving the hotel, to get as far as the market place to visit the chureh. The marshal tried to escape from the e Foremost in Style Foremost in Value Materials that are Hot Weather Bound j@@ AVEvNUIE To Be Introduced at a “New and Lo 9th Army was only to cover the. right | » | and made their preparations for flight. | Every evening when they saw me re- | demonstrations of the Inquisitive by- standers, but could not help graciously welecoming them as they appealed to his memory of those tragic hours. | The marshal had arranged a program, | and the important thing in his opinion | was_to follow the route from Chateau | de Mondement through the marsh of Saint-Gond to Fere-Champenoise. the rampart, the moat and the breach, » which summarized his part in the battle of the Marne. On Scptember 7. connected on the left fiank with (he 5th Army, which was making progress, and on the right flank with th> 4th Army. which had great difficulty in holding its ground, the 9th Army was compclied to execute a swing- ing movement around the pivot consti- tutzd in the west by the obstacles of the marshes of Saint-Gond. by the heights of Montgivreux, Mondement and Allemant When, in the course of the day. fluc- tuations occurred on the one side and | the othcr of this rampart, its strength ! insured the safety of the maneuver. All our efforts were devoted to its defense | Gap Opens on Right Wing. 3 During the 8th the turning movement | became even more pronounced. A gap | opened on the right wing, for the 11th Corps had to fall back before a violent | attack launched before dawn and had to abandon Fere-Champenoise. The situation was grave. If the cen- | ter of the 9th Army split up, it meant a break in by the enemy on our rear. the splitiing of the French armies into | two fragments—in short, imminent disaster. | Before the end of the day Gen. Foch succecded in launching a counter- | attack to stop this movement. It did | not attain its objective, Fere-Cham- | penoise, but it held the enemy in check | and even thrust him back at some points. | " In the center, it w-s the part of the Morocco division to tai> back its line as far as Mondement and intrench itselt there to hold the ground. Fortunately, | the gap on the right was closing up. | As for the 9th Army. on the.evening | of September 8 the battle resolved itself into an attempt to maintain ground on the heights of Mondcment and to re- gain Fere-Champenoise. | A characteristic Foch method—ex- treme.simplifications, but containing the cssantial feature. Difficulties Beaten Down. | For three days he had been maintain- | ing his position, but under what diffi- | culties! The body of men strong| enough to attempt an attack of this | magnitude was the 42d Division. It | was engaged itself, and even more seri- ously, on the extreme left, where, fur- | with the 5th Army In order to have this at his disposal | Gen. Foch during the night of the 8th- | | 9th ‘made arrangements’ by telephone | with his neighbor on the lefi Gen. | Franchet d'Esperay, full of despair, with | the most perfect sense of the comrade- | ship of arms, gave him one of his corps, | | the 10th, which could then take over the task of the 42d Division. Meanwhile it was still necessary to | transport this division from the ieft to | | the right. ‘The success of this rml| | movement demanded that the 8th Army | | should hold its position throughout the | | day of the 9th. " Now, on the morning of September 9, |at the moment when this transfer was taking place, the Germans launched a the slope, and we reached there in time | fresh assault with great energy and ¢ap- | he happened to be the troops were re- | tured the Chateau of Mondement. If | | only they reached the ridge south of the Height, the plain of Champenoise was | at the ‘'mercy of their guns, the move- ment of the 42d Infantry Division was impossible, and the threat which had wer” Price—Maintaining ‘Barking Dogs Disturb White House, So New Kennels Are to Be Provided| New kennels, modern and adequate, White House, and are generally to be se found either playing or sleeping close | | to the guardhouse. | are to be built for the White Hou dogs at & spot in the rear grounds far | | | During the Coolidge administration | removed from the mansion, or at least the kennels were located beneath the | far enough away to prevent the bark- | ing of the pets from annoying the presi- dential household at night. Orders have been given and construc- tion work will start soon. The spot se- lected is adjacent to the police guard house in the southeastern section of been prompted by the fact that the| dogs of the Hoover administration ap- el pear to prefer the company of the White | e House police to any one else about the coliection. | rear portico. When the Hoovers moved | in on March 4 they were soon deluged with_dog pets, and they continued to | use the old kennels for the dogs. But their dogs are of the large, deep-voiced | type, and thelr barking at night has distirbed presidential slumber on more tne grounds. The selection may ha\'e; than one occasion. Thus the order to build new kennels Isewhere in the grounds. At the pres- nt there are four dogs in the Hoover SIX PURSUIT PLANES ! LAND AT BOLLING FIELD Group of Army Flyers Commanded by Maj. Ralph A. Royce | En Route to Michigan. | Six pursuit planes of the famous| Army first pursuit group, commanded | by Maj. Ralph A. Royce, landed at Bolling Field yesterday en route from Langley Field, Va, to Selfridge Field, | Mich., their home base. The pursuit | formation has been participating in the | training of two anti-aireraft batteries at Fort Story, Va. | The detachment came here in two formations of three planes each, which will be consolidated for the flight to Michigan, which probably will begin tomorrow morning. | Four planes from the Anacostia Naval Air Station, led by Lieut. Comdr. De | W. C. Watson, commandant, left yesterday for Baltimore to the dedi- cation of the first aircraft plant to be opened for operation at the new Balti- more Municipal Airport. The group will include the Navy tri-motored Ford monoplane, which will be flown by | Lieut. Steven W. Callaway. | = | hung over us the night before would be | realized and complete our ruin. | How could we stop without emotion | before the gate of this Chateau of Mon- ! dement? Before passing through it the marshal took us along the surrounding wall to find the gap made at short | attack of the 77th Infantry, which re- | stored to us the possession of the chateau only on the evening of Sep- tember 9. Then the marshal crossed the court of honor without stopping before the walls, which are still riddled with the fateful marks of gunfire, and as he did s0 he reminded us of the unfortunate fate of the residents, who had to =scape on foot in the night, their car having been blown to bits by a shell and their last horse killed in the stable. “It was Gen. Humbert, with his Mo- rocco Division, who held the Heights of Mondement. He had established his headquarters in the chateau. Hum- bert was calm and balanced and full of energy. He saw clearly that wherever 1i; assured.” (In his next article Commandant Bugnet_continues Marshal Foch's story of the first Battle of the Marne.) (Copyright, 1929. by the North American Newspaper _Alliance.) 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