FRENCH LEFT-WING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 7

FRENCH LEFT-WING

IN TOUCH WITH ENEMY'S RIGHT GENERAL JOFFRE'S ADVICE TO TROOPS (By Telegraph.— Press Association. — Copyright.) (Received September 8, 9.30 a.m.) ■fARIS, 7th September. It is officially announced that the armies on the French left wing have regained contact with the enemy's right on the banks of the Grand Morin. General Joffre (Commatider-in-Chicf of the French Army) has addressed a note to the troops, in which he warns them against making infantry attacks in dense formation. He recommends more open attack. The , order was enforced in recent engagements with most satisfactory results. [Le Grand Morin is a tributary of the Marne River, rising in the limestone plateau of the Brie district, about severity miles due east of Paris. It joins the Marne, near Esbly, about twenty-five miles from Paris. Both the Grand Morin and the Petit Morin are southern tributaries of the Marne, La Ferte-sous-Jouarre marking the confluence of the Petit Morin, and, if fighting has taken place on either of the Morin rivers, it means that the! invaders have crossed the Marne.] OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS PARIS, 6th September. 1^ is officially reported that tha Allies' advanced troops defending Paris 1 cani>» _n touch on Saturday with the enemy's forces, which were moving towards the south-east, and seemed to be converging on the River Ourcq, an affluent of the Marne, which it joins at a point thirty miles east of Paris. The movement of the main body of the German right wing is small, and the resulting engagement was to our advantage. GERMANY'S MAIN OBJECT. - - PARIS, 7th September. It is officially announced that on the French centre and right, namely, Lorraine and Vosges, fighting continues, and the situation is unchanged. Some experts interpret the latest German movement to be an attempt to intercept the French eastern forces, which have been fighting with success between the fortresses Toul and Epinal, on the Lorraine frontier. Germany's main object is to defeat the French field armies, as the possibility of an active defence of her eastern frontier depends on the impossibility of a general offensive movement by France. It is officially stated that Saturday's encounter between the advanced defence forces and the flank of the German right wing assumed larger proportions yesterday. The Allies advanced as far as the River Ourcq, about thirty miles east of Paris, encountering but slight resistance. The situation of the Allies appears good as a whole. The French frontier fortress of Maubeuge continues to resist heroically.