BATTLE OF THE AISNE
CHARACTERISTICS OF A FORTRESS WAR. SLOW PROGRESS. (Received September 25, 11 a.m.) PARIS, 24th September. A communique explains that the battle of the Aisne assumes on a, large portion of the front the characteristics of a fortress war, analogous to the operations in Manchuria. The exceptional power of the artillery on both sides imparts a special value to temporary fortifications; it is therefore a matter of carrying successive entrenchments, all of which are guarded by accessory defences, notably barbed wire entanglements. Therefore the Allies' advance is only at a rate of 500 metres to one kilometre (fiveeighths of a mile) daily.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1914, Page 7
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105BATTLE OF THE AISNE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1914, Page 7
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