by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent

LOCKED IN EMBRACE OF DEATH
Germans Making Titanic Efforts to Break Through the Allies’ Center
LOSSES ARE HEAVIEST SINCE THE WAR BEGAN
Paris Pours Reinforcements Out as Battle Grows Hourly More Desperate

The paper’s headlines continued to report the epic battles underway: “The Franco-British and German forces in France were locked today in another death embrace.” The First Battle of the Marne, fought during September resulted in over 520,000 casualties. Of the casualties, 81,700 Allied soldiers were killed in action during the seven day battle.

UNITED STATES HOLDING ALOOF IN WAR MUDDLE
Belgian Commission Recounts alleged German Atrocities to Wilson
COMMENT IS WITHHELD
America Cannot Express Its Opinions, Says President

Taking a strict and narrow interpretation of neutrality, the Statesman reported that “Formal notice was given to the world today by President Wilson that the United States at this time cannot pass judgment upon or take any part in controversies between the warring European nations over alleged violations of the rules of civilized warfare and humanity.” Wilson stated that these questions could not be answered until the end of the war “which he prayed might be very soon.” Wilson’s statement said “It would be unwise, it would be premature, for a single government, it would even be inconsistent with the neutral position of any nation which like this, has no part in the contest, to form or express a final judgment.”

Editorially, the paper agreed that President Wilson was entirely right. Judgment, the editor wrote, “must be left to the court or commission that will sit to conclude the terms of peace.”

Commenting on the rumored withdrawal of Austria-Hungary from the war, the editor writes: “The world will not weep for them. It is not royalty that calls for tears. The world’s pity is for the people, the unwilling soldiers prodded forward by bayonets, the scores of thousands of honest, peaceful peasants and artisans rotting in shallow graves, the hundred of thousands of maimed and crippled, the millions impoverished and starving, the women driven to beggary and shame, the children orphaned and stunted, the nation’s war – wages of penury, pain and humiliation.

“It was an emperor’s war, not a people’s But it is the people who pay. The common people always pay.”