The Battle of the Labyrinth, technically described in French
communiqués as "operations in the section north of Arras,"
really began in October, 1914, when General de Maud-Huy
stopped the Prussian Guard before Arras. Because of their
great strength the labyrinth of German trenches and
fortifications southeast of Neuville-St. Vaast formed a
dangerous salient which the French troops had to dispose of
before they could make progress eastward from north and
south of that point. The decisive part of the battle--or
series of battles extending over fifty miles of front--is
described in the brief review of the French official
observer at the front, and in the two accounts by Wythe
Williams cabled to THE NEW YORK TIMES after a trip to the
front specially arranged for him and three editors of Paris
newspapers by the French War Ministry.
By The Associated Press.