September 7:
With the railway lines choked and 10,000 reserves stuck in Paris, On September 6 General Joseph Galieni suggests using taxis. A fleet of taxicabs is hastily organized and on the 7th somewhere between 600 and 1,000 cabs transported the infantry to the front. They kept their meters running and were later reimbursed the sum of 70,012 francs. The troops arrive in time to help General Manoury fend of a heavy German attack, preventing a possible breakthrough.
Kaiser Wilhelm visits the front lines, but when within sound of the artillery fire his escort decides the danger from capture by a French cavalry patrol is too great, and the Kaiser is hastily driven back to the rear area.
"Terror often overcomes me when I think of this, and the feeling I have is that I must answer for this horror."
-General Helmuth von Moltke, describing the number of deaths at the Battle of the Marne in a letter to his wife on September 7, 1914
"It is now certain that England is bringing over great numbers of troops from Asia."
-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, letter home the same day
SMS Emden arrives at the Khota Raja-Colombo steamship route. After a day's cruising and seeing nothing, von Müller decides to move on to the Colombo-Rangoon route, crossing the Negabatang-Khota Raja line along the way.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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