THE FIGHT AT MALHAUSEN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 5

THE FIGHT AT MALHAUSEN

GERMANS WIN AFTER HEAVY LOSS DEAD IN EVERY STREET ■; ■ (Bee. August 25, 0.5 a.m.)

London, August 24, morning. The bare details of the fighting at Mulhausen on August 8 and 9 are becoming public. The Germans, on Sunday, shelled the town, the population taking' refugo in cellars. The German infantry stormed the French entrenchments _at the bayonet' point in close formation. The French began to give way and those east and north of the town retreated, the Germans following' on at the run. • At the street corners knots of breathless Frenchmen wheeled und faced the. enemy who. formed double and triplo lines. A fusillade followed, hut ended always in the same 1 r.ush of charging Germans, the clash of steel and shriek as the bayonet was driven home, and then the French run again. ' The ghastly work 'continued until nightfall. The German tactics involved terrible loss of life, but practically assured victory to them by their superior weight of numbers. ■ When the Germans were in possession of the town the dead and wounded were in every street corner and beneath every archway. The French and German dead were buried in comnion graves dug in the- surrounding fields, and many of the woundedcrawled into tho cornfields to escape being trodden upon by tho fighters; days after-the.Germans searched the corn for possible dead. The schools and churches and many cot'tae.es were filled with wounded who wero loft for ten or twelve hours in the fields and roads, while the rival forces surged backwards and forwards. . According to yesterday's rceisago Mulhausen was recaptured by the French under General Pau.