GERMANS ADVANCE TOWARDS PARIS
ALLIES STUBBORN RESISTANCE BRITISH FORCE SHOWS SUPERB VALOUR AGAINST HEAVY ODDS London, September 3. The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent (Mr. William Maxwell) says that on Sunday the French, under General Pan, on the British right, were attacked by the Tenth Army Corps and the Imperial Guard, but heroically received the attack of the elite of the German Army. Soon the French got the upper hand, and took a vigorous offensive. They hammered at tho enemy, completely demoralising them. One German Army was completely broken, and thrown into ——, and being out olf on both sides from their supports, lost fearfully. The remnant withdrew, leaving an enormous number of dead and wounded and prisoners in the valley, Aβ the French left vae. however, bent back, tho offensive could not be persisted in, ■
, ' A French officer has stated that the British Expeditionary Force is still intact, and continues to show superb valour in the face of colossal odds and loss, taking far lees than it gave, fie marvelled at tlio condition of tlio British troops, who bear tho strain even belter .than tlio French. They seem to bo an army of athletes at tho top of their form. Tlio "Daily Telegraph" correspondent reports that ho visited tho rear of the French left and the British lines. The Allies were being driven back by sheer weight of numbers, but it was an orderly retirement, not a retreat. If all tho moves of this fearful campaign, lie says, had been arranged beforehand they could not have been carried out with greater precision. ENEMY'S ATTACKING POINT NARROWED.. • Tlio German Army has gradually narrowed tho principal attacking point until it is now a "V" shaped mass pointing directly to Paris. Another correspondent reports that on August 28 tho Allies held a crescent on the wooded heights. Tho British on the left and centre were receiving the heavy thrust of the main German advance, with General Pau's troops on tho right: At least a million Germans were moving on Saturday afternoon. The vanguard was supported by a fresh Army Corps from Belgium, cavalry was sweeping across a great tract of country, and a great mass of artillery was in action, undercover of which infantry moved ns a against tho English. The English wing found it impossible to resist tho onslaught. The. British gunnery was magnificent. The gunners shelled the advancing columns so that dead were heaped along the road, but as one of the gunners said: ''It made no manner of difference. As soon as we smashed one lot another followed, column after column." . • The railway was destroyed and bridges blown up on the main lino from Amiens to Paris, and the branch lines from Dieppe. Then, fighting all the .way, the British fell back.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2247, 5 September 1914, Page 7
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460GERMANS ADVANCE TOWARDS PARIS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2247, 5 September 1914, Page 7
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