CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2265, 26 September 1914, Page 7

CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY

HOW IT WAS FIRST FORCED BACK HARRIED BY TURCOS Paris, September 24. Details of the harrying of the Crown Prince's Army in the fighting south of the Marne state that Chateau Mondement was shattered. This was his Headquaiters and that of his Staff. The chateau was taken and retaken four times, and subjected to a tornado of shells ani rifle fire. The Crown .Prince's Army Corps occupied the front from. La Tere Champenoise to a point eastward of Epeniay, nis advance troops being on the SoxanneEperney Road. Turcos, notwithstanding a withering fire, struggled up to the German, position. The Germans, fighting stubbornly, retreated. No sooner were the French within the ' chateau, than they oame under German s'hellfa're. The German infantry drew closer, and an annihilating gunfire drove the black Turcos out. They reformed in sheltered ground, and began a counter-charge, ana, with the yellow Turcos, retook the chateau. Tho enemy next day, in largo.numbers, crept up under a superbly-gauged gunfire, and gradually the French yielded. The Germans thus again held the key to tilt) battlefield. Then tho whole story was repeated. The Turcos dashed through a- murderous fire from the chateau, supports from the lino regiments followed, and the Germans retired. With this final break the centre of the enemy's whole line wavered. The French pressed forward, and the Germans stumbled in the swamps, abandoning 42 field pieces before order was refltored by tho uubsoqnottt -withdrawal .further, eastward. i