HOW THE GERMANS WERE BEATEN AT NANCY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2276, 9 October 1914, Page 5

HOW THE GERMANS WERE BEATEN AT NANCY

MOWED DOWN BY HIDDEN GUNS Paris, October 7. In tho fight at Nancy witnessed by the Kaiser, the French placed a number of almost obsolete cannon as a blind on a slope facing the Germans. The better guns were 1 hidden at the rear. The Germans, for fifteen hours, bombarded the useless guns, which were occasionally fired by a small detachment. Eventually, considering tho batteries were silenced, the German cavalry charged. The hidden French batteries fired at eight hundred yards, and tho charge slackened. • . They fired again at six hundred yards, and on a pateh lighted by the moon were seen heaped masses of dead. Riderless horses dashed in all directions. The next morning the Kaiser watched the retreat. A German officer who was taken prisoner stated that his regiment was hemmed in and shelled for fifteen hours. Tho three hundred men who were left out of fourteen hundred surrendered. , A woundod French lieutenant states that great masses of German infantry with Maxims in the rear advanced on Armance, north-east of Nancy. They were not aware of the presence of sixty 75-milimetro guns. They were -allowed to come within a thousand vards, when the French fired, blotting put the first batch of Germans. Five fresh lines followed, each being blotted out in turn. Altogether ten thousand were killed.