France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 14 September 1914, Page 6

France

ENEMY'S BAO TIME IN RETREAT.

CAPTURE OF CJiftMAU FLAG

Emsotbio Teleobaph—CoPYiiiuas] -" " [L\nitkjj PitEsa AaaooiATioN.] (Received b.i) a.m.) Paris, September 13. 1 The retreating Germans are experiencing groat difficulty in the matter oL' ie-vicLual|ing. j'Ai: Ip/ench Territorial reservist narrates thai., a ii'iisli carried him and ins,, ■comrades Into the midst of the Xl'tisshins near Oureq. lie bayoneted, a. lieutenant carrying the Magdeburg fusiliers' Hag, and captured it, ifckuugh, wounded.

iNDi-AN FORCE SUFFER JN FACE

of Machine cuns.

~.. (.Received 12.25 p.m.) ~..,.,-. London, September 13. ...Some of the wounded in. the action .which was fought on the (3th nisi., ~vjjdcj. r that tin; Punjabis suffered hea...Triiy jn an unsuccessful bayonet charge ,w.];ile attempting to capture machine guuwiu the fac«.of miuxUrqus ,lir©_

OF THE GERMAN "' UM ; ; RETREAT. ■'<;> ijMORE RAPID THAN THE ADiyr.fi #! ..." VANCE,; PERSONAL BELONGINGS .ABANDONED,; .;, (Received'l,o.Bo a.m.) "" ""Tarijj,, Soptemher; 1.3, (morning). It is reported that the French troops sur.j ,iu the Oiso 150 barges full of ■(Sit |xn ammunition. A communique states: On our left .-wing tiie tier mans', general retreat con tinues, The .British and French.forces, pursuing, have reached., the Lower course of the Aisno. Similiarly, in the centre the, euemy continue to retreat, We crossed:-the (Ma rne between Eperv.aud YitryrLed'Yaneois. On our rigid wing the enemy has begun to fail buck, a ban dp Jung the region around Nancy, nil we'-re-occupied Lunevillo. Not will, livq days' incessant •nghtiUg/nir troops ;aro l>ur.stiing.j., Th nomy are jtreat, wjliicl. appears more' rapid'' than was the.ia'vance. . It is so precipitate

at .Certain points that we picked up hi the, Gorman jieadqunriers, notably at maps, documents] and personal' < b.V&V the ernomv also letters received or ready for .posting. The enemy, abandoned batteries; pi; howitzers, and, numbers ■■:■ ammunition wagons. The prison* markedly convey; an impression starvation, oy.er.w6rk; and .depress The horses are particularly j.v When ti!o.-,l.M;«'iich Vitr.%' Fl'ancoisi they found .that it had pi,:-

ytPu.sly been .occupied by'the >stay' ( of a, German ev>ps., and orders ivbre found-.-dated 7,fc]i, signed General yon Wenleuhag, to the officers, and men a;jjvin^, ; thom to; do .their d\TO-.to the last breadth, as every thing, depended on the result of the folldVihg day. .

UHLANS SURRENDER 51 MILES i'v ' . FRQM PARIS.

(Received 10 a.m.) ■ .London, September 13. .Fifty Uhlans, exhausted with fntigm ;ind hunger, surrendered at Mpijte.reiiu

(Moutereau, ou the river Seine', 51 Utiles..south-west of Paris, hero Napileoa defeated the Allies in 1814.)

BATTLE OF IKE MARNE.

THE -SIGNIFICANCE Of-THEr ■ TITANIC STRUGGLE/- iy

EVIDENCE OF- ROUT

THROUGHOUT. T »E COUNTRY,

(Received 11.0 aan.) 'Bordeaux, September 13

* ! Tliesfguificatice of the Titanic, struggle .tm ihcAUirno- is fully, 'realised /throughput France, and Aire result itsahtlihadfwith entliusiasni' ami relief. General": JofTito, similarly, with the ;{«)riuan ''leaders, warned- the' troops that.jthe fate of the country depended .oii<;thc isjsue. He exhorted .thorn not ■jo.-."yield—-thef should rather die in

uumandunt , Thomasson. as War

in .g.sfce.i', declared .t)iat the invader ■d'e retreating helter-skelter.

The country, from the Marne to the low. i reaches of tho Ai'sneis strewn Sgifch the -evidences of 'the German Tu'i'ti and, demoralisation.

y-"6p ( j4ie ul';. U'iiV German w.nunde'l in tiie Paris hosirifiils o'ied as a ii.'sult :i)l eal ing raw beetroot and earth.

:'. „-Ti. i-, repinte.d that General Vobkfu'ek's provisioning hase is cut off.

SIR JOHN FRENCH, HIS RFmDY smile pleases the MEM, M , N ,,. ~ ('R: iv>d !).() a.m.) London, September 13. A soldier's letter is quoted, waving that there is no "side" about Sir John 'French. When he passed along be uas iijnf, as ready to smile on an ordinary "Toinia.v" as on -the highest officer. Thf wriLgr continues: "He takes a keen interest in our life In the"''trenches. Ho is a hard figh: from lu'ad.to.too, .and expects ova, urn' under him to hi* the same, ud-ops when lie has time to chat us, i'oy the sake of finding oul tht'i', «c are being properly luokeri aFtyX."

New■■ga.i'fleu seeds 10-Lea.rv Tiros, and Downs') just arrived. Surest seeds-in town. —Ts. A. Drake, local