France.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 32, 24 September 1914, Page 5

France.

THE BATTLE OF MARNE.

GREAT BAYONET CHARGE BY THE IRISH PARTY. ,

GERMANS RAN LIKE HARES.

[By Electric TELEGUArn-—CoPYiUGHT] [United Press Association.] (Received 10.15 a.m.) London, September 23.

A wounded non-commissioned officer relates that at the battle of the Alamo the .Irish Guards were selected to dislodge the enemy from a commanding position. The Guards, under a hail ( of shrapnel, reached a knoll 800 yards from the enemy, who maintained a heavy rifle lire Leaving a force to hold the knoll, the rest crept round the Germans’ left and gradually edged! into the German trenches. The whole battalion lined up at 200 yards for the final rush. The ridge was crownedj with their machine guns, which were firing, continually. The officer continues; “We fixed bayonets and charged under a fiendish fire, and with a wild whoop reached the trenches. The Germans desperately attempted to reply to us with the bayonet, then wavered, broke in the centre, and ran like hares, throwing down their arms. AVe hayonetted and shot them down in dozens until we were exhausted. The Germans who did not escape surrendered. TURCOS USE THE BAYONET. AVounded prisoners report that the Germans made a determined stand near Noyou heights. The French,

brought more artillery from the cast and put a number of guns out o: action. T.vn batteries were wiped out. The French pressed home the operations.

The Tureos behaved splendidly, participating in the Frenchmen’s final rush, their bayonets compelling the enemy to retreat. Nine guns were captured.

REPORT FROM ALSACE.

London, Sepetmbor 22

A London correspondent who has been tonring the Dijon and Belfort regions supplies the first intimate news of the doings of the \French eastern armies. The French occupied Gorman villages in Alsace, holding them for . outpost purposes. Belfort has never been attacked, although Germany reported its capture. Jho French defended the villages of Montrcaux and Vieux. The German infantry approached the canal boundary, and a French sergeant rushed out, under a heavy tire, and coolly lowered the canal bridge, earning decoration. The Germans, under heavy fire, retreated.

THE BATTLE OF AISNE. ADVANTAGE GAINED ALL ALONG THE LINE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 28. The Times, in a leader on the batMe of Aisne, says: —All along the line tin signs are hopeful. points the t are indications of advantage having been gained.

GERMAN TREACHERY UNDER COVER OF THE WHITE FLAG.

[United Press Association.] (Received 9.0 a.in.) London, September 23

An Irish Guardsman who was wounded reports that the Germans at the battle of Aisne hoisted the White Flag, and state when the British were advancing to secure their prisoners they were subjected to a toirihle fire from concealed batteries, none being able to walk off the field.

WITH THE ALLIES.

LITTLE CHANCE ALONG THE WHOLE FRONT. Paris, September 22. Official.—On the Wavre the enemy made a violent attack on the heights of the Meuse on the Tresauvaux-Vigue. nettes-Handicourt front, but were unable to gain a footing on the heights. The enemy on our right, in Lorraine, has again crossed the frontier, and with the services of smaller columns has reoccupied Domeaux and South Blamont ' On Sunday ami' Monday we captured 20 supply motor-cars, staff officers and a number of prisoners. The enemy along the entire front, from the Oise to Woevre, were active on Monday without appreciable result. The enemy on our left, on the right bank of the Oise, were forced to give ground. The situation between the Oise and the Aisne is unchanged. The enemy has not made a serious attack, but continued a prolonged cannonade. On Monday evening the enemy between Rbeims and Louvain attempted the offensive, but were repulsed. .We made some progress between Louvain and A ingenue. Xo change has occurred between Argonne and the Meuse.

RHEIMS DESTROYED.

“THE KAISER’S BLEEDING HEART.” New York, September 23. The newspapers denounce the German destruction of Tlheims. The Tribune declares that it is “a piece of vandalism reducing the German military methods to the level of the Goths and Huns. Doubtless we shall hear more of the Kaiser’s bleeding heart, but no such banalities v.il? blind ns to the congenial imsensitiveness of Gorman nature to the obligations of civilisation.”

“MOST MAGNIFICENT MONUMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY.”

Paris, September 23. M Anatolo France sasy ; I must make an indignant protest against the destruction of Rheims by .barbarians who invoked the blessing of God, destroyed one of the most magnificent monuments of Christianity, and earned eternal infamy. The Allies will inflict pitiless vengeance'on the criminals. hut will not stain their victory with similar crimes.

HEADQUARTERS INDIGNANT AT

THE ACCUSATION.

(Received 12.30 p.m. )

Amsterdam. September 23

Headquarters at Berlin indignantly protest against the accusation that thGerman troops for the lust of vandalism destroyed historical monuments. They deify that the Rheims Cathedral was used as mark for bombardment “If it he true,” they say, “that the Cathedral suffered, nobody will deplore it more than ourselves.”

RESPECT FOR THE BRITISH SEVEN BRITISH PRISONERS (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 23. The Germans are paying flattering respect to the British. Thirty thousand French prisoners at Mauhengo are guarded by 200 Germans, whi’e seven British have thirty guards