France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 40, 3 October 1914, Page 5

France

OUR INDIAN TROOPS. ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME ON LANDING AT MARSEILLES. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Paris, October 1. A contingent of Indian troops landed at Marseilles where they received an enthusiastic welcome and "took part in a triumphal procession. The physique of the white Indian troops impressed the spectators. "THE MARSEILLAISE!" AS PERFORMED BY GURKHAS ON WEIRD INSTRUMENTS. ENTHUSIASM AT FEVER HEAT. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Paris, October 2. There were stirring scenes at Marseilles when the Indian British troops marched to their camping ground. The streets and roads were crammed with excited spectators crying: "Yivent les Hindous!" and struggling to shake hands. The women presented cigarettes and fruit, and girls strewed flowers and pinned them on tunics and turbans. The enthusiasm reached fever heat when the Gurkhas struck np "The Marseillaise" on their weird instruments. Many of the younger natives lept three, feet into the air waving tile Union Jack and the French tricolour. "FLOWERS AND TEARS." AVALANCHE OF WOUNDED TAX THE RED CRO9S. BRITISH GRAVEYARDS CROWING (Received 0.5 a.m.) * Paris, October- 1.

1 An avalanche of German wounded from Marne and Aisne is taxing the French Red Cross to the utmost. Both German and British wounded are being hurried to England. Although the British Red Cross organisation is perfect, the carnage exceeds all expectations. In Rouen, Nantes, Le Mans, and Tours, little British graveyards are growing daily, the French paying tribute with flowers and their tears. , "THE BLACK BUTCHERS." APPALLINC DESTRUCTIVENESS. OF FRENCH ARTILLERY. "MAKE ME A CEMETERY DOWN THERE!" (Received 10.25 a.m.) Paris, October 2. An appalling incident occurred on the Allies' left wing on Monday. Five hundred Germans were caught on flat fields with slopes on every .side. The French artillery quietlv occupied a position, and when the moment came to open fire the officer commanding the battery said: "Make me a cemetery down there!" The order was obeyed. The guns accounted for most, and rifle lire for the rest. Not a man escaped. The Germans have nicknamed the French seventy-five millimetre guns "the black butchers." Their shells spread missiles over an area of a hundred yards by thirty, and. often kill a whole row of entrenched men.

SICK AND WOUNDED. sanitary condition of allied armies satisfactory. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 2. Dr. de Borine, principal medical inspector of the. French forces, states that the sanitary conditions of the armies are good. There are fewer sick, than, perhaps, in times of peace. The wounded are attended with wonderful devotion. NO NEWS—GOOD NEWS. GENERAL SITUATION IS SATISFACTORY. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Paris, October 2. A communique states there is nothing particular to report except about the Roye district, where a violent engagement fortunately turned out in our favour, and about Argonne where •tbe troops made some further progress. The "■eneral situation is satisfactory. DROWNED LIKE R^JS. ■ if . TERRIBLE CONDITION* OF THE GERMAN TRENCHES AT MARNE. (Received 10.50 a.m.) London, October 2. During the fighting on the Marne the condition of the German trenches was terrible, the men living like rats for a week in mulrained holes, and fighting without panse. The wounded and dead had to lie as they fell. The cries of the wounded were heard at night when the liring ceased. In some trenches round Rheims, the French drowned the enemy out of their lines with hose pipes laid from the town.

FRENCH IN ALSACE REMAIN QUIET. London. October 2. Alsace remains quiet, the poople realising that any attempt to sympathise openly with the French would he ruthlessly crushed. CLAN MACMILLAN NOW THREE WEEKS OVERDUE. Fremantle, October 3. There is some anxiety regarding the steamer Clan MneMillan, which is three weeks overdue from the, Tyne.