France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 41, 5 October 1914, Page 5

France

FIFTY GERMANS. SURPRISED BY THREE FRENCH DRAGOONS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, October 3. Three French dragoons ma le a sudden onslaught on HO Germans in garrison at Lixy, and kilim* several,. The remainder broke their lifle.s and surrendered. ALLIES LINKED UP. GERMANS ENCLOSED IN RING OF STEEL. , United Press (Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Amsterdam, October 4. The “Nieuwe Rotterdamsch Courant” says the British, French and Belgian troops are now linked up, enclosing the Germans in a ring of steel. Lille is free of the enemy, hut aleucieuues is still in German hands.

KILLED AND WOUNDED. NOTABLE VICTIMS LISTED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) . London, October 3, Raid Maclean’s only son was killed in the fighting in France. Prince Frau/., the third son of the King of Bavaria, was amongst the wounded. (General Sir H. Ambrey de Raid Maclean was military instructor to the Sultan of Morocco for about thirty years, and represented Morocco at the Coronation of Edward VIT. Ho was captured by Raisuli in July, 1907, and not released until February 1908, when he was ransomed. Last year ho married Miss Prendergnst.) FIGHTING ON OUR LEFT. ALLIES’ FACED BY BIG GERMAN ARMIES. Paris, October 3 (evening 1 ). Official.—The violent action on the left continues, especially about Royc,

whore the Germans have been Turtne. reinforced from the centre. The Allie., repulsed many day and night attacks, and have progressed slightly between Argonne and the Mouse. The (unmans at Argonne tried to slip through, but were driven back. Otherwise there is no noteworthy development. ,

A PLUCKY BOY. SECURES THE SURRENDER OF SEVEN GERMANS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m\) London, October 3. During the lighting at Marne, n hoy named Ohatau surprised seven Germans who were sleeping in a l ouse. With fixed bayonet he demanded their surrender, which was readily acceded to. Chatan and a sei-gen.it were the only survivors of a reconnoitring party on patrol, Chatan having carried the wounded Sergeant to safety. AFTER A COUNTRY TOUR. NO MISGIVINGS AS TO THE ULTIMATE OUTCOME. London, October 2.

A British correspondent, telegraphing from Calais on Wednesday, after a tour of the country north of the Allies’ left wing, says there can no longer he room for misgivings as to the ultimate outcome of the battle. The German wing between Lassigny and Chaulens is in extreme danger, due to the fact that above Chaulnes the lines which a few days ago -faced west are now facing north-west, having been bent back on the line Chaulnes, Cambrai, Valenciennes.

The German General Staff is active. The crowding of reinforcements upon von Kluck from the centre and left has made the position of the enemy’s right more precarious. BATTLE OF THE MARNE. OPERATIONS AGAINST THE CROWN PRINCE’S ARMY. EXACTLY ONE MONTH AGO. Paris, October 3. Le Temps gives the first connected account of the Battle of the Marne. On September 5 the Crown Prince was advancing in Argonne, the Duke of Wuxternburg between Aisne and Chalons, the Saxons upon Rheims, General Buelow towards Esternay, General von Kluck towards Mcaux. On the first day we threatened the flank of von Kluck’s right wing. Then on the sixth we ordered a general offensive. The British moved against von Kluck’s right, and the general army*, advancing along the Ourcq, threatened von Kluck from behind. On the first day von Kluck’s columns moving >on Previns turned back, while the Germans confronting General retreated on Granclmorin, This enabled the British force to straighten its lines northwards of Ourcq, and attack the army confronting it. The forces on the British right supported the British vigorous attack and threw von Kluck’s left and Buelow’s right back over the Marne. On the Bth the general army, which had been entrusted with the task of holding the front, began the offensive. While its right held the Prussian Guard and three German corps at Le Fere and Champenoise in check, the left fell on the enemy’s flank, compelling him to retreat to Rheims. Simultaneously General occupied Vitre' the forward move relieving the army. The general army in the Revigny district was meanwhile being attacked on the right from Clermouten and Argonne, and from behind from the direction of the Meuse heights, it was threatened with being thrown upon Verdun. Nevertheless, we succeeded in maintaining our positions, and on the 15th September forced the Germans to retreat. Throughout, the activity of the Lorraine army assisted in the result.

WITHERING fire. FLOWER OF GERMAN ARISTOCRACY CO DOWN. Paris, October 3. Details of the disaster to the Prussian Guards on the 26th ult. show that they included the regiment formerly commanded hy the Crown Prince. The 'Brigade, taking advantage of fog, advanced unperceived against the French lines, but had not reckoned on the strength of the French entrenchments. When the sun broke the mist the French commander ordered silence until the word of command was given. The Guards were deceived, and advanced until a bugle call was followed by a volley which decimated the first line. Despite the officers’ encouragement, the second line wavered. The Crown Prince’s regiment, officered by the llower o,f the German aristocracy, charged one flank, but found themselves opposed by the men of the battalions of De L’Afrique Guards. They made a heroic resistance, but were unable to live against the withering fire of tlie French, and dwindled away. A handful of Africans completed the task. BATTERIES IN WORK. DISASTER TO THE DEATH’S HEAD HUSSARS. Bordeaux, October 3. The Guards’ attack aimed at cutting the railway between Rheims and * Verdun. They encountered French batteries near Sousin. Regiments of French saw the Death’s Head Hussars a thousand metres away. They quickly took

out the horses, and when the Hussars' were 0 00 metres away the batteries were loaded. 1 lie iiussars continued their furious gallop, and the gunners Then the plain became dotted with black masses of struggling horses. The Prussian officers tried in vain to rally the men. The batteries tired again, and the Hussars tied. THE BATTLE OF ROYE. VIOLENT ATTACKS BY THE ENEMY REPULSED. Paris, October 3. An official statement on Friday at midnight stated that a violent battle continues on the left, especially between Roye and Lassingny, where the Germans concentrated largely and delivered violent attacks, which were shattered. The enemy attempted to bridge the Meuse near St. Mihicl, but the French artillery destroyed the bridge. Reports from the vicinity of St. Mihiel state that there arc no longer any Germans on the left of the Meuse. The French detachment which was debouching from Arras has fallen lock slightly. The French are progressing before Albert. Progress continues in Woevre. Elsewhere matters are quiet. Paris, October 2. The Allied commanders warmly praise the British volunteer motorcycle despatch corps. One Australian Cambridge undergraduate encountered fourteen German cavalry. He shot the officer and a man, and the remainder fled. The Australian delivered his despatch, preventing an ambush.

THE RECENT LULL. CAUSE 1 OF THE ALLIES’ TEMPORARY SET-BACK. London, October 2. The Daily News publishes a message from the Aisne which attributes the recent lull in the fierceness of the struggle to the great changes which were then in progress on both siSes. French reinforcements were hurrying round to their left wing, while the Germans were hurrying reinforcements and an army from the Vosges on the line of the Oise towards Peronne. It was a mass of these troops, and the rapidity of their swing across the inner lines, that enabled the Gormans to anticipate the Allies’ move, temporarily pushing them back at certain points between Lassingny, Chaulues and Peronne. FINANCING THE WAR. HOW THE OVERSEAS DOMINIONS' WILL “RAISE THE WIND.” .ixyte hj(l wu ; I (Received 10.55 a.m.) New York, October 4. The Telegraph, in a leader on the financing of the war, says: “Canada trill probably face an expenditure ot thirty million, Australia twenty millions or more, New Zealand, say, ton millions, besides India, South Africa and other possessions, which may involve one hundred millions. Though the Colonies undertake to face the liability they could hardly find the money unassisted, but probably it will be found that the British Government will come to the assistance of the Dominions with war loans.”