France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 49, 14 October 1914, Page 6

France

MOROCCAN AFFAIRS. ENEMY COURT-MARTIALLED FOR CONSPIRACY. -(Received 10.25 a.m.) Paris, October 13. „ ’ t ■ Lp Matin states that the Germans and Austrians at Casablanca, including the Austrian Consul, are to be courtmartialled’ for planning tho assassination of the Europeans in Morocco and arming natives. f‘.. ■ ’ • THE CROWN PRINCE. _______ ELABORATE. PRECAUTIONS FOR PERSONAL SAFETY. 1 > 'j- • —■— (Received 9.45 a.m. ) London, October 13. The Daily Mail correspondent at Villiers Aux Vents, near Verdun, says : For some time the. Crown Prince’s headquarters were in a church, all the houses having been destroyed. Tho Crown Prince had elaborate excava* tions made at the back of his house with a tunnel running into a thicket some distance away in case of a sudden attack. The exca\ations we’ e five fec-t deep and were covered with boards . lined with straw. A BRILLIANT OPERATION. Pat s, Augv.st 24 The story of how the sth Company of the First Battalion of Foot Chasseurs captured the flag* of the 132nd German Regiment in Alsace is related by one of the officers who shared iff the .brilliant performance^ “We fought the 99fch Brigade of Saverne (Zabern) and their two mountain batteries,” he says. “Our artillery was not long in finding its mark, and we could see the horses, were soon killed and the heavy German guns silenced, for with our glasses we could spot the gunners abandoning their pieces, which afterwards fell into our hands, oddly enough quite intact. Several howitzers directed from a narrow pass caused us a good deal of trouble, . many of our fellows falling, but as soon as we found the range they were put out of action also. s “Just when dusk came we carried the position at the point of the bayonet, our boys charging with a dash which could not he denied. We took possession of the flag, ancl, what ’is more, eight cannons, four howitzers, six field guns, 90 horses, and 537 prisoners, of whom ten were officers r and one the general of the division. We discovered tho hitter mortally wounded stretched on e bed. He died an hour after we came.” UNDER SHELL FIRE. Paris, August 20.

* A French youngster mow lying wounded in hospital at Nancy gives a peculiarly vivid picture of his experience under the hottest kind of shell fire in the Lorraine fighting. “It was just breakfast time,” he says. “We were resting in the treiv ches when the first shell came. It hurst too soon. The second exploded beyond us, but the trajectory of the third and fourth were perfect. Thenceforward they broke with mathematical accuracy about forty feet above our heads. It was an unceasing storm of shrapnel amid the crash of thunder. “This was the fire we had to endure for the space of thirty hours, “Happily, though many were wounded, few W(9re killed. My brother,

myself, and. every comrade in sighi. \%as hit in the arms, legs, or fee*. I got two pieces of shell in my thigh. I can talk, but I can’t sleep, for my dreams are full of grapeshot. “On the battlefield you get accustomed to it. You can hear shells'coming ever so long ; thanks to the peculiar scream they maxe. After half an hour of this music you probably catch shrill voices shouting: Look out on the left; it’s to you,’ or, ‘Hullo, there, on the right ; them’s one making straight for you.' Yes, we actually laughed as we issued these mutual warnings.”