"EN AVANT!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 28, 1 October 1915, Page 5

"EN AVANT!"

SPIRIT OF "LA MARSEILLAISE." FRENCHMEN'S IMPETUS ELAN. ■ • ri' • i> * '■ ■■ _ : United Press Association. ; , (Received 8.15 a.m.) , j. New. York, September 30. \ The : Jie wspaper '''The American' s" correspondent says that 'thirty thousand ,Germans, fell on a sixteen-mile front., i The retreat' was ' swift but costly], especially northwards of BeauSejour. The slaughter 'on the ; hill above the Dormoise river was appalling. The Frenchmen's impetuosity drove the enemy from the crest of the hill into the rivers. The victors' shouts were mingled with the screams of the fugitives, as plunging into the swift current they were swept off, clutching one another in, a death-grip,..< At ~ a certain point the ,stream was. fordable. over the piled bodies, . ; ,' IN THE ARGONNE. CROWN PRINCE'S ATTACK.

United Press association. Paris, September 30. A wounded French officer, describing the Crown Prince's latest attack in the Argonne, declares that it was the most furious of' the war. There was a tremendous bombardment, to which the Frenifi guns replied with little effect. Hie French , parapets melted away, but the French troops did, hot flinch. The Germans guns then abruptly ceased, and a new kind of liquid fire—a mixture of tar and petrol, was projected into the trenches, making them almost unbearable by heat, but the French stood their ground. Suddenly the German infantry loomed up. In the intervals between the liquid fires we poured in streams of lead, but the human wave lilowly reached our trenches, and bloody • hand-to-hand fighting followed in the dense smoke. We were obliged to fall back, and our reserves dashed forward, but were stopped by a curtain of lachrymatory shells. We put respirators on", but these were unavailing. Still, nothing daunted, we dashed through the vapor, holding our breath, with our eyes streaming, and fell in serried masses on the Germans, who wavered and broke. Our artillery prevented their supports coming up, and thus alter twenty-four hours' fighting the enemy retired to tho trenches, though they held ours hero and there.

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. London, Sept. 30 (5.10 p.m.) The High Commissioner reports:— In Artois there has heen violent •bombardment of the French new positions. In Champagne the French took several points of the German second line of trenches, west of La Butte de Tahure and the West Farm at MavarU'ink. Certain troops resolutely advanced further, but were unable to maintain themselves owing to the German curtain of artillery fire and flanking fire. Despite the atmospheric conditions, aircraft bombed five village stations ol the German cfomunicatiqns,