Battle of Mons

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 2 September 1914, Page 5

Battle of Mons

MACHINE-GUNS most effective. * WHAT BRITAIN'S ENTERFEREJTOE t MEANS. V ,;•!

"TOMMY ATKINS" MUST BE COUNTED.

London, August 31. Tlie British and French wo\inded ■ agree that it is not the German artfl. . , lery and rifle fire, but the machine guns that arc doing the damage. The Ger-''- ! mans have many machine guns, and the ' Allies comparatively few. '

Antwerp, August 31. . An invalided officer says 'that tiell'n ■' fury blazed from the eyes of the trap- * ped Germans at Mons when, alter ,a, ! succession of advances in the face of k' ■ '■ withering Are, the British. Hussars emerged at a.gallop on their flank. After a moment's hesitation the Ger- ,• mans, with thoir blood curdling, turncd and fled, and were cut down lilr« chaff, but many outpaced the tired horscs. The wounded expressed t&e fiercest hatred of the British because, but for their interference, they reckoned they would now have been in '■. dictating peace. ■

London, August 31. Tlie Times, in a leader, says that the great service which the British army has rendered has enabled French reinforcements to reach the northern battlefield.

The Times",- military correspondent > > considers an eastern movement by the German troops as Improbable, because the western attack has not yet reached' tho maximum of its violence. The' slowness of the Russian advance haa not 'occasioned, the dire necessity of sending German reinforcements to tho <, eastern theatre. . '* iA German aviator dropped a man!- 1 " festo stating: "The German fAny U at the gates of Paris, and you <$n r 4o JWthing tout surrender. , ! ( ' Sydney, September I. Sir George field's bulletin, referring to the heavy losses inflicted by the .British troops on the Germans, says the' . enemy paid the extreme-price for every forward movement. The French armies were acting vigorously, but tho British right on the left for the time ■ brought the German attack to a stand- . still. , ' / TIIE BATTLE OF JUHfS. ' ■. ' ? : . : ... . ... \r'; . ;,■ GERMANS' BIGGER FORCE , : \4 ADMITTED.

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London, September I. {' " The, Berliner Tageblatt states that In., "* the fight on the 23rd of August 700,00 ft Germans opposed 400,000 French and ? 40,000 British. ' .