Worlds Longest Battle.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 111, 3 October 1914, Page 5

Worlds Longest Battle.

HOPE OF ALLIES' SUCCESS. DERIVE IiOCR APPROACHES. i Timed and Sydney Sun Services Received 2, 5.30. pjn. , London, September 2. The Times' correspondent at Pari* toys:— There is a continuance of the hope of the approaching success of the Allies in the longest battle in the history of the world. "Captured Germans show signs of ex•treme fatigue and privation. They are without boots, and their clothes arc torn to pieces. Though German reinforcements havo arrived, their quality is doubt fu'. "On the contrary, the French stc fighting with renewed spirits and temper, more warlike and effective than they were a fortnight ago. "Ths decisive hour cannot long be delayed." ALSACE REMAIN'S QUIET. ' Times and Svdney Sun Services. ;" Becerved 2, 5.30 p.m. f London, September 2. Alsace remains quiet, the people realis- ' ing fiat any attempt to sympathise openly with the TTcneh would be rutb- , lessry crusTied. NIGHT ANT) DAY FIGHTING. HOW BRITON'S GET THEIR REST. Times and Sydney Sun Services. t Received 2,6.30 <p.m. London, October 2. A feature of the fighting on the Aisnc is that the Germans content themselves with an artillery duel at daylight and with astonishing regularity make a night attack. When dusk falls the British fire ceases. The Germans, having marked down the trenches, send battalion after battalion straight at" them. The night being clear, the Germans crossing tie crest of the hill in close forma- ' tion show against the skyline. The ! British allow them to -approach well within range, and mow them down with machine-guns and rifles. The advance quickly collapses, and tlie British get a * night's rest. BRITISH CYCLIST HERO. , • GERMANS JN A TRAP. Paris, October 1. French wounded narrate that during the battle of the Aisne it became neces- > aary to warn French reinforcements of an ambush. Two Frenchmen who were signalling were lcilled. A British cyclist then dashed forward and was shot, another following him was shot, but a third, racing at full speed across the inferno, reached the trench untouched. The commander took from his own tunic a medalswon for bravery, and, pinning | it on the cyclist, said: "It was given me ■■ t for saving one life. You have saved hundreds." The fight proceeding in one-region of the Allied left resembles that at Paardeburg. There are 3500 Germans in the same plight as Cronje, not in a liver-bed * like the latter, but in quarries. French troops have completely surrounded them, and are shelling them in order to compel their surrender.

v EASIER SAID THAN DONE, "EXTERMINATE THE ENGLISH." London, October 1. * The following order was issued by the Kaiser to the army:—"Aix-la-Chapelle, .August 19.—My Royal Imperial command to you is to concentrate your energies for the present on one single pnriA pose. Address all skill and valour to exterminate the treacherous English and walk over General French's contemptible little army." ' STORIES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD. A MEAN REVENGE. » ' London, October 1. The Germans on Sunday morning gained ground; then the French brought up many quickfirers and checked their advance. The enemy kept up the effort gamely, bat clearly failed. ' Oa Tuesday afternoon no French battery was within a mile of Albert, but, to the astonishment of the French gunners, the Germans began systematically shelling Albert, an open and undefended , town of eight thousand inhabitants. The town co' lapsed like a house of carda and was soon a burning ruin. Meanwhile the roads were crowded with woVmen and babies. Some of the aged people who were too feeble to walk were trundled in barrows. The German revenge for their reverse was complet*. NEXT, PLEASE! J* London, October 1. A wounded Frenchman who wa* lying en the Maine battlefield, was surprised by a wet caress on his face. It proved ' to be the regimental pet dog, who had i been trained to carry the kepis of the wounded back to headquarters. lie toll the dog to bring help, and it returned" guiding the ambulance. The dog goes in the firing line and when the fighting ' is hot digs a hole and buries himself. f . AN ABRUPT ENDING. Times and Sydney Sun Services. ' • London, October 1. £ German commandant's letter which was found says: "We are marching gloriously and irresistibly on Parte. We » wonld have preferred resistance and to enter Paris as eonquerers instead of . CBaJdag « bat Fresco nl*

«*r boa aecreed otherwise.' la a week's «■>« we shall be drinking beer on the •oaleTarda."' A French bullet brought the ooauaaadant's march to m abrupt ending. Rotterdam, October 1. The Germans fired part of Tournai, and demanded a fine of. two million francs. French notables trero taken as hostages.