Allies Yield Ground

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 7 October 1914, Page 5

Allies Yield Ground

GERMAN ADVANCE ON OUR LEFT,

REINFORCEMENTS MAKE THEMSELVES FELT.

Received 6, 8.30 p.m. [Paris, October 5 (evening). Official. —On the left, north of the Oise, a violent battle continues. The result is indecisive. We have been forced to yield ground at certain points, but there is no change elsewhere.

FACTION STILL PROGRESSING,

THE SITUATION UNCHANGED.

Received 7, 12.33 a.m. London, Oct 5 (morning). Official.—At midnight the general situation was stationary on the left whig, the action still progressing. We repulsed day and night attacks in Argonne, and on the heights of the Jleusc.

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SOLD HIS LIFT. DEARII

Received 7, 12.35 a.m. London, October G.

French eoldiers relate that David Kay, of the sth Lancers, who was separated from his regiment, took refuge in a railway carriage and refused to surrender. He shot six German officers before being killed.

A DESERVED DEATH SEXTEXCE,

FOR ROBBIXG DEAD AXD WOUNDED.

Received 7, 12,35 a.m. Londos, October o.

Two German soldiers were sentenced to death for robbing the dead and wounded, and a third was sentenced to imprisonment (or life.

THE VALUE OF AIR SCOUTS.

AX ARTH.LERY TRAIX EXPLODED.

Received 7, 12.35 a.m. Paris, October (5.

An aviator observed two reconstituted divisions of (Prussian Cards advancing, their lissvy artillery having been sent by railway. A column of Lancers formed an ambush near the line and bk>w up t'iu train.

AMtfXT. THE GERMAX PRISOXF.RS.

AX 3EKTIRE REGIMEXT CAPTURED.

Received 6, 5.45 p.m. London, October 5

.Among the thousands of German prisoners arriving in Marseilles, was almost the entire regiment of tho Prussian Crards, with band and staff officers.

'DEADLY NEW EXPLOSIVE.

'SOLDIERS' STORIES FROM THE

FIELD.

Paris, October o.

It is reported that the French on en'tering a chateau after bombarding it found a number of Wurtemburgers petrified, apparently as the result of Turpinite, the new explosive. Some were at the windows, taking aim with their fingers on the triggers, and an officer had his mouth open in the act of dictat- [ ing an order. I London, October 5. A cavalry officer writes from the front:—"At" the Aisne the Germans put up an awfully good fight. They were like tigers. Their artillery could beat ! the world both in personnel and ma- ] terial. They fight fairly. The reports I of their brutality, except in isolated ini stances, are not correct." A corporal writes:--"We can sleep in 'any row you like. You should see our I chaps dozing in the trenches with shells j bursting everywhere. If roused by an I.explosion vlhey only say, 'One of them ! i-doap German alarm clocks,' and go to sleep again." An escaped British prisoner writes: - -"The Gerjuan officers are awful nobs. They carry as many beautifiers as a. touring acticss. They place a bullet or a stone in tlr: finger of a loose glove and rUiek the ears of soldiers." The prisoner met many soldiers with ears swollen and l-JitW.