The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-09-25
iiiuantic Conflict as the Allies At
tempt to HurI Back the In
vadlng Armies.
CARNAGE HAS BEEN AWFUL
Really a Series of Attacks and he
pulses That Have Gone on Along
Front of One Hundred and FIFTY
MiIes-Bravery Amounting to Fana-
ticism Has Been Shown by Both
Sides.

From the Battle Front, via Paris,
Sept. 22.-The seventh day of the bat
tie of the Aisne has ended with the
Germans and allies intrenched in prac-
tically the same positions they held
for the last two days.
Artillery duels such as never have
been seen before are being carried on
with the hope of compelling the evac-
lation of the strongly held positions.
with occasional successes to the oppos-
Ing sides, while the infantry, in the
face of a CALLING fire, have charged
right up to the guns, only to make
their opponents give way slightly. or
to be repulsed with great losses.
The Germans took the allies
trenches on the river to the north Of
Scissors after hard fighting. coun-
ter-attack was executed by the allies
and the trenches were rewon.
The fighting may go on for days yet,
but sooner or later one side must find
the continual fall Of shells and the dis
concerning infantry attacks too much
guard. will draw back
1t is now possible to give the first
details of the terrific battle of the
Aisne-the greatest battle in the his
tory OF the world.
1t is story of a deadly duel OF
big guns, of furious attacks, of terrific
counter-attacks, Of hand-to-hand
clashes and bayonet charges and of
frightful carnage.
1t is story of a succession Of
battles. which have been fought now
on one part of the line and now on the
other, hour after hour, for every hour
of the twenty-four, day after day and
night after night, for six long days,
and still with no result at the time of
writing
The story starts with the day of the
fourteenth. From the twelfth to the
morning of the fourteenth, the rival
armies had been fighting a rear-guard
action, precipitated when the retreat
ing Germans turned at bay to give
battle to their allied pursuers.
The real fighting started on the
morning of the fourteenth, when the
battle became general along the range
Of heights to the north of Aisne.
The fighting was sustained with
deadly earnestness during all Of the
next day, the Germans contesting
every foot of the way in a supreme
endeavor to hold their positions until
re-enforcements could arrive.
On the night of the fifteenth they
appeared TO have been strengthened.
and commenced their formidable
movement against the French and
British all along their front. A furi.
Gus attack on the allies extreme left,
with the big guns Of the rival artil-
lerists lighting the line of the oppos-
ing fronts in fierce silhouette, was re-
pulsed with great courage by the al
lies. Again and again the Germans
returned to the attack with the tenac-
ity that was the marvel of French
troops. but each time they were re-
pulsed. No fewer than ten times did
they drive their dense masses OF
troops at the allied infantry. but never
were they able TO break through.
All night long the fighting lasted.
the allies bracing themselves. after
each successive counter-attack to
meet the furious onslaught of charg-