New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-10
BELGIAN CAMPAIGN
HIT GERMANS HARD
Stories of the Prisoners
Indicate Army's Best q
Was Weakened.
Nv Z. A REAMAN

Especial Correspondent OF The Ncv York
Tribune and London Standard."I
Dieppe, Sept. 1.-TWO trains are now
running with regularity between Paris
anL Dieppe, and the latest news from
the capital is excellent. In Paris there
undoubtedly is confidence in the ap-
. preaching success OF the allied tactics,
ana the British forces have taken up
positions which will allow Of convey
ing any reverse of the invaders into
! complete rOut and disaster.
from the outset we have been given
v'ry sketchy information of what went
on IN AIsace. but il is certain that the
Germans bought the temporary vic
] tories they, claim there dearly.
"A German commandant taken prIs-
oncr and now informed at Celtic said:
We were 5000 posted to the north Of
Lunevlllc when surprised by superior
French forces converging upon us and
forcing fight Their artillery began,
and the infantry joined in till we were
inundated with an awful avalanche of
lead, and our men were like flies after
two hours of this fearful struggle.
There were only few hundred of us
LETT, and as ! saw all further resist
ance was useless, and as we had done
our duty as long as possible, | called
together the eleven officers and non
commissioned officers surviving and
asked if they did not think it better to
! surrender. They all agreed, and a sol
der gave me his white shirt, which |
toisted on a rife bayOnet. The bat
tories i'm front of us ceased firing, but
another, which could not see our white
flag. continued for another half hour,
smashing up everything, heads, bodies
and limbs. eat last the CannOnade
ceased, but there were only 25O of US
alive"
The battle raging twenty miles out
side Paris does not seem to have been
able to brighten fifty of the population,
as to-day the train was almost empty
and consequently no boat is leaving.
The most interesting and picturesque
sight was the entry into Dieppc about
| O'Clock Of some eighty motor cars
from Namur
talked with enc Of the officers and
one told me that AT Namur q family h.
knew father. mother and SOn--wcrc
brought out into their gardens when
the house was set on fire and the son
was tied up and thrown into the
flames. Little children were pounded
with the butt ends Of rifles and their
feet or heads crushed lndlscrimlnat"!t =.
The Germans often tied civilians by
the heels to their mitraileuscs and
even to automobiles and drove away
, with them until they were killed, when
they cut them loose.
The Belgians say the English tight
3 with both heads and hearts and that
the Germans are afraid Of them. They
never give way or lose courage. Tho
French ignt like tigers, too. and woull
back any British OF French regiment
. even without artillery coming in, 70
beat twic, or three times as many
Germans.
Among the German prisoners they
took were many lads Of sixteen, who
hardly could lift rife and never fired
from the shoulder. A large proportion
OF the best German troops we're left
dead in Belgium. and their places have
been taken by fruit Of the levy IN
massc. The rest Of the flower Of the
/ German army is now near Paris, but
there probably is no longer any single
army corps completely formed OF
picked mcr.