The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-13
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Indeed, is Fighting in Europe as
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Correspondence Of The Associated
Press).
PARIS; oNv. 1S.The Aftenblatt
OF Stockholm publishes a letter from
a German officer to a friend In Swed-
en- giving the following Impressions
of an engagement near Chalons dur
ing the battle Of the Marne.
In the neighborhood OF Chalons 4
took part in the most terrible battle
that I have ever seen: I was. however.
at Liege, at Namur and at Longwy..
s. - Since 1t was impossible for
our artillery to silence the French
batteries, we decided to charge.
thinking the French and English
would fly befoe Their German bayonet.
The experience proved that our ideas
on that subject were entirely err6n-
Ieous.
1.-TWO OF our regiments were order
ed to take the allies position by
storm. The French, however, were
ready to receive us and there ensued
such butchery as never was seen in
this or any other war. A detach-
ment of French concealed among the
trees threw themselves on u.s. They
were mostly turcos and zouaves.
strong devils against whom 1t Is i'm
possible to fight. A zouave, with a
gun, bayonet fixed, is the most infer
nal thing that can be described.
Savage cries Of pain and Of anger
through the wood. A great
many men fell there and saturated
the ground with blood. Soon the
French artillery came into action and
its projectiles completed the work of
the bayonet. Our men beat a retreat
at full speed across the wood nowfin
flames. Those who had escaped the
bayonet fell under the rain ofbullets
and lay burning in the thickets. Only
/ so men Of my regiment returned. OF
the other only II came back. and OF
the n survivors. all were more or
less grievously wounded. ~ sisti
sd followed the campaign in Man
churia, but l think in the course of
the Eve days OF the battle of the
Marine, more victims fell than were
counted in the battles Of Mukden and
OF Liao-Yang." Y. n si' ,Y
character Of the lighting in this bat
tie is furnished by q French soldiers
letter published by the Depeche de
Toulouse. I'VE have been fighting
| for three weeks to the east of vefdun
in the region of the Tournon, GENT
court and Saint Medlel forests" he,
wrote. I'VE advance. but very slow
Ilya because the t'boches'' (Germans)
are strongly entrenched. For ten
days we occupied trenches only 400
yards from theirs. and they did all
that was humanity possible to break
through. They charged as many as
ten times day and at night they
tried to approach by creeping along
the ground. But ali their assaults
were repealed with gSeat slaughter;
{, 900 German bodies were left In
front Of .ourgtrenches.
After every repulse each OF our
men grabbed two or three mansers
with ammunition from: the bodies Of
the dead and stood them alongside In
the trenches. and when, the enemy
came back he was received by IRE
from his own weapons. a., X
ITO guard against eurprise at night
we took all the empty beef cans. tied
them to q cord and piled them SO that
when the Germans came creeping to.
ward our lines and 4 the cord. was
touched. they made enoughA noiseE to
give the alarmy One night whan,the
cans rattled,s We replied with imme4
diate Ncllsys and there WIS mo- more
disturhanee that night. In thesmurns
ing We counted 1--WE hundred tii6ad'
Germans lying on the gsotind Within