Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12

UNKNOWN TRANS[EE!,I!
! ISMURDER At ADAMS
Between Montmirail and Ferte Sous

Between Montmirail and Ferte Sous
Jouarre, the French who hold the
right bank Of the Ourcq, have done
extremely we'll. Their vigorous work
achievement Of British cavalry which
forced considerable numbers Of the
enemy to cross the Marne in the
neighborhood Of Chateau Thierry,
within 35 miles of Rheims. which the
Germans are temporarily occupying,
Finally the Germans continue to
gaze at Nancy from afar-Nancy. one
of the great impregnable barricades
OF the east frontier. Nancy which the
enemy announced he would occupy on
the third day Of the war.
Soldiers are Optimistic. =,
Eye witnesses of scenes on battle
day and Wednesday,, came into Paris
from Meaux today. One, friend of
Edward Ignace, one of the deputies
for Paris. says:
II chatted with dozens Of our troops,
alert Zouaves, terrible Turcos, and SOL
diers from half dozen different regi-
ments. The greatest optimism reigns.
Il saw the remains of blown up
bridges-hundreds of lifeless horses
and mules lay In deserted trenches
the dead soldiers had been buried and
Ile WOuHueO Cared IOT--dHu SOIle
priests were throwing blazing brush
wood on the carcasses in the blazing
sunshine.
"Not far away, saw little boy.
the son of a Turco. The Turcos' often
bring their wives and children as near
to the battlefield as they are allowed.
He had q rifle from some wounded
soldier which he was hugging In his
little arms as If it.were a toy. He was
perfectly happy, surrounded by evil
dences of death, destruction, suffering
wounded in a village close by and the
child had strayed. -
German Prisoners Digging Graves.
diers with pointed rifles, were super
intending dozen German prisoners
digging deep graves for their own
dead. In a house not far off were SO
wounded Germans stretched on straw.
They, were. wedged together and COW
cred with blood and perspiration.
There was only. one real bed and a
Sa5 asnE sss wss sx,nE sad IN
his breast and shattered his side,
LAS. for. the German fetfeat, there
10 not the; sliGHteAt- : sd6u1stt labout 1T:
,ll9ss THE s gss,sa sss y . occupied they De
| AnoLner TFarlSlan speaks OF the ex-
traordinary number Of dead horses to
be seen on the north banks of the
Marne. > ''i~rf : - =, - -
"He came across three wounded
Moroccan soldiers; all Of whom spoke
Of the terrific nature OF Tuesdays g
fighting. .-a~ '--
I'VE could still hear the cannonad-
ing in the distance" said the Partisan.
while ever and anon conveys Of am
munition~ and. all kinds !, of supplies,
some drawn by horses and some by
motors, rolled, past us. In the distance
we could even see the shells bursting.
Some times it was a puff Of black
smoke. This presumably was the NELL
mite shell. Sometimes 1t was a very
tiny cloud and a soldier near me said
it was shrapnel. Then there appeared
four white separate clauds,; obviously
heavy artillery. It was all about two
and a half miles away. i .
"Then in the plain below we came
across scores Of German bodies which
the enemy had not. had time to bury
Their faces were turned to the ground
and they were all horribly wounded
by our famous Us millimetre guns.
Only one had his countenance turned
toward the sky.