Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-31
NO QUARTER ASKED
IN CHASTITY BATTLE.
NOT A FIGHT, BUT A MASSACRE,
10 REPORT FROM BATTLE
FIELD IN EUROPE.
No Pure Water for the Wounded and
Ne Chance to Bury the Dead,
While Fresh Troops Are Be-
Ina Rushed to the Slaughter.

On the Nieuporte-Dixmude from
tier in Belgium, where for days the
allies have been vigorously disputing
every inch OF ground, the offensive
Of the Germans 10 said by the French
to be moderating. The French claim
to have made slight gains between
La Bassee and Lens. Elsewhere along
the line In Belgium there were no
operations worthy of mention.
OF the situation along the Yser
river the Belgian government said
the German artillery fire has slack
ened, having been subdued" by the
guns OF the feet and that the posi-
ton of the allies had improved.
"A massacre, NOT q fight. A butch
cry. A shambles." Such are the
phrases used over and over by cor
respondents endeavoring to give an
inkling of the events of this bloodiest
battle of the war. mo quarter 10
asked and none Is given. 1t is the
battle of the bayonets!
Belgian regiments have been deci
mated to q third Of their former Tight
ing strength; British troops stand
grim and degged In the face OF fear
ful loss; gallant Frenchmen shout
with the lust OF combat, and opposed
to them in the sublime grandeur OF
death the solid ranks OF Germans
march unswervingly against with
ering fire and literally bestrew the
andscape with their corpses.
There ID no pure water for the
wounded The entire available sup
ply is streaked and stained with
blood-and there is no one to cool
parched lips and burning brows even
with this There is no chance to bury
dead or care for wounded The
ground they lie on 10 narrowed and
furrowed over and over by straying
bullets of mitraileuses and the tear
ing fragments of bursting shrapnel.
And out OF the chaos there looms
one fact from which England at home
may extract some comfort The
Germans seem to be stopped
A Paris statement announces that
two furious night attacks by Germans
on the allied line In the region OF
Dixmude were repulsed, and that all
along the front, from Nieuport to
Dixmude, the Germans seemed to
have lessened their efforts, while the
allies, continuing their offensive TO
the north of Ypres, also have been
successful further to the south, max
ing slight progress on the line be-
tween La Bassee and Lens.
Indications from this statement
and also from the statement issued
by the French war office Wednesday
afternoon are that the kaiser's gen.
erals have almost abandoned hope OF
advancing to Dunkirk and Calais.
The correspondent OF the Evening
News wires that the Germans are
falling back, but there is nothing in
the other reports from the front to
confirm this. other reports are that
the enemy Is short OF ammunition
And yet they have crossed the river
User seven times and seven times
have been driven back. The lossei
were terrible, and at some points
bridges across the river were actual
ly formed by the bodies OF dead Ger
man soldiers, piled up in the sluggish
current.
Advices from Bruges and Ostend
and other points in Belgium indicate
that the Germans are stripping that
territory OF all so diers, except ths
barest garrisons, and are rushing all
reinforcements possible to the army
that Is now trying to break through
the British-Belgian-F French line that
is guarding the approaches to Dun
kirk and Calais.