The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-08

great showing at the longer ranges.
Inc valley Of the river became an
inferno. From height to height the
great guns belched forth their fire in
terrific fashion. Huge shells went
shrleking across the river and the
river meadows
Inc enemy poured a whitening fire
upon the allied troops and engineers
that were engaged in building pom
toon bridges. The pontoons are car.
r1ed on wagons especially construct
ed for their transportation. It is nee
essary to bring these pontoons to the
waters edge, launch them and then
lash them together
The scene by this time, had become
fearful and beyond the description of
words. To the terrible grandeur of
IL was added the sight of ,Germon
and French aeroplanas lowering over
the battlef1elds. Time and again they
dashed across the river to recon
hotter and carried on their work sue
cessfully, although they were sub
jected to terrific fire from the Ger
man guns especially made for the
purpose of bringing down airships.
Finally the allied army, foot by
foot, began to advance toward the
river bank. Thanks to the presence
OF the small, unbroken bridge, the
English troops were able to effect a
crossing of the river comparatively
early, while the French, showing
great bravery, began crossing the
river in single file by using the steel
girder
Germans Forced to Retire.
I'm the meantime the engineers re-
newed their task of pontoon bridge
building and columns of troops
crossed the river. By nightfall the
crossing of the river had been eff
fected and the enemy was forced to
retire.
ct was clear that this retirement
was not to be accepted as a victory
for the allies, as all night long search
lights swept the river, and opposing
generals attempted to carry out vari-
GUS strategic moves with a view to
renewing the combat the next day
Desultory firing wao kept up through
out the night:
"At a certain period during the
night it became exceedingly important
that the enemy should have no knowl-
| edge Of the position of a detachment
of the British infantry, which was up
close to the enemy. A stray shot
struck one of the British soldiers,
SCATTERING a bone in his arm.
Uttered No Sound.
Had he let a cry escape him the
discovery of the British detachment
would have been made. But this
wounded soldier never uttered a cry.
Monday dawned cold and windy,
and showers fell occasionally. The
| Germans began building little pits,
while the allies also entrenched them
selves against heavy bombardments.
cat times the enemy attempted to
take the offensive, and even sue
ceeded, within small areas, in forcing
back the allies, just as the allies sue
ceeded elsewhere in forcing back the
enemy.
| ''It now became evident that this
was no rear guard Of Germans that
was engaged, but that it was a de-
termined stand Of the army of Gen
eral Won Kluck. Moreover, it was
strongly suspected that German re-
endorsements were coming up.
| "On Tuesday afternoon a very Sc
we're attack was made by the enemy,
who evidently had been REINFORCED
and who seemed determined to break
| through the allied lines between Vic
| sur-Aisne and SCISSORS. This attack
was heralded by tremendous out
burst of the heavy German artillery,
followed by a systematic advance of
the infantry.
| 1.-THE infantry of the allies, aided
| by machine guns, stoed their ground,
however, in a most splendid fashion,
pouring a deadly fire into the attack
ing Germans. At certain points the
allies repulsed the Germans at the
point Of bayonets.
with undated fury this battle
continued all night and throughout
| Wednesday and Thursday. On
Wednesday night the Germans, in
great fury, attacked the French in
the region near Reims. Three times
| they attacked, and on each occasion
they we're repulsed with heavy losses.
con Thursday the Germans attacked
the English with equal fierceness in
the neighborhood of scissors, and
again they we're hurled back with
| tremendous losses.
THE first sign of weakening on
the part of the Germans was noticed
| Thursday afternoon after their fierce
attacks on that day had been re-
pulsed with huge losses.
| "The battle then was almost a week
| old. The soldiers wearied by their
| pursuit of the fleeing Germans and
even more wearied and careworn by
| the constant fighting since Sunday,
however, we're kept up by their in
domitable will power. Shells burst