Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-09-25

the most part this is due to the too
brilliant French artillery.
The English are marvelousiy
trained I'm making use Of ground. ""
never sees them and one is constantly
under fire. The French airmeh per
form wonderful fcats. We cannot get
rid of them As soon as an airmnh
has flown over us, ten minutes later
we get their shrapnc fire In our po-
sitlon. We have little artillery IN our
corps. without il we cannot get Tor
ward
Hand hand Fight.
Three DAYS ago our division took
nossession Of these heights and dug
itself in. Two days ago, early IN the
morning. we were attacked by I'M
menstiy superior English forces--one
brigade and two battalions-- and were
turned out Of our positions. me rel
lows took five guns from us. y was
a tremendous hand-to-hand tight.
"'Tow | escaped myself | am not
clear. | then had TO bring up supper.
on foot. My horse was wounded anu
the others were too far In the Ita.'
Then came up the guard lager battai-
ion. Fourth wager, sixth regiment, re-
serve regiment Thirteen, and anu
wear regiments Thirteen and SiNteeh'
ana with the help OF the artillery We
drove the fellows out OF the position
Iagain. our machine guns did exceiieh'
work: the English Fen in heaps
Get Iron Crosses.
I'm our battalion three iron crosses
have been glyen--one to - I.
one tn Captain --------, and one to sur
qeon - fnanies probably celeted }.
lei us hope that we shall be the lucky
ones the next time, ~
During the first two days Ok me
battle | had only one piece OF pieau
land no water | spent the night III
the rain without my great coat. my
rest Of my kit was ON the horse Nalen
had been left miles behind with Inc
baggage and which cannot come up
Into the battle because as soon as you
put your nose up from behind cover
the bullets whistle
War is terrible. We are all nSp-
| ing that q decisive battle Will END ths
war as our troops already nave eo'
round Paris If we beat the Ehsilsi
the French resistance will soon pe
broken. Russia will be very quiekis
dealt with. of this there is no doubt
Help From Austrians.
we have received splendid neil
from the Austrian heavy artillery
! Maubrupc. They bombarded or
Nclfontaine in such a way tha1 liz /,
was not ten meters OF parapct Wiilci
did not show enormous cra9rs hiau'
by the shells. The armored iuiiou
were found upside down. :
Yesterday evening about 6 ociocf
lin the valley in which our reserNe
stood, there was such terrible can
nonade that we saw nothing OF the SIX
but cloud Of smoke. We had rev
casualties. ~
'"Among the items of news are ~
iTolloWing Recently a pilot ana on
server Of the royal flying corps were
forced by a breakage in their aero
pane to descend in the enemy's INES
The pilot managed to pancake his ma
! chine down to earth and the Two es
Eca'ped into some thick underground II
THE woods. The enemy came UP an.
lseized and smashed the machine pu
did not search for our men with muef
zeal. The latter lay hid till dark ant
then found their way to the Aisne
across which they swan, reachlns
fcamp in safety, but barefooted.
Drowned III ItINtIs
"Numerous floating bridges nave y
now been thrown across The Aisne ans
permanent bridges have been re
paired under fire. ON the 10th Lieu
/ tenant - lname deleteu). OF tn
Third signal corps, royal engineers. wa
unfortunately drowned while attempt
ing to swim across the river with ca
Bile in order to open up fresh telegraph
/ -s...,t len. l1a h g
Espionage Is still carried on by tn
fenemy to considerable extent. Re
Gently the suspicious OF some OF lin
] French troops were aroused. by cominl
across a farm from which the horse
ihad been removed After some searcl
they discovered a telephone which wa
connected by an underground cabi
with the German lines. and the owne
OF the farm paid the penalty In the us
i ual way in war for his treachery.
Prisoners March In Front.
Fl After some cases of village fight
ling, which occurred earlier In the wal
1T was reported by some OF our OIL
lcers that the Germans had attempts
Ito approach TO close quarters by fore
ling prisoners to march in front Q
them. The Germans have recentil
repeated the same trick on large
scale against the French. as is show
by the copy of an order printed De
low. 1t is therein referred TO as
'rusc. but If that term can be 9ccepte
1T is distinctly Illegal ruse.
During a recent night attack. tn
order reads, the Germans drove col
umn Of French prisoners In front O
them
This action Is to be brought I
the notice Of all our troops. Cd !
order 10 put them on their guar
i. against such dastardly ruse: CD |
order that every soldier may kno'
how the Germans treat their prison
ers. Our troops must not forget tina
liz they allow themselves to be take