The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-24
SAYS GERMANS POSE
AS FRENCH SOLDIERS
Wearing Uniforms of Foe They
Approached British Dctach-
mcnt. Officer Writes.

Definite first hand news was received
by THE SrN yesterday that detachmenis
OF German soldiers have been using
French uniforms for blinds, and II der
cover OF these on at least one occasion
managed to saunter close 70 BRUSH
detachment.
Then. when the suspicious OF the Brit
ish officers had been s,illed. the order
Ia nre was given on the occasion re-
ferred TO the British managed TO beat
them back and for i've hours the battle
was fought, with a handful OF British
troops holding back a force OF $500 Ger
mans.
Tn, news comes IN a letter written
10 AN Engl sh resident Of New York by
British officer who was In Charg" or the
machine guns in that night The officer
who escaped in that encounter with
slight bullet wound or the wrist, mas
since been Killed The letter follows:
"W. had our first real scrap with the
Germans on the night of tho the 18TH OF
August and We simply smothcred them
We were bIllctted at a town 'Ha dec
cieSD and had "A small advance post AT
the top end OF H.
About 80 T.. NJ. when Il was just
dark. we heard big column coming
along the road and thought they we're
some Of our side as they had no scouts
out or any protection
''WhsU they got 10 HbOul eleu'N Nd'Hs
from us we ordered them to halt. which
some of them did hut the first twenty
or so came wandering on and We could
see they were dressed in French uni
forms
"Thoy came ON and chattcd with Us
and said 'Nlvc rAngicterrc,' and all that
sort of thing, and thcn suddenly gave the
order to charge
"I,uclily We were ready for them and
Charles Nrorrock's company and my
machine guns were all We had up there,
We opcned fire and drove them back u
though they got one OF the machine guns.
We'll. that started It. The extent ~
our front was only the breadth OF tho
road between two houses. and We held
II for five hours against $500 Ger
mans The men behaved like absolute
/ heroes, and II is estimated that We killed
about 200 ~ the enemy. tn" Germans
brought up "a big gun and started hrlng
| point blank AZ US down the road from
| obo wards away, but the machine guns
| knocked them out after ten minutes
I'VE lost poor Windsor Give, and 7
! helIpye Uawardeu. Dick Rowley was shot
! slightly I'm the foot. and Rupert keppc'
/ Reriously but not dangerously, did not
get touched except for Craze on tho
| wrist. and II was the most thrilling time
! ! have ever had
txccrrts from other letters received
from London by the same man follow:
| "Thc Germans have behaved in an
absolutely unbelievable way for a so
called civilized nation. Young ---- told
yesterday that an American doctor
hc knew had just got back from Belgium,
where he was taking holiday when the
! utr broke out. He had tried to get
taken on either by Belgium or the Medi'
! cal department. but couldn't, and had
managed 10 get job As a meat carrier
for the Relgian commissariat and IN time
! managed t. visit some of IN" hospitals
uherc h, saw people with their noses and
cars cut Off aad their wrists slashed.
THE German soldiers were told that
this is "A holy war, and that heaven
nthera is" william II, had ordained that
Europe should NJ peonled only by Ger
mlrs and Prussian-. The doctor is go'nF
to- America to lecture about H.
There are two Red Cross nurses In
"A hosuitnl here who had the sincws OF
their wrists ut through.
"IIaya YOU ever read Of anything like
the horrors and crimes that the Germans
are p,rpctr ting? The descriptions given
hy the mon who come home wounded arc
far worse than what the papers print
They cut or the hands of al he boys and
, sometimes OF the women to prevent then
from fr.uG. This 's absolutely true
81 hone the whole world knows OF H.
I In spltr OF the lies the itrmans are send
iug forth Any how. America does not
. s.om 10 he aiken IN by their lies Tho,
seized the first lot of nurses We sent from
Rru~scls md forbade them 20 nurse ann
Ione except Germans. one of their dirties
TRICKS is that ~ mounting mach ne gums
inside Red Cross wagons ana firing wher
We IRE colo, Ing ne wounded"
one anccdo'e in Ma" letters cuncr.us a.
old woman who, when told that Englan,
had declared war IN Germany, said
I Well, we've picked out a capital IA,
for H."