The Green Forest tribune., 1914-10-02
AWFUL SLAUGHTER
 DAILY OCCURRENCE
TEUTCN GENERALS DO NOT CARE WHAT PRICE IN MEN THEY
 PAY TO GAIN ADVANTAGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


 London.-A West Kent man, who fought in South Africa, writes home:
 ''The Boer war was a game of skit- ties to this. They came at us in great masses. It was like shooting rabbits, only as fast as you shot one lot down another came up. You could not help hitting them.
 We had plenty of time to take aim, and if we weren't reaching Bis, ley standard all the time, we must have done a mighty lot of execution. AS for their rifle fire, they couldn't hit haystack. Some of them fire from their hips, and must have vast, ed a lot of ammunition"
 "The German generals don't seem to mind what price their men have to pay so long as they can break through our lines," said young Ian cer who received a sword cut in the neck last Wednesday. "They were cut down like ripe corn in harvest time, but they didn't seem to mind it at all. It was always on, and on again, until they could stand it no longer, and then others took their places.
 "They attached lot of importance to massed artillery fire, and for hours all their guns seemed to play lon one little spot of our line until the din and the noise and the scresching of She shells overhead becomes so terrible that you feel as if it would be a re. lief to cry out.
 ''The effect on the nerves is terri. | ble, and I suppose it is intended to shatter the nerves of our men. Only the strongest can stand it for long and most of us found it best to stuff our handkerchiefs for the same pur- pose. #5 Noise seems to count for lot with the Germans, for their cavalry | have a trick of laundering along in way that the horses hoofs make the most awful din you ever heard, givine 1 the impression that the whole eartt is shaking beneath their tread. Added to that there are the wild. uncanny shouts which they indulge in.
 "They are finding that it takes 2 1 lot of shouting to shift the British troops, and I expect they will change their tactics soon.
 "One of the Cheshires shot in both legs, scoffed at the idea of our men | being downcast by their task" ] You should have seen the mob oi laughing. cheering comrades that saw us off from camp Thursday" he said. They weren't downhearted by long ehalks, and if the Germans think all =. ht has been knocked out ot t Mrs. C.Nre making a big mistake ! list ot wlnnIy of go in our lads yet. | at the recent. ----------
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 London,--A Russell. firs+ h from Paris says Theibau., -.y9ss.on, art crit ic of the Temps, has visited the ca thedral at Rheims and gives the fol lowing description of the structure as l it now stands:
 "To judge the damage it was neces sary to ascend the towers. There saw the hells completely melted, the roof of lead plates had disappeared the magnificent campanile of wood and lead erected at the crossing of the transeprs and apse had vanished The vaults are standing and the nave was not touched by fire"
 The writer thinks, however, that the autumn rains and frost will play hay. oc with the stones, and that measures must be taken immediately tC strengthen the walls. He concluded by quoting the words of the German emperor's son to the Rheims munici pality few days before the lombard ment: "The best proof of my desire not to touch the building is that I am anxious to put the wounded inside"