The chronicle=news., 1914-11-16

Stockholm publishes letter from
German officer to a friend In Swe-
den giving the following Impressions
of an engagement near Chalons dur
ing the battle of the Marine.
I'm the neighborhood Of Chalons
took part In the most terrible bat
tie that / have ever seen; was,
however, at Liege, at Namur and
at Longwy. Since it was impossible
for our artillery to silence French
batteries. we decided to charge,
thinking the French and English
would fly before the German bayo-
net; the experience proved that our
ideas o nthat subject were entirely
erroneous.
1.-TWO of our regiments were or
dered to take the allies position by
storm. The French, however, were
ready to receive us and there ensued
such butchery as never was seen
in this or any other war. detach-
ment of French concealed among the
trees threw themselves on u.s. They
were mostly turcos and zonaves,
strong delivs against whom II is i'm
possible to fight. A zouave, with
gun, bayonet fixed. as the most in
fernal thing that can be described.
Savage cries of pain and of an
ger resounded through the wood. II
great many men fell there and satu-
rated the ground with blood. Soon
the French artillery came into action
and It's projectiles completed the
work of the bayonet. Our men beat
a retreat at full speed across the
wood now In flames. Those who had
escaped the bayonet fell under the
rain of bullets and lay burning in
the thickets. Only 60 men of my regi-
metn returned. OF the other only
II came back. and of the n surviv-
ors, all were more or less grievous-
ly wounded.
II followed the campaign in Man
churia. but l think in the course OF
the five first days of the battle of
the Marine. more victims fell than
were counted in the battles of Muk-
den and of Liao-Yang.
Another evidence of the murder
GUS character of the fighting in this
battle is furnished by a French SOL
dier's letter published by the De0eche
De Toulouse. I'VE have bmeen fight
ing for three weeks to the east Of
Verdun in the region CT the Tour
non, Genicourt and aSint Medicl
forests he wrote. 1--WE advance,
but very slowly because the
"boches'' (Germans) are strongly
cntrenshed. For ten days we occu-
pisd trenches only 400 yards from
theirs. and they did all that was hn-
manly possibly to break through.
They charged as many as ten times
day and at night they tried to ap-
proach by creeping along the
ground But all thier assaults we're
repealed with great slaughter; 5000
German bodies were left in front of
our trenches.
After every rcpulse each OF our
men grabbed two or three Mausers
with ammunition from the bodies OF
the dead and stood them alongside
in the trenches. and when the enemy
came back he was received by fire
from his own weapons.
ITO guard against surprise at
night we took all the empty beef
them so that when the Germans
came creeping toward our lines and
the cord was touched. they made
enough noise to give the alarm. Ono
night when the can ratified, we re-
piled with immediate volleys and
there was no more disturbance that
night. In the morning we counted
500 dead Germans lying on the
ground within 100 yards of the
trenches"
Stockholm, Nov. 16.-Public sus-
picion in England that the Scandi.
navian countries are supply Ger
many on large scale with such
commodities as wool. petrol and
grain, has aroused the most ener.
getic protests in the Swedish press.
The suspicion is wholly unfounded.
Since the beginning of the war and
tho declaration of Swedish neutral
ity. the expectation of these conf
modities has been prohibited by the
Swedish government. The order ha;
been rigidly enforced.
Regarding the increase in Swedish
imports the corn. which the London
Times quotes as one basis of the
suspicion that Sweden Is sending
corn to Germany, it is explained here
that this increased importation is
due simply to the fact that Sweden's
harvest of common fodder this year
las been very poor. The corn is,
To n great extent. given to pigs,
Thus the swedish papers point out
that the Swedish and Danish export
of pork and ham to England depends
largely upon the supply of corn.
which is a reason England should
look upon this import with SYM
patty.
When the war broke out Sweden