The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-11
HOW THE GERMANS
 PASSED THROUGH BELGIUM TO FRANCE
Their Amazing Speed Took the Allies By Storm and Fore
 ed Their Retreat.
GERMAN DEAD AND WOUNDED CARED FOR:
 NOT so THE FRENCH
Press Correspon- dent Describes the Teutonic Invasion of Two Countries Duel Between Airships.


 London, Sept IA. correspondent of the Associated Press who has been through Belgium sends a long message from Rotterdam from which some thing has been deleted at the begin hing It was also rather heavily cen sored throughout and appears to be an account of the invasion of Bel gium obtained from a German point of view. The story follows:
 From Brussels, the German army poured over southern Belgium into France like a flood tide, spreading like a fan in the directions Of Beaumont, Maubeuge, Mons and Lille, Joining in the south of Belgium with other Ger man army corps proceeding from Gembloux, Dinant and Givet, totalling 40 army corps or over a million and a. half of men.
 They went over the French border without serious resistance. the French scattering sbefore them in great dis order, leaving behind much war mate rial and all sorts Of personal equip7 ment, their retreat extending as far as the forest of Normal in Northern France.
 resulting in considerable losses to both sides, bringing up the losses of sthe Germans in Belgium to about 50,0O0.
 'fFrom the Binche country south ward in sthe direction of Maubeuge, innumerable skirmishes occurred from August 23 to August 26. At Bray, just west Of Binche, the French and Eng fish were repulsed by the Germans, the former. retreating to Bonne Es- perante where, after another skirnish, they fell back through Merbes, Saint Marie and N1erbes-le-Chaleau, the English retiring to Jeumont at the same time
 Arrangements in the vicinity of Buisserre and Thirn constituted the most determined resistance offered by the allies. After two days continuous artillery duel which raked the sur rounding country, and demolished al- most every structure, the right wing of the allies withdrew southward. This gave the Germans opportunity to sweep through Beumont and reach Aflaubeuge from the southA
 Meanwhile other corps had ap- preached Maubeuge from the north, entirely investing the fortress. The English and French were driven across the Sambre river on August 23 where on the south bank of the river in a 30 mile front, fighting con- tinued for three days.
 .arhe correspondent first saw actual firing in the direction of Maubeuge on August 26 when white puffs from the German shrapnel c1ouded the horizon, Out the forward movement of the German columns was so fast that when the correspondent reached the scene of teh recent engagement the firing line had advanced fully 10 miles An extensive trench sys- tenn laid out by the French infantry marked the French retreat
 s4The German wounded, in all cases, were immediately cared for and the dead buried as fast the army con tinued on the march while the French dead were left unburied and the the battlefield for three days before being given attention.
 Large numbers of French wounded were brought into Sorle Sur Sambre from the surrounding woods whither many had dragged themselves to es- cape
 Al large proportion of the French wounded died for lack of prompt at tention and long exposure in the open without food or drink No cases were observed where French medical men were left behind to take care of their wounded, The German medical corps was fully occupied with the treatment of it's own wounded and was hastened onward by forced marches of extraor- dinary speed and duration made by the Germans.
 -.The French dead, in all sorts of were a common sight and squares and cemeteries with un- finished graves gave mute evidence of a hurried French retreat
 s:Dove-shaped German aeroplaneS whirred constantly over the country and occasionally one saw French avi- ators far enough aloft to be out of range of the special German guns de- signed for the destruction of air craft
 ''I saw a duel between French and German machines, both of which were disabled in a hard battle. After ca reening downward in giant circles the two machines plunged to the earth al- most side by side and were completely shattered the aviators being instantly killed by the fall While a1oft both the pilots and their assistants kept up a lively exchange of revolver shots which at first were inefctual and -1>an Simultaneously they reached