The Detroit times., 1914-09-08

the field was ever SO mobile Thou
sands OF army automobiles have been
In use. Each regiment has It's sup
ply. The highways were mapped IN
advance. There was not a cross
roads that was not known. Even the
trifing brooks had been located.
Nothing had been left to chance and
the advance guard was accompanied
by enormous automobiles filed Win
corps OF sappers who carried bridge
and road building materials.
How well this worked was shown
when Namur. which IL was boosted
would resist for months, fell In two
days. The terrible work OF these
great Krupp weapons, whose exist
ence had been kept secret, Is hard
to realize. One shot from one OF
these guns went through what was
considered an impregnable wall OF
concrete and armored steel at Namur.
exploded and killed $50 men. And
aside from the effectiveness OF these
terrible weapons. Belgian prisoners
with whom / have talked here, men
who were In the Namur forts, declare
their fire absolutely skaters the
nerves OF the defenders, whose guns
have not SUFFICIENT range to reach
them.
The armies OF Crown Prince Fred
erick Wilhelm and Of Crown Prince
Rupprecht. OF Bavaria. are reported
here as moving in an irresisuDie
manner into France. In a three-day
battle below Metz Il Is declared the
French were terribly cut up ana
forced to retreat In almost a rout.
II Is declared that in this engagement
the French lost Isl guns and were
unable to make q stand against the
victorious Germans until they had
passed inside OF their secondary line
OF defense.
This city Is one of the principal
.centers for the wounded. The losses,
according to the wounded Of both
sides, are appalling. This is admit
teddy the case on the German side as
the Germans are constantly on the
offensive and have refused TO walt TO
besiege the entrenched positions. but
have taken them by direct charges.
French and Belgian prisoners | have
talked with declare nothing up to
the present time has stopped the Ger
mans.
"It makes you sick to see the way
that the Germans literally walk into
the very mouth of the machine guns
and cannon spouting short-fused
shrapnel that NOW down their lines
and tear great gaps In them" said
Belgian major, who was badly wound
ed. Nothing seems to stop them. II
is like an inhuman machine and 1t
takes the very nerve out OF you TO
watch It."
Trainload after trainload Of wound
ed pass through here. Prisoners as
well as German wounded are sent To
the concentration camps and later
the German wounded are sent home
to get ready for further service. AL.
though lists OF dead are published.
the last one filling three and one-half
pages Of newspaper In small type,
there are not even approximate hg-
ures obtainable as yet Of the number
of German dead.
Describing the lighting one wound
ed soldier said to me:
''It was indescribable carnage. We
met hand to hand. 1t was bayonet
to bayonet, rides dubbed. automatic
pistols and swords. The dead were
piled like barbados everywhere
Blood ran like brooks. 1t seemed like
q horrible nightmare. Here and there
In the pile OF mutilated corpses .
hand would move. leg witch con
vulsively. A mass of bloody fiesf
that once was man would murmur
II was not time to aid. We had Il
fight until we won. Then we tried
to save life. But II was usually toS
late"