Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-09-10
BRITISH ARMY CALM
Soldiers at Mons Fishcd While
Waiting for Attack.
Gallant Charges Of the French Turcos
at Chartered, Where the Carnage
Was HorrIbIe-Cardinals
Bless Troops.

misunderstanding from the front,
q correspondent of the Times sends
the following under Paris date:
AT Mons the British troops made
themselves at home. Preparations
for the city's defense were extremely
comforting in their workmanlike de-
tail. In the woods lurked innumer-
able field guns. Everywhere In the
town confidence was dominant.
when with heavy firing audible in
the distance British soldiers can sit
quietly on the banks of the canal,
calmly fishing with bayoneted rifles
as fishing rods, the spectacle inspires
confidence even though from all d.
rections the presence of the dreaded
German cavalry is reported"
The next day the correspondent
proceeded to Journal, where he FOUND
the populace in great alarm. Six Ger
man cavalrymen motored into the
town and inquired whether there were
any French soldiers. They were told
that there were none, but later in the
day French troops entered the place
and killed the six Germans. The next
day large force of Germans attacked
the town and was repulsed.
Proceeding to Valenciennes, the
cores ondent found that troop trains
filed with British soldiers were con-
tinually arriving there. The British
officers were in absolute possession
of the refreshment bars and no food
was obtainable. The correspondent
continues: Near CharlerOi | heard
some stories Of the bravery OF the
French soldiers The Germans were
bombardng the city.
THE French made what amounted
to a medieval sortie, but finding the
enemy in much greater force than
was expected were compelled to with
draw. The bombardment continued
relentlessly, whereupon the French
Turcos. picked troops from Algeria,
debouched from the town and with
galantry which must surely live IN
history charged the German battery,
bayoneting all the German gunners.
Their losses, 1t is said, exceeded
those Of the light brigade at Bala-
clava or battalion only hundred
men, it Is reported, returned I'M
scratched. Their bravery, @however,
was powerless against the German
advance, which crept foot by foot
through the outskirts of Charleroi to
the very heart of the town.
There in the narrow streets the
carnage was indescribable. The
French infantryman told me that the
roads became so TANNED with dead
that the killed remained standing up
right where they had been shot, sup
ported by their dead comrades. The
last stand of the French was made be-
fore the railway station, in front OF
which passes the canal, where the
Germans fought for two hours to take
the bridges. After they had captured
the station, with heavy casualties, the
Germans moved rapidly ahead, taking
suburban villages"
The correspondent Of the Central
News at Paris sends the following:
THE shooting of the British infan
trymen on the firing line was wonder
full Every time a Germans head
showed above trench and every time
the German infantry attempted to rush
a position, there came steady, with
ering fire from the khaki-clad men
lying in extended formation along the
wide battle front.
81 witnessed notable scene on the
road between Boulogne and Paris.
Two English cardinals, Cardinal
Bourne, archbiship of Westminster,
and Cardinal Gasquet, abbot president
Of the English Benedictines, were on
their way from London to the conclave
at Rome. Their train stopped on sid
ing and by a curious chance regi-
ment of British troops, which included
in its ranks large body of Irish Cath
olics was drawn up alongside for a
moment. The cardinals leaned out Of
the window and gave the soldiers their
blessing which the Catholic soldiers,
by spontaneous impulse, knelt to re-
ceive."
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