New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-23
uAole Sections and Com
nsuiesofG ermanSW Wiped
Out by Its Fire.
n,r AS THEY STAND
FROM SHELLS FORCE
cleaners Letters Indicate In
y,ders Are Discouraged-NeW
photography Discovered.
Bv E. A. BEAMAN.

,..--.,,on6ent Of The New York
lspeo.ils.,,. and London standard
~, Sent. PA visit to the held
- h.,tle Of the Marine shows the
y :. ...,i,o mower OF the French S-ineh
49, ~ am rs millimetrcs) TO be some
~ ~ ~ which we hitherto had not
800 Entire sections and com
-, have been struck as if by stimuli
s' 80. tbunderbOlts, reminding one OF
49, so much as the wholesale ex-
.;n,.,on Of the populations OF Her
,nlspeum and Pompeii'
m sAe borders Of one Of the forests
Company Of Prussian infantry at
A,,on,e Is laid out just as it was when
.n,D,issd BY the fire. Two sentinels
:. sill grasping their rifles, and lit
:, vsv of signal messenger lies by
Nn.,H Further on the officer on
.,,,s lies, 8 few yards away from men
~ are seen with loosened belts and
4 their blankets, and two OF them
ssjll with playing cards IN their hanos'
Tloss sleeping and those waking were
,~snt ont of life together without APP
,.rsntly having had time to move
Tvsn more extraordinary is another
.,orp Of sixty dead, who we're lying
sssound a small haystack, presumably
s,Isen Their rifles arc stacked and
Ssir kpapsacks arranged in orderly
As,ps. In the outer ring the path OF
~ shells caa be traced IN q direct
N. nv heaps OF corpses. but the par
Srnlsr she'll taat killed these Sixty
s,ruek them in front, behind and at
n, sides with the same sudden death.
irA vet none of them bears any out
van wound. There they are, stretched
49, downward or staring up at the
Nv seemingly pulverized by the mere
t..ee Al the explosion. The same mys-
,sy;ous results are seen in many OF
,bs trenches. where dead Germans are
PILED in rows. q,
According 10 all the stories Of French
,ytillerymep. the Germans are never
able to stand before me FIRE or the
S-inch gun whenever IL found them
out: but latterly, as soon as the French
battery opened. q hasty retirement
vas quickly followed by heavy BON
tardment Of the guns by the big ca'ore
German artillery. far out Of range
That the Germans are beginning TO
feel discouraged is gathered from Get
iers seized and statements made Sy Of
fears who are now prisoners. A lieu
,sront of the 06fb ARTILLERY Regiment
writes as follows:
aTbe 10th Corps has been fighting
ineessantly since the commencement OF
the campaign. Almost ell Of our horses
are gone. We are under fire every day
from a. m 10 5 p. m, without tooo
drink. The French artillery fire IS
terrific. | an so worn out that ! can
hardly sit on my horse even at a walk
Even az night our men cannot rest.
AFrench sirmau last night threw four
bombs, three Of which killed and
wounded twenty horses and four men,
We get no letters"
A new and rapid method of making
autographs has been communicated to
The Academy Of Science. Charpentleri
following on the experiments made by
n Oh. Vallsnt, chief of the photograph
laboratory Of Lariboisiere Hospital, IN
sesd Of the somewhat cumbrous
Ila.es, has proposed 70 use gelatinized
cards Of one-thirtieth their weight on
which a picture has been quickly OBJ
tanned Of any part Of the body, four to
SIX seconds for hand and foot, eight to
Ten seconds for neck or leg, fifteen Sec
ends for shoulder and knee and TWEEN
iy-fve 10 thirty seconds for high chest
or abdomen. This rapidity permits OF
the immediate examination of tract
urp or localization Of bullet, and SO
Is particularly well suited for field am
huiance work. The process has been
used in several cases of wounded in re-
cent combats and has been found en-
tirclv satiufactOry