South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-28

/ erations along the Franco-Belgian
border, saying:
Our people will meet either good
| or bad news with serenity. but we
/ keeping the public unnecessarily in
| the dark by Understanding censor
ship Is weakening the valuable asset
Of national confidence
1T is evident that the Germans are
! pursuing their original plan of at
tack which has for its objective the
| striking OF Paris from the northeast,
| the east and the southeast, the base
OF this triangular movement extend
ing from Lille to Alsace.
Tribute TO Turcos.
Col Reppington. the military ex-
pert Of the London Times, pays high
! tribute today 10 the courage Of the
! Turcos, the African troops who are
fighting with the French. To these
/ fierce warriors lighting is a second ma
! ture and the French officers. during
the heat of battle. have a hard time
| restraining their ferocity.
Many stories are altering through
OF the heroic deeds in the early stages
/ OF the fighting around Mons and
Charleroi when the TUrcos were push
ed forward in the advance guard OF
the French when an offensive move
ment was attempted.
|
when the Prussian guard. the flower
| OF the German army, engaged the
| TurcOs. the Africans fought like
| fanatics. They tell a story of
TurcOman who fell wounded just as
he saw a Prussian guardsman ad
vancing with levelled bayonet The
African had lost his rife but he still
! had his long poniard. Rising to his
feet with the blood gushing from his
wound, the Algerian leaped at the
Prussian's throat The German at
tempted to beat off his adversary with
the bayonet but was overwhelmed.
With free arm swing the Turcoman
cut off the Germans head and with
savage cries he fondled the bloody
trophy until he was struck down by
another Prussian who had run up.
Gain Firm FoothoId.
The German army under Crown
Prince Frederick William, which has
pushed upward through Luxembourg,
seems to have gained a firm tooth old
on French soil in the vicinity Of
Longwy and the allies cannot afford
| to weaken this section Of their army
to send reinforcements northward.
| Undoubtedly they must rely upon
more troops from England to beat
back the on-rush OF the German right
wing. Although the war office is sill
ent on the subject, everyone believes
that Earl Kitchener, the war secre-
tary, is rushing heavy bodies OF rein
forcements across the English chan
mel and that the next few days will
see the British forces in France and
Belgium increased to a quarter Of a
million men.
In northeastern Belgium the Ger
mans appear 10 be having success
also.
The Rotterdam correspondent OF
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say about the recapture OF MalineS,
or Mechlin, as It is also known:
After a magnificent defense of two
days by the Belgian army Malines has
been retaken by the Germans. on
the first day 10000 Germans opposed
the Belgians and on the second 40. 900
flung their might against greatly in
ferior force. In the end the Belgians
retired on Antwerp. leaving the
enemy in possession OF the town. The
Germans Immediately intrenched
themselves after ordering the inhabi-
tants to leave. Wachten and Helm
tendeck. two neighboring towns, were
destroyed by the retreating Belgians
TO prevent their being used as a cover
by the enemy in their operations
against Antwerp"
May Soon Attack Capital.
Malines is only Is miles south OF
Antwerp, the Belgian capital, and it
is a certainty that the invaders will
soon be hurting their strength against
that city. Siege guns are being sent
into northeast Belgium and soon the
German batteries will probably be
pounding away against the city.
The Daily Mail prints the follow
ing dispatch containing stories OF in
cidents in which British soldiers in
Belgium argued:
Some curious rumors have been
current in the British lines. One OF
the English soldiers told a CORE
spondent that the Russians had
reached Berlin and were driving the
Germans on to the British lines so
that they could be crumpled up"
(This report may have been pur-
posely circulated among the British
to inspire them)
In continuation. the dispatch says:
Some OF the British soldiers were
highly irritated because they did not
see enough fighting. One said:
II hardly saw German. came
on one German infantryman march,
ing through a village and he began
talking to me, saying something that
could not understand. What did
do but up with my bayonet and
pushed II right through his body be-
fore he could snap his fingers. I
would do It again. too.
"A fussileer told this story of fight
ing in a colliery town near Charleroi:
1T was most desultory firing. but
there was a stirring bayonet charge
by the English. The Germans don't
like that sort of thing. They quit
the neighborhood as soon as IL start
ed One time we ran up within see
ing distance Of a huge mass OF the
enemy in close formation. Our ma
| chine guns did them I'D properly
When we get them Ike that they
: don't ask for two helpings.'
"One OF the hussars spoke enthus-
iastically OF the work OF the British
lartillery: There was one battery, or
rather half a battery that did a lot
OF damage TO the Germans, so the
Germans trained several batteries up
on 1t in an endeavor to silence IL.
IL was Ike one David fighting half a
: dozen Goliaths, for the German guns
were those big Krupps that threw a
} shell as big as a bucket. You have
: TO say thos for those German gunners.
that they could shoot"
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