Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-10-29
SEES GERMAN ARMY
IN OPERATIONONFIEL
Correspondent Says Huge Guns Are Surprise of
War-Watches Them Fired-Heroic French
Driven from Fort with Smoke Tubes
No Tents Carried

tented clteS lot officers and soldiers.
No matter how fast or how far Ger
man army moves, a completely equipped
telegraph office is ready for the army
commander five minutes after headquart-
ers have been established
At st. Benoit some 300 French prisoners
were seen waiting outside headquarters.
They were all fine young fellows in
striking contrast to the elderly reservlst
type which predominates in the German
prison camps. They were evidently elite
troops Of the line, and were treated al
most with Difference by their guards a
detachment of bearded andwehr men
from South Germany
FRENCH MADE HEROIC STAND.
They were the survivors Of the ga rri-
son Of the Roman Camp fort who had
put UP a desperate and spirited defence
as to win the whole-hearted admiration
and respect of the German officers and
men. Their armored turrets and cement
ed bastions, although constructed after
the best rules of fertilization OF a few
years ago, had been battered about their
ears in an Unexpectedly short time by
German and Austrian siege artillery.
Their guns had been silenced and
trenches were pushed up by an over
whelming force Of pioneers and infantry
to within five yards of their works be-
fore they retreated from the advanced
intrenohments to the classmates of the
fort. Here they maintained a stout re-
sistance and refused every summons to
surrender. Hand grenades were brought
up, bound to a backing Of boards and ex-
ploded against the openings into the case
mates. filing these with showers of steel
splinters. Pioneers, creeping up to the
dead angle of the classmates, where the
first of the defenders could not reach
them, directed smoke tubes and stink
pots against apertures into the citadel,
filing the rooms with suffocating smoke
and gases.
Have you had cnough?" they were
asked after the frst smoke treatment.
No was the defiant answer
The treatment was repeated second
and third time the response to the de-
mand for surrender each time growing
weaker, until finally the defenders were
I no longer able to raise their rifles, and
the fort was taken When the sur
vivors of the plucky garrison were able
/
they found their late opponents pre-
senting arms before them In recogni-
ton Of their gallant stand They were
granted the most honorable terms Of
surrender. Their officers were allowed
to retain their swords. and on their
march toward an honorable captivity
they We're everywhere greeted with ex-
presslons Of respect and admiration.
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from north and south against the seq
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mans The French. SSlng their troops