Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-11
TELLS Of GERMAN
SWEEP IN FRANCE
Allies offered Most Determined
Resistance Of Campaign
at Thuin.
FRENCH RETREAT WITHOUT
BURYING THEIR DEAD
Wounded in Many Cases Left
ON Battlefield Three Days.
AeropIane Duels Frequent.
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Sept. ia correspond
ent of the Associated Press, who has
been through Belgium, sends long
message from Rotterdam, which was
rather heavily censored throughout,
but which appears to be an account
of the invasion of Belgium obtained
from a German point OF view. Some
thing was deleted at the beginning.
The story follows:
''From Brussels the German army
poured over Southern Belgium into
France like a flood tide, spreading
like fan in the directions of Beau
mont, Maubeuge, Mons and Lille,
Joining in the south of Belgium win
other army corps proceeding from
Cembloux Dinant and GiVet, totallins
forty army corps, or over a million
and half of men.
.1Jhey went over the French border
without serious resistance, the French
scattering before them i'm great dis
order, leaving behind much war ma
terial and all sorts of personal equip
rnents, their retreat extending as far
as the forest of Normal, in Northern
France.
"Several guard actions oe-
curred, resulting in considerable
losses TO both sides and bringing up
the losses of the Germans in Belgium
TO about $4,000
French and English Repulsed.
''From the Binche country south
ward. in the direction of Maubeuge
fnnumerable skirmishes occurred from
August 90 to August 26. AT Bray,
lust west of Binche, the French and
English were repulsed by the Ger
mans. The French then retreated 10
Bonnie Esperanto where, after another
skirmish they fell back through
Merbes, Saint Marie and Merbes-le-
Chateau, 10000 English retiring 10
Jeumont at the same time
"Engagements In TIE vicinity OF
B,,issicrc and Thuin constituted the
most determined resistance offered by
the allies. After two days continuous
artillery duel, which swept the sur
rounding country and demolished al
most every structure. the entire right
wing Of the Allies withdrew far to the
southwark. This gave the Germans
an opportunity to sweep through
Beaumont and approach Maubeuge
from the south.
meanwhile the other corps had
approached Maubeuge from the north,
s entirely investing the fortress. The
% driven across the Sambre river,
where, on the south bank of the river,
IN a thirty-mile front fighting con-
tinued for three days.
French system in Retreat.
'sThe correspondent first saw actual
firing in the direction of Maubeuge
on August &c, when white puffs of
the German shrapnel clouded the
horizon, but the forward movement
. Of the German columns was so fast
that when the correspondent reached
the scene of the recent engagement
the firing line had advanced fully ten
miles southwark An extensive trench
system, laid out by the French
marked the French retreat.
THE German wounded, in all cases
were cared for and the dead buried as
fast as the army continued on the
march, while the French dead were
left unburied and the wounded, in
some cases, remained on the battle
field for three days before receiving
attention.
Large numbers OF the French
wounded were brought into Solre-
suns ambre from the surrounding
woods whittier many had dragged
themselves to escape. Every conceiv-
able kind of building, such as the
chateau, school-house and inn, was
used as hospital, and here the
wounded received prompt attention,
the French wounded being accorded
the same care as the German
wounded.
"A large proportion of the French
wounded died from. lack of prompt
attention and long exposure in the
open without food or drink. No
cases were observed where French
medical men were left behind to take
care Of their wounded. The German
medical corps was fully occupied
with the treatment of it's own wound
ed, and was FASTENED onward by the
forced marches of extraordinary
speed and duration made by the Ger
mans.
French Dead Everywhere.
1.-THE French dead, in all sorts of
conveyances, were q common sight,
and squares and cemeteries, with un-
finished graves, gave mute evidence
of a hurried French retreat.
'Dove-shaped German aeroplanes
whirred constantly over the country
and occasionally one saw French avi-
ators far enough aloft to be out of
range of the special German guns de-
signed for the destruction of air.
craft.
II saw a duel between French and
German machines, both of which
were disabled in hard battle. After
careening downward in giant circles
the two machines plunged to the
earth almost side by side and We're
completely shattered, while the avi-
ators, were instantly killed. While
aloft both pilots and their assistants
kept up a lively exchange of revolver
shots which at first were Intellectual,
and then simultaneously, judging by
the disturbed equilibrium of the ma
chimes, they reached their marks.
After vain efforts by the aviators to
regain control both machines fell to
the earth like meteors."