New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-29
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1--WE account OF the operations the British forces in France and the
French armies immediate touch with It, communicated by an eye
witness present headquarters of Field Marshal Sir John french
This account experimenting that issued on September "a from genera
headquarters. follows: .ooo,.tv. tuII
along front This has been accompanied by spe OF hne
b the nights arc now much One have everything
evil result of the sunshine has been the release Oh
hch torpid during the wet days H..
has been taken arrival of achievements to relieve
by troops the who have been in the hFing line lo
Several units have received their baptism OF hte
Since the last letter general headquarters evidence has been re-
which points to the fact that during counter attacks on b
Sunday the 2Oth the German infantry hreu mo | ;no
result attempt out the dangerous eXpeden OF '0S
advance in he dark . , - 8
forces was dark and hours later furious
was heard line though bullets came over our
This narrative begins September q and covers only TWO
on Monday the little rain and the weather ook
which has been maintained The action was
cay the artillery guns at one point heLs THE
away the enemy endeavong to construct redouO
for their part expended large NUMBER OF He'y
'one range bombardment Of a village
DEAD AND WOUNDED NEAR TRENCHES
Recommending parties during the night OF the z o
covered trenches and in them or near them IN T
more than one hundred dead picked number OF
s ammunition and equipment found There were other
signs that portions of the nemys forces had Withdrawn Tor some M
TUESDAY the 2d with less wind and was one Oh INC
most uneven days that passed since reached the
for the British There was less artillery WORK " I4s
e the Germans giving another village taste OF "
'' % thus bonored was not far from the where Of
the most severe close fighting which have taken part mas
an over this No Mans the lines the bodies OF German IN
fntrv are still lying in heaps where they have fallen at different times
"EsD1na
Germans that if difficult reference the subject lhey
have evidently never forgotten of Frederick the Great he
Marshal he is followed by hunareu ooN WIG"
take the field l am preceded by hundred spies
Though such instructions longer made public the Germans
w * well known still carry them effect Apart from the more eiao
,rae arrangements made time for obtaining nio
nation by paid agents. of the methods which are being employed
for the collection conveyance of intelligence follows
~ IN plain clothes signal lines from points IN the
hands Of the ood lights night and puts OF smoke
from cbnes by borers workers in the fields between
the armies have been conveying information and persons IN plain
have acted "a advanced scouts cavalry when adj
Vancing
SPY SIGNALS WITH CHURCH CLOCK
Cre nv Of this kind troops hidden i'll church
tower His discovered through the eac movements
che hands of the church clock signal to his
friends nv means of an mprovsed semaphore code Had this man not
been seized it probable would have gnad to the German artillery
~ ~ their arrival the Of the headquarters and staff
b;gb sxnose she'll would myousy dropped the
Building. ,,,
have been found
detrainments 1t simple
matter for spies to mix moving about their homes
who speak neither ffench nor 0ern 20 u