Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
HOLOCAUST, NOT
/ WAR, SAYS PRIEST
Rev. Father MaIIoy, Native of
Trenton, for Weeks on
Firing Line.
WAS CHAPLAIN IN ARMY
OF BRITISH COMMANDER
Saw Men Disappear by Hun
dreds Like chaff Before
Fire.

NEW YORK. Sept. 25.-"1t is not
Rar-it is a holocaust. The great
est slaughter in the worlds history
IS going on behind that censorship
curtain in France. When the world
learns of the price that has been
paid, IL will be staggered sick at
heart"
That was the way Rev. James
Aialloy, who landed here today from
the Mauretania. summed up the Eu-
fopean war. He knows far more
about it than anyone else who has
sosfar reached these shores. For TWO
weeks and Ave days Father Malloy
was on the actual firing line. He
acted as chaplain attached to Cen
eral French's personal headquarters.
and he recited a story of conflict, of
men slain by the hundreds, that
thrilled even skeptieal ship news re-
porters. Father Malloy is native
Of Trenton, N. j., but has recently
lived in san. Francisco. He was in
london when the war began, and on
August II was invited to accompany
glie British expedition TO France az
a Catholic chaplain, which he did.
I'VE sailed on August 49," said
transport that carried Sir John.
French, the commander of the Brit
fsh expedition. There were seN enty-
two transports in the expedition. We
landed at Bolougne, where we were
beld for three days. Then we were
sent to Mons to become the left wing
Of the great French army, then
moving north In the effort to re
heve and aid the Belgians and pre-
TENT the taking of Namur and
Brussels. The British expedition
Sir John French in supreme COM
pnand and actively in command of
the centre.
Glad to be Able to Cut Loose.
eve went into action on August
s2e The men had been chatting for
aofion and they were certainly glad
When the orders came to cut loose.
the British left wing was made up
Of the crack regiments of the Brit
ish service. They numbered prob
ably 100000 men.
sit was q terrible experience for
me. For the next two days we were
lighting continuously, night and day.
There seemed an absolutely I'M
countable host of the Germans. AS
t1ley swept down on the British po- !
sitfons they WIRE like "A moving
fofest-all grey green and hardly
discernible until well within rife
range.
EImagine, if you can, the entire
horizon filled with a swiftly moving
mass that at a distance bore no re-
to human beings. As the
mass moved forward the shells from
the great German field artillery RAIN
ed over our heads, exploding with a
that broke great holes in
the air and made it almost impossible
for one to breath. Then, with their
lands playing and singing Die
Yacht Am Rhine and other stirring
martial airs, the Germans would
charge at top speed.
NPoor fellows, they never had q
chance against our lines. The Brit |
iSh were strongly intrenched all along
tsle front. The Germans advanced in
,piid masses, every company contain
ing fully 200 men, In files five deep. |
As our rifles are the best in the
world and our shots wonderfully eX-
Iteft. the Germans were doomed from
the outset. Steadying their rifles on
the tops OF trenches. the British fired
at will. They could not miss. and as
the Germans were in massed forma-
ton every bullet found not less than
two marks, and sometimes three or
four.
They Went Down Like Chan.
1.-THE poor fellows would go down
like chaff before great fire. Whole
companies would fall together. The.
wounded would squirm out of the
masses of the dead and try to go on
and then 1t became necessary again
to shoot them. The sights that ] saw
there showed me conclusively that
this was not war, but a terrible holo-.
daust, and that the cost in human
lives would be almost impossible of
comprehension.
ried with organized killing with the
cold steel The Germans persisted IN
their attacks and the British COM
snanders rushed their men forward
9th fixed bayonets. 1t was hand-to-
.1Iand fighting with a vengeance. but
Invariably the longer e-bayonet of
the British soldier prevailed AMI the
enemy would be compelled to retreat
in disorder While the British were
aaining series of great successes,
fhe French were being defeated on our
hight They were unable to hold the
Germans and their rife fire was al
most as bad as that of the Germans.
And finally the British were ordered
tpfall back, in order that they might
not be enveloped by the Germans and
completely cut off.
saWhen the orders came the men
were in Almost open rebellion. Stall
wart members of the Scotch and 1r-
Ash regiments wept At several
points along the line the British ac-