The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-27
England Shocked
AT Teut0n Victory

allies center has been at grip with the
Germans around Meizieresi and Yer.
dun, where the French have seized
Ardennes country.
THE French Sixth corps is officially
stated to have distinguished itself.
displaying great dash. The French in
Lorraine have fought q great battle in
which, according to German estimates.
more than soc. 900 men were engaged
Interprets Move.
The war correspondent Of the Daily
Telegraph at Ostend believes that the
fan-like movement that preceded the
over.running of some Belgian terri
tory by the Germans Is still in prog
ress toward the western coast.
The Daily News in commenting up
on the statement issued by the French
embassy says:
Cambria and LeCateau are about
Is miles inside of the French frontier
and behind Valenciennes and Mau.
bauge which had previously been indi.
Gated as the positions to which the
French and British forces retired at.
ter the fighting at Mons and Charleroi
1.-The Comminique is far unexplain.
ed but it would appear to mean fur
lies, or the development of a German
thanking movement, which was report
cd to be in progress In the vicinity OF
Lille"
Philip Gibbs, a war correspondent
for the Daily Chronicle sends an in.
teresting dispatch about the British
soldiers at the 'front.' Il saw British
soldiers in many unexpected places
said Mr.. Gibbs. adapting himself to
his unusual environment in character.
istic manner"
How eriton Fights.
II saw him at dawn in small camps,
surrounded with hay ricks and farm
yard chickens, drinking the fresh milk
offered him by admiring French peas
ant women. II saw him in the midst
of camp fires fraternising with French
soldiers drawn from the arid wastes
OF northern Africa or tho fierce Alger
ians, who are fighting under the
French tri.color; l saw him with jack
ct of, and sleeves rolled. grimy with
grease and sweat, helping shift the
forage trains in dirty little Belgian
railroad yards, where he seemed just
as much At home as though he wal
loafing in the streets of Manchester
or Portsmouth or London.
1T took me just thirteen hours te
reach Boulogne from Paris. At one
way-side station, l heard shout and
saw q body of men in kaahi with Red
Cross armlets suddenly run along the
platform. They were English.
Describes Reception.
"A party of wounded English soldiers
was arriving from the front, and these
Red Cross workers were receiving
them. Some of the wounded were IL
sore straits and seemed to be on thu
point of death. One wounded warrior
with a blood rag around his heat
smoked his pipe philosophically.
"What happened l asked him.
""This particular Tommy Atkin
blew q cloud of smoke from his pip
! and eyed me before answering
They gave US ELL he remarked
finally"
Col Reppington. the military ex
pert of the London Times deplores tn
rigid censorship which is making i
almost impossible for the papers t.
get news. He says that it will caus'
"patriotism to languish and the sue
cess of the war depends upon satisfy
| ing the interests Of the English PEG
pie in the fate of their arms"
Again he says:
Our army has a big job on it
hands, and we can share at home In
formation sent to Sir John French
commander in chief of the British ex
| redittonary force at once"