Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-26

soon as an alrman has flown over u.s.
ten minutes later we get their shrapnel
fire in our position. We have little artil'
lery in our corps; without 1t we cannot
| get forward.
I Three days ago our division took
possession Of these heights and dug it,
| self in. Two days ago. early in the morn
| ing, we were attacked by immensely
superior English forces-one brigade and
| two battalions-and were turned out of
our positions. The fellows took five guns
! from U.S. It was a tremendous hand-to-
hand fight.
How I escaped myself. I am not
clear I then had to bring up support
! on foot. My horse was wounded and the
others were too far in the rear. Then
came up the guard, JAEGER battalion
! Fourth Wager Sixth regiment, reserve
regiment Thirteen and Landwehr regt-
! ments Thirteen and Sixteen, and with
! the help of the artillery we drove the
fellows out Of the position again. our
| machine guns did excellent work; the
! English fell in heaps.
| " In our battalion three Iron Crosses
/ have been given. one to-C-O-one to
! captain and one TO surgeon - (names
| probably deleted) Let us hope that we
| shall be the lucky ones the next time.
During the first two days of the
battle / had only one piece of bread and
no water. I spent the night In the rain
without my great coat. The rest OF my
kit was on the horses which have been
left miles behind with the baggage and
which cannot como UP into the battle be-
cause as soon as you put your nose up
form behind cover the bullets whistle
English stemminE Tide
War is terrible. We are all hoping
that a decisive battle will end the war.
as our troops already have got round
Paris. II We beat the English the French
resistance will soon be broken. Russia
will be very quickly dealt with; Of this
there u no doubt.
we have received splendid help from
the Austrian heavy artillery at Maubeuge.
They bombarded Fort Cerfontaine in such
a way that there was not ten metres Of
parapet which did not show enormous
craters made by the shells. The armored
turrets were found upside down.
Yesterday evening about s o'clock, in
the valley in which our reserves stood
there was such a terrible cannonade that
We saw nothing of the sky but cloud Of
smoke We had few casualties
Amongst the items OF news are the
following: Recently a pilot and observer
OF the Royal flying corps were forced
by a breakage in their aeroplane to
descend In the onemys lines. The pilot
managed to pancake his machine, down
10 earth and the two escaped into some
thick underground in the woods. The
enemy came up and seized and smashed
the machine but did not search for our
men with much zeal. The latter lay hid
till dark ana then found their way 10
the Aisne, across which they swan,
reaching camp I'm safety, but barefooted.
Drowned Swimming River.
Numerous floating bridges have been
thrown across the Aisne and some OF the
permanent bridges had been repaired
under fire. On the twentieth Lieut. (name
deleted) of Third signal corps, Royal En-
gtneers, was unfortunately drowned while
attempting TO swim across the river with
cable in order TO open up a fresh tele-
graphic communication on the north side
Espionage IL still carried on by the
enemy TO considerable extent. Recently
the suspicious OF some OF the French
troops were aroused by coming across
a farm from which the horses had been
removed. After some search they dis
covered a telephone which was connected
man lines, and the owner Of the farm