Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-06

CT HSo HiS Sdl IA " AGi licllo throughout the day was great They are a brave lot, and it took us all our time to hold them back they had such enormous numbers.
 From others I have gathered how furiously for days the fight ragged against the French forces on the right of the British. The English soldiers speak in highest praise of the cool ness under fire of the piou-pious- (French infantry)
 Over Charieroi the devastation oi the shock of battle rolled forward and backward during the terrible days Of combat The mining town. severely damaged by the Germans on their first approach. is now a hideous des- olation It was on the side of the town towards the French border that the series of struggles waxeG most furi ous The French artillery worked tre- mendous havoc in the solid German ranks as time after time the swept on to attack or retired to gather strength again
 In the the end. however the fierce ness of the successive ouslaughts was too much for the exhausted French troops, against whom the ever fresh legioGs of the enemy were hurled. It was here, indeed. that the long en- counter was really decided. Gradually weight weight of regiment and of artillery. With a reclIlessness which must have cost more than can be readily imagined. the German com manders poured their solid phalanxes of soldiery on the French positions, and gradually the French position be- came worse.
 With magnificent heroism the men held their positions If they gave a yard the enemy bought it at tremend ous cost But they were ready and prepared 10 pay it, and pay it they did
 The final order to retire came Slow ly the French positions on the right of the British were given up through out Tuesday. Night came on, and tai into the night it continued.
 What slaughted that night covered will probably never be exactly known. but those who went through it-the air thick with shrapnel shells and flashlights presaging the swift show CT of bllets-went through the worst, perhaps that war in all it's hldeous- ness can provide
 Tic wonderful thing of it all is the marvellous spirit of the British soldier. In the middle of a serious narrative a smile will break over his face. He will tell you a joke from the trenches and make you laugh at the sallies of com. rades near at hand while bullets were whizzing over his head
 it makes you as certain as he is that the end, be it far or near, will be vic tory
 For the moment success has favored the Germans The Allies have moved hack toward their base. That move men will go down in history as per Laps the greatest there has ever been .. It has been carried out in, l am con Ninced. excellent order. Its effect On tae v hole campaign has yet to b, so6n lt has also to be seen whether tl.o magnificent exploit of the British forces on Wednesday, an exploit which will live second to none in oui military history, will have. as it may will have, any effect on the phase O the struggle which will now open.
 It shows that, after all its terribl, experiences. its long days and nighti in trenches, rained down upon witt har3ingers of death, the spirit of th, British troops is that which tn, nation knows and loves in its soldiers
 Meanwhile l believe the French ar, making Herculean efforts An arm estimated at over a quarter of a mil lion men is being gathered, and it task is to break through the German line. On that movement will certain ly depend the fate of the whole of thu operations between the French border and the French capital