The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-29
Witness Of Fighting Says Main
Army Is Acting as Bat
tering Ram.
WILLING TO "PAY PRICE,
Told by Officer That Kaiser's
Strategists Care Little
for Thanking.
Special cable Despatch 10 THE sux.

LONDON. August rs.
Jacques obels. a German Flemish inter.
prefer has reached London from Brussels,
having slipped through the German lines
and crossed Belgium on a bicycle He saw
that several of the American correspond-,
erts have been forbidden to ienve the Bel,
CLAN capital while others have escaped to
the west In the wake OF the German army
corps assailing the Angio-French lines
Everywhere the Germans are pressing
forward night and day on both banks OF
the Mouse and the Sambre." said Mr..
Obels to-day. Their formation IL close
Their columns are meant to be not only
firing bodies. but battering rams
80 feverish Ia their rush forward mat
they take little time to notice non compa =,
ants. and all one has 10 do In TO keen out of.
their way. This is by no means an easyt
thing to do at times, for the intermina bic.
columns go forward as in Marathon race,
This JOB, they seem to say we must do
at lightning like speed, for there Is a deep-s
ening note In the call from the east
Mounted men fall by the ways,de and
no one so much as glances around Tho
Red Cross forces coming up in the rear
are always searching along the rivers.
fields and woods for wounded and ex.
hausted men. When the onrushing army
encounters the allies there is the same
furious effort to march straight on. heed
ing nothing
Paying the Price.
The fighting at Charleroi. as I learned
from eyewitnesses. moved this way and
that until the dead In the narrow streets
were piled from the sills to the ground
floor windows. PAY the price seems TO be
the all dominating military motto OF the
| German commanders
THE Germans think that their strategy
/ is profoundly misconceived by the English
and French largely because OF the liter
AIRY strategists in Berlin
DO you know said German officer
10 pe. that the English and French are
attacking our extreme right and our ex-
t---he left on the English Channel and the
Mediterranean respectively? Thanking? yes
we believe in thanking. but. after all. ire
sistible masses bring quick victory.
I'VE could scatter take cover, ad-
vance cautiously and save a lot of lives
for a while. but by and by we should
all be slain. The investment of Namur,
which cost perhaps 10000 lives, was eff
fected in order to knock the bottom out"
OF the Allies enveloping scheme"
Mr.. Obels says that the German ofri-
GERS treat the American newspaper men
with great frendliness but see TO It
that they witness no fighting. or only
such engagements or parts OF engage
ments as they care TO have observed
Laughs Mt Tero Terror.
1T makes one laugh" he said. ito read
the so-called war news in some Of tho
London papers. We learn that the air
above the lighting line is full of aero
planes chasing or being chased The
Zeppelins are pictured al a dze height
mere spccks in the sky letting down
steel chains with steel cages attached
containing mon with bombs which are
dropped on fortresses, ulsie.ended cities
and masses Of troops The cages so let
down are represented as proof against
tho fire OF r.fcs and as being so small
that thoy cannot be- hit by tho big guns.
III any of this war correspondence re-
} lated actual facts my eyes served ma
poorly. Tho air above the firing lines
, so far As I have seen is quite free from
, aeroplanes except very occasionally, and
] have been IN Liege, Namur, Chsrlcroi.
, Maubeuge. Nalcncenncs. Lille. Turcong.
| Gl.snt AutEcrn Bruges and Ostend"