Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-09-23
BRITISH ARMY CALM
Soldiers at Mons FiShed While
Waiting for Attack.
Gallant Charges Of the French Tureos
at Chartered, Where the Carnage
Was Horrible-Cardinals
Bless Troops.

Notwithstanding from the front.
the following under Paris date:
AT Mons the British troops made
themselves at home. Preparations
for the city's defense were extremely
comforting in their workmanlike de-
tail. In the woods lurked innumer-
able field guns. Everywhere in the
town confidence was dominant.
when with heavy firing audible in
the distance British soldiers can sit
quietly on the banks of the canal.
calmly fishing with bayoneted rifles
as fishing rods. the spectacle inspires
confidence even though from all di-
rections the presence OF the dreaded
German cavalry is reported"
The next day the correspondent
proceeded to Journal. where he found
the populace in great alarm. Six Ger
man cavalrymen motored into the
town and inquired whether there were
any French soldiers. They were told
that there were none. but later in the
day French troops entered the place
and killed the six Germans. The next
day large force OF Germans attacked
the town and was repulsed
Proc eeding TO Valenciennes. the
correspondent found that troop trains
filled with British soldiers were con
tinuary arriving there. The British
officers were in absolute possession
of the refreshment bars and no food
was obtaiuable. The correspondent
continues: "Noor Charleroi heard
some stories OF the bravery OF the
French soldiers. The Germans were
bombarding the city.
The French made what amounted
to 4 medieval sortie. but finding the
enemy in much greater force than
was expected were compelled to with
draw The bombardment continued
relentlessly, whereupon the French
Turcos, picked troops from Algeria.
debouched from the town and with
a callantry which must surely live In
history charged the German battery,
bayoneting all the German gurners.
Their losses. 1t is said, exceeded
those Of the light brigade at Bala-
clava. or battalion only hundred
men, II IS reported, returned un-
scratched. Their bravery, however.
WAS powerless against the German
advance. which crept foot by foot
through the outskirts Of Cha-leroi to
the very heart of the town.
There in the narrow streets the
carnage was indescribable. The
French infantryman told me that the
roads became so damned with dead
that the killed remained standing mp
right where they had been shot, sup
ported by their dead comrades. The
last stand OF the French was made be
fore the railway station. in front of
which passes the canal where the
Germans fought for two hours to take
the bridges. After they had captured
the station. with heavy casualties, the
Germans moved rapidly ahead, taking
suburban villages"
The correspondent OF the Central
News at Paris sends the following:
The shooting Of the British infan-
trymen on the firing line was wonder
full. Every time a Germans head
showed above trench and every time
the German infantry attempted to rush
a position, there came a steady. with
ering fire from the khaki-clad men
lying in extended formation along the
wide battle front
Il witnessed a notable scene on the
road between Boulogne and Paris.
Two English cardinals, Cardinal
Bourne, archblship OF Westminster,
and Cardinal Gasquet. abbot president
OF the English Benedictines, were on
their way from London to the conclave
at Rome. Their train stopped on a sid
ing and by curious chance a regl.
ment OF British troops, which included
in its ranks large body Of Irish Cath
olics was drawn up alongside for a
moment The cardinals leaned out OF
the window and gave the soldiers their
blessing. which the Catholic soldiers,
by spontaneous impulse kneIt to re-
celve."