Barton County democrat., 1914-09-18
GERMANS TURN TO FIGHT
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~ and Dormane, on the Marne.
Our troops also continued the pur-
suit on the north Of the latter river
and after a considerable amount
of fighting captured some 1900
prisoners, four guns, six machine
guns and fifty transport wagons.
"Many of the enemy were kill
ed or wounded and the many thick
woods in the country north of
Marne are filled with German
stragglers. Most of them appear
to have been without food for at
least two days.
Indeed, in this area of the op-
erations, the Germans seem to
be demoralized and inclined to
surrender in small parties, and the
general situation appears to be
more favorable to the allies.
Much brutal and SenSeless da-
mage has been done in the villages
occupied by the enemy. Proper
ty has been wantonly destroyed.
Pictures in chateauS have been
ripped up and houses generally
have been pillaged.
'It is stated on unimpeachable
authority that the inhabitants
have been much i'll treated.
Interesting incidents have oc-
Cured during the fighting. On
the 10th of September part of our
second army corps advanced into
the north, found itself marching
parallel with another infantry
! force at some little distance away,
AT first it was thought that this
was another British unit. After
some time, however, it was diScov-
cred that it was a body of Ger
mans retreating.
Measures promptly were Ia
ken to head off the enemy, who
were surrounded and trapped in
a Sunken road, where over 4OC
men surrendered.
On September 10, a small party
under a non-commiSSiOned Officer
: was cut off and surrounded. AT,
ter a desperate resistance it wa!
decided to go on fighting to tht
} end. Finally the non-commiS
stoned officer and one man only
wounded.
: "The Germans came up anC
shouted to them: LAY down you
arms The German commando
r however, Signaled to them to keel
their arms and then asked permiS
sion to shake hands with TIN
wounded non-commiSSioned Off
: Ger, who was carried away on hi
!. Stretcher with his rifle by hi
{ side"
"The arrival of reinforcement
t and the continued advance hav
S delighted our troops, who are full
v of zeal and anxious to press on.
r Zone of the features of the cam
d paign on our side has been tn
It success obtained by the royal fly
e ing corps. In regard to the coll
Z. sion of information it is lmpoSS
d BILE either to award too muc
: praise to our aviators for the wa
they have carried out their du
les or to Over-eStimate the valu
of the intelligence collected, moi
:. especially during the recent az
vance.
"a "In due course certain example
lS of what has been affected may
such specified and the far reacI
ing nature of the results fully e,
"a planned but that time has not a
rived.
% THAT the services of our flyir
. corps which has really been {
~ trial, are fully appreciated by OF
tS allies is shown by message fro
aO the commander in chief of Il
French armies received by Fie
= Marshal Lord Kitchener"
- Broadly speaking, the Germs
I; lines to the northeast of Par
- - have been driven back by the q
. :. lies about half way to the Be
!, gian frontier. They extend tod;
j i from a point north of Amiens
% os The Argonne regions and are fro
q" fifty to eighty miles distant fro
., Paris and about an equal diStan
o. o. from the boundary line of Bt
9 q GUM.
., ot From the Argonne, the line ru
:" " northeast to Verdun which fC
y =. tresS is thirty miles from the LII
70 70 burg line. From Verdun the &c
NJ NJ man line would appear to II
VI cOufhaocf IN n fp0;nf ro-4L