Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-25
ARMIES FIGHT HARD
FRENCH AND BRITISH TROOPS
FLOODED BY HEAVY RAINS
IN TRENCHES.
RESULT BATTLE NOT KNOWN
Conflict Goes on Night and Day With
Terrible Loss-Alserian Troopo
Capture German F.as-Arti,Iery
Takes Prom.n@nt P@Tt.

Lcndon, Sept. 20, 9:45 p. ma cor
respondent of the Times sends the
following dispatch from behind the
British lines," dated September 10:
The great battle draws to a close.
Exhaustion, rather than shot and shell,
has wrought a terrible peace among
the river banks-a peace which my ex-
p~erience of the last few days leads me
to believe may be the herald OF vic
tory. That, at least, is how read
the sitaution.
Fight Like Conquerors.
81 have seen Jul troops and the
French go into battle these last days,
not as worn and weary men, but as
quering spirit famed to fierce fury.
wounded from this valley with the con-
Q~ueroriing spirit famed to fierce fury,
Here is a typical description from the
trenches Of the great struggle.
1--WE are slowly beating them back
We have to do it foot by foot, for they
have huge guns and their fire is ter
rible. But we keep pegging away
How? Well, we dig ourselves in-we
British lads have learned that lesson
and then we go on fighting and fight
ing until the moment comes when We
can make a small advance. We craw
up again, and dig ourselves in. ant
so on.
"At the end it, of course, comes tt
cold steel. We are all right there"
Valley a Blaze of Light.
THE scene on the river at night wa
magnificent and appalling beyon'
words. The whole valley was swep
with a blaze of searchlights from dark
ness until down. Great beams move
up and down, searching the skies an,
trenches, and revealing masked bal
teries on the heights and dark form
lying along the ridges.
Here and there a lurid flash re
Vealed the bursting of a shell or a wis
of fire, a volley from some c~onceale
vantage, and over all rolled the PEI
petual thunder of the guns, a fierc
and thrilling accompaniment.
AN incessant rain flooded the grea
river, making the work of the heroi
! engineers a veritable task of Hercules
RACES Day and might.
, This was a battle to the last ounc
of strength, in which man and hors
poured out their whole lives in a fe'
frenzied moments. Day and night tn
combat ragged without intermissiol
ebbing and flowing like the tide, seetl
ing like a cauldron. And into he
strong men went down. Oh! 1t was
brave sight to see them go, gaily an
: light-heaterly-to return perhaps j
a few hours broken for life, or it ma
be never to return at all for the los
was terrible.
1t is reported that the French an
; in water, the rains having flooded the
: trenches.
The bulk of the allied armies r
manned Sunday in the trenches wal
= ing while their artillery exchanged
furious ~cannonading with the strong.
placed German batteries.
Some brilliant feats of arms we
: performed at various points on tt
lines extending along the Disc, the All
ne and Woevre. The seasoned A
gerian troops made a gallant captul
G OF another German flag.
Aviators Fight in Air.
n Jules Vedrines, the noted Frent
6 aviator, was credited with a courag
4 GUS fight in mid-air with a Germs
aviator, whom he brought to cart
The German was daringly reconcile
ing the position of the allies when V
: drines assembled.
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