The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-11-05

A dispatch from Lagny. Seine.et.
Marine. describes the devastation Of
the forest OF Crecy. Blasted trees are
standing stark and decapitated. Others.
amazingly shattered by shells, lie on
ground. The roads are covered with
the deep marks OF the wheels OF the
heavy gun wagons and the ground
shows hundreds OF thousands OF hoof.
marks where the cavalry and artillery
numbered by.
In telling OF an incident in the for.
est OF Creoy the correspondent says:
The French and British alike
swarmed about the wood with axes,
knives. saws and even sabers. They
had a wide area down In next TO no
time Line after line OF infantry. each
man carrying a thickly foliaged branch,
moved forward In close order toward
the enemy. while behind, amid Topped
tree trunks. our artillery got into posi-.
tion with machine suns and thirteen.
FOUNDERS to cover the wood. As II
moved forward all was arustle. The
attack which followed was as rapid,
as fierce and as bold as anything that
has been done In this huge campaign
and won all the success which IL
meritod.
Saved the Ammunition.
"The mysterious. Glow moving wood
soon showed that there was more than
umbrage In its texture. II suarled
flame and spat bullets while overhead
the shells OF the French and British
artillery sped ~screamingly to their
mark. But one Incident nearly upset
the show. Just under the ridge OF a
hin. right OF the forest, large quaint.
ties OF our ammunition were piled
ready for sudden service and appar.
emily well screened out OF harms way.
The oncoming French cavalry making
q detour for purposes OF their own
struck the hill! and rode along II for
some distance. For a few minutes
they showed themselves on the sky
line In the bright sunshine. There
was no %mistaking the vivid scarlet OF
their breeches, and they were spotted
at onc by the German artillery. The
Kaiser's artillerymen here were crack
shots and they lost no time In finding
the range.
presently the shells began to drop
chick and fast over the ridge, falling
so near our precious ammunition as
20 make the situation remarkably un.
pleasant. Small parties OF our boys
swarmed up the hill stripped TO the
waist and logged the heavy boxes out
OF the way OF disaster. The men tell
me Il was the hottest and most fam.
ing corner that they have ever been
ia, but they came through, and 50 did
the ammunition.
-By evening the enemy had been
repulsed. the Marine was clear Of them
and tho fight a rolling farther and
farther east Of the capital
Lanterns Betrayed Germans.
The correspondent relates another
incident which occurred In one of the
smaller woods TO the southeast OF
Crecy lie says:
1T was held by the enemy. but al
though the wood gave good cover for
q time our patrols during the night
By great daring smelt them out and
carried the news OF their whereabouts
to the cavalry on one side and the Ia.
fantry on the other.
"Incautiously enough the Germans
moved about with stable lanterns TO
guide them, W that trouble was
q car Suddenly they found their
a.lulIgu, al,,t. t,r,u v...i e.. Al.
foe OF whose proximity they had been
blissfully unaware. They were smlt.
ten woefully ut midnight. A storm OF
bullets from our Maxims screamed
through the sleeping trees like a tor
nado.
"The next morning scores OF Ian
terms were picked up In the wood with
their glasses shattered. A cavalry
charge finally cleared the tragic little
wood. Our losses were slight, but the
Germans suffered severely.
Twenty prisoners taken In the
melee were herded together In a clear
Ing. Their rifles had not been taken
from them, but were stacked near by
la "a rash moment they got the idea
that they were bat loosely guarded
and made a combined rush for theiI
rifles. They will make an
other"
How Kings Own Fought.
The first connected narrative OF the
severe lighting In which the kings
Own Royal Lancashire regiment wal
engaged when in killed and wounded
Tho regiment had IL officers put ouI
vof action. ID told by a sergeant OF tn,
regiment who has arrived hom'
wounded.
Tho Kings Own, with the Lanca
nhire Fusileers and the Middlese'
regiment were ordered to cover the re
treat OF part OF the allied forces from
Mons. On Tuesday. August rs. the.
ieft the position In which they ha'