The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-03
EYEWITNESS TELLS
 IF ARTILLERY WORK
 OF GERMAN TROOPS
Marvellous Fighting Ma chimes of Austrians and Germans Pictured at
 Close Range

Berlin, October 2-tNia The Hague end London, s:45 D. m.)-An opportun- aty to watch closely the German and Austrian artillery attack on the line of French forts south of Nerdun last Saturday was given an Associated Press correspondent who had been with the Germans at Metz.
 An attack. which Friday led to the taking of Fort Camp des Remains as the first step in the breaking of the defense of the fort lines resulted sat urday in the silencing of Fort Lespa- roches, says the correspondent. To- wards evening it was reported that only one armored turret at Fort Lion vile was replying to the Austrian fire, all the other forts being silent. After ahat the Austrians concentrated their lire with precision on this single tur- ret from a distance of six miles, indi- icating that it was but matter of time when the defense line would be ready for an infantry attack.
 Defended Valiantly
 Fort Camp des Remains was defended waliantly. The attacking forces came within five yards of the trench i'll dront of the fort before the garrison xurrendered
 French artillery men in the case anents of the. fort had been dislodged with hand grenades. smoke bombs ana fire tubes. which German volunteers had thrown in at the open 1ng of the easements. filling the in- 1erior with fragments of bombs anu sense robbing gases.
 Even then the defenders refused to capitulate Finally they were given honorable conditions of surrender oW- dng to the valor they had displayed.
 The correspondents trip over the Battlefield showed nothing of the tra- ditional battle tumult. such as attack ing infantry, racing cavalry and gal Hoping artillery. The heavy artillery could not be seen. There was the tre- 1nendous detonation of siege pieces and large columns of smoke arose from burning villages. The black surface thus created was studded everyWhere with the white clouds from exploding arojectiles.
 On the road a few wounded were mak- ing their way to the base hospitals Be yond that the battlefield gave the impress sion of a tremendous iron plant. with it's masses of artillery machinery ana the attending noises, feature which seems to mark this war more and more.
 Marvelously Concealed
 The German and Austrian heavy siege pieces were marvelously concealed and placed and their working was like clock work. Men brought ammunition and placed with astounding regularity, as II they had done naught else all their lives, though now and then the wholly mechan- dcal process was interrupted for few minutes by new instructions received over the telephone, observation having neces- sitated a slight change in the direction of the fire There was a pause for the noon meal.
 One artillery piece pounded away for -four days with Lesparoches as its objee- tive and the location of the gun was never discovered. During that time the men handling this cannon had gone to house. Keeping most comfortably.
 St. Mihiel had been evacuated shortly foefore the arrival of the correspondent.
 From hills near the battle-ground it could be seen that the artillery on both sides was hammering necessarily. ao- ward evening smoke columns rose south of Toul, indicating that fight was going pn there.