The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
Bravery and Horrors

London Cable to the New York World.
 Stirring stories of battles and war hor- TOTS came today from the front They nearly all described actions which had taken place several days ago, and were heavily censored. In some instances there were no indications as to where the dis patches had come from, but that fact did not detract from their interest.
 The Daily Chronicle prints story from one of it's correspondents, date and place unnamed, which was passed by the censor, but with the note that no responsibility for its truth was assumed by the censor.
 The dispatch gives an account of the fighting after the battle of Mons, when the British held back the Germans de- spite repeated charges in force. Though the filing date of the dispatch is conceal led. there is internal evidence it came from either Ostend or Boulogne, probably the latter.
 The military news of the dispatch is prefaced by statement that everything was calm in the seaport town whence the message came, but that Americans were showing considerable anxiety to get away.
 During. the afternon of Monday it is stated, heavy gun firing was heard at in tervals coming from the open sea. but such heavy mist hung over the channel nothing could be learned of the nature of the firing.
 Repulsed Six Attacks The correspondent says he has talked with several wounded men and officers who had fought at Mons and afterward, and all of them spoke of Wednesday,, August 26 as glorious day, because on that day the British expeditionary force repulsed six frontal attacks by the Ger mans in numbers vastly exceeding any thing the British could present. The dis patch continues:
 "All our soldiers agree that Wednes- days battle was by far the most terrible. They think the Germans put more strength Into that days work than into any other An officer said to me:
 It was terrible day. I think the Germans knew that here was one oppor- tunity to wipe out the British force and therefore they brought up vast numbers of their best and freshest men,
 Tn Germany the action of England has been wholly misrepresented, but I have reason to know that the intervention of England was kept from the army for sev- eral days. When 1t was finally made known among the troops think we had been fighting for a couple of days. So it was set forth as terrible and unexpected crime on our part.''
 As little news has been allowed to filter through to the German army have met many German prisoners who said they never expected to find British troops op- posed to them oT
 Thus. with a totally wrong impression or Great Britains reasons for going te war; the German forces on Wednesdav as- sailed the British position not only with determinatfon but with what I can o,,iv call ferocity. No doubt the German een- eral staff believed the British force could not withstand an attack by an enemy twice as strong in men and still stronger in artillery.
 The terrific German rushes wers well served by their artillery. When you saw a rush start you thought that nothing on earth could stop if.
 That those tremendous charges were stopped and the attackers driven back In disorder Is due in large part| so tne excellent craftsmanship of tho British troops.
 We had naturally expected a rood deal in this direction, but don't think we thought that mon would do so well in actual war
 we are now ~at the end of much hard marching and harder fighting. In the face of the fiercest frontal att tacks ever delivered in modern war fare. believe our resistance must have surprised the Germans, and. Judging from my personal observation. | A think Wednesday, August 90, was thr most serious day for Germany since the war began.
 The Daily News has a dispatch from } correspondent at Boulogne. written Monday afternoon. in which he began l by saying that St. Quentin had been ! Ehe scene of battle that begun Sat- | lrday morning, continued throughoutI | Sunday, and was still raging as he | wrote. The British were making a desperate stand against overwhelming