The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-29
CHASTITY DETAILS
TELL OF BUTCHERY
ON FIGHTING LINE
Rivers Run Red With Blood
Through Heaped.U
Piles of Dead.
SOLDIERS LIKE DEMONS
IN AN INFERNO OF DEATH
No Quarter Is Given and None
Is Asked in This Battle
of Bayonets."
In FIRE IS wITHERlNG
Bur Armies Press On, and Country
Is Converted Into Veri-
table SIambIes.

Especial Cable To The Times ispatch.l
LONDON October 2s.--The lurid
sIare OF burning bushes. with shadowy
figures limned family against a back.
ground OF smoke, working like demons
in an Inferno of death of their own
creation: the spiteful rattle OF machine
GUNS. the roar of bursting shells: the
impact Of driven bayone, agains, hu-
man flesh and bone: the cries OF wound
ed; shouts Of ,riumph: shricks of de-
spair: rivers running red with blood
through hcapedup piles OF dead--this
Is the battle of Flanders as London
pictures II Tonight from the brief hut
ehastIy details telegraphed from the
fighting front
"A massacre. not fght".-"A butch
c'y'---'A shambles.'' Such are the
phrases used over and over by cor
respondents endcavoring to give an
iHkling Of the events of this bloodiest
battle Of the war. No quarter Is asked,
and none is given. 1t Is the Battle OF
The Bayonets.'
Belgian regiments have been deci-
mated TO third of their former fight
ing strength; British troops stand grim
and dogged in the face OF fearful loss:
gallant Frenchmen shout with the lust
OF combat, and, opposed to them In the
sublime grandeur of death. the solid
against withcring fire. and literally
testrew the landscape with their
coTpsos.
WATER Is STREAkED
AND STAINED WITH BLOOD
There is no pure water for the
wounded. The entire available supply
Is streaked and stained with blood
ard there is no one to cool parched
lips and burning brows even with this.
n tr
Tor wounded; the ground they lie on ia
narrowed and furrowcd over and over
by the spraying bullets of mitrailleuses
and the tearing Fragments OF bursting
shrappel. ~ .Ayt
And ont! OF the chaos there looms. one
TACT from which England at home may
extract some comfort. The Germans
seem to be stopped.
The ~ o'clock official statement
from Paris received here announces
that two furious night attacks by Ger
mans on the allied line in the region
OF DiSmude were repulsed. and that
all along the front. from Nieuport m
DiSmude. the Germans seemed 10 have
lessened their efforts. while the allies.
continuing their offensive TO the north
OF Ypres. also have been successful
further TO the south. making slight
progress on the line between Labas-
see and Lens.
lnlS statement and
also from the statement issued by the
French War Office this afternoon are
that the kaisers generals have almost
abaahond hope of advancing to Dun
kirk and Calais.
Th= correspondent of the Evening
News wires that the Germans are fall
ing back, but there is nothing i'm the
other reports from the front to con-
hrm this. Other reports are that the
enemy is short OF ammunition. And
yet they have crossed the river User
seven times. and seven times have
been driven back. The losses were
terrible. and at some points bridges
by the bodies of lead German soldiers.
Piled UT In the sluggish current
COUNTRY Is STRIPPED
FOR REINFoRCEAIENTS
Advice from Bruges and ostend and
others points in Belgium indicate that
the Germans are stripping that terri
tory of all soldiers except the barest
Earrisons ard are rushing all .e..i-
forcements possible to the army that
is trying to t:en'S through the G.it-
shv1ielgian-I'rench line that is guard
ing the approaches to Dunkirk ard
Calais.
Further encouraging news came
from the press bureau of the Belgian
government at Havre tonight In n
statement that the condition of the
allied troops on the User was improved
while the encry's artillery fire was
slackening and in some places had
been subdued entirely by the guns Of
the fleet operating along the coast
The statement added that the opera
tions along the Ypres were considered
very satisfactory"
Opposed to this was Il wireless dis
patch from Berlin to the effect that land
ha tfprieSf pf b:lI I'm nr-fl-
ed the fleet, and had succeeded in ham
perinE its operations greatly. The
wireless said that several British war
ships had been struck by shells and
were afire. Other dispatches from Ter.
lin. by way of Amsterdam, carried a
flat contradiction to the Belgian prcss
bureau reports, and said that the battle
of the User was going. favorably for
the Kaiser's arms.
That the Germans are anticipating
the landing of troops on the Belgian
coast from transports under the pro-
lection of the British fleet. is ev;-
denced by the news reported TO tile
Chronicle by its Amsterdam cores
pondent. that the German headquarters
staff has been moved from Ostend to
fleyst. whilo tugs and drcdges COM
mand eered In the harbor at Os.end
have been used TO strcw mines thick
ly through the waters along the coast
These mines, the correspondent reports
apparently have been carelessly placed
for they continually break loose and
explode against the rocks along tie
tast, doing no damage.
Loss OF GERMANS PI1
AT 10000 MEN n DAY
osterd is crowded with German
wounded, according to travellers who
have reach ed Amsterdam from the Bel
gian seaport. 1t is estimated that IN
the fighting along the User the Ger.
r1ana have lost 1000 men a day An.
o:her estimate puts the German losses
al $4,000, and II is feared that the al
LES. while not 30 hard hit, have sui :.
fcred terribly In the almost hand.to.
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