Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-02

age of the British show to better
advantage The heavy and well directed
German artillery fire made little impress
sion on our men. although the casualties
entailed by the splendid resistance of the
British were necessarily heavy.
British Wall of Steel.
THE German artillery fire ceased only
to permit the advance to close. quarters
of their assaulting infantry. and the
massed German infantry for hours huri-
ed themselves against the British wall of
steel
Toward evening and after d day of
most sanguinary fighting our brave fell
lows were compelled to give ground SLOW
Iy. The slight advantage attained by the
German hordes was dearly purchased,
as the attacking German infantry fell in
heaps.
ION the right and center the French
were more fortunate than ourselves and
contrived to hold their own. Toward
evening when the fun force of the Ger
man attack had spent itself the French
delivered sharp counter-attack. re-
pulsing the enemy all along their front.
The German losses are stated TO be very
heavy.
The battle was continued today by d
fresh onslaught on the British constitut-
ing the left flank. According to the lat
est information which has reached me
our soreIy tried troops are being rein
forced and they are confident of being
able to check the enemy's advance.
The Germans are displaying eNtraor-
binary recklessness, fiinsing away thou
sands of lives in the hope of ultimately
gaining their end. No doubt the rapid
advance of the Russians in eastern Prus-
STA has something TO do with this and is
responsible for the frantic and insane
haste which characterizes the German at
tempt in northern France to smash the
thin khaki line which so valiantly bars
the road between Compegne, scissors
and Paris.
Alleges Practice of Atrocities.
THAT stories of German atrocities are
not one whit exaggerated may be gath
cred from the story told me by a ser
seant who was wounded in the action
near Mons Sunday a week ago. AS he lay
helpless on the ground and the German
infantry swept by he could hear. from
the imploring cries of the wounded IN his
front. that they were beng ruthlessly
put to death by their foes
CLOSING his eyes and Stimulating death,
the wounded sergeant lay perfectly still.
AS the Germans passed him he received
a violent blow in the chest from the butt
end of a rifle which broke one of his ribs.
lie bore the pain unflinchingly and never
moved a muscle. Another Prussian stab
bed a wounded man Win MS pdsohet as
he went past.
..rhe serseant's ordeal was a terrible
one and he expected every moment to be
his last. Ultimately the German advance
was broken and their infantry came roll
ing back, shattered and diSordered, ieaN-
ing behind Il trail of dead and wounded.
The wounded sergeant was picked UP by
British stretcher bearers and conveyed
to the base hospital, where he is now
fast recovering
Military Situation Unchanged.
The Paris correspondent of the Chron-
icle says regarding the recent fighting
in northern France:
mo considerable change is perceptible
in the military situation. and it is be-
lieved that the main French army and
the British wing still hold the line. So
far the German turning movement by
western Belgium. which cost enormous
losses and risks. has been successful.
but now the position is very different,
The best Prussian and Hanover troops
are now exhausted, and the Germans
have now the main bodies of the allies
to meet.
THE forts on which many brains
have been spent are not silenced. What
prospective defeat. flight and piecemeal
slaughter is open for the Germans!
"a brief official review just issued
reveals the vast extent of this unpre-
cedented battlefield. seventy-five miles
long. Forty-five miles southwark from
their main army the allies blocked the
German path.
whether the same British force is
fighting ON the Somme to the southwest
or another we don't know. Near Sedan
the French troops had to effect a slow