The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-12
ADVANCE OF GERMANS LIKE
MOVING FORWARD OF NATION

AS matter OF fact, after . bad
quarter Of an hour l was put on the
last train to escape from this threat
ened town. and left it with the sound
OF German guns in my ears, followed
by duh explosion when the bridge
behind me was blown up.
Escape Narrowly.
My train, in which there were only
four other men. skirted the German
army and by twist in the line almost
ran into the enemy,s country. but we
rushed through the night, and the en-
gine driver laughed ana put his oily
hand up TO salute when | stepped ou.
to the platform of an unknown sta
tion.
The Germans won't get us, after
all, he said 1t was a little risky,
all the same"
The station was crowded with
French soldiers and they were soon
telling me their experiences of the
hard lighting in which they had been
engaged. They were dirty, unshaven,
dusty from head to foot, scorched by
the August sun, in tattered uniforms
and broken boots; but they We're beau
tiful men for all their dirt, and the
laughing courage, quiet confidence and
unbragging simplicity with which they
assured me that the Germans would
soon be caught in death trap and
Sent TO their destruction filled me with
admiration which | cannot express in
words.
All the odds We're against them
They had fought the hardest of all ac
tions-the retirement from the fight
ing line-but they had absolute faith
in the ultimate success of the allied
arms
Germans Are Reckless.
London.-A Chronicle correspondent
wiring from an unarmed town says:
The Germans are displaying ex-
ira rdinary recklessness, iiinging away
thousands of lives in the hope of ulti-
mateIy gaining their end. No doubt
| the rapid advance of the Russians in
eastern Prussia has something 10 do
with this, and is responsible for the
| frantic and insane haste which char
| acteriles the German attempt in north
err France to smash the thin khaki
i
| toward Compeigne, scissors and Paris.
That stories Of German atrocities
| ar not one whit exaggerated may be
| gathered from the etory told me by
| sergpaut who was wounded in the ac-
| tiou near Mons Sunday week ago.
AS he lay helpless on the ground
| and the German infantry swept by he
| could hear, from the imploring cries
| of tho wounded in his 'front.', that they
were being ruthlessly put to death by
| theIr foes.
Ordeal is Terrible.
| "Cosing his eyes and Stimulating
! dea H. the wounded sergeant lay per
! fectly still AS the Germans passed
! him he received violent blow in the
| chest from the butt end of rife
| which broke one of his ribs. He bore
The pain unfinchingly and never
moved muscle Another Prussian
stabbed a wounded man with his bay
unet as he went past
The. sergeants ordeal was terri
BILE one and he expected every mo-
met to be his last Ultimately the
I German advance was broken and their
infantry Cdule Ddth, SliaItci Gu
and disordered, leaving behind 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
English Are Cheerful.
Freshly arrived troops from Eng
| land, who had been pushed forward,
arrived in time to participate in the
battle. These British re-enforcements
| had been carrying Out strategic move
ments in troops trains for several
days, and in the expressive phraseol-
/ ogy of Tommy Atkins, they were fed
up with the whole thing and were all
eagerness for brush with the enemy.
Their chance came yesterday. Many
we're reserves with South African ex-
| perience, and the- marched to the
| front cheering the French and growl-
| ing for William the Weed somehow
| confusing the emperor with William
| Cof Wied) OF Albania. French and
| English flags were borne at the head
Of each company.
They were in fine fettle, Are we
| downhearted? would shout some one
| from the ranks, no, but William the
| Weed will be downhearted by the
| time we finish with him.