The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-17
"a YONET CHA RGES
ARE YER II FURIOUS
BY the French in the War and
Guns Are Effective too on
the German Ranks.
az Assoer.TEp rnEss,

PARIS, Sept. 1.-THE principal
sources Of really graphic information
of operations at the front are. for the
moment, accounts given by returning
wounded and prisoners and by private
letters.
They all go to show that the worst
predictions as to the bloody character
of the war are being realized.
The ravages in the German ranks
are due in part, it is declared, to fur
fous charges with the bayonet, but
mostly to the seventy-five millimeter
guns.
IA German officer. interviewed on
his way to one of the interior military
prisons declared The French cannon
isn't war cannon, its a butchery
cannon"
One of the latest battles at Ram
billers in the Vosges was fought on
the edge of a forest between two regi-
ments of infantry supported by ar
tillery, and SO fierce became the fire
on both sides that the two regiments
were obliged to retire at the same time
leaving the field to grape and canister
Musketry Fire.
From the Sergeant. Aviator Decaen
it is learned that six German flying
machines succombed to musketry IRE
at the Gutenberg frontier. Wesare
in France for the moment" he writes,
"and the Germans are retiring, burn
ing Belgian villages as they pass. Gas
finger, on a eB1gian aeroplane, came
back from the frontier with ball in
his back; fortunately the German bull
lets don't seem to do much damage;
this one was stopped by loaf of
bread. Our squadron's going ahead
and, very soon, letter dated Berlin. :"
Prepare Farewells.
The following letter from a briga-
der Of dragons is specimen OF
certain class of letters that have be-
gun to arrive in Paris.
s.My dear parents: If you receive
this letter it will be because have
been killed, but don't weep for me-,
since my fate will have been the
noblest q Frenchman can dream of, to
die for his country on the eve OF vic
tory. We shall be the victors because
we have right and confidence on our
side. 1 shall have done my duty to
the end and hope my death will have
been useful to my country. My last
thoughts will be for you"
With this letter there came another
from the cure of little Belgian vii
lage giving the details of the death OF
the writer Of the above. 1t was in q
Belgian forest that a party of dra-
goons were surprised by an ambush
and all shot down excepting three and
on these three the Prussians rushed
to complete their work. The brigadier
already wounded in the leg managed
to master his pain and charged alone
and the cure adds that there was other
than French blood shed upon the field.
~His body Is not lost" the cure con-
tinues, sit reposes in the little Gene
terry of our village where you will
come to visit his tomb after the wal"
Officers are Brave.
A letter from a wounded soldier to
his wife in Paris reads:
eve were in the first rank with our
lieutenant Jean Eorard at the head.
He received six bullets. First wound
ed in the thigh. he got UP again. col
1ected his men and went on ahead. An
other ball struck him in the shoulder
and four others were stopped by his
knapsack. He found another later In
his belt Precious souvenir he said.
He went to have his wounds dressed
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