The Sentinel=record., 1914-09-25
BRITAIN'S ARMY
 IS A STONE WALL
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 "The prisoners recently captured l appreciate the fact that the march 1 on Paris has failed and that their | forces are retreating, but state that | the object of this movement is ex- plained by the officers as being to withdraw into closer touch with sup ports which have stayed too far in the rear.
 English Good Fighters.
 "The officers also are endeavorine to encourage the troops by telling them they will be at home by Christ mas. A large number of the men be- lieye they are beaten
 Following is an extract from one document.
 With the English troops we have great difficulties. They have a queer way of causing losses to the enemy They make good trenches, in which they wait patiently; they carefully measure the ranges for their rifle fire | and they open truly hellish fire or the unsuspecting cavalry. This was the reason we had sucl heavy losses.'
 Amongst the items of news are the following:
 Recently a pilot and observer Of the Royal flying corps were forced by an accident to descend in the enemy's lines. They escaped into thick under, growth. The enemy seized and smashed the machine but did not search for our men with much zeal The men hid till dark and then found their way to the Aisne, across which they swan, reaching camp in safety
 Numerous floating bridges have been thrown across the Aisne and some permanent bridges had been re lpaired under fire On the 20th Lieu, tenant (name deleted) of the Third signal corps, Royal Engineers, was drowned while attempting to swim across the river with a cable.
 "Espionage is still carried on by the enemy to a considerable extent Recently the suspicious of French troops were aroused when they came across a farm from which the horses had been removed. They discovered a telephone connected by an under ground cable with the German lines and the owner of the farm paid the penalty in the usual way in war for his treachery.
 After some cases of village fight ing earlier in the war some of our of ficers reported that the Germans had attempted to approach too close and were fired upon.
 Further evidence has been CO., lected of the misuse of the white flag and other signs of surrender. During | recent fighting some German ambu- lance wagons advanced to collect the wounded. An order to cease fire was given to our guns. German battery commanders took advantage of the lull to climb upon their observation ladders to locate our guns, which soon afterwards came under a far more ac- curate fire than any to which they l thu Dtth 6bbJcNttu up bO IHl5.
 An officer captured by the Ger mans, who later escaped, reported that he saw men who had been fight. ing, subsequently put on Red Cross brassars.
 | That irregular use Of the protec- tion afforded by the Geneva conyen- ton is not uncommon is confirmed byI the fact that on another occasion a 1 man donned a Red Cross uniform.
 Full details of the actual damage done to the cathedral at Rheims doubtless will have been cabled home so that no description of it is neccs sary. The Germans bombarded the cathedral twice with their heavy ar | tillery. One reason it caueht fire so | quickly was that on one side of it was | some scaffolding erected for restcra- l ton work Straw also had been laid on the floor for the German wounded l It is to the credit of the French that virtually all the German wounded | were eXtricated from the burning building. There was no justification | of military grounds for this act of vandalism"
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