Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-11-21

APPEAL FOR PEACE

Correspondence OF Inv Associated Press

tCOrrpSpoudrnre of the N.sn,iat.j pr.ssN
PARIS Nov, on I.,,.,. ..........
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nE ,',' G,,Il man So'ulC'S uurIhE the battle
B'"' '"Sht' l""H" on prisoners
"iu "'au, l"IoN some ught ON the
'Ital1 .,r, VI liG uu"PS.
ny "I''c lI"HI mas disappeared
IN IN, a Gloud OF smoke, wrote one
N"IIHluE C"n p' seen Tor the French
nIl,Il,aS ''',s almost as raPIHiN ass tine
manu- 'Hv al IH"I'u ShtIltf was
~ "ai'ou III ana not one ol the sixteen
~, uI "P1"'' u7'I Ip'u' men are IAIuuE
me ines ana the lI'hrhcS are moth
ing puI uenIlS'
Hnel'S are SIlhPy raining upon
'i"'''l NV Mi"''' II Ihc 'hu NeIe
,'"ly H'aI; ms Is Ih' cry everyone
S""u.u .,I.'i Iaiae peace. peace
.i ,iuci "oIIS' G." pl''l noted IN
ms uidiy' 1t Is as u the carth were
ulupH'E up our LOSSES are very
nc3Ny: Vhc com pauy "l TWO hundred
nnu HIIy men hau Sixty killed lhsl
HlSH'' anu na,leLy close ny lost Io
uv"u' ahcll'I i've yaIuS ue'p,
IoIe'lou ny lWo rows OF logs ana
'"o anu niII EaIuS ol eaI'h was
,aNeu III rs II IL were ohiE "a mdlch,
tnal lhe specimen Oh Ihe loice OF
'"e rIohch Suolls'
Men Are Dying.
MANY of our men are useless"
wrote the captaiu of the Twenty
fourth infantry i'm report intended
for his superior officer 1--WE must
have reinforcemonts MT once our
men are dying of fatigue, prvation
and loss of sleep"
Nothing to eat; heavy losses,
noted another. "'rhe French haven't
ceased firing since the morning o.
the tWCnty-first: it has gone on sixty
hours; how long will il last? Every
spot Of our position is so bombarded
that ii is next to impossible for hui
man beings to hold out any longer.
six Of our men were killed by
shells yesterday morning" wrote Il
captain. "Our trench has been near
ly levcled. The Eleventh battalion
has suffered heavily"
How the rcinforcoments were
rushed up is revealed by another Of
licer. we were crowded into autos
| he wrote, land rushed madly from
VOuzicrs to Tahure. After two hours
Test in the rain and six hours march
to our positions under constant shell
fire we reached the trench losing 90
out Of the 2S0 men Of the Second
company by the way. We were ll0
| hours without food in a trcnch not
two feet deep. Hen couldn't be
worse. Six hundred more men Just
arrived they will only replace the
killed and wounded Of the past five
days"
Attack Is Planned.
SURPRISE and the demoraliZation of
the German first line troops by sus-
tanned artillery fire have both been
givon as explaining the considerable
number Of prisoners taken. Orders
Of German commanders that fell INTO
the hands Of the French indicate That
the attack was not surprise ana
there has been a natural reluctance
to believe that German organization
and discipline were in default M
formation obtained by the ASs9'l'leu
Press from cye-WitnosscS OF ihe OPP
erations is to the erect JhaL the ,i''
man COuntcr-atlackS were h'llAci
spirited or well planned.
If the attack was no surprise ihe
force Of it was a revelation ll ap-
pears to have thrown certain con-
fusion into the German ranks. result
ing in precipltate ana almost ula0I
derly engagement OF reserves me
men seemed both exhausted ana "e-
oralized-incapable OF properly "n
dertahng a general counter all', N'
Overconfidence in the soHdlty III lIe
first line trenches seemed TO ne gen
eral among the officers Tor many oI
them were found IN beu aI oG-
srtcOt n half hour allcr lhe al'lLN
began They We're isNoIanI Oh sIe
capture OF the tlrst hhe OF lIg' 'a7
hecause the telephone wires '''" "'1"
ruptured. o-,..,