The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-01
Terror Wrought BY Con-
slant French Fire.
GERMANS ARE TOO CONFIDENT
And the Day Is Nearing When
Tent0ns win Be Entire.
ly Exhausted.
GERMAN SOLDIERS ARE WEARY

tie OF Champagne, found on prisoners
and dead, throw some light on the
spirit Of the TROOPS.
THE battlefront has disappeared
in a cloud of smoke" wrote one.
Nothing can be seen, for the French
| artillery fires almost as rapidly as
was crushed in and not one of the
sixteen occupants escaped. Men are
falling like flies and the trenches are
nothing but debris"
Shells are simply raining upon
u.s. another wrote. IF the end
were only near, This is the cry ev-
eryone should raise: Peace, peace!'
Cruel hours!" Captain noted in
his diary. 1T is as IL the earth were
crumbling up. Our losses are very
heavy. One company of $50 men
had sixty killed last night and bat
terry close by lost sixteen dead. A
shelter five yards deep. protected by
two rows of logs and two and a half
yards of earth. was caved in rs If it
were only match; that's speci-
men of the force of the French
Shells
Many of our men are useless.
wrote a Captain OF the Twenty
Fourth Infantry in a report intend
ed for his superior officer. I'VE
must have reinforcements at once.
Our men are dying OF fatigue. priva-
ton and loss of Sleep
Nothing to eat; heavy losses"
noted another. THE French haven't |
ceased firing since the morning of
the 21st: it has gone on sixty hours;
how long will it last? Every spot of |
our position is so bombarded that it |
is next to impossible for HUMANE be
ings to hold out any longer" N
Six OF our men were killed by |
shell yesterday morning. wrote a
Captain. Our trench has been
nearly leveled. The Eleventh Bat /
talon has suffered heavily
How the achievements We're
rushed up is revealed by another Of
fcer. I'VE were crowded into au-
Los.'' he wrote, and rushed madly
rom Vouziers to Tahure. After two
lours rest in the rain and six hours
march 10 our position under con-
slant shell fire, we reached the
french. losing lifty-siX out of ESQ
men OF the Second Company by the
way. We were 11S hours without
my food in a trench not two
eet deep. Hell couldn't be worse.
Six hundred more men just arrived;
hey will only replace the killed and
Wounded of the past five days"
Surprise END the demorll izatiop
ii the German first line troops by
ustained a.'-iilery fire have both
'een given ms explaining the consid-
rable number of prisoners taken.
orders OF German commanders that
ell into the hands of the French in
icate that the attack was not a sur. :
rise and there has been natural
eluctance to believe that German
rganization and discipline We're IN
efaut Information obtaine Nv {
ne Associated Press from eye-vl.-
esses Of the operations is to the eff
sct that the German counter-attacks
'ere neither spirited nnr we'll G
tanned.
Ii the attack was no surprise the [
Drce of il was a revelation: IL APP
ears to have thrown a certain con-
ision into the German ranks, re- y
llting in precipitate and almLst dis
rderly engagement of reserves. The n
len seemed both exhausted and de-
loralized-,ncapable of properly n
Undertaking general counter-at-
ick. Over confidence In rho solidi- \
In the FIRST line trenches seemed d
be general among the officers. for k
amy of them We're found IN bed at r.
ro-Bricot. half hour after the at I,
lck began. They Were ignorant of c.
le capture OF the first line of @
enches because the telephone wires [,
nd been ruptured. @
In the counter-attacks divisions s,
ere broken up and scattered. reg- r,
eats even were divided. battalions |,
nj right and left in absolute con- ]
addiction of the German spirit of
There We're engaged s,
stween the Maison de Champagne O.
I'D 1919 Hill. thirty-two battalions Q.
TO twenty-one different
ailments. f Al
What acted most ON the nerves of g,
70 German troops. according to in Il
rmstion brought out nv ,Ql,nskjan- b
= nPfaonora was thA, h>1nx1Acn1<~ >elA