GERMANS BADLY BROKEN.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 180, 4 September 1914, Page 7

GERMANS BADLY BROKEN.

CARNAGE IN A VALLEY. FRENCH TAKE OFFENSIVE FOR A TIME. (Received September 4, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent says that on Sunday, the French, under General Pau, on the British right, were attacked by the Tenth Corps and Imperial Guard, but heroically the attack of these, the elite of the German army. Soon the French got the upper litn/d and took a vigorous offensive. They hammered at the enemy, completely demoralising them. 1 One German army was .completely "broken and thrown into (name of place deleted), and, being cut off >on both sides from their supports, they lost fearfully. The remnant withdrew, leaving an enormous number of dead, wounded, and prisoners in the valley. .As the French left was, however, bent back, the offensive could not be persisted in. t The correspondent also reports that he visited the rear of the French left in the British lines. lie says:— "The Allies were being driven back by sheer weight of numbers, but carried out an orderly retirement, which was not a retreat. If all the moves in this fearful campaign had been arranged beforehand tliey could not have been carried out with greater precision. The German army has gradually been narrowed at the principal attacking point, until now it is a Y-shaped mass pointing directly at Paris."