KAISER'S CHAGRIN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 72, 25 March 1915, Page 8

KAISER'S CHAGRIN.

■ ATTACK FAILS AND DION CROSSES GO A-BEGGING. Mr. Phillip Gibbs, In a long telegram ■from Paris in the "Daily Chronicle," describes a desperate German attack by a very strong force on Attojs. It was repulsed, (much to the disappointment of the Kaiser, who was a distant spectator. Before great German numbers, and ' after fierce hondj-ttxhand fighting, the French 'had been compelled to fall back. •Triumphantly a German column advanced', four abreast, as on -parade They matched! singing. "Suddenly the Germans saw through crevice* of the factory walls mouth* of camion and machine guns begin to move. Tlrey saw them, too late They fell in heaps; the near ranks ovarwhrfmed by panic dropped their weapons and -. fled. , They Tan into others that were advancing. The impression had been thai this advance was a triumphal entry into Arras, wWch it was not, "The Emperor had been waiting on a wlhite horse, caparisoned with purple. The French (resumed the offensive; the lost ground was retaken, "The Kaiser had to deport. He an■nounced to his tToops Aflat he would return, and added i T had brought some Icon erases to fasten enr your breaatej bnt-T-want ito'do-so-ycsidor, atAixas, onibe ISace Dodda Publics, JteooHecfc that-yctwnaastrißcriii-t&ieiix: mane,'" mho Kjatear %)&& lad wore" ttam"*nie - rtEEappamtmeirt'ofTtlieeame'ldari, notably en the occasion what he bad ftxpeeted to ride *t fete HMmtg^'-'' T '-~ --r^--,-*--- ,j