RETREAT TO CHANTILLY.
PARIS, sth September. An English trainer described the British retreat from Compiegne to C'hantilly. First came motor-vans and motor-buses, like an avalanche racing down the road, the tooting making a ■deafening noise, which echoed in the forest. The drivers seemed to know the roads as if they had to travel them «very day. Then came the soldiers, who lla-d blown up the railway lines and bridges, and behind them the peasants. The people at all the villages made a gi'eat fuss of the "Tommies," offering them eggs, butter, milk, cheese, fruit, meat, and fowls, while the public houses offered drinks for nothing. By Tuesday evening Chantilly was empty. The trainers got all the horses away. English residents went to the Maison Lafitte or to Paris. Every Kind of vehicle was utilised. Four hundred English stable lads were taken away by ■ train.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 8
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144RETREAT TO CHANTILLY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 8
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