RESULTS OF THE* FIGHTING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 10 September 1914, Page 7

RESULTS OF THE* FIGHTING

THREE HUNDRED GERMANS CAPTURED AMMUNITION NEARLY EXHAUSTED (Received September 10, 8 a.m.) PARIS, 9th September. Three hundred Germans were captured in the last engagements in the vicinity of the Ourcq and Grand Morin rivers. A French sergeant who was wounded at Meaux says: — "We pursued in force for nineteen miles two German regiments which were supported by cavalry and artillery. During the hurried retreat the Germans did not fire a shot, whereas the' French maintained a violent, decimating fire. We succeeded in isolating part of this German column, and captured seven guns, two machine guns, and many prisoners. One of these; an infantry sergeant, admitted that his men had nearly exhausted their 'ammunition, and that they had been ordered to spare it." SEVEN HUNDRED DEAD, IN ONE TRENCH. A French infantry officer who was wounded at Meaux declared that the German troops repulsed in that district after two days' heavy fighting comprised two army corps. They sustained terrible losses. He counted 700 bodies in one trench. He corroborated the lack of German ammunition. The Germans seemed very tired.