THE CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY HOW IT WAS HARRIED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1914, Page 7

THE CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY HOW IT WAS HARRIED

AND FORCED TO RETIRE AFTER FIERCE FIGHTING (Received September 25, 10 a.m.) PARIS, 24th September Details of the harrying of the Crown Prince's Army state that Chateau Mondement was shattered. This was his headquarters and that of his staff. The chateau was taken and retaken four times, and subjected to a tornado of shells and rifle fire. The Crown Prince's Army Corps occupied the front from Pere Champenoise to a point eastward of Epernay, his advance troops being on the Sezanne-Epernay-road. Turcos, notwithstanding a withering fire, struggled up to the German position^ The Germans fighting stubbornly, retreated. No sooner were the French within the chateau, than they came under German shellfire. The Germah infantry drew closer, and an annihilating gunfire drove the black Turcos out. They reformed in sheltered ground, and began a counter-charge, and, with the yellow Turcos, retook the chateau. The enemy next day, in large numbers, crept up under a superbly-gauged gunfire, and gradually the French yielded. The Germans again held the key to the battlefield. Then the whole story was repeated. The Turcos dashed through a murderous fire from the chateau, supports from the line regiments followed, and the Germans retired. With this final break the centre of the enemy's whole line wavered. The French pressed forward, and the Germans stumbled in the swamps, abandoning 42 field pieces before order was restored by the subsequent withdrawal further eastward.