NOT A MAN ESCAPED
FIVE HUNDRED GERMANS KILLED APPALLING INCIDENT ON ALLIES' LEFT (Received October 3, 10.30 a.m.) . ' , . PARIS, 2nd October. -There 1 was an appalling incident on the Allies' left wing on Monday. Five hundred Germans were caught in flat fields with slopes on every side. The French artillery quietly occupied the positions. iWlien the moment came to open fire, the officer commanding the battery said: "Make me a cemetery down there." rThe order was obeyed. The guns accounted for most, and rifle fire for. the rest. Not a man escaped. Shells spread missiles over an area a hundred yards by thirty yards. They often kilf a whole row of entrenched men. , [A message published yesterday stated: — "The fighting proceeding in one region on the Allies' left resembles Paardeburg, 3500 Germans being in tho same plight as Cronje, though not i*a rrver-bed like the latter was, but in quarries. The 'French troops completely surrounded thorn, and aro shelling them in order to-compol "them to surrender,"]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1914, Page 7
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166NOT A MAN ESCAPED Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1914, Page 7
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