THE ALLIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2453, 22 September 1914, Page 2

THE ALLIES.

ACCOUNTS OF THE- BATTLE,

(Received September 22, 9.40 a.m.) London, September 21. Thursday.—The valley of the Aisne is a terrible spectacle. The ground is strewn with dead of all nations, dead men and horses lying in inextricable confusion, and broken machine guns, foundered cannon, and scattered accoutrements. The battle is nearly a week old. The Allies advanced foot By foot. Shot and shell were poured on them in an avalanche, yet they -forced the Germans back towards Noyon (south of St. Quentin). "Terrible fellows. I've seen nothing like it," was a Frenchman's comments on the doggedness of the British while fighting on the slopes above Soissons. The British fought in open order, each man in a little dug-out, creeping and digging as he went. The Germans poured shells on them, but resistance* took the spirit otit of the enemy. A furious battle occurred east ol Peronne, between Roissel and St. Quentin. The French left •is endeavouring to cut the enemy's retreat towards Belgium. It is rumoured at Amiens that the Germans are beaten. The artillery is slackening, as the ammunition is giving out. Paris. September 21. j The Germans blew up a railway , bridge at Staples (a port south of Boulogne).. j When the Germans captured Luneville on August 24 they lost 11,000. At Nancy they lost 20,000 on September 6 and 7. Official.—Our left wing, below Soissons, was vigorously attacked by_ a superior force and gave ground, which was almost immediately re-conquered. On the right bank of tlie Oisc we continued our progress northward of Rheims, repulsing all attacks. In tho centre, eastward of Rheims, our attacks made further progress. _ |

In tlie. Argonne the situation is unchanged and in the Woevre the rains rendered the movement of troops very difficult,