THE ALLIES.

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

THE ALLIES.

A HIrT.T OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Paris, September 20. Official.—Our left has made further slight progress on the banks of the Oise. The Algerian division captured another standard. All attempts of the Germans to break our front be--twecn Craonne and Rheims were repulsed. The Germans furiously bombarded Rheims Cathedral. We have taken at the village of Souvain 1000 prisoners. In Lorraine, the enemy has fallen back beyond our frontier, and has evacuated Avricourt. In the Vosges the enemy tried unsuccessfully to resume the offensive. Our progress there was slow, owing to bad weather and the defensive works of the enemy.

A British cavalry officer declares that the fighting on the Aisne was desperate, especially in the neigh-" bourhood of Haon, where the Germans concentrated their main effort against the British. The latter's infantry was magnificent. The Germans, in great force, made nine counter-attacks, but all were repulsed. The British losses were heavy, but the German were tenfold more, and so enormous that they can have few fresh troops to replace them. The French captured 80 officers and men of the German Guard, all dead drunk in a village.

A lieutenant of the 26th. Artillery Regiment said the 10th Army Corps had been consistently fighting since the beginning of the campaign, and almost all the horses were killed. The Germans were fighting daily from 5 o'clock in the morning until 8 in the evening, without eating or drinking. So far the Germans have the advantage in heavy artillery, but the British captured and destroyed three 11-inch guns mounted on concrete emplacements. The French guns of heavy calibre are hurrying to the front. The bulk of the fighting along General French's command Cis done

in enclosed country; consequently, for the most par£, it is an artillery battle. The gun-fire on both sides is appalling. The Germans' attempt to break our front where it stretched east and "west along the Aisne failed, and the enemy's losses were enormous, estimated at five to one. London, September 21. .- The Times military correspondent says the battle sways backwards and forwards, but the Alies will not be content to let it he drawn, as the battle must cleanse the soil of France of the invader. "The time has arrived when we expect General Joffre to concentrate all available troops for a serious operation on one "flank or the other, even depleting the front in order to secure victory for the wing." ■■■•■*■: