THE FRENCH.

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

THE FRENCH.

AND THE TURKO TERRORS London, September 20

Mr Richard Harding Davis, the American war correspondent, describes the Turcos and tne Senegalese as the fiercest fighters of "all in the trenches taken from the German Guards and the Crown Prince's Death's Head Hussars.-The Germans showed no bullet wounds, their assailants'using only the butts.of their rifles or their bayonets. Man for man, no white man, drugged for years with meat and alcohol, is a.physical match for these Turcos, fed on dates and water. They are as lean as starved wolves, and move like panthers —all muscle and . The French commanders almost invariably use them to lead charges.

Paris, September 21. Tbe Sixth French Army Corps, under General Mamoury,' threatens theGerman right flank. The latter's half-hearted counter-attacks failed signally. Many prisoners captured had been living on raw turnips and potatoes. The speed with_ which the French followed the fugitives was terrific, and in some places thirty hours' start was overtaken. When the French entered Crecyenvalvis the Germans were surprised whilst packing shells, and the French exploded 5000. The French advance on«the left is highly important, as General yon Veck's flank is now exposed. Official. —The Saxony army has been broken up. General yon Hausen has been relieved of command, and it is now being reorganised.

The French Government has no confirmation of the surrender of those Mauberge forts which were not destroyed, although German newspapers claim that they interned Torgaze.

The Allied troops on the Aisne were fighting waist deep in water in the flooded trenches.

.M. Vedrines, aeroplaning, destroyed with a mitrailleuse a Taube aeroplane flying over the French lines. From the sound of cannonading, it is evident that the Germans have brought up heavier guns and established them in position in the-old forts of Conde-sur-Aisne, which were defended by up-to-date artillery. The Rheims Cathedral has been razed to the ground. The Government is protesting to the Powers against German vandalism.

Large numbers of Germans detached from their regiments are sheltering in the woods oh the line of retreat. Battues are arranged daily ~by French troops to catch tnem. Many of the Germans have been foodless for fiye days, excepting for beetroot.