HEAVY FIGHTING.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2463, 3 October 1914, Page 3

HEAVY FIGHTING.

DECISIVE HOUR AT HAND. LONGEST BATTLE IN WORLD'S HISTORY.

■ London, October 2. Ihe limes correspondent at Paris says: There is a continuance of the hope for approaching success for the Allies in the longest battle in the history of the world. Captured Germans give signs of extreme fatigue and privations. They are without boots and their clothes are torn to pieces. Though German reinforcements have arirved, their quality is doubtful. On the contrary, the French are fighting with renewed spirits, and their temper is more warlike and effective than it was a fortnight ago. The decisive hour cannot be long delayed. A feature of the fighting at the Aisne is that the Germans content themselves with artillery during daylight, and that, with astonishing regularity, they make night attacks. AVhen dusk falls, the British fire ceases. The Germans, having marked down the trenches, send battalion after battalion straight at them. The night being clear, the Germans, crossing the crest of a hill in close formation, show up against the sky-line. The British allow thorn to approach within range, nml then mow them down with nwhino. puns and rifles. The advance quickly collapses, and the British get a night's rest. Lomion, October 2. Alsace ri'iuiuns c|uie(>, the people realising tlml any atlompb to sympathise openly with the French will be ruthlessly crushed.