RENEWED ACTIVITY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 5

RENEWED ACTIVITY.

GERMANS EVERYWHERE REPULSED.

BOMBARDMENT OF RHEIMS

The Cathedral Made a Mark.

PRO-BRITISH DEMONSTRATION IN ITALY

W CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT.

IS FRANCE.

RENEWED GERMAN ACTIVITY

ENEMY EVERYWHERE

REPULSED

INCESSANT ARTILLERY DUEL

THE FIGHT AT SOISSONS

CARRIED ON IN A PAGING

STORM

ARRIVAL OF FRENCH REIN- - FORCEMENTS.

TRAINLOADS OF WOUNDED

PARIS, Sep. 22. Official.—On the left wing, on the light bank of the Oise, we have advanced to the height at Lassingly, on the east of the Oise and north of the Aisne.

tish. The wind was howling and the rain lashing down, and the British seeded all their courage. Shrapnel killed many, but the Germans were not the right stuff to turn out the entrenched British, and they retired quicker than they came. The British guns pounded them, and the rifle fire laid them in heaps."

PARIS, Sep. 22. M. Millerand is despatching heavy reinforcements from a large body of Turcos, and Senegalese, who entrained at Bordeaux for a destination unspecified.

Every evening trains crammed, witli wounded crawl back from the front, 30 coaches composing a train* packed fuller than excursion trains, the worst cases being lucky if they can lie at full length.

LONDON, Sep. 22. The German 17-inch siege guns, which discharge a projectile weighing 21,000 (?) pounds, describe a parabola covering 12 miles, rising in height 1200 yds. The guns are discharged electrically from a. considerable distance, the: operator not daring to remain in the vicinity, the shells exploding with deadly gases.

_ LONDON, Sep. 22. This is a teetotal war, so far a® the Allies are concerned, while the trail of the Germans is marked by myriads of empty bottles.

1 The Germans have manifested renew- £ ed activity. Violent combats, ending in bayonet charges, ensued in the re- er jjion of Craonne. Everywhere the ■enemy was repulsed. Hound Rheims the Germans have not attempted in- 1 f antry attacks, but have limited themselves to cannonading our front with :. Jheavy artillery. - In the Champagne district, and on the western elope of Argonne, beyond > Somaine, we have taken Mesnil and Woevre. The enemy continues to hold Thiaucourt, and has cannonaded Hasaonchatel. There is no new report from Lorraine and Vosges. Jlk& Germans are fortifying themselves on the Delme side, and to the «outh of Chateau Salins. Thirty dum-dume have been extract- . -ed from wounded troops. 1] LONDON, Sep. 22. « Mr PHHp Gibbs, cabling on Saturday, eaid: "When the great storm a was ragjkga/t Soiseons on Thursday and r Friday, causing floods, the British, had c the most trying time of the war. It * tried their nerves and souls to the last I point of human endurance. Several r •who left the,trenches on a special mis- c sion looked as though they had been * through a torture chamber. They suf- c fered nameless horrors,' were chilled to * . j&e bone, and were shaking in every ' ' limb. Nevertheless; there/ was no growling. The army, dirty as mud- 1 iarks, unshaven and tattered, were still 3 confident, and as ready to joke as ever. "The strength of the German 7posi- 1 tion made it very difficult for the Bri- ' tish to cross the marshland, which is * intersected by rivers and canals. At present it is utterly impossible for in- ] fantry, cavalry, or heavy guns, to cross the swamps. "The German llin. guns on the surrounding Hulls .were giving a lot of trouble to the British gunners. "An incessant artillery duel waged for days, covered, by which both sides -{";.- have been entrenching and rushing over tho open ground, with rifle fire and bayonet charges, in order -to obtain advantageous positions for further -entrenchments. The British shbw"ed ,t . superiority in the battle of the trenches, and gained good ground, though at heavy cost. With the experience of the Boer war, the British were far better than the enemy at -taking advantage of every scrap of cover. Fighting in open formationf on several occasions they took trenches -which by all the rules of war were impregnable. The British were assisted by • the Zouaves, who repeatedly -charged under the deadliest fire and reached the enemy's positions. The "Germams fled, but not until the Ttrenches were filled with the corpses /j/K^iot the slain. The Frenchmen tossed them out of the pits fas though they were haymaking,' as one of them said. "General yon Kluck on Friday night ordered a general advance of the infantry from' Chavingy . and . Anizy le 'Chateau upon, for themost part, the British trenches round,Soissons, while| the artillery again searched the posi-

VIOLENT COMBATS & BAYONET CHARGES.