GERMAN FORGE CUT OFF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9895, 10 September 1914, Page 5

GERMAN FORGE CUT OFF.

>MNE GUNS AND MANY PRISONERS CAPTURED. THEIR AMMUNITION EtHAUSTED. TWO ARMY~CORPS REPULSED AT MEAUX SUSTAIN TERRIBLE LOSSES. Received September 10, 9.0 a.m.' PARIS, Sept- 9 (morning). Three hundred Germans were captured in the last engagements in the vicinity -of the Ourcq and the Grand Morin. A French sergeant, wounded at Meaux, says:—"We pursued for nineteen miles two German regiments which were supported by cavalry and artillery. During their hurried retreat the Germans did not fire a shot, whereas the French maintained a violent and decimating fire. They succeeded in isolating part of this German column and captured seven guns, two machine guns and many prisoners. One of these was an infantry sergeant who admitted that the men had nearly exhausted their ammunition ana were ordered to spare it." A French infantry officer, also wounded at Meaux, declared that the German troops repulsed in that district after two days' heavy fighting comprised two Army Corps which sustained terrible losses. He counted seven hundred bodies in one trench. He corroborated the lack of German ammunition. The Germans seemed very tired.