ENEMY BEATEN ALONG THE WHOLE LINE. J

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15729, 2 October 1914, Page 6

ENEMY BEATEN ALONG THE WHOLE LINE. J

, —— 1 SHATTERED RANKS DRIVEN BACK TO TRENCHES. ——— §?! ' >ifil FAILURE OF THE GERMANS' SECOND GREAT EFFORT. • . ,--3 ANOTHER RETREAT TO EAST AND NORTH IMMINENT. ff§ CR-edeived October 2, C.3D a.m.) . Lokdox, October 1". The war correspondent, Mr. Win. Maxwell, telegraphing on Sunday, | states: It is certain Germany's second great effort has failed. When | an English general who is incapable of exaggeration says we have '■ had two good days, one may be sure that they were more than good, |J I spent two days in a deserted chateau. The sound of the gunfire- .1 made it evident that the Germans were retreating. For twelve hours ;§ the German guns to the west did not return the fire cf the allies' *.\J heavy artillery. Even the-quarries look deserted. It is rumoured, % that the Germans eVacuated them owing to the unburied dead poison- ';- ing the air. But they are not all deserted, for the French attacked f one series of quarry-forts at Laegue under the cover of a mist and J killed the defenders like rats in a hole. In another case the allies . / set fire to a spinney. Under cover of the smoke they reached a point commanding a quarry. The enemy fled, leaving many dead. *- It is certain that the enemy are beaten along the whole line, 4a despite their reinforcements and the desperation with which tht-y fought. They made terrific attacks for two days in overwhelming f, numbers, but the allies' reinforcements arrived at a critical meat. and charges were continuously delivered until the plain was strewn"; ■ with the dying. The German ranks, shattered, were driven back to their trenches. Similar bayonet attacks and counter-attacks were* . made throughout the west end of our fiank. Victory always rested with the allies. The losses were heavy, but Red Cross officers state , : that the dead were not nearly so numerous as was expected. There v must soon be another retreat to the east and north, but the Germans % must hold the western flank to the very last moment in order to-save | the centre. 1 • - v /i