ALLIES CAPTURE 23,000 UNWOUNDED GERMANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16035, 29 September 1915, Page 7

ALLIES CAPTURE 23,000 UNWOUNDED GERMANS.

AEROPLANES DISORGANISE ENEMY'S COMMUNICATIONS

RAILWAY" JUNCTIONS AND TROOP TRAINS BOMBED. HURRICANE OF FIRE AT TREVES. By Telegraph Press —Copyright. (Received September. 2S, 10.15 p.m.) Paris, September 27. A stream of facts regarding the struggle is now coming in. It is estimated that there are 1,800,000 Germans in the west and 2,600,000 in Russia.

The number of unbounded German prisoners no\r exceeds 23,000. Eleven trains of prisoners passed through Paris going to the internment camps. The haul of prisoners is unparalleled since the battle of the Marne.

A noteworthy feature of the operations were the aeroplane attacks 40 miles in the rear of the German front, interfering with the movement of reserves and the supply of ammunition. Troop trains were bombed. The effect of these attacks can be estimated from the results at Saarbrucken, in the extreme south of the Rhine province, where aeroplanes destroyed the greater part of the strategic railways. Aeroplanes also damaged the junction at Treves, 48 miles north-east of Metz, through which hundreds of thousands of troops have passed via Luxemburg to France. The people at Treves were seized with mad panic. The bishop took refuge in the cathedral, and the clergy and congregation in the crypt, until the hurricane of fire was ended.