RIGHT WING ENCIRCLED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4944, 18 September 1914, Page 5

RIGHT WING ENCIRCLED.

POSITION OF ALLIES. EniWy heavily reinforced. London, Last Night. It is reported that the German right has been heavily reinforced from Lorraine. It is stated in Amiens that the 'Allies’ new army, marching from the west, encircled the Germans’ extreme right wing and the British are non supporting the right wing of the French left for twenty miles on the south bank of the Aisne east of feoissons. They will probably not cross the river until the trench left has advanced further. The scattered fragments of \on GBuelow’s armies, recently in the North-west of France, are now in the hills north of Rheims. The armies of Von Hausen and the Grand Duke of Wurtemburg and the Crown Prince stretch from Rheims, north of Argonne and Verdun towards Metz. The Allies’ success was largely due to General Joffre’s clever use of the French railways, enabling the Allies to concentrate huge forces of reserves and throw them swiftly where required. London, Last Night. Army corps, aggregating three million men participated in the fighting at Marne. THE GERMANS RALLYING. London, Last Night. There is little news from the front. There are indications of a great battle. The Germane are rallying to resist the rapid advance of the Allies. Fewer refugees are arriving in England, and confidence is returning in Paris. In the north of France efforts have been bravely commenced to repair the ruin and industries are resuming. GALLANT BAYONET CHARGE LESSONS OF THE BOER WAR. London, Last Night. Last week’s battle was fought, in the friut country in France. Even the open roads, lined with avenues of pears and apples were under the of the French artillery. British infantrv fought steadily forward through the orchards and unharvested corn. The lessons of the Boer war were not forgotten by the British, who swept from their trenches in open order, and often under the withering fire of the German machine guns; but, stooping low, each man made "for the nearest cover. After pouring out a fusilade they , moved on again, until, with a fierce , cheer, they drove the Germans from the trenches with their bayonets.

BATTLE ROUND SOISSONS. VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUEL. DESPERATE FIGHTING. London, Last Night. Tlie battle round Soihsons lasted four days. The Allies found the river Bwollen with rains and it was necessary to build pontoons under a withering fire. The French and British on Sunday morning brought up their guns and a violent artillery duel opened. Then the Allie, began to cross and won the heights by sunset, the Germans having gained twelve hours’ respite. There was similar desperate fighting at half a dozen other spots where the French and British threw pontoons across the Aisne to replace the bridges which the French had destroyed during their retreat a fortnight earlier. The British gained the northern bank in several places on Sunday, but the German guns got the range and forced the British to withdraw on Monday. During Monday evening the Allies brought up heavier rj)rmon which changed the aspect of the battle and forced several German batteries to retire. The rest of the siege guns were hidden in the woods capping tho hills overlooking the river and hitherto it had been impossible to locate them. When the British succeeded in getting their battery across the river the Germans in the wood were unable to hit it, hence they were forced to seek a new position. The Germans’ heavy fire forced the British to retire leaving six guns, but the German guns meanwhile had been hicated and under the protection of a heavy bombardment from the northern bills two British batteries crossed the bridge and soon the six guns were recovered and two German batteries were captured. Meanwhile to the west the French got throe batteries and a regiment of infantry over the river and captured 1500 Germans on Tuesday. The German stand, however, enabled their armies around Rhiems and at Argonne to retreat safely. The hottest fighting around Soissons, which lies across tho Paris-Laon road, was in the cup formed by two ranges of hills, whereof the northern is morn continuous. Von Kluck saw that the; hill north of Soissons gap. into which several valleys lead, must he held if the bulk of his army was to escape?. Fortunately for the Germans the big siege guns destined for Paris forts had reached the spot, hence the inferiority of the Allies’ heavy artillery until Tuesday, when the; Germans abandoned the position. STORIES OF CARNAGE. Paris, Last Night. Horrible stories of carnage are reaching Paris from visitor to tho Marne battlefields. At on<> spot, the Germans built a barrier of dead six feet.high, behind wh'V'll they restated tY reneti charges the Ttireos finally ca.. „d the; harrier after a, bloody struggle. A litter of seven thousand corpses now marks tho spot. Else-

where two thousand Germans made a stand at a sugar factory, sending a murderous hail of bullets at the pursuing Frenchmen. The artillery, however, caused the refinery to catch fire and the Germans were entrapped. As they jumped from the windows they were picked off by the French infantrymen. Only two hundred Germans escaped.