DESCRIPTIONS OF FIGHTING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13491, 21 September 1914, Page 4

DESCRIPTIONS OF FIGHTING.

THE ALLIES' ADVANCE.

'. f PARIS, Sept. 18 (evening.) Official: A - communique says the battle* - con tinues from • the Oise to Wasvre • without important change. Slight progress has been made- on the heights) north of Aisne; and three counter attacks against the British 'Were unsuccessful, while . the French ' repulsed three •v. night counter-attacks from Craonne to Rhehns. The enemy vainly attempted to. take the offensive against i Rheims. ' .;.;• :iv. ■■: '• .:■- -i ••" ;>■' j The Germans are- acting purely on. ! the from Rheims to Argonne, and.'ialso similarly m Lorraine and the Vosges. , i, .-.. :'".'•» •- '" "■■■ Official -:i The Allies have made -a continual advance i on tlie 'left wing, and there iS'"a slight lull m the battJe. A i- party ilin a German motor car-, wearing uniforms taken from -French, prisoners, were -caught 'attempting to blowu p .the' railway bridge' at Missel, and: thus sever' communication between Dieppe and Havriv '. The Germans <are strongly enuenehed along' the iSanibre from Mauberg to Naming and- -have ejected important works at Thuin, Farciennes, Tamines, and.'Flbreffi, and also a deep semi-circlo extending from ->Buggehhout through CampenoUi . to thb ncvth' of Louvain, where' it turns' south-east. '■'--' » All the - treuches and aedoubts have been reinforced with concrete; - r - - '-■' i LONDON, Sep-v. 19. Mr H. Maxwell, tlie Daily Telegraph war correspondent, telegraphing from the ; neighborhood of Aisne. 'a, report of the fighting on' Wednesday, \ says a French officer from the battle line- narrates that British aiid French on. Tuesday eurvbunded a German arhiy corps, ; and thfeir position was 'so hopeless that a flafe, of .truce was sent to demand their - surrender. The- offer- was rejected, and the fight, continued with relentless vigor, many Germans being killed or taken prisoners. The. enemy arc now making, a desperate stand on a line from Xayon to tlie forest of Argonne' .". During their eight days' occupation of Rheiins, -the » Germans ' strengthened the hilly country with . elaborate field work, enabling the arrest of the. Allies' pursuit. ' The latter, however, succeeded m forcing tho passage of the Aisne, west of RheiniSi on Tuesday, the enemy's entrenched fortified position being carried by agiaault, after two days' desperate struggle m the face of a terrible fire. . •'.-'"'• Another aeport states that a* Acy a regiment of French Territorials were outnumbered and forced to. take refuge m a largo barn. They shut the gates and fought to the vlast mau. while German guns battered the building to pieces. Fire added to the horror of the struggle. ' . A wounded private of the linuskillings relates .that -during the battle of Marne; .m. front of us a little space was swept for hours by a shower of bursting shells and' flying bullets. After an eternity, the shower suddenly ceased and w« saw the 'Germans creeping 1 across. With -easy 1 con_uence we charged and chased them, for a mile, cut them to ribbons, and ran into the cavalry supports. • The impetus bf our charge carried" us. past the cavalry, and. wo changed back- giving them a fine cutting up.',. They cleared to the fields, leaving a trail of dead men and horses." •, DRIVING 1 THE BELGIANS BACK. ..* ANTWERP, Sept. 20,. The Germans at Willsbrok are sweeping :tlu!" Belgians across the canal with niachine guns. The Belgians were unable to cross the canal, atwv bridge was raised, and a soldier volunteered and swam the canal under; fire -and -lowered "the*bridge. He was mortally wounded.