General.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 25, 16 September 1914, Page 3

General.

A RIVER OF BLOOD.

SICKENING SLAUCHTER OF GERMANS ON THE 6th.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

London, September 14

A field artillery gunner relates:— "A terrible struggle took place on the 6th, when the Germans tried to cross the river. The British guns and picked rifle shots commanded the river. The Germans swarmed the riverside. The first party built a pontoon bridge and were rushing across, when a si.ell smashed the bridge, and the pontoons, with their dead and wounded freight, wore carried downstream. The same thing went on all day, until the British were sick with the sights and the shrieks. The Germans managed to cross at ono point, and the Allies then rushed with rare joy and bayoneted them into the river. A whole battalion was captured hero. • They simply couldn't face the bayonet, and threw up their arms. WJTH THE AIRCRAFT.

BRITISH AVIATORS CONTINUE TO PROVE SUCCESSFUL.

London, September 14

The Press Bureau reports that in five cases the British aviators shot Germans in mid-air and brought down their machines. These successes had established their personal ascendancy over the Germans, who have becom< less enterprising. A dead German's diary shows that a British aeroplane dropped a bomb and exploded a German ammunition wagon, killing fifteen.

FATALITY WHILE SCOUTING OVER LONDON.

London, September 14

Lieut. Richard Gates died from injuries sustained in a fall of 2000 ft on Thursday night, while scouting ovei London. SIR JOHN FRENCH. BRITISH GENERAL CREDITED WITH GERMAN RETREAT. Copenhagen. September 'l4.

The British are given the credit her* for-the German retreat, and General Sir John French is compared with tin Duke of Marlborough.

(The Luke of Marlborough was th< greatest of the British generals, in thr 17th century, the hero of his time, and perhaps the greatest commander Eng land has produced.)

"HURRAH FOR EKGLAND!"

"THE WHOLE BRITISH EMPIRE

TO THE RESCUE."

'Bordeaux, September 1-1

M. Hanotaux, in an article in th< Figaro, declares that the honors 0 the day rest with.tho.British,... Be cou eluded': "The whole British Empire i" coming to the rescue. Hurrah fpEngland!" NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDING 1 ; FOR FRANCE. Times anu Sydney Sun Services. Paris, September 15. The Alhambra music-hall at - Bor deaux has been fitted as the Chambe of Deputies, and the Apollo Theatre for the Senators, Parliamentary tri bune being erected in front of th< prompter's box, and Hansard estab lished in the orchestra.

A VICTORY. AS THE FRENCH HftD FAILED TO BREAK THE CENTRE. Rotterdam, September 15. The General Staff at Berlin claims that the latest battle was so far favorable, as the French had failed to. break the centre. The General Staff explains the success of the Allies' left as the falling hack of the weak German right, consisting of three army corps. They state that the French have been thrown hack upon Verdun, of which the outworks were captured.

ATFsOCJTiES ADMITTED. SHOCKING GERMAN RAVAGES IN BELGIUM. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Paris, September 15. The Cologne Gazette admits that the German ravages in Belgium an shocking.

TRAINED NEUTRAL MINDS FOR SWORN jNQUiRY.

Lord Selborne suggests that the trained lawyers or judges of a neutral nation like the Netherlands or

the United States should conduct a sworn inquiry into such alleged cases of common outrages on women as already are open to investigation. THE GERMAN SIEGE GUMS. Antwerp, September 14. A German officer who was made a prisoner says that the German army possesses 50 large siege guns with a range of six miles, hut that they will fire only 20 times each.

WBTH THE AIRCRAFT. AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN BY RIFLE FIRE. Antwerp, September 14.

Rifle fire brought down a German aeroplane at Antwerp. The aviator was killed.