France.
MARNE BATTLEFIELDS.
BARRIER OF GERMAN DEAD SIX FEET HIGH.
[By, Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press (Association.] Paris, September 17.
Horrible stories of the carnage are reaching Paris from visitors to the Marne battlefields. In one spot the Germans built a barirer of dead six feet high, behind which they resisted the French charges. The Turcos finally carried the barirer, after a bloody struggle, and a litter of seven thousand corpses now marks the spot. In another place 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 French infantrymen. Only two hundred of the Germans* escaped.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 27, 18 September 1914, Page 6
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