VIOLENT ENGAGEMENT AT ROYE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13591, 5 October 1914, Page 5

VIOLENT ENGAGEMENT AT ROVE.

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RESULT IN THE ALLIES' FAVOUR

GENERAL SITUATION SAT-

ISFACTORY

FURTHER PROGRESS IN THE

ARGONNE,

AVALANCHE OF GERMAN

WOUNDED.

FRENCH HOSPITALS OVER-

TAXED

Paris, Oct. '«. A communique states that ther« is

nothing particular to report, except

■ that in the Roye district there was a •-. violent engagement, which fortunatelyturned out in our favour, and that i;i the Argonne we have made some fur- ; ther progress.

The general situation is satisfactory. 'An avalanche of German wounded from the Maine and the Aisne is taxing the French Red Cross to the utmost.

Both German and British wound-id are being hurried to England.

Although the British Red Cross organisation is perfect, the carnage exceeds all expectations

At Rcmen, Nantes, Le Mans, And 'lours little British graveyards ars growing daily, the French paying ft tribute of flowers and tears.

There was an appalling incident in the Allies' left wing on Monday. Wire hundred Germans were caught in flat fields with slopes on every side. French artillery quietly occupied a position, and when the moment came to open fire the officer commanding said, "Make me j» cemetery down there "

The order was obeyed, and the firm s accounted for most, and rifle fire ior the rest.

Not a man escaped

' The Germans have nicknamed *he French 75 millimetre guns the "Black Butchers." Shells from these puns spread missiles over an area of a hun- *■ dred yards by 30, and often kill a whole r row of entrenched men.