ENEMY LURED INTO A WOOD.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13592, 6 October 1914, Page 5

ENEMY LURED INTO A WOOD.

DECIMATED IST SHELLFIRE

CROWN PRINCE'S VANDALISM

(Received Oct. 5, JO p.m.)

Paris, Oct. 5

At the battle of Boye a body of French dragoons occupying a village retired, drawing the enemy 'into a wood where batteries with infantry were pasted.

The shellfire decimated the Germans, tdio fled, leaving 800 prisoners, including a colonel and ten officers.

The "Gaulois" states that the Crown Prince before evacuating them, ordered that Clermonte and Ragonne be burned. Even, the old men's alms houses maintained by the Little Sisters of the Poor, were burned, though the mother superior on her knees implored the 'Germans to spare them.