SUNDAY'S BATTLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15444, 5 September 1914, Page 10

SUNDAY'S BATTLE.

fi: rt h t:tt I'A irr icr lars A FRE!NT IE Fi>RCE. r.XDFP. GENERAL I'XV. I BEAT THE ENEMY. Bt'T HAVE TO -RETIRE. f.ONDoN. S pc. Tli-> •-Daily 'ivW'jzrapfc'* <-.nT«-*p<t»cul«tit say- that «n Sunday i.i>- French, sm«l«-r tU-noral Van, on. ih.! Rritwtt ri«ht. v.t-iv attauk-il by tit.-,:- 'lVinth CfTOiW Aru;v C'tsrp* -.i.tid the- I ?n peri at Guard, bur. tit'roitivlly- rwt-tvrd t!i>.' attack ♦«' th*' fliti' of tiit v (if nn:m army. Sxini the French «us tlie uoper hand and took a Tuanimeivd at ths* eae-niy. ojmpb toiy «l#'tr:nrat«in:i thtrn. Oat? German s.tmy iva.-> rtfr;ifi.U:tf;ly foro!cf-xt and thrown i.rno> —(name- or platv dc-leud) — and fj»;iny: cut off on. !>oc?i a:».U;h front it.-

supports lost tearfully. The remnant withdrew, leaving an enormous number of dead and wounded, and prisoners in tho valky. As tho French loft- was however, bent hack; the- offensive could not be persisted :n. ~~ PARIS., Sept. 3. I After a fierce artillery duel tho Allies, were complied to retire, and the. Germans secured the surrender of !An:tens, which they traversed singing, tho citizens by a preconcerted decision i abstaining from any demonstration. | Meanwhile ten thotsssnd French re- | tired. Though the French had blown J up the kridgirs some were taken after | a fierce combat. The capture o: the | town km diu< to the work of the 16- ; inch Krupp guns, which enabled the I Germans to advance. | TFIR ALLIES. J ORDERLY RETIREMENT. I STEADY GERMAN ADVANCE. i LONDON, Sept. 3. The "Daily TelegraphV' correspondent reports that he visited tiie rear lof the French left and the British tines. The Allies were being driven back by sheer weight of numbers, but it was an orderly retirement, not a retreat. "It" alt the moves of this fearJiil campaign had been arranged b*_-forr-ptacd.*' he says. "they could not have ' fw-n carried out with greater precision. | The Gorman army has gradually nari rf:n-»d the principal attacking prant tinj. til' now :» 'V shaped mass is pointing iditectlv to Paris.'" i " | TREMENDOUS FIGHTING. j AGAINST ENORMOrs FORCE. » * I . | A MILLION GERMANS. | PRESSING TOWARDS PARIS ■ J Another r»>rrc>pondeiit resort* that ' on August 2S the Allies he'd a crescent on wooded heights. Th-. 1 Brit ish »>:i ■ the left and in the centre were su|*- : port ins: the heavy thmst of th.- main • German advance. with General Pan's i troops ou th-- tight.

At least a million Germans were moving on Saturday afternoon as the vanguard, supported by a fresh army corps from Belgium. The cavalry were sweeping across a great tract of country. There was a great mass of artillery, under cover of which the infantry moved as a wedge against the English. The Eugliih wing found it impassible to resist the onslaught. The British gunnery was magnificent. They shelled the advancing columns so that the dead wero heaped along tho road, but. as one of tho gunners said. "It made no manner of difference. As soon as we smashed one lot, another followed, column after column." The railway was destroyed and bridges were blown up on the main line from Amiens to Paris and the branch lines from Dieppe. Then, fighting all the way, the- British fell back. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. OF THE GREAT BATTLE. LONDON. Sept. 3. Genera! Damade at- Aumale held the Allies' left with some of his reserves, and held the hills to A>st aiul west where they were in touch with General French's cavalry, who were upon the Amiens' road. Meanwhile General Pan was sustaining a terrific attack on the River Olse from the German right. The attack on General Pan wa; repelled by the French gunners. BRITISH DID THEIR SHARE. Then followed a series of brilliant bayoni-t and cavalry charge.-. It is stated that the heroism oi the British t r<)-i|<s was Mthliiiie. Ev<-: v n:an kn.-'-v that tho ratVty i.f Franc-: depended him and v.ready to sacrifice his lift-- juyi'uUy and ciuhu-dasik-al'v. Despite ib.- enemy's ovei[Kjwering numbers the B:%ti-:i gave trmendous punishment. The German columns were broken and routed. Hundreds were bayonetted: hundreds itmr.■ were forced into the River ():se. v.hiv the whole i'l-om of the haul.- was .uitiiiw-d by deai! and flying whom th- Germans were obliged to abandon. Nevertheless the vast reserves of the Germans forced G'>rc rat Pan to < ease hi< advance.