AN ACT OF REVENGE.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5727, 2 October 1914, Page 2

AN ACT OF REVENGE.

DEFENCELESS TOWN BOMBARDED BY GERMANS. PAARDEBERG RECALLED. FORCE OF 3500 SURROUNDED AND SHELLED. Received 8.55 a.m., 2nd. London, October 1. The Germans on Sunday morning gained ground. Then the French brought up many quickfirers and checked their advance. The enemy kept up their effort gamely, but it bad clearly failed on j Tuesday afternoon. At this time no French battery was within a mile of Albert, but to the astonishment of the French gunners the Germans began •systematically I shelling Albert, which is an open, undefended town of 8000 inhabitants. The town collapsed like a house of cards, and was soon a burning ruin. Meanwhile the roads were crowded with women with babies. Some who I were aged and too feeble to walk were trundled in barrows. The Germans’ | revenge for their reverse was complete. Received 8.45, a.m., 2nd. Paris. October 1. French wounded narrate that during the battle of the Aisne it bel came necessary to warn French reinforcements of an ambush. Two | Frenchmen, who were signalling, were killed. Then a British cyclist I dashed forward, but he was shot, and another following was also shot. A third went at full speed across an inferno and reached the trench unI touched. The commander took from his own tunic a medal won for bravery, j and pinning it on the cyclist’s breast said; “This was given to me for saving I one life; you saved hundreds.” The light is still proceeding. In one region the Allies’ left resembles Paardeberg, where 5300 Germans are in the same plight as Cronje. They are not in a riverbed like The latter, oul in quarries, and the French troops, who have completely surrounded, are shelling them in order to compel them to surrender.* Although the Germans claim that the French right on the Aisne is imperilled, it is standing firm. The Germans are* using subterranean galleries in the quarries for storing great quantities of provisions and ammunition with the view of relieving the problem of supply. The French have I already taken several of these quarries. ! ad anlwerp