THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA. ARMIES ON AISNE EXHAUSTED AUSTRIANS ASSAIL- RUSSIANS GERMANS CAPTURE MAUBEUGE -:o:- ATTACKS AND COUNTER ATTACKS DAY AND NIGHT French Attempt to Smash Right Failed and Germans Are Steadily GainingGround, Berlin War Office Asserts Kaiser's Troops Make Three Counter Attacks Agaimt British Forces, but Fail to Break Through Their Line. -:o: The French War Office announc ' ed a lull In the great battle along the Alene, but there la no particu lar ehange In the general aituatlon, although the allied army hat made alight progreee on Ita left flank. Violent attacke by the German army againet the Brltlah troopa have been repulted and the Ger man' army, heavily reinforced In the centre, hae adopted a pure ly defensive attitude. In the Voa gee and Lorraine the Allies are atill the aggreiiora. German Army Headquarters by wireless reported tha battle con tinuing between tha Oice and tha Meuse but with sure Indications that the force of the allied troopa la falling. A French attempt to tut through the German right wing waa broken, according to Berlin, and the German army la advancing alowly but surely. On the Buttle Front, Tla Paris. The armies of the nations became deadlocked north of the River Alsne after the most terrible artlllory duel of the centuries. Sheer exhaustion and frightful losses checked assaults and counter asaults all along the battle line. The gigantic battle, or more prop erly battles, continue day and night along the entire front from Noyon to the German frontier. The fight does not consist of one sustained and continued movement, but of several cpmbats proceeding in cessantly at the strongest points of the Germans' defending line along the river Alsne. Kuch encounter, however, Influences the execution of the general Idea of the commander-in-chief of the Allied army. Attacks and counter attacks follow one another In rapid succes sion every hour out of the twenty-four. The most Impressive reports of the battle of many days, so evenly bal anced, are that It Is a combat of artillery. Day and night thousands Qf German cannon hammer at tha Allied armies, while every gun that the French and English can bring to bear is directed toward attempting to silence these destructive guns. In lulls of artillery fighting the Allies have assaulted the German positions and have been able here and there to gain ground, but only at dreadful cost. The fighting at Helms between infantry and cavalry followed three days of Incessant artillery dueling. The Germans, believing they could break the French centre by a counter assault, essayed three times to reoc cupy Reims and were each time hurl ed back. Every fragment of news from the Fnr Flung line of battle makes It positive that the Allies are facing a more difficult situation than that which existed ulong the Marne. The Germans have been heavily re-enforced. They are strongly Intrenched along a vast battle line. Their great resources of artillery are operated In many places from wooded heights and the location of batteries has been nhrewdly concealed. There is every Indication that the armies of the Kaiser are ready once more for a powerful offensive movement. The German artillery was operated from double lines of embankment twenty rods apart, while the Oerman Infantry was protected by trenches three and four feet deep. Everywhere from the Olse to the Argonne the fighting has been pressed at night, aid searchlights have been used by the Germans in an attempt to deceive the Allies as to battery positions. More than three million men are engaged in this titanic struggle for the mastery of Europe. Strengthened by fresjh troops rush ed to the front from the Rhine for tresses, the German right and center made a desperate effort successfully to resume the offensive after their retreat, but In vain, and the Allies' left Is farther advanced than ever la the hills of the Alsne. Doth sides were so nearly exhaust ad by the bloody work that then the battle calmed down a bit. Three times, the German right at tacked the English lines and three times were General von Kluk'a men burled back with heavy loss. The night assault on Rhelms by Gnner.il von HauBen's forces was also a costly failure. Ten times the German Infantry tried to overwhelm the Allies' lines, and each time they were driven back with very heavy losses. In the last PLEDGES JAPANESE AMITY. Tokyo Banquet Speaker Says Philip pines Will Not Be Attacked. Tokyo. A notable demonstration of friendship toward the United States was made at a dinner given by the Japanese' Association, which was at' tended by Takaakl Kato, the Japanese Foreign Minister, and George W. Guthrie, the United States Ambassa dor. Viscount Kentaro Kaneko, presi dent. In a speech, scored those persons who, he said, were trying to estrange the United States and Japan. attempt the British delivered a coun ter attack, breaking the German lines and following up their advantage with a bayonet charge In which an entire Brigade was badly cut up. The army of Crown Prince Frederick William has finally turned on its pur suers at Montfaucun, northwest of Ver dun, encouraged by reinforcements coming from the Rhine garrisons, and the line of defense was clearly estab lished from sixty-seven miles north east of Paris, to Jlontfaucon. The brunt of the French frontnl at tack being threwn against this point and the care the Germans have taken in fortifying accounts for the slow pro gress of the French offensive. The Germans offered the most ob stinate resistance and fought as though made of Iron. The Allies at the same time doggedly pursued the small ad vantage they gained and kept at the heels of their reluctantly retiring foe. During the seventh night of battle the Germans made a formidable move ment In the western sphere, hut were met by the French and British with great courage. The Germans returned to the attack no fewer than ten times with marvelous tenacity and Intrepid ity, but were unable to break through the allied Infantry. The fight just before daybreak was the most violent of all. The Germans appeared to throw into the charge all that remained of their energy, but were rolled back with enormous loss es. Before retiring behind their big guns they sacrificed many of their numbers, displaying a resolution which approached desperation. A vig orous counter attack ensued, during which a small extent of ground was gained. During the combat the adversaries in many instances came to hand-to-hand clashes, and the bayonet was ex tensively used. The carnage was ter rifying, but the troops of both armies appear to have been hardened to such scenes, and fought with indomitable coolness despite the heaviness of the losses. Two things stand out as news amid the general uncertainty. One is that the French Government has issued decrees by which young men of less than twenty years, legally Ineligible for military service, are to be admit ted as volunteers. The other is that Muubeuge has fallen into German hands. The first Indicates that France has at last determined to put forth her full fighting strength. Properly car ried out, this new decree means that France will have at k-ast 7,000, 000 men to face the invaders, for the summoning of youths below twenty will add enough to the fighting ranks to bring the total up to more than one-sixth of the entire population. The, second item, that relating to Maubeuge, means that Germany now has a free and uninterrupted line of retreat into Southern Belgium and Luxemburg. While Maubeuge stood, the German lines of communication in this dis trict were perforce menaced. Mau beuge fallen gives a clear route back along the Sambre to Charlernl, Namur and Liege. Maubeuge Taken by Germans, After 12 Days of Fighting London. The Times correspondent at Boulogne anounces the fall of Mau beuge In the following despatch: "Maubeuge , fell on September 7. The Investment began on August 25. On August 2G the first shell was fired. On August 27 the main attack was concentrated on the forts to the north and east of the city. "Forts de Boussols, des Sarts and de Cerfontalne and the earthworks of Rocq were destroyed by hepvy artil lery. "The town suffered severely from the bombardment, which continued with great violence for twelve days. More than a thousand shells fell in one night near the railway station and In Rue de France was partly destroyed. The loss of life, however, was comparatively slight. "At 11.50 o'clock on the morning of September 7 a white flag was hoist ed on the church tower and trumpets sounded 'cease firing,' but the firing only ceased at 3 o'clock that after noon. In the meantime the greater part of the garrison succeeded in leaving the town. The German forces murched in at 7 o'clock that evening. AUSTRIA NEEDS EVERY MAN. Son to Call All Reservists and Em peror Mourna Necessity. Rome. Dispatches from Vienna say the Neue Frle Pressa announces the approaching call of all reservists en masse. According to the Relchpost, Era per Francis Joseph said to the Arch duke Charles Francis, when the latter was leaving to take bis place In the army: ".Never In my life has any thing cost me so much pain as the duty qf taking such a grave decision." Czar Sweeps 900,000 Men Over Poland Main Army Moves Toward Breslau as Start of Advance Into Germany 2,000,000 Trained Reservists In Readiness to Join Invading Troops. Rome. Another Russian tidal wave Is rolling toward Germany. The Czar's central army of i00,000 men is sweeping across Poland, with Bres lau, in Silesia, as Its objective. In addition, it Is learned that Rus sia has in Poland 2,000,000 reservists who have been under training until the great first line army could be assembled and put in motion. It has been forces of these reservists at which German armies have been striking and often defeat ing in encounters in Russian Poland. Russia's intention Is to strike hard with the main army and to keep it constantly reenforced and refreshed with the reservists. This is the Important development in the eastern theatre of war that ha been expected for days. Thut Russia was mobilizing a great cen tral army for a direct advance on Germany has been known, but this army was not given impetus until the campaign in Galicla was practl cully ended with the overthrow of Austrian power from Cracow to Buckovlna. Until this vast force was ready, the Russian troops In East Prussia, the northern army marked time or fell back. It Is believed by Italian military critics that Russia will now strike directly for Breslau to open the road to Berlin, while her northern army keeps the Germans in check in East Prussia and her southern army com pletes the subjugation of Galicla. This latter necessity has about been accom plished with the lnveslmeut of Przemysl and Jaroslav. Says Kaiser Moves 320,000 Men From Prussia to France Petrograd. Information was receiv ed at the War Olllce that eight Ger man army corps, numbering 320,000 men, which had been sent east to re pel the Russian attack In East Prus sia and to strengthen the Austrian forces in Galicla, have been with drawn and are being rushed to the western scene of operations in France. London. The movement of eight German army corps from East Prus sia to the theatre of war in France Is taken to mean that the Kaiser In tends to aim a final terrific blow at the Allies In an effort to crush the opposition la France. WAR NEWS TOLD IN TABLOID FORM The German General Staff officially reported that the offensive of the Allies was weakening, that the Ger man were advancing alowly and that a French sortie from Verdun had been repulsed. Petrograd reported officially that Gen. Rennenkampf had stopped the German advance In East Prussia and that pursuit of the Austrian rear guard In Galicla continued. All reports of Russian victories were branded ae "Incredible lies" by the Austro-Hungarlan Ambassador, Dr. Dumba, who went to New York to protest to the American publio against alleged distortion of news about his country. John T. McCutcheon, special corre spondent of The New York World, writing from Alx-la-Chapelle said that, though with the German army for two weeks, he had not seen a single instance of wanton brutality. An official statement In Berlin an nounced that French attacks had been repulsed, and that counter German attacks had been success ful, but that, in general, the situa tion was unchanged. Demonstrations for Italy's entrance Into the war, which started at Rome, have spread to Milan, Venice and Salerno. Earl Kitchener said the tide is turn ing everywhere In favor of the Al lies. He predicted a long war. Berlin reported the outlook as favor able, and denied any victories by the British or French forces. The Kaiser is reported about to take personal command of the checking of the Russian Invasion. The Belgium commission placed the official charges of German atrocities before President Wilson, who re plied that the neutrality, of the United States prevented him from passing Judgment on the case. He sent a similar reply to the Kaiser's complaint against the Allies. The Italian public and political lead era demanded that Italy aid the Allies. 21 LOST WITH TRAINING SHIP. Flsgard II Goes Down In English Channel. London. The Admiralty announces that the training ship Flsgard IL formerly the battleship Erebus, found ered in a gale off Portland, in he English Channel, and that 21 members of her crew were drowned. At tha time of the disaster the Flsgard II was being towed. Forty-four of the crew were rescued by the tugs. Boy artificers were trained on the vessel. Peace, But Not Peace at Any Price Count von Bernstorff Makes Clear Germany's Attitude Towards Proposals, GERMANY'S ATTITUDE ON PEACE OVERTURES FIRST There must be some thing more substantial in the of fer than the mere tender of good offices of the United States. While recognizing the kindly Interests of this Govern ment, yet it contains no assur ances from the Allies. 6ECOND Germany in Eu rope must not be dismembered. While negotiations might be con sidered concerning the colonies the German Empire must remain intact. THIRD Germany must be let lone by other Powers around her In the future. Every man In the empire believes sincerely and honestly today that the war la one of self-defense against the hostile encroachments of Russia, France and England. Live and let live Is the policy that Germany wishes its ene mies to observe. New York. The above stipulations printed in a Washington despatch were shown to Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador to the United States. "That's just what I've been trying to get the American people to under stand," was bis emphatic remark. GERMANY ASKS TERMS THROUGH UNITED STATES. Washington. Germany suggested Informally that the United States should undertake to elicit from Great Britain, Frunce and Russia a state ment of the terms under which the Allies would make peace. The suggestion was made by the Imperial Chancellor, von Bethmann Hollweg, to Ambassador Gerard at Berlin as a result of an Inquiry sent by the American Government to learn whether Emperor William was desir ous of discussing peace. AUSTRO-RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN CZAR REPORTS KAISER'S AD VANCE BLOCKED; AUSTRIA DECLARES RUSSIAN CLAIMS ARE FALSE. RUSSIA. The Russian force that has been operating in Galicla has cross ed the San and is engaging the Aus trian In a battle fifty miles west of Lemberg. They have left a small force to besiege Przemysl. A new Russian army of 900,000 men Is about to march through Russian Po land with the intention of joining the army from Galicla in the ad vance through Silesia toward Berlin. A despatch from St. Petersburg says that the German troops have been frustrated In their attempts to sur round Gen. Rennenkampf and that the failure of this movement has completely upset the German schemes In East Prussia. AUSTRIA. Ambassador Dumba in a formal statement protested emphati cally against the reports sent out from London, Rome, Milan, Geneva, Copenhagen and St. Petersburg about the Austrian campaign In Russian Poland and Galicla. He denies that the Austrian losses have been as heavy as reported. On the otrier band, he says that the Gen eral Staff of the Dual Monarchy an nounces as a result of tour weeks' fighting the capture of 41,000 Rus sian prisoners and 300 guns. KING GEORGE TELLS In Proroguing Parliament WHY BRITAIN FIGHTS LONDON Kina GeoroVa t ii speech proroguing Parliament Included this reference to th war: "After every endeavor of my Government to preserve the T peace of the world, I was com- pelled, In the assertion of trea- T ty obligations, deliberately set at naught, and for the protee- 7 tion of the publlo law In Europe, to go to war. We are fighting T for a worthy purpose and will ? not lay down our arms until that purpose Is achieved. I rely In confidence upon the efforts of my aubjects. I pray God'a blessing." ENGLAND REQUISITIONS LINER. Empress of Asia Now Scouts for Prlxee In the Pacific. San Francisco. The new Canadian Pacific transpacific liner Empress of Asia has been requisitioned by the British Government and transformed Into a merchant cruiser. She is now combing the Pacific for prizes. This was the word brought from tha Orient by the .Pacific Mall liner Manchuria. The Japanese liner Nippon Maru had already been pressed into tha trans port service. DRIVEN TO ATROCITIES, GERMAN COMMANDER TELLS CORRESPONDENT By E. ALEXANDER POWELL. By Cable to The Chicago Tribune- Headquarters in the Field of the Ninth Imperial Army, Chateau Latere, near Renalx, Bolglura. Three weeks ago the government of Belgium re quested me to place before the Ameri can people a list of specific and au thenticated atrocities committed by the German armies upon Belgian non combatants. Today General von Boehn, com manding the Ninth Imperial field army, acting mouthpiece of the Ger man general staff, has askod me to place before the American people the German version of the incidents in question. So far as I am aware I am the only correspondent in the present war who has motored for an entire day through the ranks of the advancing German army, who has dined as a guest of the Germun army ' commander end his staff, and who has had the progress of the army on the march arrested in order to obtain photographs of the German troops. This unnsuul experience came about In a curious and roundabout way. Invited by General Von Boehn. After an encounter In tho streets of Ghent last Tuesday between a Ger man military automobile and a Bel gian armored car, In which two Ger man soldiers were wounded, American Vice Consul Van Hee persuaded the burgomnster to accompany Lira Im mediately to the headquarters of Gen eral von Boehn to explain the circum stances and ask that the city should not be held responsible for the unfor tunate affair. In the course of the conversation with Mr. Van Hee General von Boehn remarked that copies of papers con taining articles written by Alexander Powell criticizing the German treat ment of the Belgian civil population had como to bis attention and said he regretted he could not have an oppor tunity to talk with Powell and give him the German verHlon. Mr. Van Hee said by a fortunate coincidence I happened to be In Ghent, whereupon the general asked him to bring me out to dinner the following day, and Issued a safe conduct through the German lines. Though nothing was said about a photographer, I took with me Pho tographer Donald Thompson. As there was some doubt regarding the pro priety of taking a Belgian driver into the German lines, I drove the car myself. In Midst of Kaiser's Men. Half a mile out of Sottehem our road debouched into the great high way which leads through Lille to Paris. We suddenly found ourselves In the midst of the German army. It was a sight never to be forgotten. Far as the eye .could see stretched solid columns of marching men, .press ing westward, ever westward. The army was advancing in three mighty columns along three parallel roads. These dense masses gf mov ing men In their elusive blue gray uniforms looked for all the world like three monstrous serpents crawling across the countryside. American Hugs which fluttered from our windshield proved a passport In themselves and us we approached the close locked ranks they parted to let us through. For five solid hours, traveling al ways at express train speed, we mo tored between the walls of the march ing men. In time the constant shuffle of boots and the rhythmic swing of gray-clad arms and shoulders grew mnddenlng and I became obsessed with the fear that 1 would send the car plowing Into the human wedge on either side. Miles of German Soldiers. It seemed that the ranks never would end, and as far as we were con cerned they never did, for we never saw or beard the end of that mighty column. We passed regiment after regiment, brigade after brigade of Infantry, and after them hussars, uhlans, cuiras siers, field batteries, more infantry, more fluid guns, ambulances, then siege guns, each drawn by 30 horses, engineers, telephone corps, pontoon wagons, armored motor cars, more uhlans, the sunlight gleaming on their forest of lances, more Infantry in aplked helmets, all sweeping by as Irresistible as a mighty river, with tbelr faces turned toward France. This was the Ninth field army and composed the very flower of the em pire, Including the magnificent troops of tho Imperial guard. It was first and last a fighting army. The mon were all young. They struck me as being keen as razors and as hard as nails. The horses were magnificent. They could not have been better. The field guns of the Imperlul guard were almost twice the size of any used by our army. Thirty-two Horses Draw Howitzer. But the most Interesting of all, of course, were the five gigantic howit zers, each drawn by 16 pairs of horses. These howitzers can tear a city to pieces at a distance of a dozen miles. Every contingency seems to have been foreseen. Nothing was left to chance or overlooked. Maps of Bel gium, with which every soldier is pro vided, are the finest examples of topography I have ever seen. Every path, every farm building, every clump of trees, and every twig is shown. At one place a huge army wagon containing a complete printing press was drawn up beside the road and & GERMAN RETREAT AS SEEN FROM THE SKY London. The following dispatch comes from the Standard's correspond ent In Farls: "The best view of the, retreating German armies was obtained by a French military airman, who, ascend ing from a point noar Vitry, flew northward across the Marne and then eastward by way of Reims down to Use region of Verdun and back again morrlng edition of Deutsche Krelger Zcltung was being printed and distrib uted to the passing men. . It contained nothing but accounts of German vic tories, of which I never had beard, but It seemed greatly to cheer the men. Field kitchens with smoke pouring from their stovepipe funnels rumbled down the lines, serving. steaming soup and coffee to the marching men, who held out tin cups and had them filled without once breaking step. Covered Wagons Hide Machine Guns. There were wagons filled with army cobblers, sitting cross-legged on the floor, who were mnndlng soldiers' shoes just ns if they were back in their little shops In the fatherland. Other wagons, to all appcurunccs ordi nary two wheeled farm carts, hid un der their arched canvas covers nine machine guns which could Instantly be brought into action. The medical corps was as magnifi cent as businesslike. It was us per fectly equipped and as efficient as a great city hospital. Men on blcyclea with a coll of in sulated wire slung between them strung a field telephone from tree to tree so the general commanding could converse with any purt of the CO miles long column. The whole army never sleeps. When half is resting the other half Is advancing. The soldiers are treat ed as if they were valuable machines which must be speeded up to the high est possible efficiency. Therefore, they are well fed, well shod, well clothed, and worked as a negro teamster works mules. Only men who are well cared for can march 35 miles a day week in and week out. Only once did I see a man mistreated. A sentry on duty In front of tho general headquarters fulled to salute an officer with sufficient prompt ness, whereupon the officer lushed him again and again across the face with a riding whip. Though welts rose with every blow, the soldier stood rigidly at attention and never quiv ered. Finally Reaches Von Boehn. It was considerably past midday and we were within a few miles of the French frontier v. hen we saw a guidon, which signifies the presence of the bead of the army, planted at the en trance of a splendid old chateau. As we passed through the Iron gates and whirled up the stately tree-lined drive and drew up In front of the terrace a dozen officers in staff uniform came running out to meet us. For a few minutes it felt as if we were being welcomed at a country house In Ameri ca Instead of at the headquarters of the German army in the field. So perfect was the field telephone service that the stuff had been able to keep in touch with our progress along the lines and were waiting dinner for us. After dinner we grouped ourselves on the terrace in the self-conscious attitude people always assume when having their pictures taken, and Thompson mude some photographs. They probably are the only ones of this war, at least of a German general and an American war correspondent who was not under arrest. Then we gathered about the table, on which was spread a staff map of the war area, and got down to serious business. The general began by as serting that the stories of atrocities perpetrated on Belgian noncombatants were a tissue of lies. "Look at these officers about you," he said. "They are gentlemen like yourself. Look at the soldiers march ing past In the road out there. Most of them are fathers of families. Sure ly you don't believe they would do the things they have been accused of." Explains Aerschot Crimes. "Three days ago, general," I said, "I was in Aerschot. The whole town now is but a ghastly, blackened, blood stained ruin." "When we entered Aerschot the son of the burgomaster came into the room, drew a revolver, and assassinat ed my chief of staff," the general said. "What followed was only retribution. The townspeople only rot what they deserved." ' "But why wreak your vengeance on women and children?" "None has been killed," the general asserted positively. "I am sorry to contradict you, gen eral," I asserted with equal posltlve neBS, "but I have myself seen their mutilated bodies. So has Mr. Glnson, secretary of the American legation at Brussels, who was present during the destruction of Louvaln." "Of course, tbere always Is danger of women and children being killed during street fighting," said General von Boehn, "If they insist on coming into the street. It Is unfortunate, but It Is war." Data Startles General. "But how about a wonmn'B body I saw, with her hands and feet cut off? How about a white-haired mnn and his sonHvhom I helped bury outside Semp stad, who had been killed merely be cause a retreating Belgian had shot a German soldier outside their house? There were 22 bayonet wounds on the old man's face. I counted them. How about the little girl two years old who was shot while In her mother's arms by a uhlan, and whose funeral I at tended at Beystopdenberg? How about the old man who was hung from the rafters in his house by his hands and roasted to death by a bonfire being built under him?" The general seemed somewhat In a tlgzag course to a spot near Sols sons. "He saw the Oerman hosts not merely In retreat but In flight " 'It was a wonderful sight,' the air man Bald, 'to look down upon those hundreds and thousands of moving military columns, the long gray lines of the kaiser's picked troops, some marching in a northerly, others In a northeasterly direction, and all mov ing with tremendous rapidity.' "The retreat, the aviator declared, was not confined to the highways, but taken aback by the amount and ellM '0..W lklnnn 1 ii . outu uiiuttB nio iiurriuiQ. If . .1 he said. "Of course, our soldiers yl I Boldiera of all armies, somfitlmei tl out of hand and do things which il At Lnuvfiln. for pxnmnln i I ouiuirio iu i. );ui n penal Ifrv I Louvaln Library Incident "Apropos of Louvaln," I remark mi uiu uu uuowus me nuraryT i was one of the literary storeboussiJ LIIU IT VI. Ill' "W ram-ait aA flint no .......i. one eise, answereo. me general caught fire from burning i0U8ei u', we coma noi save u. . "But why did you burn Louvaln J Bill I BBKCU. "nprnilRA fha tnu'nurwi. a-.. our iroops. e actually found ml cnine guns in some or the hoiim And smashing his (1st duwn on ttJ tamo, necontinuea: Whenever tjrl Inns fire upon our troops we t teacli them a lasting lesson. Uw0B,J and children Insist on getting in u way of bullets, so much tlio worse fj me women nnu children. ' "How do you expluin tho bombarJ merit or Antwerp uy Zeppeiim queried. Explains Zeppelin Bombs, "Zeppelins have orders to clroptM bombs only on fort idem Ions andil dlers," be answered. "As a matter of fact," I remartJ "they only destroyed private hoaiJ and civilians, several of them woud If one of those bombs had dropped: I yards nearer my hotel I wouldn't t smoking one of your excellent dpi today." "This Is a calamity which 1 tkl God didn't happen." "If you feel for my safety aa d; as that, general, I said earner:; "you can make quite euro of my toJ Ing to no barm by sending no aA Zeppelins." "well, he said, iniinUlng, w v think about it." He continued (n ly: "I trust you will tell the Araerb) people through your paper ba' I have told you today. Let them b J our side of this atrocity business, is only justice that they should , made familiar with both Hides ol:: question." I have quoted m7 conversation n the general as nearly verbatim u I can remember It. I havo no corame-j to make. I will leave it to my ittt i to decldo for themselves Just how el vlnclng are the answers of the ( man general staff to tha Delglut cusatlons. Photographs German Army, Before we began our onve.tt:ai asked the genernl If Mr. Thorn; might be permitted to take pb.'J grophs of the great army pud Five minutes later TboinDSna tl whirled away in a military motors clceroned by an army officer whot attended the army school at F-l Riley. It seems they flopped tho beside the road In a place he :i light was good, and when Thof;J saw approaching a regiment Oft tery of which ho wished a picture 1 would tell the officer, whereupos 'I officer would blow his whistle, i the whole column would halt. "Just wait a few niinules until j dust settles." Thompson Will i mark, nonchalantly Hsbtlng a ette. and the Ninth imperii! I whose columns stretched o' ; countrysldo as far as the eye coulis would stand In Its tracks until th was sufficiently clear to get a pi- Thus far the only one who Ws ceeded in halting the German uel thi little Photographer from M Show Thompson Gunnery. As a field buttery of the to? Kuard rumbled past, Thompson i some remark about the accurst!! the American gunners nt Veratn "Let us show you what ourpt-" can do," said the officer, and p" nrrtnr Thpre were more orders,"' feet volley of them, a bugle iM harshly, the eight horses itn-l .lno l.l ..t!nra the "'l cracked their whips, and the Fj the road, bounded across a dltcM swung into position in an ! floM On a knoll three mllei Bnclent windmill was beating a ith ii. tmiFA wtnuq. The shell ' n.lnrlmlll fnlp mill SllUarS U1 'l ttiti anltntora "rw,i nri " Thompson oWl critically; "If thoso follow of r J keep on they'll be able top In the American nnvy after u' In all the annals of mode j. .a la a pa"1 this American war photograpw- ing with art upraised, peremi""' .u j i .. Msureljr raphlng regiment after reslo , then having a nciu rial guard go Into action gratify his curiosity. Find Enflllsh Leader According to a dispatch Mail correspondent at HouM . mans have been able, wiw . uncanny prec sion, w w quarters oi me -no matter whore it moves. Throughout ieu when the fighting was bo f invaders poureu our..- -meeting point of tbeklnl" J It was the same .ferf quarter, were at Dmm J cles, whereupon on -- t drew his position to Le t J it was the target of 1 rf tthirh sot Ore ffi and burned it. The nt 01 v. St Quentln, where a "((ltu hHi1niinrters were a ma man fire. many Gorman w across fields, jumplnl crawling through hedge", .i their way through woo semblance of order or i'5" n "Thnm men doubtlee , ... cu, - , iinents which were aV fierce fighting which Prec . in iv,nr ved ' a erai reireai. wv- lk.i r jorlty of their officers. " . - ii It. Ait. mere rabhlo of iugu"- ...lie1 rm.nl. now 649. ,
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