| Show STREETS T FILLED F WITH BODIES of thae SLAIN charleroi charleroy Char leroi Is taken and retaken five times in three days FEROCIOUS STREET FIGHTING el i IV floada so 80 jammed with dead that those killed remained standing up where shot resting on dead Dr brothers others london tho the times correspondent describing tho fighting in and about Char lorol says already charleroy Cliar Char lorol leroi has been captured and recaptured five flo times and anti itis arc are moil with slain french infantrymen in deschi describing bing the ferocious street fighting declared elio roads so Jarrin hammod ted with dead that phoso killed renta remained ined standing up where they wore were shot resting on their dead brothers the first shell that crashed through tho the railway station roof root on saturday was tile beginning of a well nouria nourished hed bombardment f P tho tile french troops mado made what amounted to a medieval sortie but finding tho tile enemy in much greater force than was expected wore compelled to withdraw and tho the bombardment t 10 continued relentlessly when tho the turcos burcos french african troops with legendary bravery de do 41 botched from front the town with gallantry uhlna must surely uvo live in history hi atory they actually charged a german battery bayo bayoneting noting tho the gunners their losses it is feared exceeded those of tho tile light arigalo br bri igalo garlo at balaklava nala klava for out of a battalion of COO africans only ft returned unscathed germans keep on advance their bravery was however pow PON earless arless against tho the german advance which crept foot by foot through tile outskirts of tho the town to the heart of charleroy Char lorol lerol there in tho the narrow streets of the town the carnage was almost indescribable before the railway station in front of which passes the tile canal for t two to o hours the germans fought ought for tho the bridge once they had captured it after a heavy loss the germans gained 1 ground all along the line mastering the villages of march lennes landells Lan dolls and nies and tho country nearly as an far as walcourt balcourt Wal court french fire on an city later in tho the day the french artillery in fit its turn opened fire upon tho tile town of charleroy Char lorol leroi the germans in tho the earlier stages of the engagement ga pago ment had poured their shells upon the upper tipper town toan the french artillery now tiow turned its hall of shells upon the lower portion of the city under the supporting fire of their artillery the french infantry advanced slowly in tho the fac face of stubborn resistance upon the town they find just evacuated they retook several il ajr ey and became once again nin masters the ilie list last stand of the french as niong along the una flue between bete cn thuan thuin and mettet both sid s wore nere completely worn out ovit the tho next mornin mon cion aa das before dam dawn n the artillery again bombarded charleroy Cliar Char lerol leroi once inore the indefatigable of prance france sv swarmed armed down domn the slope toward the lower town recapturing the ril villages lages of challet Chat let challet dinou bout froix March lennes and Cou bouillet Coull illet lct praises english at mons ono of the railway station staff n at t Feig feignies nies on the frontier beti between een franco and belgium ho bo saw some porno of the battle until he lie wu ordered ii ibay ay told of at the scenes near mons we at lie bald said bean bebean to henr tho the artillery firo saturday evening all night u 0 o c listened to the N suns runs and sunday morning the tile v wounded bogan to pass to toward ard laub eugo thirteen miles south of mone mons shells commenced to fall near the railroad station ficor noon and v we e bogan to see tile artill artillery tr N bob u rind herding ber Ipg their ulecee with mith gro precision A As our train w was about to leave the station seven uhland clattered into the town the people thinking thear them Hn anglish glish bogan began to welcome elcome them m when help a latiol of french chass eurs galloped ap and captured tho the prussians BRITISH COOL IN BATTLE the correspondent of tho the central ka lu flows laws at paris sends the follon following ing 1 I flare been talking with mith british officers from the front who tell of the 00 N wonderful coolness and daring of the soldiers in the fighting around lions shoo of the flie british on n me firlle line was wonder monder ful lul every timo time a germans beace showed above a trench and every timo time tho the german infantry attempted to rush a position thoro there camo came a steady withering me fero from tho the khaki clad men lying in extended formation along tho tile wide battle front show careful ceu their firing was not tho the usual fl clr r ing of nervous men shooting without aiming rather it was the calm and careful marksmanship marke manship of men ono one sees on english diflo 1 ranges faring with ith all tho tile artificial aids permitted to the match espelt I 1 when quick action waa was necessary tho the men showed no nervousness no excitement they showed cool methodical thod ical efficiency for which tho the uril brit ish fell army Is noted if tho the DrI lost heavily the germans must have lost terribly one ono of tho tile german prisoners said wo we had never expected anything liko like it it was staggering britons I 1 joke oke in trenches tho the british troops went to their theft positions silently but happily there wag was no singing because it was forbid den but as the men deployed to the trenches tharo mere various sallies of humor in tho tile dialects of tho the various arlous english irish and rind scotch counties tho the cockney was there with quips about uncle bill and every irishman who ent into tile firing line wished he lie had money to buy a little irish horse so that ho lie might tako take a slap at the tile uhland woi wot tided get boat best car caen with the tho close of tho the first series of combats between the tile british and germans the tile scene of interest shifted to tho the paris railway rallay station where the injured british sollers were vere be ing taken the handling of the wounded was all nit that could bo be desired debird everything vas mas perfectly organized and without theatrical display tho tile station at tho the tl time meas was crowded with americans who mho were on their way to england from switzerland erland tho the americans joined N with ith the french in fix cheering for tho the first arrivals of british wounded biorn 11 om the scene of the lighting while the crowd waited united train after train rolled by carrying fresh british troops to the front english cardinals bless uless troops 1 I 1 witnessed a notable scene on the road between boulogne and paris tu two 0 english cardinals cardinal bourne archbishop of westminster ind Car cardinal dinni gasquet GaB abbot president of the english benedictines Benedic tines mere on their way from london to tho the con clave clae ot at rome their train stopped on a siding and by a curious chance a regiment of british troops which included in its ranka ranks a largo large body of irish catholics was dran draft n up tip for a moment the cardinals leathed out of tho the NIn window doNi and gave the soldiers their blessing which the tile catholic sol diers by spontaneous impulse knelt to receive |
