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Show BRITISH TIN A j BOER WAR TRICK , Guns of Artillery Gradually Grow Silent While German Infantry Advances. SUDDEN FIRE OPENS Whole Fields Mowed Down When Entire British Artillery Artil-lery Shoots at Once. i London. Sept i. 8:40 a. m. rWound. ed men in the hospitals of Boulogne related to the Express correspondent their Incidents of the fighting between be-tween the British and Germans. One of the men be says, told ol a trlt k which the British learned In the Boer war and which worked very well I againsi the Germans. "TIip enemy," he said, 'before send ing their infantry against our positions posi-tions opened ;i hot artillerj fire. Our artillery replied, a1 first warmly, and then gun after gun of the British batteries went silent " 'What s up now " i asked a comrade com-rade There were a few minute-more minute-more of artillery firing from the (Jei mans and their infantry came on in solid formation. Wc received them With rifle fire. Still they came on and still we mowed them down. They were getting closer and we Could plainly see 'he dense masses moving. Then suddenly the whole of our ar tillery opened fire "You see. our puns had not been silenced at all and It waa a trick to draw the Germans on. They went down in whole fields, tor our guns got them in open ground it was Impossible Im-possible for those behind to come np past the dead." Hotel Dc Villc Saved London, Auk SI, 8:4n p m An Oxford undergraduate who escaped from the German lines baa arrived in London after a trip through Lou-vain Lou-vain and Brussels. He says the Hotel De Ville, the beautiful fifteenth century cen-tury structure. hoH n-.f hnon o rn I file or damaged by the Germans. In fact, the officers said. It was theii Intention to save the building. The cathedral, however, he says was not allowed to go scot free as pII the windows were knocked in The fabric was still intact when he left but was filled with refugees. |