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Show oo CHAUFFEUR SEES A SHORT SIEGE Two Thousand Germans At-tacked At-tacked in a Sugar Factory Nearly All Perish. Paris, Sept. 14. 6:15 a m A chauf feur who conducted two officers to the front witnessed the siege of aj bec( sugar refinery where 2000 Ger-j mans had taken refuge during the battle of the Marne. It was Impossible he says for the infantry to dislodge them and their ire was very damaging. Finall B batterv of the famous "75" took posi tion and at the third salvo from thee guns the building and its dependencies dependen-cies was seen to bo on fire. The ! howl comintr from the refinery was audible even In the din of the cannonading can-nonading The Germans jumped from -' the windows and were shot as thev fell by the infantry Many surrendered surrender-ed and a few escaped, perhaps 20 1 or 300. The rest perished in the refinery re-finery and its outbuildings. |