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Show ffATE OF FRANCE DEPENDS ON IT, SAYS PARIS WAR OFFICE DESCRIBES COOL DING OP THE BRITISH TROOPS i Correspondent Declares Markmanaliip Was Won- , derful and Inflicted Big ! Losses to Germans. i WITHERING RIFLE FIRE STAGGERING TO ENEMY ! English, Irish and Scotch Soldiers Go Into Battle Jesting-; Cavalry Per-forms Per-forms Marvels. liNi-eS", AtiiT. - m. The ror-ciT-ot'u M of l!." (Vtilrul Nrwi nt I'hriB rr. !- tl.n lo'lo :j X- "I h:'c hr-n talking ith lirjtieh off. ( r from t-ie front, who tell of tie n t ! jl rt iiL'- m. l danue of te r.ri'.:-h k1');t ia the fiV.tiny around "The Lnot;:. cf the liritish infan- t:ii.rt on t'Uf f-ttr.-j line ri wonderful. wonder-ful. l.c:y tifT;r ft (ic rn.nn 'n herd '-ho-s.! hlevr a tr.r'i, U1t, fs,.Ty ti:-ne jih i;T'iiiti it.fni.irv a!tenite'l to ruh a tH-'.!)fn th r rin. ft t sly ith-,t,i,; ith-,t,i,; ji.'le l;re from the iihaki-rlaj n.'-n 3v.nr in eit.nlc.l formbt on alon tl. ft.-ir battle front. Ihi-ir finr. was r. t the t , . n 1 firir of cervout n.eri .h.,.i'..r:: wi'.hunt i m i r.; ; rather it a thA cal:n aroj careful n.arkpinatiship of men nr.'- ee jn I in c; 1 : mi rifle rar.gejt j i r n w.ih nil th- art, filial aids per-rn per-rn tt'- l to the match expert. Show No Nervousness. ' ' Winn qi.ik act ion a, nefcf-ary the n. i n t-howci no nervoune"-s, do ex r it-nt ; tbev shnwcj cool, methodi- j rnl t;T.'i"r.cy for which the British army i iM':e.i. "if the Ir,ti:-h lot hea ily, the Cer-n Cer-n . a r nt .ft l ave ht terribly. ne of t lie rirrtr.an prisoners : : ' W'c had never expcMO'i anythim; like it; it was k.Ta.;cril.C. ' "The i;riti.-h troops went to their positions po-sitions tileMly, but h:ppi) Thvre was no s ncin. because it was forbidden, hut as the men deployed to tho tn-noh-ch tturo were various saJlios of humor in the d.alcta of the various Kuejisn. I r i h and H-'otch countie-J. Surprise for Uhlans. ' ' The ccieJi nev wa? t'nero with o,uips alicmt ' I'nclc Hill,' and every Irishman who went into the firing line wished he had money to buy a little rish horee m that he niiht Hake a idjip t, the ridans.' ''As lor tint eavnlry. the officers declare, de-clare, their charges n'nst the tier-nmns tier-nmns were fuperii. They charcjod an lierscrks mipht have done. Tbcy jave tho I'hJans the surpiso of their lives. "With the close of the first series ot f-onibats between the British nnd derma der-ma ns, the scene of interest tdii. ted to the I'nris railway station, w'nerthe injured in-jured Hriii.-di soldiers wi;ro bein taken. Thn hand iinij of t lie wounded was all that con Id be desired ; everything was irrfectlv organized and without theatrical theat-rical displpr. Irish Receive IiWssing. "The station nt the time was crowded crowd-ed with Americans who were on their way to Kt.izlfuul from y witzerland. The Americans joined with the Wench in cheering for the first .arrivals of British wounded from the noene of the fiijhtintf. While the crowd waited, train utter train rolled by carrying fresh British troops to the frout. "I witnessed a notable scene on 'the road between Hon Inane and Paris. Two English cardinals, Cardinal Hour no, arch hi. --hop of Veyt minster, and (.'a id i nal (insquet, abbot president of tho Kuclish Boned ie tines, were on their way from Londou to tins conclave nt. Rome. Their train fdonped on a sid-intr sid-intr and by n curious c ha nee a rctri-meiit rctri-meiit of British troops, which included in ils ranks a lave body of ri?h (Catholics, (Cath-olics, was drawn up alongside for a moment. mo-ment. The cardinals leaned out of the window nnd cave the soldiers their blessing, wh icli the Catholic, soldiers knelt to receive. ' ' France Buying Horses. TjAFAYI'-TTK, Ind.. AiiK- .Members nf a local stoelt buying firm beq;an today to-day buying horses whlcli are to be I shipped lo Vraiue for usi- In the allied j armies. The Lafayette firm announced it had rucelvod nn order for ir,0u0 atii-I atii-I mala from the French government. |