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Show CHARLERO I IS OFTEN TAKEN AND RETAKEN PARTS, Aue. 25, 5:25 p. m. Charieroi was taken and retaken five times in the fighting between tlie French and Germans Saturday. Sunday and Monday, according to one of the railway station staff at Feipnies, on the frontier between France and Belgium, who saw some of the battle until he was ordered away. "We at Felpnies," satd this man, "he-pan "he-pan to hear the artillery fire Saturday evening. All night we listened to the guns, and Sunday morning the wounded began to pass toward Mauheuge, thirteen miles south of lions. Shells commenced to fall near the railroad station near noon and we began to see tne English artillery taking positions and serving their t pieces with great precision. "Bicycle couriers passed by from time to time and called out the news to us. Presently we learned that Charieroi had been taken and retaken repeatedly. The Germans lired the town when they were departing. "As our train was about to leave the Station seven T'hians clattered into the town. The people, thinking thern English, began to welcome them, when a patrol of Frencli chasseurs gitlloped up aJid captured cap-tured the Prussians." |