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Show TEN MILES OP DEAD IN BATTLE'S WAKE French Soldier Describes Marvels of Titanic Contest Around St. Quentin. (Special Cable by Arrangement with Lorn flon D&Uy Telegraph and International New b Service.) LONDON, Sept. 22. The Central News correspondent sends the following- from Amiens: ' A soldier of the Chasseurs-a-Pled covered cov-ered with dust has ridden on a bicycle with news of a great action which is being be-ing fought thirty miles away. "It's hell out there," he said. "On the road toward St Quentin we have been fighting three days, hand to hand most of the time. "We have charged the Germane with infantry and cavalry almost continually, and the noise of shells and bullets in the air has been such that you might have fancied yourself in a railway station with an express train dashing through, and they have charged us, too. "We fought over and over the same old.gTOund until now there are nearly ten miles of dead bodies. We go on fighting over corpses of friends and enemies en-emies and until the -road becomes impassable, im-passable, but, mon Dieu. we are giving them something with the bayonet. The dead bodies! "Two German armored trains full of soldiers, arms and ammunition were destroyed by our men. We captured their cargoes and annihilated their passengers. pas-sengers. "One of our soldiers had maanged to tap a telephone connecting two German stations. "We heard one operator give some orders or-ders relative to the dispatch of these two trains, and cutting oft' the German soldiers sol-diers at the other end of the wire he himself answered in German that everything every-thing was all right und the trains would he dispatched. Then, connecting up with the other station, he ordered the trains to be Bent. "8oon our men had made an ambush, planted their mitrailleuses and dyna-niatpd dyna-niatpd a section of the track. "The two German trains came thundering thunder-ing along. The first one went off the rails and the second collided with It Our mitrailleuses were trained upon them, and those of the occupants who did not surrender were quickly annihilated. But most of the Germans not killed in the wrecked train were shot to death by our mitrailleuses." |