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Show CASUALTIES FROM SHELL FIRE HEM Germans Using Their Artillery Artil-lery With Great Effect Along River Aisne. LONDON, Sept. 21. 2:10 a. in. The Dully Telegraph's correspondt nl behind the allies' line along: the Aisne. in a dispatch dis-patch dated Saturday, says: "The bulk of the fighting on the line held hy General French's command has been done in an enclosed country vhere there are n:any woods that alioid cocor on e'erv hill. The armies are dug ln. Consequently It has been for tho most part an artillery battle. "The dennan positions were eyidehtiy chosen long aso and the work of In-trenciiment In-trenciiment -was beiiun before the Germans Ger-mans turned away trom Paris. One indication in-dication to support this view is the laet that most of the German heavy artillery is planted on concrete foundations, which would require several days to set and harden. "So far the Germans ha'e had the advantage ad-vantage ln heavy artillery, but the British Brit-ish have captured three of their larse puns, which were mounted ln concrete emplacements, and French guns ot big caliber have been hurried to the front. These are probably now In action, and the allies will soon be superior ln artillery. ar-tillery. ' . "The German batteries have ranged beautifully. When the range was picked up they poured ln a fire at a high rate and the Infantrv simply had to bury Itself It-self in the trenches to avoid annihilation. The casualties from shell fire have been verv heavy on both sides. "Military men do not think that the allies' left will move up the valley of the Olse until the German front to the north of Soissons haR been driven back. The Oise valley is marshy, and after the copious downpour of the past week the river is swotlen and the roads and fields are heavy. "Moreover, General von Kluk has taken pains that the high ground between Novon and Chauny ls so strongly held as to dominate the whole valley. "The Germans have made three daylight day-light attacks In an attempt to break the allies' front, where it stretches east and west along the Alsne. All three attacks have failed, with losses so enormous that the ground in front of the allies' trenches is strewn with the enemy's dead and wounded. "The bad morale of having to pass so many bodies of their dead prompted the Germans to make their fourth attack Fridav In the night time. The night was verv black and rain was falling heavily when the Germans sought to pierce the lines along Soissons with an attack covering cov-ering a wide area. The allies received tlmelv warning from the outposts and repulsed re-pulsed the attack with a withering fire, followed bv a bayonet charge. "Tho rains have made traffic on the roads impossible and motorcycle dispatch riders are working under difficulties. The German artillery has made the work 01 the signal officers at British headquarters very dangerous. Their observers keep a lookout for the heliograph and as soon as the mirror begins flashing they train their guns on the instrument. The wireless wire-less poles, too, are constant targets. "One shell fell ln a British field hospital, hos-pital, wrecking it. As shells continue to fall in the neighborhood, the medical corps, after heroic efforts to rescue the wounded, were compelled to abandon the ten most serious cases." |