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Show PEN PICTURE OF FIERCE FIGHT IN THE CRECY WOODS LONDON Sept 12 (3 41 a ml A graph c p cture of the fight m Creey wood is g ven m the Da ly News The French and English n over whelm ncr numbers had poured n from Lagny toward the r ver Marne to rein force the flank ng skirm shers One of the smaller woods southeast of Crecy furn shed cover for the enemy for a t me but led to the r undo ng The al 1 es patrols d scovered them m the n ght as the Germans were moving about with lanterns Sud lenly the invaders f oun 1 the r tw nkling glow worms the mark for a foe of whom they had been unaware W thout warn ng a ha 1 of Maxim bul lets screamed through the trees The next morn ng scores of lanterns were p eked up in the wood w tl the r glasses shattered A cavalry charge finally cleared the wood of the Germans Twenty German pr soners taken dur ntr the melee were herded together in a clear ng the r r fles be ng stacked near by In a rash moment they thought that they were loosely guarded and made a combined r sh for the r fles They will never make another says the paper s correspondent lacoui cally The correspondent also de cr bes a walk ng wood at Greey The French and Br t sh cut down trees and armed themselves w th the branches Line after 1 ne of infantry each n an bear ng a branch then moved forward n observed toward the enemy Bch nd them am d the lopped tree trunks, the art llerymen fixed themsel es and placed thirteen pounders to cover the mov ng wood Tho attack wl ch followed won the success t mer ted It almost went wrong ho veve for the V ench cavalry wh ch was fo low ng made a detour to pass the wood and dashed into v ew near the amm n t on reserves of the al heB Ger nan shells began fall ng there abo ts h t Br t sh sold ers went up the h lis and ulled tho boxes of ammun t on out of the way of the German shells A nmumt on and men can e through unscathed By even ng the enemy had been cleared from the Marne d t ct |