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Show BRITISH FIGHT FIEROATTLE Germans Fling Whole Weight Against English Left, Regardless Re-gardless of Enormous Losses. FRESH TROOPS ARRIVE Fight for Supremacy by No Means Ended Teutons Reckless Atrocities Not Exaggerated. London, Sept 2 3:18 a. m. The Chronicle's correspondent, from an unnamed town sends nn account of the third British battle, dated Monday, Mon-day, which follows: "Desperate fighting In which the British troops are playing a heroic part, ifi taking place elose by. The right wing of the allied forces, form Ing the northern army, has been fiercely engaged, but It Is against the j British or left wing that the Germans are flinging the whole of their weight rrp;)rdless of the enormous sacrifice I of human life entailed The enemv 1 seems bent on breaking through our I defensive line nnd so pushing back the allies nearer to Paris "The battle, which Is still a( an undecisive stage was preceded by very heavy artillery fire. The (', man guns were well served and the aim of their gunners was rendered very accurate by observation of aerial pilots who throughout the day hovered hov-ered above the allied position, correcting correct-ing anv wild firing on the part of the German uns. Fresh Troops Arrive. Freshly arrived Iroops from Eng-I Eng-I land were pushed forward in time to ; participate In th" battle. These re-j re-j inforcemenls had been rarrvmg out strategic movements In troop trains for several days ami In the expressive phraseology of Tommy Atkins, 'they were fed hUP w iih the whole thing and were all eager for a brush with the enemy "Their chance eame yesterday. Many were reserves with South Afri- Ull I . I IflU " illlU lIJili IHMJ H the front cheering the French and growling for William the weed.' somehow some-how confusing the emperor with William Will-iam 1 of Wied 1 of Albania. French and English flags were borne at the head of each company They were in fine fettle. Arc sre down hearted''' would shout some on from the ranks, and immediately back came th irreverent reply 'No, bur William the Weed will be downhenri ed by the time we finish with him.' An overwhelming Gorman force was thrown against our left wing but the Vicrmans spm inemneues 111 n iu effort to overcome British resistance Fight Not Ended. "The tight 'or supremacy, whit h continued throughout the day, is by 110 means ended The brunt of the attack was splendidly borne by our soldiers and Dover did the unflinching hull dog courage of the British sho to better advantage. The heavy ami well directed German artillery fire made little impression on our men although the casualties entailed bv the splendid resistance of the British were necessarily heavy ' The German artillery fire ceased cnly to permit the advance to close quarters of their assaulting infantry, and he massed German infantry for hours hurled themselves against the British wall of steel. Day of Sanguinary Fighting. "Toward evening, and after a day of most sanguinary fighting, our brave fellows were compelled to give ground slowly The slight advantage attained at-tained was dearly purchased, as the attacking German Infantry fell In heaps. "On the right and center the French were more fortunate than ourselves and contrived to hold their own To ward evening, when the full force of the German attark had spent itself, it-self, the French delivered a sharp counter attark. repulsing the enemy all along their front. The German losses are stated to be very' heavy. "The battle was continued today by a fresh onslaught on the British, constituting the left flank. According Accord-ing to the latest information which has reached me. our sorely tried troops ore being reinforced and they are confident of being able to check the enemy's advance Germans Extraordinarily Reckless. "The Germans are displaying extraordinary ex-traordinary recklessness, flinging away thousands of lives In the hope of ultimately gaining their end No doubt the rapid advance of the Russians Rus-sians In eastern Prussia has something some-thing to do with this and is responsi ble for the frantic and insane haste which characterizes the German at tempt in northern France to smash 1 the thin khaki line which so vanamiy bars the road toward Compeigne. Sols-sons Sols-sons and Paris "That stories of German atrocities are not one whit exaggerated may be gathered from the story told me by ! a sergeant who was wounded in the action near Mons a week ago As he lay helpless on the ground and the German infantry swept by, he could hear, from he imploring cries of the wounded In his front, that they were being ruthlessly put to death by their foes Sergeant Simulates Death. "Closing his eyes and simulating I death, the wounded sergeant lay apparently ap-parently still As the Germans passed pass-ed hlra he received a violent blow in the chest from the butt end of a rifle which broke one of his ribs. He bore the pain unflinchingly and never moved a muscle. Another Prussian stabbed a wounded man with his bayonet bayo-net as he went past. "The sergeant's ordeal was a ter rible one and he expected every mo mcnt to be his last Ultimately th German advance was broken and their Infantrv came rolling back, shattered shat-tered and disordered, leaving behind a trail of dead and wounded The wounded sergeant was picked up by British stretcher bearers and convened conven-ed to the base hospital, where he la now fast recovering " |