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The Press Bureau communicated for publication recently "the following extracts from the diary of a German officer found on a recent battlefield:- August th. Near Gouvy, Belgium (N.E of Houffalize), 7.30 am We are still without any orders to move. We had a battle in the stream. A glorious day... One of the brigado staff officers came out in the evening and was astonished to find us still bere. Our orders must have been lost on the road. I hear that our losses in the assault on Liége were something like 1,800 men.
August 10th.We reached Gouvy station, which had been destroyed, but repaired afterwards by our troops.
Our brigade has to secure the railway until the XII. Corps comes up. Our army consists of the XI XII, and XIX. Corps and the Guard Cavalry, under the comand of von Hausen.
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મારી ના સ્કર The villages all round were burning. roofs, and their stacks of furniture fed We biricted at Gue d'Osaus, the first the flames to the full The Aime was only French village that was set on fira, a feeble protection; the sparks were spon
The inhabitants fred on our men carried over to the other side. Next day again. The division took drastic steps to the town was nothing but a heap of ashes. stop the villages being burnt and the September 3rd. Still at Rethel, ou inhabitanta_shot. The pretty little guard over prisoners. The houses are The middle class in village of Gue d'Ossus was apparently charming inside. met on fire without cause.TR
France has magnificent furniture round stylish pieces everywhere, and beautiful silk, but in what a state Good God! Every bit of furni- In future wo shall have to hold so
ture broken, mirrors suashed. The inquiry as to their guilt instead of shoot-wandals themselves could not have done ing them. In the evening we murched to
more damage. This place is a disgrace to Maubert-Fontaine..
At Leppe apparently 200 men were shot There must have been some innocent men among them
DE GERMANS AMBUSHED, A Just as we were having our mend the alarm was sounded every uno is very jumpy
General Schramn told us there was a report that two of the enemy's armies had taken up a position near Mezierea The IV. Corps was actually attacking to-day the XII. and XIX. wero to the wost. We marched on Merlemont. No dinner, no bivouac.
August 28th-We beard that a squad
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of hussure had been almost annihilated by the enemy's infantry in the wood in front of the village.
August 12th-The brigade was warned
We marched to Signy l'Abbaye. We of Us advance of a strong force of the paved through the wood which a bat enemy, and was ordered to oppose it.... The 2nd Battalion billeted in Backain talion of the 178th had cleaned up. At the bad been spot where the bussars The mayor was not there, but
ato ambushed we found bodies (f men and councillor acted for him. He asked the also some dead belonging to the 178th. inliabitants to hand over their arms (chiefly shot guna),...)
LIKE REGULAN' VANDALS. August 11th-The Grossenhain Hussars
arrived, (King Albert's Own)
and brought us the now announced in Dresden papers that the 4th Brigade (the writer's own brigade) had been badly cut up. And we haven't had a sight of
the enemy.
August 15th-We marched westwards, in the direction of Mont le Ban.. The enemy is apparently entrenched on the Meuse.
August 17th-Demanably wet. We are staying an extra day here to prevent our men getting soaked through.
It was reported that the 2nd Regiment of Turcos was trying to stop our march on Longwy. We billeted at Dommery
SHOT AT BY FRIEND AND FOR. August 20th-Off at 3 am, almost total darkness.
The other side of Dommery we came on a wood where a hellish fire stopped us The whole edge of the wood was one line of fire. There was a panic, everybody gave orders, and nobody thought of tell ing us to lie down. There was a shocking mess, shots in every direction. I wouldn't live through those moments "again" for worlds. At last the captain managed to got a few men together to form a firing line
We were being shot at by riend and foe. It was a grave error on the part of the Staff to start the regiment on a night march after three tiring days. After the Sght the night before, one might have imagined that the enemy would take up
We
A DISGRACE TO OUR ARMY. " The inhabitants who fled could not have Į expected, of course, that all their goods would have been left in full after so many troops had passed. But the column com- manders are responsible for the greater part of the damage, as they could have prevented the looting and destruction. The daninge amounts to millions of marks; even the safes have been attacked,
In a solicitor's house, in which, as luck would have it, everything was in excellent taste, including a collection of old lace and Eastern works of art, everything was smashed to bits.
I couldn't resist taking a little memento! myself here and there.
One house was particularly elegant, everything in the best taste, The hall was of light ook: near the staircase I found a splendid aquascutum and a camera for Felix.
PULLED UP!
The sappers have been ordered to march with the divisional bridging train. We shall start to-morrow. Yesterday at Chalons sur Marne a French aviator (Officer) was taken prisoner. He imagined the village was held by French troops, and so landed there.
He was awfully disgusted at being taken prisoner.
September 4th-To Tuniville, Pont- Fauerger, where we billeted.
September 6th-Les Petites Loges, Tours sur Marne. I never want to make such marches again; Fimply tests of endurance. We crossed the Marne canal on September 8th. Of our left the XIX Corps marched straight on Chalons. On our right front the Guard Corps was hotly engaged,
In the afternoon I had a look at the little chatou belonging to one of the King's secretaries (not at home). Our men had behaved like regular vandals They had looted the cellar first, and then had turned their attention to the bed
strong position and try to surprise us. rooms, and thrown things about all over
When we reached Villeneuve we heard the place. They had oven made fruitless It was dawn before we could resume that the Guard Corps had thrown the efforts to smash the safe open. Every our march. Suddenly firing begaa enemy back, and that our division was to thing was topsy-turvy Magnificent again. There was nothing to be seen but take up the pursuit. We were in a wood furniture, silk, and even china. Things bushes, behind which the Turcos were which the enemy searched with shell she what happens when the men are allowed very ennningly bidden. The enemy has Left and right it simply rained ballets, been remarkably well trained in making but the one I'm fated to stop was not to requisition for themselves.
The regiment I am sure they must have taken awayne of the ground. a heap of useless stuff simply for the deployed again, and after a fierce attack among them. We could not advance any further, the enemy was too strong for us. seized a bitble ridge near Launcis. pleasure of looting.
On our left the XIX. Corps came up in time to give us a little breathing space. The fighting stopped, our left fank An inferual shell fire. could not get on our right wing, on the HIDDEN GUNS AWFUL FIRE. other hand, covered by the 8th Company on its flank, pushed forward rapidly. was an awful fight. We had the sun in our eyes. We had to cross ground that bad been systematically prepared for defence, with wire entanglements, etc
LAME WITH MARCHING,
August 18th-The brigado marched to Laroche. The country is very hilly; a whole brigade could be hidden behind We had several home of the ridges. cripples in the eth Company. Late in the evening the train arrived (about fifty vehicles) They had come from Gouvy after doing 60 kilometres, probably the result of a mistake in reading an order. August 19th. We marched to Marche. August 20th-We marched to Achede (in the direction of Dinant). The men are not accustomed to long marches yet: and they are not as active as one could wich. I shouldn't like to take them under are even alter 20 kilometres (12 miles),
ALLIES' AEROPLANES ACTIVE, UN August 22nd. Early in the morning the staff sent us the news that Namur had falicn. We got the order to be ready to march, Some of the enemy's aeroplanes passed over, but so high that the infantry and artillery did no good by shooting at them. The best plan would be to send our aeroplanes up after them. We haven't yet got any good anti-aircraft guns.
AWFUL FIGHT.
We had a dreadful thirst, a glass of Pilsener would have been a Godsend A shell suddenly fell in the wood and filled six of my section; a second fell right in the middle of us; we wouldn't hang on any longer, so we retired.
We made several attempts to each the village of Lonharree, but the enemy's artillery swept the whole wood, so that we could not make any headway. And
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We got on to some high ground about 1,000 metres from Launois, when our own artillery opened fire on Soms shells burst only forty metres away from ; it wasn't a bit nicer
Dur nachino gan ourapany suffered over got a sight of the enemy's guna. Soptember 18th-The air is absolutely
had the answer to the riddle as poisoned. WE BOOD
I am lying in the church, and beavily from our own shells, unfortunate-
to why the enemy's shooting was 83 am well looked after. Wounded keep on ly. Several officers were wounded. wonderfully accurate. We were actually coming in. In the evening the enemy Suddenly we came up against the enemy's on the enemy's practice range. Lan-made another attack, which was beaten artillery, which was in a position on a hurred was the chief point d'appui on the off. flank. The men fell back. The enemy's right wing preferent September 19th–Our artillery took up
The situation was as follows: Tho guns were silent, probably to lure us on
a position in the Reims-Laon road. I hear: The whole of Lannois was in flames. Guard Corps was on a ground which the that the mortars arrived last night. We Wo advanced again, and by means of enemy knew like the back of his hand, had our daily ration of shells. They fell a very heavy fire forced the Zouave and to was in an extremely critical post- very rear us, especially at night. battalion to retire. Launois was the tion. It was just like St. Prívát, except September 20th. We were ordered to 178th's baption of fire. We had taken on that we were all in woods under a terrible attack. Once more the village was the enemy's artillery practically alone, shell fire. Our artillery could do no-plastered with shell. In the afternoon I The other brigade followed up the enemy thing, as there was nothing to be seen went to Amifontaine, where there was an while we rested after our exhausting We found an order from General Joffre ambulance. I am still weak August 23rd.--Night alarm. A house days.
Our losses were comparatively to the Commander of the II French September 21st-I hear that an attack was on fire, probably to disclose or slight. A Corps telling him to hold the position at was made on the enemy's trenches, and Waathar position to the enemy. A spy was caught The enemy makes almost too good use all costs, and eaying that it was the last once more cost us dear. Our artillery Ekim and shot. We marched to Lisagne, but of the ground, with the result that he card. It was probably the best one, too, could do nothing, as the French make after passing Dorinne the column wont shoots too high. Bullets were always
ENORMOUS LOSSES.
overhead covering sk astray; we had to return on our whistling round us without our being ableAs we knew later, the artillery opposed tracks...
to see the enemy, even with an excellent to us had an immense reserve of ammuni- pair of glasses. The ground was covered tion k, and said that
with little grassy hillocks just like you waited for the night.
absolutely exhausted wo see in pasture lands.
In front of us all Behind these was still hillocks the Turcos were absolutely September 8th. We went forward again invisible.
to the attack against an enemy perfectly entrenced. In spite of his artillery fire. which nothing could silence, we passed through the wood again. As soon as we reached the northern edge a perfectly insane fire opened on ts, infantry and shell fire with redoubled intensity,
Our men came back, and said that at the point where the valley joined the Mense we could not get on any further as the villagers were shooting at us from every house
We shot the whole lot, sisteen of them. They were drawn up in three ranks; the same shot did for three at a time. Two 6-inch howitzers succeeded in getting, lat position, and in twenty shots reduced the villago of Bouvines to ruins. The eighth We company then entered the village, took up a position in a house overlooking the Meuse. At the door I stepped over the body of the owner.
The inhabitants might have escaped the penalty by handing over the guilty and paying 15,000 francs. The losses in our
We took some prisoners, in particular an officer, on whom we found a nice prize of maps of the whole of Belgium and the line of the Bhire. It was the business of the Turcos to hold us on the line Mezieres Sedan, to cover the retreat of their army to the south. Hence the desperate fight they put up,
As we marched past the General Officer Commanding, our division thanked the 178th for their conduct in the field. The most disagreable part of the fighting was regiment (30 killed and many wounded) undoubtedly the enemy's artillery salves. were caused chiefly by villagers who cho: IN A TIGHT CORNER. at us from the houses.
Even when they don't hit, the fire has a great moral effect, as the hastly noise of the shells always causes a momentary check. We marched to Villers Tourneur. The division bivouacked; all the villages in the neighbourhood were blazing, as our artillery had set them on are to protect us against attacks
· THE FIRESUOJ.
The men wore absolutely mad at this sneaking way of fighting. They wanted to burn everything, and they succeeded, too, in extting light to several houses In the afternoon our artillery fairly sprinkled the principal buildings in the place the whole length of the village with incendiary. abells. It was a marvellous eight, the high ground from Dinant to Leppe (?) overlooking the Mense, all in Lama.
The division crossed the Meuse; you never saw such disorder. We were in the middle of an artillery column, marching en Sommiere. It was a plateau, without Lny cover. The French scheme was not at all bad. First their positions along the Mense were to cause us heavy losses when we crossed, then they were to greet us in their main position with a violent Fusillade Bist they had reckoned with cut our artillery, especially our howitzers.
COUNTRYSIDE LAID WASTE. August 26th.We marched to Nismes. After passing Merlemont we came to Villorn-Pagne. The inhabitants had warned the French of the arrival of our troops by a signal from the church tower. The enemy's guns opened on us and killed and wounded quite a few. So in the eving we set fire to the village; the priest and some of the inhabitants were shot. We passed through Pettigny and Couvin Couvin had been partially Troted. We reached Bruly, and crossed the Belgian frontier.
for background Lenharrec was to A magnificent spectacle lay before us; flames, and we saw the enemy retreating, beaten at last. The enemy withdrew from one wood to another, but shelled us furiously and scattered us with his We got to the village at last, but were machine guns, driven out of it again with heavy loss. The 178th Our losses were enormous. Regiment alone had 1,700 men wounded, It was hell itself. besides those killed. Tö
Thero were practically no officers left.
One word more about this artillery ange there were telephone wires every It is thought that French officers hid den in tress were telephoning our exact situation in the woods.
whore
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DESPAIR-A GRAVE FOR ALL I September 22nd.-Troups of the 18th Corps passed all day. Apparently they are to come up on the right wing. Their infantry has lost as heavily as ours Gol knows what the idea of this reinforce ment is
I am convinced that this country will give is all a grave. The 105th Regi ment has had a furious fight with the English. I hear Saxony is finding a fresh army corps against Bussia, under the command of the War Minister, Von want reinforcements. A shell has just Karlwitz And that's where we badly burst in a house and killed ten men,
September 23rd. Quite comfortable be hind the firing line, mida
September 24th. I took leave of any Ville-aux-Bois. B hosts, and went back to the trenches at September 28th-A furious artillery duel.
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Holkham Hall, the residence of the Earl Mon. 22 of Leicester, the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk, is well represented Tue. 23 in the service of the country at the Angust 30th. We withdrew in order to rejoin the other division. The fight began
present time, the Holkham Roll of Honour," containing thirteen again, probably by the second orps, which
under the heading Holkham Hall," has to guard the railway line Bethel- Mezieres. The 2nd Battalion of the 178th The enemy was apparently two kilometres three sons of the Earl of Leicester
September 9th. We marched to Euyry. Among this number are the names of the was escort to artillery, .
We had to
Where was our intelli-Viscount Coke, 3rd Battalion Boots, be very much on our guard against the front of us."
geuce branch: Our artillery arrived Guards; the Hon. Arthur Coke, Second GRAND BAZAAR OF TOYS Mr & Mrs A. Gibon enemy's cavalry that was trying to get half-an-hour too late, unfortunately. Lieutenant, Royal Horse Guarde; and round the left flank of our artillery, 20
The French are indefatigable in dig the Hon. Roger Coke, Lieutenant, EN, We soon found that the eomy had more guns then we bad, especially more than ging trenches: We passed through a his Majesty's ship Indomitable. Captain wood and lost touch altogether. We saw J. N. Sibary, Reserve Battalion, Boots the 102nd, which was in re rve, and had companies retiring, and we ourselves re Guards, who is private secretary to the enormous losses. We lost a few men, foo.ceived the order to withdraw. Earl, and his two song are also serving After fighting from one riege to the next,
We passed through Lenbarree once In addition to the three sons of the the enemy withdrew, and we seized more, where we found piles of bodies, and present Earl, the family of Coks is Auboncourt. We are in terribly tight we billeted at Germinon. There was a further represented by the five sons of place, as we have pushed far much too rumour that the 1st Army had had some the late Earl's second family-the Hoo quickly.
disastrous fighting. Our sappers pre-Richard Coke, Captain, Scots Guards, pared the bridges for demolition. We attached to Irish Guards; the Hon. I Edward Coke, Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade: passed through Chalons sur Marne. am terribly depressed everybody thinks the Hon. John Coke, Captain, 2nd the cituation is erifical
Battalion Scots Guards; the Hon. The uncertainty is worst of all. I think Reginald Coke, Second Lieutenant 2nd advanced too quickly and were worn Battalion Scots Guards; and the Hon. out by marching too rapidly and fighting Lovel Coke, Lieutenant, R.N. The total incessantly. So we must wait for the number of men serving from Holkham is other armies. We went on to Mourmelon- forty-five, out of a population of 427 le Petit, where we dug ourselves in The Hou, E. Coke is a director of the thoroughly. Four of our aviators are Johore Para Hubber Co., Ltd., and also aid to have been brought down by the director of several well-known com-
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Senteraber 2nd. The French burnt half the town, probably to cut our lines of conununications. It can't hurt as for one, of course, but it's a nuisance, as our field artillery is short of ammunition
However, our division advanced. The burning of Rethel was dreadful. All the little houses with wooden beams in their
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