Far bank trenches echo amid a German artillery duel
In a sunlit valley the duel raged as German and British guns fired on and off at distant targets. Shells pounded an edge of the village while our gunners sought to enfilade their positions. Despite losses reported by the West Kent, Dorsets, and other battalions, villagers remained unoccupied and troops kept up morale with football games and lighthearted yarns.
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West Kents
King’s Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry
West Kent Regiment
Senlis
Beene
France
Manny
Aisne
Prisoner in Antwerp Uniform Draws Curiosity and Suspicion
A Morning Post correspondent reports in Antwerp speculation over a captured prisoner in noncommissioned officer dress. Fellow inmates salute him as peérsolage while he withholds his real name. Germans offer exchange terms for officers, Belgian authorities hesitate. A German uhlan arrives with revolver drawn, then apologizes and rides off after confirming the driver is dead.
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Antwerp
London Morning Post
Cantrells Survive Belgian Journey Through Fire
Mr and Mrs Edgar Allen Cantrell of Newport arrived in London in a collapsed state after a perilous Belgian ride. They fled Brussels last Wednesday with four passes through German lines toward Grammont to reach Ostend. Cantrell supported his invalid wife in a cart as bullets fell. The driver, faint with fear, kept driving until a bullet struck him in the temple and killed him.
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Edgar Allen Cantrell
Newport
London
Belgium
Jne Thers
Brussels
Grammont
Ostend
Cantrell
German Lack Leadership Cited by Allied Echoes From Aix Les Bains
The Vossische Zeitung quotes an American who interviewed wounded French officers and tourists in Aix les-Bains, alleging French officers blame equipment shortages and poor troops from Senegal and Italy for retreats and losses. London dispatch reports on Sept 29 outlining British and French positions, enemy cohesion issues, reduced artillery effectiveness, and local combat details along the Aisne front through Sept 29, including a German raid and Allied counteractions.
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Vossische Zeitung
Berlin
Aixles-Bains
France
Senegal
Mator
Mulhausen
Metz
Britain to lay North Sea mines in planned counterstroke
The official information bureau said the government will mine select North Sea zones to counter German submarine activity. A danger area is set between lat 51.15 and 51.40 north and long 1.35 east to 3 east with the southern German mine field at lat 52 north. Ships are warned to avoid crossing the new mine field.
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London
Official Information Bureau
Admiralty
North Sea
Tennyson Poem Urges Britain to Arm for World Battle
The Spectator prints an unpublished Alfred Tennyson poem said to fit the present crisis. It calls Britons to arms with lines urging readiness, volunteering, and defense against a looming menace, praising progress and humanity while criticizing self patronage and bast ard Christianity.
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the Spectator
Alfred Tennyson
Lord Tennyson
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Spectator
Straits of Dover
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