The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-11-12
issued: 1914-09-22
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note: nmm«»»»mm**m*>'>.'>» * ♦ .0 YE8TERDAY-S WEATHER , 0 0 .-*» Tamparaturaa yeaterday were: 0 0, Minimum 43 ' 0 0 Maximum ......60 0 F——— * •^ THE DAILY NEWS It read sverywhere in Southeastern British Columbia (Kootenay and Boundary District) on the day of publication. VOL. 8 PAGES NELSON. B. C. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 19U 50c PER MONTH. NO. 137 Yelling French Masses Silence Kaiser's Guns !■-. — ASSAULT WAS OF IRRESISTIBLE FURY German Army Beaten But Not Routed-Hand-to- Hand Combat Deadly ■ (By Dally News Leased Wire.) ''-fNEW'YORK,-Sept. Sa.—The American publishes tho following from its correspondent:'". :',.'-Behind the allies' lines, France, t£ept. 31.—I climb from the hollow in fwhicli Barcy rests and reach the edge o? the plain, crlBS-crosBed by German tvenohes. A* terrible yet sublime spectacle ts presented. The vast plain is lltlered, with corpses. Hundreds and t hundreds of bodies He on tha ground >*) far as the eye can reach. Hundreds .of them all fell in one direction, like grass cut by a scythe. Death lias overtaken' them in the furious rush of an assault. All He with limbs extended and faces forward '•There Is potent, moving significance In this position of the dead It rotates, reveals, describes. , "It Is here that an Impetuous,'unyielding battle has taken place In the immobility of death there is a terrible .eloquence. The bodies are all pointing toward the enemy, heads foremost. A single thought, a single Impulse, a single desire united these men In the last moments of life. There fs still an expression of violence and Impotuoiis dash In this fallen throng. Taken singly they aro horrible. Taken all together theso bodies seem to havo Indescribable and fabulous lire and It'at the sight of this slaughter r.ne feels a wave of emotion It is not caused -by pity but 'tfy' enthusiasm. Heroes Who Never Die. "1 think of the Japanese legend of heroes' who never die; when their ,1-cdIes fall the multitude of their souls .continue the assault. Something or 'suc…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0385720
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text