oint of the bayonet on Aug. 20. My correspondent, who has
just arrived at Basle from the field of battle, says that eight
battalions of the German One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, numbering
about 10,000 men, engaged the French Army. The French artillery was
deadly and caused great ravages among the Germans, few officers
escaping.

During the whole night the wounded were being transported to villages in
the neighborhood, beyond the reach of artillery. All the buildings of
Sierenz were filled with wounded.

Hundreds of horses were stretched on the field of battle. Those of the
German artillery were killed, and in consequence the German forces left
their artillery, of which about twenty guns are now in the hands of the
French.

The object of the German troops was to cut off the retreat of the French
and force them toward the Swiss frontier--an object which they failed to
achieve.

The wounded received here say that they passed a terrible night in the
open, without water or other succor, with the pitiful neighing of
wounded horses ringing in their ears.

*Rennenkampf on the Prussian Border*

[By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle.]

GRADNO, (via Petrograd,) Oct. 21.--I have returned here after a journey
along the East Prussian frontier, as close to the scenes of daily
fighting as I could obtain permission to go. The route was from the
north of Suwalki southward to Graevo, a stretch of country recently in
German occupation, but where now remains not a single German outpost.

It is stimulating to see the Russian soldier in his habits as he lives
and fights. I have seen many thousands of them camped in the rain,
swamped in bogs, or marching indefatigably over the roads which are long
quagmires of mud, always with an air of stolid contentment and the look
of being bent on business. They include Baltic Province men speaking
German. Jews from Riga and Libau are brigaded with huge Siberians, whose
marching must constitute a world record. The Cossacks are past counting,
and with them are long-coated, tight-belted Circassians and Kalmucks,
all representing a mixture of races and languages like that of the
British Empire itself.

Actually the whole line is a battle front from north of Wirballen to
well into Poland, and no day passes without contact with the Germans.
This is an army in which every man has fought. Most of them have been in
hand-to-hand conflict with the Germans. They have approached th