The list of casualties must be very great, but if I can believe the
evidence of my own eyes in such towns as Rouen, where the Red Cross
hospitals are concentrated, they are not heavy enough to suggest
anything like a great and irretrievable disaster.
DIEPPE, Sept. 3.--Let me describe briefly the facts which I have learned
of in the last five days. When I escaped from Amiens, before the tunnel
was broken up, and the Germans entered into possession of the town on
Aug. 28, the front of the allied armies was in a crescent from
Abbeville, south of Amiens on the wooded heights, and thence in an
irregular line to south of Mezieres. The British forces, under Sir John
French, were at the left of the centre, supporting the heavy
thrust-forward of the main German advance, while the right was commanded
by Gen. Pau.
On Sunday afternoon fighting was resumed along the whole line. The
German vanguard had by this time been supported by a fresh army corps,
which had been brought from Belgium. At least 1,000,000 men were on the
move, pressing upon the allied forces with a ferocity of attack which
has never before been equaled. Their cavalry swept across a great tract
of country, squadron by squadron, like the mounted hordes of Attila, but
armed with the dreadful weapons of modern warfare.
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