VAIN ONSLAUGHTS ON ALLIES' LINE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 5

VAIN ONSLAUGHTS ON ALLIES' LINE

NIEUPORT VIOLENTLY BOMBARDED SANGUINARY FIGHTING AT YPRES Paris, October 2(5. midnight. Official.— I "Jfienjiort has boon violently bombarded- and the Gorman effort continued an the Nieui>ort-Dixmude front, but without result. The entire front from I/.a Bassco to tlio fJomuio, WHO tlio object <?r Violent night uttaoUfl, but nil were repulsed."

, London, October 27. The "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent states that for a fortnight the Gormans have been showing the greatest bravery, and malting, desperato efforts at La Basseo to counterbalance tho Allies' successes in the north. Tho country is extremely difficult on account of hedges, canals, copses, and hillocks, necessitating much fighting at close quarters. Amsterdam, October 27. Tho "Telegraf" reports that 10,000 Austrians .-arrived in Ghent on Sunday last. (Rec. October 28, 11.30 p.m.) o - Rotterdam, October 27. Roulers was fined £10,000 by the Germans. GREAT STAND BY THE BRITISH AT YPRES Paris, October 27. Two hundred and fifty thousand Germans wore massed at' Ypres. The British force held them in check for five days, despite the siege guns brought by the Germans from Antwerp sometimes burying the men in the trenches. Ap-in and again the Germans got within a fow hundred yards of the British, who then leapt out of the trenches and charged with their bayonets. _ The Germans fled, many hundreds being captured. Thousands were tho victims of shell-fire and the machino guns. . Tho situation was critical until reinforcements reached the British' on Friday, when the enemy ivas thrown back fifteen miles. (Rec. October 29, 1.15 a.m.) Paris, October 27. An account of the fighting at Ypres states that the Germans outnumbered the British by four to one, and advanced, at daylight by short rushes. The British volleys mowed them down at 150 yards. The . Germans retired, but were reinforced, and re-charged. They reached within fifty yards of the trenches by sheer weight of numbers, but wero again driven back. At a third charge,, the British fixed bayonets, but the British artillery opened fire, and the Germans fled. ~' French officers declare that the British -stand at Ypres was even more magnificent than their Tetreat from Mons. * DESPERATE STRUGGLE ALONG THE YSER CANAL'. London, October 27. The Belgians lost ten thousand in dead and wotmdjpd during nine days' fighting on the Yser. Two thousand five hundred German bodies were found in the Yser Canal after a single night attack. Many had been drowned and others bayoneted. The Belgians arid Germans had even wrestled as they died, drowning each other. • ■"WHEN THE GERMANS CAPTURE CALAIS. "• r ; London, October 27. "The Times" says that Copenhagen messages state, on the strength of the Kaiser's commands, that Calais must be captured at all costs, that Baron Von Darenne, of the General Adjutancy Staff, in an interview, declared that when the Germans have possession of Calais they will use 17-inch howitzers for pro- ' tecting bases for torpedo .craft and submarines, surrounding the bases with a triple row of mines, and will scatter mine-fields to Portsmouth and off into the North Sea. ("Timeß" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) Copenhagen, October 27. It is reported that the Germans are -building on the Elbe, at Hamburg, a new type of large submarine for the transport of troops. It can be UEed as a pontoon when on tho surface. Large numbers of men are engaged on it working day and night. BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF DEVASTATED COUNTRY, (Rec. October 28, 11.50 p.m.) London, October 27. 'K correspondent who was in a captive balloon with an observation officer, who was seeking the position of the German batteries, had a bird's-eye view of the battle between Nieuport and Dixmude, and saw Ostend and the ruins of several coast villages and Middelkerke and Lombartzyde. Not a wall remains standing in Wostkerke, Slype, and Novie (villages further east), all caused by tho effective fire of the British warships, which. ultimately dislodged the Germans. Wanton destruction has continued around Roulers. REVIEW OF THE ALLIES' LINE. (Rec. October 29, 0.40 a.m.) Paris, October 27. Official.—A particularly fierce struggle continues between tho mouth of tho Yser and Lens (10 miles north of Arras). The Allies have retired nowhere along this line, and have progressed between Ypres and. Roulers, and also at Soissons. "We had a successful artillery oncounter at Berryambay, and destroyed several German batteries. We assumed the offensive east of Nanok, between the Forest of Boyanco and Pirroy, driving the enemy across the frontier." *