BRILLIANT FRANCO-BELGIAN CHARGE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2301, 7 November 1914, Page 7

BRILLIANT FRANCO-BELGIAN CHARGE

ENEMY'S LINES SWEPT LIKB f] CHAFF • ] Paris, November 5. | K brilliant Franco-Belgian charge re- . ' suited in the capture of Ramscapelle. j The Germans,' finding the position iin- 4 tenable,. began to retire. The Allies ] quitted the trenches and cliarged across ,i a mile of country swept by machine- .;! guns and .shrapnel, and brushed the * enemy's first line away like chaff. j

The- Germans broke in disorder, leav-, J ing sevon guns and three hundred field j guns. They made a last desperate stand ■ in Ramscapelle, but the Allies' rush j verted the" retreat into' a. rout. The! ; Germans flung away their rifles. j BRAVE SENEGALESE. ] London, November 5.-. . j T'he bravery of the Senegalese watf j evidenced in the encounter at Rams- : cappollo. The Germans sent a bugler- ; forward to sound the bayonet charee, j and tlio Senegalese, who supported the ] Belgiana, sprung out of the trenches, i rushed forward, and received a mm> ! derous fire from hidden machine guns* j The officers, realising the position, en- , ; deavoured to hold back the men, who ;"; careered forward, killed and wounded j six hundred Germans,'took a hundred, j prisoners, and occupied the enemy's 1 trenches. —"Times" and Sydney. "Sun"- I Sorvices.) . ' , ! FAMOUS BAYONET 'RUSH, •-. '] London, November 5. I There was a furious Belgian bayonet | charge at Pervyse (twelve-miles south-, ,j west by south of Ostond) on Tuesday. .] last. Fifteen hundred Germans were' j killed. , ' • . j