YPRES IN RUINS
VANDAL BOMBARDMENT BY THE GERMANS London, November 10. ' The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent with the Belgian Army states thai) the Germans at Ypres early on. Sunday found tlio range with their 11 and 13ir.ch guns. Explosive incendiary shells fell in the city at the rate of ten to twenty each minute. Ypres is now deserted. The majority of the houses were built of timber, and the fire was fanned by a strong breeze. The greater part of the city is,now in ruins. The destruction is a crime against civilisation, such as that of Louvain and Reims.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 5
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98YPRES IN RUINS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 5
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