THE FERRYMAN'S HOUSE ON THE YSER
GERMAN ATTACK THAT FAILED London, December 11. The "Daily Chronicle" .'states that the two last. German attempts to take tho ferryman's bouse on the Yser wero a terrible failure. Bavarian ers declared that they were ordered to recapture the house or not to return. The French withheld their fire until the last moment. Artillery, machine guns, and rifles were all fired together, and the ground was strewn with human fragments. . Barely.' fifty Bavarians survived, and wero taken prisoners. The ferryman's house, on the right bank of the Yser Canal (at Ppesele, between Dixmude and Ypres, had been stubbornly disputed for a month when it was captured by the Allies last week, and desperate efforts were made by the Germans to retake it. The house had been used by tho Germans as a minor fort.:
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 5
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140THE FERRYMAN'S HOUSE ON THE YSER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 5
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