SHARP FIGHTING NEAR NIEUPORT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 5

SHARP FIGHTING NEAR NIEUPORT

V ATTEMPT OX YSER BRIDGE ENEMY WIDENING HIS WEDGE AT SOISSONS ! We progressed a, further hundred yards in the Boia le Pretre."- ■ . (Rcc. January 24 11.30 p.m.) . ' v De L Not« Dame hundred prisoners wer/ffi '.ItKk?onA * tf ?»■* selle, and Le Fontaine Aux Charmes, ia.%he were repulsed!" W ". .The Germans blew'up a bridge over the Hasselt'cJnnl 3 " 1 !:,,'!"' 1 ' ' notify the railway authorities,, and a militjswy food train fell'into °+T *? Fourteen German soldier* were.killed. ° U mto tie oanald» £ 4,1 "• m ' h «■-*■« »- "Fans reports that artillery duels are general between IV „«» m Somme In the region of Niejiport a duel Ze, the enem?vainlv attempting to destroy the bridge at- the mouth of the Yser and +ti« A)K„I o„ ceeded in demolishing a portion of the defences, also au X i?&rwo?k S and t farm near St.-Georges, whioh the enemy ha d strongly organised ' 6»fic counter-attacks, the trit taUu a maiioritj and iqmatlj tkc Sfe of the position, which they are now holding,. •... J waoie "At St. Hubert the Germans exploded ■ the salient nf, tlin «„,+l _ £ . , Alfies' trenches, but troopß rushing into the connectine ontlivfc nm „ 4 I it! 8 enemy, gaining 'access. North of W-a-MouTson!fa Sm Wo^ d ft* Alhes are now established a hundred yards ifaeyond the trenches taken on Mon! ' London January 21, 5.35 a.m;: r 'Ta^ s . reports that the Allies recantared yesterday a trench north of Notre D*ime de LnrAt.to \ Prisoners. ■ The enemy, attacking scrth of Thiopval in roSnn JZM (south of Arras), reached the Allies' wi® e entanglements pulsed. Three attacks on Laboiselle met •' the same fate * T« 4-t a re " lid r fiThl'' ttaok 011 La Fontak ° Aux Ch ' arfflos was repelled after \ t'K | THE GERMAN WEDGjE AT SOISSONS I FRENCH PREPARED lijOß EVENTUALITIES. i "' l ' i .® 6 B'" correspondent at the' fmot states thafthe trying to widen the wedge driven m at Scwssons, to enable a the river without endangering the flanks. ' TEe French are tnW™ ? s PJMauWns to prevent a further and Sydney "Sun^ 9^ r ! SURPRISE ATTACK ON GjERMAN POSITION EFFECTIVE COUP BY, BRITISH ARTILLERY. The '"Daily Chronicle's" Calais correspondent states^hatTta^h^f 20 ' on January 15 captured Frelinghien. The Germans weretalM tfioy were massed in considerable forces in 'Frelinghien with thn clllt f saulting the British trenches. g 6n , tilth the object of asBritish observers signalled the news to the batteries at 'J™™!;, three miles to the 'south-west and the latter- immediately commenced demolish' basti!rTc£te3. SOWMS " C ° S, ° K am ° nE the German tr °SWho" Tho British sljened'the Gorman trenches, forcing their, evacuation ' The first luie of trenches at Frelinghien are no|w practically non-existent ' A great inundation of the Lya is imminent. A THE GERMAN RANKER'S | STATE OF MIND —— r 'IDEA OF VICTORIOUS ADVANCE GIVEN UP. "Eye-Witness" states There seems lo fee a differcnc<?°of the German rankers to that, of some wpeSs; .ago... They now rcali ß e that a victorious advance is out ct the question., and that their dutv is merely to hold ground. The idea that. Germany ia coin*; to gain an advantage commensurate jvifcii her sacrifices se<?ms to have dtsAptoared AIW nf B«rt« tno puaaiMil}' of defeat aijct lttvaati^a,fr-t , "rnn ß ß"' and By.duey