THE FIGHTING AT LA BASSEE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 5

THE FIGHTING AT LA BASSEE

BRffISH BAYONETS AT WORK TWO GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED ByTeleiraph—Frees Aeeootetion-Ooprrirtt (R«c. February 3, 9.15 p.m.) lir , ■.. „ .., , ,• ' . . London, February 3. tye-witness, with headquarters, says six hundred Germans on January 29, made two attacks "between the La Basseo Canal and the Bethuue Road The attack on the brickfield in the centre failed and fifty German dead were left on the field. The attack against the Right was temporarily succesful The British counter-attacked with the bayonet and every German in the trench was killed. There was a similar German success close to the Bethune Road and in the counter-attack every German in the British trench was bayoneted' and an additional' two hundred dead were found on the front of the British line. . . The British casualties were slight. Prisoners stated that this was their first engagement. A hundred were- killed in the trenches before the attack began.

ATTACKS AND COUNTER-ATTACKS ON TRENCHES. tensdyTTrsidef 31 YM » *" £ - rm. ■^ >r^°L S of a , German , regiment drove back a British post at Givenchv The British, counter-attacking, regained the lost gorund and pi ogres ed beyond and captured some of the enemy's -trenches. "Messeci oe A whole battalion'participated in the assault oh the trenches mentioned ♦V A. l^, * l, * <=™niqu e states: Our fire broke two attacks, but tho third forced an entrance te the trench. ■ ' bay ° netS ™ m int ° COl,fuslon - •** The remainder were killed or captured. ' •Our heavy calibre artillery bombarded Noyon railway station, where the of e Soissons.) reprOVlSming ' ( yOn S°n ti6 Oise, twenty mil( * MrtW

STUBBORN FIGHT FOR THE FOREST OF NONNEtfBRUOH. The forest of Nonnenbnich is being stubbornly contested oJhig^to 2 ' the fcfSin^nnn'rm 621 ™* 6^, l al,,ed a t s l ixty tllo,lsal,d million-francs (nearly £3,000,000,000). Tho deposits were hitherto in the hands of German capitalists.