ALLIES HOLD THEIR OWN.
WANTON DESTRUCTION BY GERMANS. * '■ Pari 3, Thursday, A communique dated Wednesday, midnight, saya that a . violent battle raged throughout the day on the loft wing from the North Sea, due south of'La Bassae, twelve miles south-west of Lille, over a front of fifty miles. The Allies held their own everywhere, while the situation elsewhere is unchanged. The destruction near Lille waa terrible, Bome of the villages being shellad by both armies, until scarcely a stone was left standing. The inhabitants, unable to escape, died terrible deaths. In one house the Allies found a family of seven dead. At the village of Enr.etieres no habitable house remains. Five hundred Germans were found dead in the streets. The cartridges found on them Were of the old Snider tpye. ; . The Allies are enlrenchnig near Lille, pending tfcw arrival of reinforcements. Throughout the Lille region the Germans abandoned strategy for pillage, with the object of inflicting the greatest possible economic loss to the French.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 715, 24 October 1914, Page 5
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164ALLIES HOLD THEIR OWN. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 715, 24 October 1914, Page 5
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