NIGHT ATTACK AT YSER.
2000 GERMANS KILLED. HAND TO HAND COMBATS. Received this day, 9.25 a.m. London, Tuesday. The Belgians lost 10,000 dead and wounded in nine days'' fighting at the Yser. Two thousand German bodies were in the Yser Canal after a single night attack. Many were drowned and others bayonetted. The Belgians and Germans even wrestled and died drowning each other.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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63NIGHT ATTACK AT YSER. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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