FIERCE FIGHT AT YPRES.
BRITISH HOLD POSTION. ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. Received this day, 9.25 a.m Parte, Tuesday.. Two hundred and fifty thousand Germans were massed at Yprss. A British force held them in check for five days, despite the siege guns from Antwerp sometimes burying men in the trenches. JfAgain and again the Germans were within a few hundred yards when the British leapt out of the trenches and charged with bayonets. The Germans fied, many hundreds being captured. There were thousands of victims of ahell-fire and machine guns, the situation being critical until reinforcements arrived. On Friday the enemy were thrown back fifteen miles.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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105FIERCE FIGHT AT YPRES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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