GERMAN GUNS CAPTURED.
BRITISH TROOPS' RUSE
BOMBARDMENT OF YPRES
WRECKS PRISONER TRAIN
Received this day, 850. a.m. London. Friday
The Daily Chronicle's Calais correspondent stetas the Germans made a determined night attackat La Basaee on Tuesday. Tha British allowed the infantry tu pierce the lines and get well on the road to B°thune. Then thsy halted on the slope of a hill. A trifling rifia and artillery fire overturned a German gun carriage and reduced the infantrymen to a panic-stri-cken mob. The Germans abandoned two 14 inciters and one 16J inch howitzer.
Djring the bombardment of Ypres oh Tuesday tha Germans shelled the railway station hoping to blow up an armoured train At the time a special train was at the station conveying a thousand German prisoners to France Only 284 were unscathed and 161 Beriously wounded. The rest are dead and lie unburied at the station.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 721, 14 November 1914, Page 5
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147GERMAN GUNS CAPTURED. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 721, 14 November 1914, Page 5
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