BRILLIANT BRITISH DEFENCE.
TAKING OF LOMBAERTZYDE, CONVOY BLOWN UP. Received this day, 12.50 a.m. London, Tuesday.
An interpreter with the British Btates a single division held an eightmile front at Ypres for nineteen days against 75,000 picked Germans. They scarcely left the trenches. A captured German officer refused to believe there were so few. The German Staff estimated the British to have at least two Army Corps. A French cavalry column surprised three companies of German infantry in a wood east of Ypres. They were starving, and had bean eating the bark off the trees. They surrendered with forty officers. The Allies last week attacked Lombaertzyde. Prior to the assault news was received that a large convoy of ammunition had reached the old fort. The British colonel called for two volunteers to blow up the convoy. They succeeded, and the infantry dashed into Lombaertzyde and caught the Germans in confusion. They cleared the town, the English monitor causing heavy losses during the retreat. Both volunteers escaped unhurt.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 724, 25 November 1914, Page 5
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167BRILLIANT BRITISH DEFENCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 724, 25 November 1914, Page 5
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