COLD IN BELGIUM.
PRIVATIONS OF SOLDIERS,
FROZEN IN TRENCHES,
London, Wednesday,
An eye-witness at General French's headquarters dated Monday, stated that the cold was affecting boih sides more than the operations. The men were no longer suffering the misery of mud and slush, but after a night in the trenche3 many are stiff with cold, and have to be carried cut, while others have been taken to the hospital suffering from frostbite.
The aviators after their reconnaissances have to be lifted out of their ma2hinss. The artillery bombardment continues day and night, the enemy using giant howitzers and also a new gun whose discharge is silent, but it has done no damage-so far. A traveller just returned to England state shat the British warships' killed so many on the Belgian coast that the corpses lay for a. month unburied. . The other day a train of thirty carriages passed Ghent with the blinds down. A sentry Bhowed him the interior, filled to the roof with bodies, which were being sent to Germany
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 725, 28 November 1914, Page 5
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171COLD IN BELGIUM. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 725, 28 November 1914, Page 5
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