BATTLE IN FLANDERS.
FIERCE AIR FIGHT PREDICTED,
GERMANY'S COPPER HUNGER,
Received this day, 12.15 a.m. Rotterdam, Friday. The battle in Flanders is confined to artillery and air craft. The fields are converted intp lakes. In the trenches and deep, ditches the infantry are unable to keep their firing positions.
Despite rain storms the'airmen on both sides are daily raiding.
The Gemans have issued an official warning of an air raid at Dix, Cologne, Brussels and Antwerp, and a fierce battle of the air is expected when the weather is favourable. The Germans removed the famous copper group Day of the Cross from the Church of the Sacred Heart at Turnhout. They are also removing the electric light cables in some German cities to obtain copper, acetylene lighting being substituted.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 737, 16 January 1915, Page 5
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129BATTLE IN FLANDERS. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 737, 16 January 1915, Page 5
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