STRUGGLE IN NORTH FRANCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 744, 10 February 1915, Page 5

STRUGGLE IN NORTH FRANCE.

HEAVY ARTILLERY WORK. Received this day, 11.25 a.m. Paris, Tuesday. A communique states we occupied a farm on the Bethune-La Bassee road, where the enemy was installed. The struggle at Bagatelle is now centred in the forest, where the fighting is conl'used. Both sides maintain their positions. There are artillery engagements at many points. The enemy bombarded Ypres, furness and Soissona. A GERMAN REPULSE. TWO HUNDRED KILLED. Received Tuesday, 11.5 p.m. Paris, Tuesday. Official.—The enemy exploded mines outside our positions at La Boisselle, and sent two and a -half companies to the asr-ault. They were repulsed, leaving two hundred dead. CAPTURE OF GREAT DUNE. AN ALGERIAN RUSE. Received this day, 8.55 a.m. Paris, Tuesday. After the Frenchmen's fruitless efforts to capture the strongly held Great Dune, 2 Algerians, concealed behind the bellies of their horses appeared at the German trenches at nightfall. When the Germans were about to capture them the horsee, in response to a sharp cry, galloped back to the French lines, whereupon twenty grey forma rose from the ground and threw themselves into the trenches. The German second line wavered and did not fire, fearing to hit their own men. Reinforcements arriving, the French captured the Great Dune with slight losses. BRITISH AIRMAN'S FEAT. Received thiH day, 11.25 a.m. Paris, Tuesday. A British aviator with a quick firer, chased a Taube with two occupants near Bethune. The observer was killed, and the machine, badly damaged, fell in the German lineß.