MONDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 November 1914, Page 5

MONDAY

A desperate battle has been fought at Ypres, resulting from a determined but unsuccessful German effort to dislodge the British force which has held the town against all assaults for over three weeks. The Prussian Guard, composed of picked troops, was brought up specially to strengthen the attack. A terrific bombardment, the heaviest the British troops have yet experiennced, was followed by a determined assault by the first and fourth brigades of the Prussian Guards. The British line was broken at three points by the overpowering number of the attackers, but in the end the enemy was driven back with immense loss. Seven hundred dead bodies were found behind the first trenches alone, and elsewhere the Germans suffered enormous losses. The British causalties were heavy. They made a splendid resistance against odds and still hold Ypres. The allies have re-taken Dixmunde, which is about 12 jniies north of Ypres. Captured German officers estimate the recent German losses in the Dixmunde district at 90,000. In one battle south of Dixmunde 3000 Germans were killed in ten minutes, One regiment 1800 strong now musters but 89. The Germans have failed in an attack on Nieuport and in an effort to cross the Yser Canal. All their attacks on the allied line in France have failed. Russians are advancing on the Turkish fortress of Ezerum, in Armenia. They have already inflicted great losses on the Turks. It is stated in naval and wireless circles at Dover that two German submarines have recently been destroyed in the English Channel. Canads expects to have 150,000 troops in the field by next November if the war is still in progress at that time.