WEDNESDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 November 1914, Page 5

WEDNESDAY

Thp French newspapers are referring in flowing terms to the attack on' the Prussian Guard at Zohnabeke, near Ypres

which is described as one of the noblest, episodes in British annals. The Germans, by concealment of their machine guns, brought the British into a critical position. A charge was ordered, and a colonel at the head of his regiment dashed forward shouting " For honour'and England !" The Prussian Guard fought with great determination for half-an-hour, but the British onslaught was irresistible, and finally the Prussians scattered and fled in inglorious retreat. An [eye-witness of one of the German attacks on Ypres says the enemy's losses along the front of one square of the British section were 12,000. The House of Commons has agreed to a war credit of £225,000,000, and the raising ot another British army of a million men. Mr Asquith stated that the actual cost of the war was between £900,000 and £1,000,000 a day.