TUESDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 December 1914, Page 5

TUESDAY

The London Daily Chronicle's Calais correspondent describes a bayonet charge on the allied trenches, which was met first with deadly artillery fire and finally with the allied bayonets. Some of the Germans were 'caught in entanglements. They suffered sickening losses, and yvere driven back to their own trenches. Several battalions of :i cisii te mtoria'l s- --p?M U: ip^,ed 'in the fight, the Gth Wei- \ ViorV E' ing their trenches as uni': .chingas any line regiment. The renewed bombardment of pre.s, Nieuport and Pervy.se by c Germans is believed to be intended as a rase to mislead the allies. It is estimated that the devastation in Belgium during the first twelve weeks of the war represents; a loss of £200,000,030. ,-i'he correspondent of an Italian

paper says the German atrocities in Belgium have been surpassed in Poland. The fate of Kalisch is worse than that of Louvain. The Germans murdered about 900 of the inhabitants of the town, including women and children.