Belgians Avenge Their Dead.
ADVANCE THROUGH WAIST-HIGH atutd. 'Received tliia day, noon. London, October 2. Oorresuondents point out that ihteavy rains had converted the Belgian battlefields into 'a quagmire and our troops, during their remarkably successful advance waded through mud waist -high!. 1 The Belgians displayed! extraordinary j spirit when they learned that the iHunI dredtli Regiment of Saxons, who were ' the perpetrators of five Diiuaijt outrages, ' ivoro opposed to them. | The principal haul of guns" and priI soners was secured in iHoulthulst wood. | Anticipating a big capture of guns additional gun crews accompanied the adI vanee and promptly turned the wea I. pons on tlie retreating troops. It is reported l that 500 Germans who ; surrendered began slhooting the Bel- ! gians in the back. _ They paid deal* for I their treachery. None reached the priI soners' cagee. The German casualties are heavy. | The German dekd out-numbered ours four-fold in places. ,
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 3 October 1918, Page 3
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