France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 50, 15 October 1914, Page 5

France

LIVING LIKE RABBITS. LIFE IN THE AiSNE TRENCHES'. Times and Sydnet Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 14. k An officer who was in the Aisne trenches, writes: We have been here for ten days. We live like rabbits, digging ourselves deeper and deeper into the ground till we are completely sheltered, and coming out now and then when things are quiet to cook and eat. We don't wash or change our clothes, and sleep at odd times. It is an odd existence. Little holes, dug with a parapet just big enough to sit in, are our homes, with straw and perhaps sacks for warmth. The cold at nights is intense. The coldest

moments are when there is a night alarm and we spring from our sleep and stand shivering behind the parapet; peeping out to see the enemy firing, which we can tell by the flashes from their rifles. LEFT WING ON THE OFFENSIVE. Paris, Octiber 13. • An official %communique reports: "Our left wing has resumed the oltensive at Hazebrouck and Letmine against cavalry coming from the Baiel-leur-Estaires-La Basse front. A German army corps attacked and occupied Lille, which was Jie'd by a Territorial detachment. We made marked progress between Arras ai.cl Albert, and appreciable progreos at ctJier points.' ' FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONTIER. GENERAL VON KLUCK'S ACTION FRUSTRATED. Ostend, Octooer !4. A fierce battle occurnd in the triangle between Dixmude, Y press and Dunkirk. A determined effort by General von Kluck's right to cut the Allies' lines was frust.M;cd. IN THE NORTH-EAST. GERMAN OCCUPATION OF LILLE. London, October 14. A Gorman army corps has occupied Lille. THE FIGHTING AROUND LILLE.

Paris, October 14. On October 4th, 300 Uhlans on an armored train from Belgium endeavored to carry out a coup de main at Lille. A railway pointsman detected the occupants of the train, and diverted it to a siding, where it was greeted with French rifle fire. Most of the Uhlans were captured next morning. Meanwhile three thousand Germans approached the opposite side from Turcoing, and trained their artillery and machine guns upon the town, some shells striking the de Ville. The French infantry replied so quickly that the Germans retreated. The following day the battie was renewed in greater force, but all the efforts to bring Germans into Lille by railway were repulsed. The retreating Germans, in anger, entered Fives, which is a suburb o* Lille.