France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 57, 23 October 1914, Page 6

France

DREADFUL DESTRUCTION.

THE SUFFERINGS OF LILLE.

(Received 9.0 a.m.) Paris, October 22

The destruction near Lille was terrible. Some villages have been shelled by both armies until scarcely a store is standing. The inhabitants were unable to escape, and died a terrible death. In one house the Allies found a family of seven all dead. At Ennetieres no habitable house remains. Five hundred Germans were found dead in the streets. The 'cartridges found on them were of the old Snider type. The Allies are now entrenching near Lille pending the arrival of reinforcements. GERMAN UHLANS CAUGHT NAPPING. (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, October 22. During the earlier battle to the westward of Lille an aeroplane reconnaissance disclosed two regiments of Uhlans bivouacked. A battery of field artillery covered the road of escape, and then our infantry advanced. The German sentries' gave an alarm, and the Uhlans galloped back. The artillery opened at two hundred yards with shrapnel, and then two squadrons of British cavalry finished them, three hundred Uhlans being killed or wounded, and many prisoners taken.

HONOR FOR POINCAIRE. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, October 22. President Poincaire has accepted a honorary Rectorship of Glasgow University. > CYCLISTS WORK. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Paris, October 22. Both sides are using large forces of C3'clists, who occupy advanced posts. If attacked by cavalry the cyclists throw their machines in the middle of the road, where the spokes of the weels become.-a perfect obstacle to te charging horses. The cyclists meanwhile from the shelter of hedges pick off the struggling horsemen. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Paris, October 22. After sacking Bailleul, the Germans let loose hundreds of lunatics from the great asyllim. The unfortunates wandered over the country for days suffering terribly from cold and hunger, and a number died. Many are still at liberty. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, October 22.

The Germans prepared long rows of the miners' houses to the eastward of Lens for street-fighting, the windows being protected with mattrasses and the walls loop-holed. . ... During the bombardment of Arras two hundred civilians were killed.

Throughout the Lille region the .Germans abandoned strategy for pillage, the object being the inflicting of the greatest possible economic loss to the French.

SEIZURE OF GERMAN'S PROPERTY. Paris, October 21. The Council of Ministers decided to confiscate the Dielette mines, belonging to a German named Thyssen.