Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 53, 29 October 1914, Page 6

Belgium

- ROULERS FINE, £IO,OOO. Rotterdam, October 28. Roalers has been fined £IO,OOO us a war impost. BETTER THAN MONS.

Paris, October 27

An account of the fighting at Yprea states that the Germans outnumbered the British by four to one. They advanced in daylight by short rushes. The British volleys mowed them down. When 150 yards from the British the Germans retired. They were reinfo: - ced, and charged again. This time they reached within fifty yards •'!' the trenches by sheer weight of numbois, but again they were driven back. At the third charge, the British fixed bayonets, but the British artillery opened fire and the Germans fled. French officers declare that the British stand at Ypres was even more magnificent than the retreat from Mens,

NAVAL GUNNERS AT A PICNIC.

Loudon, October 27

The naval gunners had a fair picnic ou the Beligau coast. The monitors watched a German big gun taking a position, and waited until the range was found for them. Then th(*v smashed the gun and men to pieces with the first shot. Destroyers with six-iiHi guns went up the river at Nieuport and fired a broadside at the Germans, and then turned round and let drive the other broadside. She fired the stern gun as a parting salute. A thousand of the enemy were killed in one field. It is stated that one brigade marching near the sea coast from Xieuport to Middlekirke was completely wiped out by the magnificently directed five of the monitors and other vessels.