Young Germans Know How to Die.
(Received 8.35 a.m.) London, November 9. ! : . .Other newspapers state that the Germans lost 50,000 killed last week in, the fighting on the Yser. Some trains travelling to Brussels contain 1000 corpses, which are roped together in fours. around a plank and packed upright in trucks, and burned,in a special apparatus at Louvain. The young German recruits are insufficiently trained, and their shooting is appalling, but they know how to die. , White their numbers can be maintained the attacks are unlikely to lose vigor. Keuter, at Paris, has intimated that the German - forces operating against Ypres are now about equal to the Allies, and the .lines, of the, opposing armies are unlikely to be modified for dayi.,. and possibly weeks. Arras lis still the centre of severe fighting.,,; At one time 4900 shells were falling hourly. The German field pieces were thrice the number of the French. The Allies advance at Lille is slow, the Germans being strongly entrenched in the "district. It is not the intention to capture the tdwii by a direct advance, but to spare Lille, which has already suffered bombardment. 1 * Paris newspapers point out that there has, been an unexpected rehewal of fighting at A isne, and -violent fighting at Rheims since Saturday. The Germans renewed the attack on Craonne and brought up several siege guns to bombard Soissons. They threw 20,000 reinforcements against the Allies between Brave and Vaillv. During the fighting at Vailly the British Lancers, who covered the left of the French infantry, found it necessary to silence a battery of German guns. The Lancers, |by a night attack, charged by squadrons across two miles of ground covered by shell-fire. The attack was successful, tlie battery being silenced, although the French force was finally obliged to retire, and then only recovered the ground on Friday.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 63, 10 November 1914, Page 5
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308Young Germans Know How to Die. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 63, 10 November 1914, Page 5
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