In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 287, 2 December 1914, Page 5

In the West

THE FAMOUS GRENADIERS. OUTCLASS THE KAISER'S BEST. ONE BRITON TO FIVL GERMANS. (.United Press Association.] (Received 10 25 a m.) London, De-e.'tifK'r 1 First Lieutenant Aubrey Fletcher, of the Grenadier Guards, who was wounded and sent hack to England, relates that his Division, of fifteen thousand men, was ordered to hold a front of eight miles at all costs till reinforced. "We were faced by about seventy-five thousand Germans, including some of the Kaiser's crack regiments. The Germans occasionally broke through by sheer weight of numbers, but always were driven back. We held them for ten days when help came. Of the fifteen thousand Guards only twenty-eight hundred remained. x My own battalion of a thousand lost eight hundred men and twenty-eight out of thirty officers." %HE GERMANS' NEWSLINE. ANTWERP-NAMUR-STRASSBURC. ALLIES SEE DAYLIGHT. London, November 30. The Times' military correspondent says: "There are signs in the German movement on the western front that they may retreat to the line between Antwerp, Namur, and Strassburg. We begin to see daylight through the gloom of fighting, and by continuing our attack we are hearing the attainment of the end." "HE DIED CAME. ' London, November 30.. A British officer, describing the capture of lost trenches, says,'] "We enfiladed and knocked them over like rabbits. One of our ieuwtiahts was shot through the head, but his slayer was quickly spitted upon a bayonet. He tried to kick the bayoneter, but was downed and spittxl through. He was discovered to be tne proud■ possessor of the Iron Cross, died game.''

GERMAN MARINES MUTINY.

Amsterdam, December 1

Seven hundred German inarines from Bruges, including several officers', refused to proceed to Ypres, declaring that their duty was only to fight at sea. The mutineers woe sent to Ghent. FRENCH LEADERS PRAISED. London, December 1. Correspondents pay glorious tributes to General Grosette and Jiis slender forces defending Nieuport under a rain of shell, and Admiral Konarch, with 7000 Bretons, at Dixmnde; also General" Mousseyjs supreme effort .it Ypres in collection, kapha'-md, °*o cooks and a dismounted Cuirassier escort, wherewith he charged a German regiment in possession < f a suburb. The regiment broke and fieri, ami Ypres was saved. PRUSSIAN GUARD V. uOOKS. COOKS VICTORIOUS. London, December i. The Press Bureau furnishes the report of an eye-witness, -ho states that the Prussian Guards, firing the attack cabled on the 14th Novo-n >?r, broke the British line, where the ot'ly reserves consisted of two of engineers. The Guards.,- Ivvmed to within 70 yai'ds of two guns, the officers whereof had improvised tiring line out of gunners and cooks. T'.e line withstood the Guards until reinarrived, and the Guards were repulsed.

"UNTOLD HORRORS." Paris, November 30. The .Government is officially issuing letters found on German officers and men, giving their stories of untold horrors committed on women and children, and shootings and plunderings during August and September—a terrible record of atrocities. The documents are open to public ."nspention. KING GEORGE AT THE FRONT. A VISIT TO THE WOUNDED. London, December 1. The King was greatly acclaimed on landing in France. He was met by the. Prince of Wales. His Majesty visited the wounded. , THE LAST DITCH. GERMANY'S DESPERATE EFFORT

(lleceived 8.45 a.m.) The Hague, December 1. Continual requests are being received at Ghent for German reinforcements for the front, and the last available batch of 250 men was sent on Monday, including one hundred imprisoned deserters who were released on giving a promise to fight. BRITISH AIRMEN. (Received 8.45 a.m.) The Hague, December 1. Two British airmen on Monday dropped bombs on the military grounds at Ghent and wounded seven German soldiers. DESPERATE CANNONADE. GERMAN INFANTRY ATTACK CEASES. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Paris, December 1. A communique states there was a lively cannonade in Belgium on Monday, but no German infantry attacks. The enemy were move active in the north of Arras, and there was an intermittent cannonade in the region of Aisn'e. - The lighting continues in the Argonne, but the situation is unchanged. REVENGE FOR 1870! Time* and Sydney Sun Seeviom. (Received 8.0 a.m.) Loudon, December 1. General Joffre, in a message to the Sixth French Army, says: "We owe to you that towards which all my efforts and energies have been directed for forty-four years, viz., revenge for 1870." JOFFRE, THE GENERALISSIMO. (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 1. A pressman who was received by General Joffre states that physique and moral vigor emanates from the generalissimo, who said that only one thing matters, and that is to save the country. BATTLE IN A GRAVEYARD. FIERCE FIGHTING IN THE TOMBS A CURIOUS FIND. • (Received 9.50 a.m.) London, December 1. Renter's Calais correspondent says the French and German troops were entrenched on opposite sides of the cemetery near Lille. The French mined towards the enemy, who countermined, and there was an encounter underground. Elsewhere the Germans used the tombs as trenches.

The Allies entering a village to the northward of Arras discovered three British guns and heaps of live British shells abandoned during the Mons retreat and brought to the village by the enemy and again abandoned.

GERMAN TRICKS CONTINUE. A TOWN BECOMES A HOSPITAL. ONE DAY'S WORK. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Amsterdam, December 1. The Telegraaf says the Germans at Courfcrai requisitioned two million francs' worth of goods. The town has been transformed into a huge hospital and there is insufficient accommodation for the w r ounded. Xo less than five thousand arrived in one day. GREAT BATTLE RACING. GERMANS EFFORT TO TAKE YPRES. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Amsterdam, November 1. The Handelsblad says a heavy force of Germans has been sent to Ypres to make a supreme attack to capture the town and a great battle is raging between the Iser and Lys. FLANDERS BATTLE OVER. TERMINATION OF THE OFFENSIVE IN FRENCH TERRITORY. London, December 1.

Correspondents of London newspapers who were permitted to inspect the French lines declare that the battle of Flanders has now ended, marking, according to military opinion, to all appearances, the termination of the German offensive in France, though the end of the battle, like that of the Aisne, was not honored by an obituary notice. "In the battles of to-day,'' says a. military writer in an American icview, "their beginning is mariied by many engagements as large as the greatest battle of bygone gena-ations were. The fights gradually mer;;e into one great battle in which all become involved. They cease very much as they began, being broken off by a series of engagements of gradually lessening size. When frontal attacks are made the winner is almost as tired at the end as the loser."