ON THE FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONTIER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 62, 12 November 1914, Page 5

ON THE FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONTIER.

GERMAN EIGHT REINFORCED BRITISH OUTNUMBERED TEN TO ONE. INDIANS ADD TO THEIR REPUTATION. TERRIBLE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. SCOTTISH TROOPS FIGHT BRILLIANTLY. Press Association— Copyright. PARIS, November 10. Reinforcements continue to arrive to support the German rignt. The British in many positions are outnumbered by ten to one. The Indians are fighting with enthusiasm and dash which have electrified their British companions. The Ghurkas at night continually discard their rifles and, armed with kuhris, creep from their trenches. Signalling by a system known only to themselves, and without sound, they kill the German sentries to make openings for the British troops. Twenty Pathans south of Ypres, overpowered German sentries noiselessly. Then the rest of the partycrept forward, suddenly flung fireballs in the air, and seized the trenches. For ten minutes the Pathans hacked and slew the half-awake and wholly bewildered Germans, who were sleeping preparatory to a night atack on the British trenches. Hand-to-hand fighting at Mesines continues The Scots Guards and Scots Greys brilliantly bore the brunt of sev. eral attacks. Once devastating shellfire raked the British lines, and retirement was imminent. When the shellfire ceased the German masses pushed forward to sweep the trenches, but the Scotsmen leaped out and awaited the charge. The conflict was short and sharp. The British lost heavily, but they flung back the enemy. i THE ARRAS-ROYE LINE, FRENCH LARGELY ON THE DEFENSIVE SUCCESSFUL IK HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTERS. | PARIS, Nov., 11 The high ground running from Arras to Roye form s a sort of frontier betwen the armies. The French are content to repel the attacks, without attempting to seriously assail the strong lines of the German positions on the higher hills to the eastward. Occasionally the French carry out victorious ham Mo-hand encounters in the villages occupying strategical points. GERMAN ATTEMPT ON ARRAS. DESPERATE STREET FIGHTING. ENEMY COMPLETELY DEFEATED. FRENCH CAPTURE CHAULNES PARIS, Nov., 11 Arras i 3 dominated by German big guns, which are thundering from the heights north-east of the town, which commands six highways and is strategically important to the operations northward. The Germans made de3perate efforts .recently to gain a foothold in a suburb. Determined house-to-house fighting took place day and night,- but the French still hold the town. The Germans hold Bapaume and Peronne. They regularly bombard «,ert, but the French, by a brilliant cnet attack, captured Chaulnes and expelled the enemy between Doulens and Bapaume STRUGGLE AT ARNENTIERES JSRUSSIAIC REGIMENT annihi- •-• LATED BY THE PRSNCH. w THE ENEMY ROUTED. HAUL IN GUNS AND PRISONERS. n 4 Vfived 9.45 ym Nov. 1!. LONDON. N--*. P.. r-ryrt -.kit rh-aaftß9-wwaa detn . *te rn'omft* t> r -. >•> ik« AJSb-3 ■>* Va'vn-f a ~-..>r':; •ast of Armentieres. * ffo French battalions on Novc- ' r #th ambushed the Bth P-e^v-v».' „f Fruaaiaa Infantry, which wa* ■ ■■■■ ■ »yiag a village five miles from On« regiment hid in a wood during tho night. Another crept up to far::- on the other side of the village, and cut down a,Gferman battery before it was abl« to ire a shot. When the fog htd lifted, the regiment ip the wood dashed . on the village. The (fermans were surprised, but rallied. Then the second fgiment appeared in the rear. Thret Jndred and fifty Germans surrenderee And the rest were killed. Not a man es Reaped. A whole battery was captured

HUNGARIAN CAVALRY IN BELGIUM. BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN ANNIHILATED. (Received 10.5 a.m.) PARIS, November 11. It is believed that the Hungarian cavalry in Belgium has been almost annihilated. The two latest wounded lists include 867 Hungarian names of distinction. BELGIAN COASTLINE CLEARED. PATEOLS REACH OSTEND. LONDON, Nov. .10. The Daily Chronicle, in a despatch, says advance Belgian patrols have penetrated to Ostend, thus relieving the coastline covering Dunkirk, Nieuport and Ostend from the menace of the past two weeks. I