THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 70, 21 November 1914, Page 5

THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN

THE STING MISSING. FURY OF GERMAN ATTACK SPENT BRITISH RECOURCES IMPROVED. Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, November 20. The Times correspondent in West Flanders says the impression of officers and men from the trenches is thai the fury of the German attack has spent itself. It is important to remember that when the enemy made the recent supreme effort, the Bntisn artillery was less good, but heavy guns are now doing great execution. The German guns are considerably tne worse for wear, owing to the reckless usage and bad quality of ammunition being feverishly manufactured. In the recent bombardment of Furnes oniy three out of 25 shells exploded. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR LEFT WING. AMSTERDAM, November 20. Eighty large guns traversed Liege en route to northern France. Seven thousand engineering troops also passed, en route to Dixmude to construct bridges in the flooded area. GERMANS WEAKENING ON THE YSER. LONDON, November 20. The German hold on the Yser is weakening. PARTICULARLY QUIET DAY NOTHING TO REPORT. PARIS, Nov. 20 An official statement issued on Thursday at midnight shows that it has been a particularly quiet day, and there is nothing to report. GERMAN NIGHT ATTACK FAILS ENEMY SHOT DOWN TO A MAN BRITISH TOO WIDE AWAKE. PARIS, Nov 20 During a storm on Thursday night the Germans between Ypres and La Bassee crept towards the British tren-' ches in open order. The enemy's artil. lery tired wide of our trenches. They were allowed to approach unopposed except from shell-fire, but when the Germans reached the British trenches, purposely evacuated, they were shot down tc a man by a terrific enfilading fire. Four lines were completely shattered, while the English did not suffer a single casualty. STARVED OUT. LONDON, Nov. 20 One hundred and forty Germans in the Ypres district stealthily, at nighttime, occupied deserted French trenches'. The French, resolving to starve them out, watched for five days and then sent a German prisoner to demand their surrender The enemy were dying of hunger, and willingly surrendered. ACTS OF BRAVERY. LONDON, Nov. 20 A Press Bureau eye-witness narrates that eastward of Ypres a third attempt to storm some German trenches succeeded. A subaltern commanding the attack was killed. The attack was continued under h sergean'j major, who received the Distinguished Conduct medal, but succumbed to his wounds. Spies and snipers, aften wearing khaki caps similar to the British, sometimes get behind outlines, and cut the telephone wires. The eyewitnesses concludes by describing the heroism of a French doctor. He attended 54 German wounded in Ypres civic hospital several days after the building was struck by German shells, including an incendiary shell. He was finally killed at his post. FISTS AND RIFLE BUTTS DECIDE BATTLE. 300 GERMANS BATTERED TO j. DEATH. 23 MAXTMS AND 150 UHLANS % CAPTURED. PARIS, November 20. After repeiliug a German attack on the trenches at Ypres and La Bassee, the English infantry attacked the supports, who retired. Later:, the Germans stumbled over an Irish regiment and a wholesale rough and tumble ensued, wherein rifie butts and •" played the chief part. After an h :. .. tussle the Irish were victorious. Ove? hundred Germans were battered i death. Twenty-three German maxi T yphOlD AMONG GERMAH". LILLE EVACUATED. ' : EPIDEMIC -SPREADING. P/ltlS. November 20. There is a sericr* outbreak of typhoid among the Germans m the Lille district. The town has be- is ovneuared and five thousand are. in hospital. Tne epidemic is spreading to the troops at Roubaix and Tourocing. The factories in the latter town are undamaged. The owners paid an indemnity of two

LATEST OFFICIAL REPORT GERMAN OFFENSIVE SLACKENING. VIOLENT ATTACKS REPULSED. TWO BIG SIEGE GUNS CAPTURED. (Rec. 9.15 a.m.) PARIS, Nov. 20. A communique states: The weather in the north is very bad and snow has fallen. There were practically no Infantry attacks on Thursday, and the :.v----tillery was much less violent, but still intense south of Ypres. The Allies have taken from the water at Ramsehappelle two German seventeen point five howitzers abandoned to the floods. We repulsed throe violent infantry attacks in the Argone. The Germans have re-occupied the destroyed" portion of Charwoncourt. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON Nov. 20. There is a violent and ceaseless cannonading on the northern front, The Germans mined and blew up the western part of ( InuivoneoKrt. The Allies repulsed infantry attacks east and south of Ypres. The British maintained their front. The bombardment of Rheinis is being continued.