THE GALLANT GORDONS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 117, 19 January 1915, Page 5

THE GALLANT GORDONS.

SSI aULGODV struggle. . DA|&AI A f'LfeA-SITR. Pr©ss. h' ' ’ ißeci. 8.45 &.ia.) LONDON, Jan. 18. * Sergeant Maher Ms handed the Gor- : ‘ acn Highlanders a letter which narthat'the Gordons were ordered |.lo. s%nn a.,trench that 1 was loopholed and Itted with bar)?e^’wire entanglements ,whilel’th®! Hoya),Scots seized a W&odi After; a h.eilislA lire from 270 British -op&i for : foftjHftve minutes, •|ks; ,Cfofd©al''.-charg©d;_:thribugh a hail. qi( machine litin and Men ■ propped in hAaps hut thfe Tartans kept until the btccdy was won. front German trenches, when the i in a dip, within % jhyent fc yardswM* the, guns hi' the. Ger-ths’-found fifty-five per fallen/*;' They returned caribs- woHfiied. -but Marshal 1 Ujft k ob aad ■ i we{ cthgfcnerals, who ,Witnessftd. the deed, said ?the Gordons had mad# history. They accomplished more than he . expected, and *d(led that Ilkrga'i was a mere flea-bite to it. . : : ; ; -V ■ 4 STATE OF OSTEND, HORSEFLESH the . only meat. , A LITTLE BREAD. CONVICTS BURY GERMAN DEAD. ; ; . (Reed, 2-55 p.lft.) AMSTERDAM. Jan. 17. A Dutch correspondent at Osteml AUi«y? thht 6DGO out of 45,000 inhabitants ipnly remain. .'Horseflesh is the only peat and there is little bread. The Germans plundered the stores of beer and wine.•- U • Tuere are heavy guns on the Dunes and 13,000 Germans are guarding the Boulevards, at Maria Klrke, where powerful fortifications have been erected. The Germans by threatening, them with stratum have forced the population $ dig trenches. Twelve thousand German convicts have arrived at Osteml. and are carrying dead from the Yser line and floating the corpses from the. canals and burying them at Ostend./ 1 ;- ' A PROGRESS REPORT. ' . ’■*" ; V*" . --HHP * - (Reed, 2.55 p.m.) * ' • PARIS, Jan. 1 17. A 'communique states:. We progress, ed two hundred metres in the 'Lonv bxcrtzyde district, nnd made an advanced In the Bea-use jour/district. Despit*'- a ’storm., which continued, we westward of Orbey. , ~, A’ CHAPTER OF HORROR'S. SPANISH EMBASSY TO COMPLAIN ... ' ... '(Reed. 8.45 a.to,) ’, ■" t s PBTROGRAD, Jan. 18, Th.e Government has requested the Rpan&h Embassy to complain to C German and Austrian Govexiiment. . the! -- .’ soldiers' atrocities. Their atn< Unlanes men methodically k 'vtiiajted and wounded Russians. Se 1 Ccc-'-sacka were hanged as a n;hg German commanders’ ge German? shot ~ A.Jlsch'without any reason PraasLP '■ r-wdered a priest at Koviki. The Af. at Makcvo and Thatava viol . . wojaen and slrl|, and 111-treated tl population, particularly the priesta, fey tefaMt* in give in'-’ "uiaMori regarding the Russian ermy. Germans also misused the white flag. A ’". . ' 1 :.t