Western Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 132, 28 October 1914, Page 5

Western Campaign

GERMANS RE-OCCUfY ROULERS. j UNARMED CITIZEN'S FORCED INTO | THE FIRING LINE. A FAVORITE GERMAN TRICK. BIG GUNS REACH BRUGES. THOUSAND IN!IAHITANTS .MURDER I'D. Received 27, 0.33 p.m. Am5..r.|:.;.. ; ... L.,b.:r -2(1. The Telegram" states thai the Germans have «ro-oo:-u:i':i-.' Roulev'. The. Allies, liav_< gained gr.r.md near Nieuporfc. Two 42-cenlimolro ;!.m.' ten 28-ccnii-vmtre gnus have arrive! at Bruges. Ghent and Roulers are inil of Gcriiinn wounded. The citizen:! of Roul'Ts were again marched in front of 111■ -. German trooDs when tliu latter advanced to battle. Aboiii, a li'(i:u-aiiil inhabitants of Roulers wen; murdered. The eliuiv'i at Notre Maine was plundered and destroyed. ON THE GERMAN LEFT.' FRENCH FORTS BEING STUENGTiIENED. Received 27, 8.1'.a p.m. Amsterdam. October 2fi. A Tclcgraaf message from German sources idate Hint (lie French are greatly strcngfliening the fort, in the vieinitv of Bel fort and MulhaiHen. The garrisons have been heavily reinforced. PRUSSIAN REGIMENT TRAPPED. MOWN DOWN IN THE STREETS. EFFECTIVENESS OF TUB BAYONET. Received 20, I). 10 p.m. Paris. October 20. The Journal reports that, with the object o,f drawing the Gentians toward; Dixmunde, the Allies feinted an abandonment of the town. A Prussian regiment fell into the trap, and entered, as though on parade, with bands playing. Immediately they had entered "the principal street a terrifie volley drowned the music, and machine-guns" concealed in the houses fired on the Germans, who turned and fled in a panic. They were met by bullets on all sides. The French marines sprang from concealment, and hurled themselves on tlio survivors, who threw dows their arnu and surrendered at sight of the bayonets. TEE GERMAN VIEW. BRITISH FLEET FORCED TO SEA. FRENCH ATTACK BROKEN DOWN. Received 23,,12-le '..in. Amstcrehrn. October 2". ' A Rirlin official teleg.ee, is u, the effect that the enemy U oOdlmilelv difending Nieuport and Dlvi-iunde. " The German artillery forced the. British fleet oight miles oH shore, ai,.l three vessels were hit. "Oil:- eti;,'-. souia-vst of Ypre.s, west and seeJi-w, si of iJ'ir. arc ■■;..- pressing. T!i ■ kneliOi : -- . S-O;/ "i the .street iiirlu : ■!-. an.' :.xi -,,,■. ;.:.,, prisoners. !:eavy French .•lUae'.; :<; On. north of A;ra, lias l»:-..!:-n J,me.

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THE JAPANESK AIiMY. MIGHT HAVE HELPED IN EUROPE. Received 27, 9.4;) p.m. Paris, October 20. 'M. Fiehon, writing in the Pciit Journal, regrets that the A-lics ha v.- not aupoaled for the co-operation of Japan in Europe, to which she might have brougn't an incomparable force. ALLIES' POSITIONS MAINTAINED. ' VERY HEAVY LOSSES. Received 27, !).;io p.m. Paris, October 2(1. An official eommim.'i|tie states: — "We maintained our front at Nieuport and Dixmiindc on (Sunday. The Germans win. crossed the Yser progressed no further. There have been considerable losses in the last few days." SIX MILES OF BAYONETTINC. GREAT CHARGE OF BRITISH INFANTRY.

GERMANS FLEE BEFORE '[TIE RUSH. FEARFUL SLAUGHTER IX THE AUCONNI-X CERi£ASB"CRaSS THE YSER. HEAVY OPERATIONS IN BELGIUM. Paris, October 2(i. Details of the fight at Villi: le Chainpelle show that the British arti'lerv bombarded the German position from dawn till 3 o'clock. A bayonet charge was then ordered, and the British gleefii'W cpiittt-tl the trenches and advanced cautiously for a mile, using all possible cover. After annihilating /the Germans in two lines of entrenchments with little loss, tney made a short halt, and then a final splendid dash on the main position, and pot the, Germans on the run. The trenches were full of dead. The charge was maintained for six miles, perhaps the longest on record. The Germans lost 6000 killed. The British proved immeasurably superior in the open field. Two German aeroplanes were shot down at Montidrr, a third at Rheinis a fourth at Gravolines, and a fifth at Amiens.

A eommnni(|iic dated October 2.5 (midnight) states (hat a very violent batt'e is proceeding between Xieuport and the T.ys. Tho Germans crossed the Yser between Nienport and Dixmundo The enemy's attacks westward and eouthwards of Lillo were repulsed. Our troops have advanced slightly north-west of Soissons, also in. the Oraonne district. Our heavy artillery fire in the Woevre district commands the Thi aH «ourt-Hoursard-Bainville road, one of the enemy's principal lines of communication towards St. Mihie].' It i, reported that an entire German infaatiw regiment was annihilated in the Arronnes, during operations in the woods northwards of La Chaladc. The enemy mif-

fered Very grave losses in Northern France, and on the coast of Belgium. Fifteen -hundred German corpses were; found in one limited area. Six hundred were taken prisoners on Saturday; An officer writing to La Liberie narrates a ease of fearful slaughter in the Argonne district. An infantry regiment and a battalion of chasseurs held an important strategic highivn;.. Fifteen thousand Germans essayed to storm the trenches with the bayonet. The French in live quick-firing sections were firing at the rate of (HID shot; a minute. They opened five at short range on the massed columns. It wa; horrible to see solid m-ie-as of men fall. Many were killed on 'da; parapets, bat of hers reached the tram-lies, and tin-re were hand-to-hand ba;, onef, (-mounters until French artillery reinforcements forced the Germans to retreat, )ca\ing thousands dead and wounded. As it was impossible to clear the cold stores in Aunverp, the Belgian engineers destroyed the refrigerating maj thine;-;,-, leaving hundreds'oi thousands | lighters of grain, blew up the lock pates | at Ue entrance to the' dock's, and destroyed army stores worth £'!,OOO,OUC