Western Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 10 November 1914, Page 5

Western Campaign

TWENTY THOUSAND GERMANS BUEIED. THEIR AOOOUTREMENTS NEEDBD FOR REINFORCEMENTS. ENEMY DESERTIONS CONTINUE.. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 9, 9 p.m. London, November 9. Daring the fortnight twenty thousand have been, buried six miles ! from Ghent their uniforms and accoutrc--1 meats were removed, and to Germany. ( German reservists arriving in Ghent are badly dressed and equipped. Many are wearing civilian trousers, and some are armed with old pattern rifles. Enemy deserters are paying big prices for Belgian workmen's clothes. NEARLY TWO MILLIONS OF CASUALTIES.

CREDITED TO GERMANY. Received 9, 9 p.m. London, November 9. Mr Hilaire Bolloe computes the German losses to date, including missing and sick, at one million and three quarters.

FRESH TROOPS NEEDED. VICTORY TO THE SIDE WITH MOST REINFORCEMENTS. Times and .Sydney Sun Services. Received 9, 8 p.m. London, November 9. Ofliicers arriving at Paris from tne front emphasise the need of fresh troops. T!ie general view is that the final victory will go to the side aide to put the greatest number of fresh troops in the field.

A GHASTLY SPECTACLE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 9, 3 p.m. London, November 9. , German artillery reauced Perwyse, near Ostend, to a heap of bricks. The streets were rendered impassable, and the churches destroyed. Hundreds of shells made a pdi&stly spectacle of the cemetery, tearing out coffins from the earth and scattering the human remains about.

ALLIES' POSITION STILL | SATISFACTORY. MAKING PROGRESS. Received 9,11.50 p.m. Paris, November 9. Official. —In the, north, the enemy ap. pears to have concentrated his activity in the region of Ypres without result. We are holding onr gronnd everywhere on the Aisne and north-east of Soissons. We attained the plateau of Vregny where we had not previously ! gained a footing. There 'is nothing else ' to report.

BENGAL LANCERS AT WORK. A MAGNIFICENT CHARGE PROVES IRRESISTIBLE. Received 10, 1.15 a.m. Calais, November 9. Details have been received of the fighting at Ram'scapclle.. When superior forces of German marines, with naval guns, forced the Allies to evacuate Ramscapelle, five thousand Bengal Lancers were sent to the rescue. They dismounted, and charged, kinec in hand. Cheers burst from the mules of the I Allied infantry, who in turn dashed forward using their bayonets. The charges wore irresistible, and the O'er, man marines lied and hhettiTod in the village. / The Allies forced open the doors with the butts of their rifles, and 'bayonetted many who were* firing from windows. Twelve naval guns were abandoivt.d, and a thousand prisoners taken.

TURNING THE TABLES. GERMAN ATTACKERS CUT OFF. 'Paris, November 8. A thousand Gorman infantrymen and two squadrons of Uhlans crossed a bridge at Vise and drove a regiment of infantrymen, a squadron of Hussars, and a cyclist section into the village commanding the roads to Chaulves and Peronne. While the fight was in progress a French airmnns' hontb destroyed the bridge, cutting off the Germans. Meanwhile the French had boon. reinforced, and they annihilated the Germans, and, throwing la pontoon across the river, they joined with other forces from Offrcmont and captured Tracyleval. The German corps defeated south-east of Ypres consisted of first line troops sent to reinforce the reserves.

AT THK BAYONET POINT. Paris, November 8. An official communique issued at midnight states: German attacks all along the line were repulsed. We captured at the bayonet point the. village of St Remy, on the heights of the Mouse. ALLIES' APPRECIABLE ADVANCE.

ASSUMING THE OFFENSIVE IN BELGIUM. GERMAN SOLDIERS LOSE HEART. DOGWHIPS TO DRIVE THEM ON. ENEMY HEMMED IN ON FRONT AND FLANKS.

(Paris, November S. A communique states that the action, between the North Sea and the Lys is less violent. Wc repulsed attacks towards Dixmunde and north-east of Ypres and assumed the offensive on nearly all ■i this front. The advance was nptahUv

The enemy'* attacks between La Bassce and Arris ww .-epulatd. We markedly advanced around Soissons, a'nd consolidated the advance in the Vailly region and north of Chavonne and Soupir.. We are organising points d'appu (points of support) which we recently captured near Verdun. A thick fog over the northern area, also in Champagne and Lorraine is restricting the operations of the artillery and aviatow.

London, November 8. During the recent fighting in the north the Allies' Red Cross men picked up 700 German wounded and removed them to a field hospital, not knowing that Germans were within. The damage was small.

Evidence of German officers driving the men forward is accumulating. A dead officer was found with a dog-whip in one hand and a revolver in the other. The soldiers facing the British gladly use any opportunity to escape. The British found many Germans hanged to trees.

The Times states that Prince Charles | of Hohenzollern, who is King Albert's brother-in-law, superintended the removal of furniture from a looted house in Brussels. The paper adds that a Belgian noble was allowed to search a Brussels depot, and he found two hundred packing cases full of plunder. The conduct of the Germans who occupied the house was unprintable. A new German ruse is for Boldiers to work in the fields in women's attire. The French shelled a number of Grenadiers disguised as potato-diggers. An eye-witness of the St. Mihicl fighting says that the .German losses were frightful. The Germans are now cloeely-hemnied in the front and on both flanks.

The Governor, General von der Goltz, has issued a proclamation at Brussels stating that hostages have been taken from all towns near the railway, and they will be shot if any damage is attempted. Ascertaining that a German force occupied the forest at Perroy, two French caviilry regiments carrying mitrailleuses on horseback fruitlessly sought for the enemy during the whole night. Sud. denly in the morning they stumbled upon an outpost, who surrendered, saying that they were tired of hardships and long inarches. They would gladly surrender if only to save their faces. Later the main body of the French came into contact with the enemy. The Germans started firing in the air. The French, failing to grasp the meaning of the manoeuvre, charged with drawn sabres in the face of a fierce fire. Pressing the charge home they killed 400 Germans while 350 surrendered and the rest fled in confusion.

Amsterdam, November 8. The internment of 'British of military age in Germany is proceeding rapidly, the number so far imprisoned including 2000 at Hamburg and 130 at Frankfort. Local newspapers state that many trains containing Germans infantry, cavalry .and guns are passing through Brussels and Louvain towards Germany.