No FINER BRITISH RECORD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 25 November 1914, Page 5

No FINER BRITISH RECORD.

WONDERFUL WORK OF FIRST ARMY CORPS. DEFEATS REPEATEDLY FLOWER OF KAISER'S ARMY. Received 24, 11.30 p.m. London, November 24. After the defeat of the Prussian Guards, Field-Marshal Sir J. French directed General Sir Douglas Maig to issue an army order, thanking the First : Army Corps for their stand. Fifteen fresh battalions of the German Guards partook in the attack. Since General Ilaig's troops arrived at Ypres tliey have successfully defeated the 23rd, *2Bth, and 27th German Reserve Corps, and the 13th Active Army Corps, in addition to the Guards. General Haig adds: "It is doubtful whether the annals of the British army contain a finer record in the defence of the realm."

| SPLENDID WORK OF BRITISH TROOPS. ' GERMANS SURPRISED. STARVED FOES CAPTURED. COASTAL TOWN CLEARED OF GERMANS. WARSHIPS IASSIST. Received 25, 12.50 a.m. London, November 24. An interpreter with the British stat"'that a single division held an eight-m:. line at Ypres for 1!) days against 75,000 picked Germans. They scarcely left the trenches. A captured German officer refused to believe that there were so few, as the German stall' estimated that the British had at least two army corps. A French cavalry column surprised three companies of German infantry in a wood east of Ypres. They were starving, and had been eating the bark of trees. They surrendered, with 40 officers.

The Allies last week attacked Lombacrtzyde. Prior to tho assault news was received tliat a large convoy of ammunition liafl reached the old fort. The British colonel called for two volunteers to blow up the corivov, and they succeeded. The inlantry then dashed into Lombaerteydc, caught the Germans in confusion, and cleared the town, the English monitors on (he coast causing heavy losses during the retreat. Both the volunteers escaped unhurt. The liritish fleet bombarded Zeebrugge, causing a great fire.

i The German battery fruitlessly fired at the warships from Blankcnburg, but the warships silenced the battery. AEROPLANE BOMBS. a KILLS BRITISH WOUNDED. Received 24, 10,30 a.m. Paris, November 24. A German aeroplane dropped bombs at Baillieu, killing three British woundde in an ambulance. WASTE OF POWDER AND SHOT. RESULTLESS ATTACKS. Received 24, 10.20 p.m. Paris, November 24. Official: The cannonade continues at Soissons and Rheims. The violent attacks made by both sides in the Argonne district were resullless. PICTURE OF THE TRENCHES. PAINTED IN FINE, WEATHER. Times and Sydney Sun Services Received 24, 5.20 p.m. Loudon, November 23. The Times' correspondent in West Flanders says it is a mistake to assume that life in the trenches necessarily entails the. maximum of discomfort. ' The Allied soldiers are comfortable while living for the most part below the surface. They have so hanked themselves about that the wind, rain, and sleet now have no great terrors, and their mudwalled compartments are possibly warmer than hygienists approve.