Western Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 26 November 1914, Page 5

Western Campaign

SMASHING THE PRUSSIAN GUARDS. EXCHANGE OF GERMAN TROOPS. GOOD WORK BY THE GURKHAS. London, November 24. The honour of smashing the Prussian Guards' is fairly divided through the United Kingdom. The victors included the Irish Guards, the Black Watch, the King's Liverpool Rifles, the Northamptonshire, Oxford, and Bucks Light Infantry, the London Scottish, and the Inniskillen Fusiliers. . Amsterdam, November 24. The Telegraf reports that light armed boats have reached the shallow waters of the Flemish coast. Paris, November 24. A communique states that the situation is generally unchanged. The enemy has maintained an intermittent cannonade on most of the front, but it has been less lively than yesterday. We repulsed some infantry attacks which were particularly violent ill the Argonnes, where we gained ground in the region of Four-de-Paris. A thick mist hampered operations between the Argonnes and the Vosges. Amsterdam, November 24. The plain of Flanders is still snowbound, and there are heavy frosts. An extensive exchange of troops continues. The IUIS class is coming to Flanders and the old men going east. Two 42-centimetre howitzers passed Cologne for Gakienez, 55 small guns for Konisberg and 200 field pieces for the Austrians in Galicia. The Germans now estimate that they had 200,000 casualties in the battle on the Yser. London, November 24. During a charge in Belgium the Highlanders encountered wire eiiii'enehments under heavy tire. The check was apparently fatal, but the Gurkhas wriggled through the wire with their kukris in hand. They disappeared in the trenches shouting their battle cries and after tumult and carnage the Germans fled into their own entanglements. A few prisoners were taken, all of whom were paralysed with terror.

OSTEND RESIDENTS WITHOUT FOOD. HARSH TREATMENT OF BELGIANS. A SORRY PAST-TIME. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 25, 5.30 p.m. London, November 24. Two thousand Belgians, who remained at Ostend, are threatened with famine, as the Germans are commandeering all the food. Citizens are forbidden to leave their bouses, except on specific business. They must not appear in the streets after seven o'clock in the evening and not more than three are permitted to converse, together in the streets, under a penalty of death. The favourite past-time of the Germans is to make Belgian boys compulaorily drunk with champagne, and then laugh at their antics. Horses and cows are paid for with a receipt which, when translated, means two kisses, or two girls in Berlin. Paris, November 21. German gunfire destroyed the cathedral at Ypres. London, November 24. An English officer states that night and day the Germans pretend to make attacks. Those at night are particularly spectacular. They begin with shell fire, then lia mis out a parachute flare which lights up everything. This is followed by rapid firing, and then wild cheering, ami lastly nothing. Having cheered, they imagine they have done their job, and apparently sit down. It is all very frightening. At first the Indians did not know whether they were standing on their heads or their heels, but they rapidly tumbled to the tricks. Turning to their ollieers, the}' said: "Sahib, whv didn't volt teach us these things V"

A district close to the British trendies in a part of Belgium was overrun with parties of Uhlans. A naval aviator collected a few English armourplated motor-cars. They followed the aeroplane round the country, and when the aviator spotted a party of Uhlans he signalled to the cars, which encircled and attacked on all sides and potted with Maxims. The district was cleared in a fortnight. Amsterdam, November 24. The Rotterdam Courant states that all the Austrian troops have left Belgium. London, November 2-1. The German oll'er of £IOOO is for the capture, dead or alive, of Captain .Samson, whose air raids for destroying railway lines and dropping bombs on the troops in Belgium have been exceptionally successful.

MORE BOMB THROWING. TWO TAUBES DESTROYED. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. Received 2li, 12.50 a.m. Calais, November 25. Two Taulies dropped bombs at Ilazebrouck on Friday. The British artillery brought down one, and a British biplane arrived and manoeuvred over the other on which it dropped a bomb, with the result that the Taube crumpled up and fell. The townsfolk of Armentien-s haw lodged a protest the bombardment. r J here are no military In th<' town, vet 100 civilians June already been killed or injured by shell lire. Paris, November LV>. Generally ; there i.s a calm, except j\si« intermittent cannonades. The (annua attacks at were repulsed.

THE FROST BROKEN. SUPKItTOIMTY DF ALLIES' AIiXILLEUY. Received 2ii, 1:2.50 a.m. London, November 25. The frost has broken, and the weather is sunny and mild. Both sides have been utilising the time of comparative inactivity to reorganise their forces. Tin' Hermans, who have been heavily reinforced, are attacking between Ypres and Labasce, but the British artillery has thwarted every ell'ort. It is noteworthy that the Allies' artillery is now proving superior to that of the enemy, a feature of the recent fighting being the number of German batteries destroyed, particularly at the battle of Zonncreke, where the French j ii. . //i