France & Flanders

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 192, 22 January 1915, Page 5

France & Flanders

INDIAN SOLDIER'S IMPULSION'S. GERMANS NOT EQUAL TO THE SIKHS. "AGAIN WE SLEW THEM ALL!" Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 21. 5.40 p.m. London, January 21. A Sikli wrote home: "The bombs first broke down our mud-walls ; ri front, destroying many trenches. The Germans came in great numbers, but: We slew them till the dead lay so high that we could not see for corpses. At night they came again, filling the sky with lightning, a kind of magic secret they possess. lAgain we slew them all. They l>ave too many machines, and these are too cunningly contrived, otherwise they are not equal to the Sikhs." FATE OF THE SNIPERS. CAUGHT BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES. AND PROMPTLY SHOT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. ■ Received *2l, 5.40 p.m. London, January 21. A transport officer writes: "A lot of snipers have been caught—fellows in plain clothes, who get behind our lines and shoot from the tree-tops and houses. Twelve were captured last week, some right behind our trenches. Their sniping days are over!" THE GERMANS' KINDLY RULE. UIiLGIANS ()-\ SHORT COMMONS. Received 22, 1.5 a.m. Amsterdam, January 21. A German proclamation forbids the population of Belgium to purchase bread after 2nd February. They must attend at the Town Hall, and receive a voucher according to the number in the family. FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. Received 21 ( 11.30 p.m. Paris, January 21. Official: The enemy gained a footing in the trenches north of Notre Dame de Lorette, but were expelled as the result of our counter-attack, wherein a hun- ' died prisoners were taken. Attacks at 1 Albert, La Boiselle, La Fontaine, Aux ] Cliarmes, and Argonne were also repulsed. GERMANS AT SOISSONS. TRY TO WIDEN WEDGE. r London, January 20. The Times' correspondent at the front says the Germans are trying to widen tile wedge driven in at Soissons enabling (lie force to cross the river without enlangering the flanks. The French are aking adequate precautions to prevent a further advance. PARIS IN DARKNESS. ,'

BRITISH CAPTURE FRELINGHIE. GERMANS HASTILY RETREAT. Pltris, January 20. New anti-aircraft regulations have plunged Paris into a darkness surpassing that of London. London, January 20. A Calais correspondent states that the British on the 15th, captured Frclinghie. The Germans, unaware of this, massed considerable forces in Frelinghic with the object of assaulting the British trenches. The British observers signalled the news to the batteries at Armentieres and the latter immdeiately commenced demolishing Frelinghie, sowing death and confusion among the German troops, who hastily retreated. 'Die British shelled the German trenches forcing evacuation of the first line. Frslinghie is now practically non-existent. A great inundation from Lys is imminent. Paris, January 20. A communique states: The enemy failed to destroy the bridge at the mouth of the Yser. We demolished, besides a portion of his subsidiary defences, a strongly fortified farm near St. Georges. The enemy at Bois-de-la-Grue took a trench, which we re-captured. The Germans mined and blow up tile north-cast salient of our trenches at Saint Hubert. We dashed into the cavity and prevented the enemy from entering. We progressed a further hundred metres at Bois-lc-Pretre. FOOD TRAIN DESTROYED. Amsterdam, January £O. The Germans blew up a bridge over the Hasselt Canal, but omitted to notify the railway authorities, and a military food train fell into the canal. Fourteen German soldiers were killed.