The "Daily Mail" reports that the Germans have been beaten back over the Yser River, and that many have been drowned and taken prisoners. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent says for a fortnight the Germans have been showing the greatest bravery, making a desperate effort at La Basse to ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Belgians last 19,000 dead and wounded in nine lays' fighting at the Yser There were 2500 German bodies in the Yser caual after a single night attack ...
Article : 58 wordsA telegram from Flushing states that a large force of Germans on Sunday advanced from Bruges to Thourout, 11 miles distant in a south-westerly direction. The Allies ...
Article : 81 wordsCorporal Cole, of the Royal Field Artillery who has arrived at Aberdeed wounded, narrates a thrilling charge of the Belgal Lancers. He says :— ...
Article : 152 wordsAccording to Paris advices the Allies on 16th October prettily executed an attack on Haubordin, four miles south-west of Lille. ...
Article : 223 wordsIt is reported that in Berlin the German General staff has directed that the army in Poland should retire to the Galician frontier and resume the ...
Article : 51 wordsEye-witnesses' narratives of the conflicts which occurred at La Bassee at the end of last week state that an avalanche of Germans was let loose against a section of the ...
Article : 173 wordsA communique issued to-day states, "The Germans resumed the offensive between Nieuport and Arras. "We recaptured Ramscapelle and ...
Article : 220 wordsTwo 42 centimetre (16in.), and ton 28 centimetre (11in.) guns, it has been ascertained in Amsterdam, were taken by the Germans to Bruges on Sunday. ...
Article : 41 wordsA Hague message stated that General Falkenhayn has been chosen to succeed General von Moltke as the chief of the German army staff. ...
Article : 30 wordsAfter the Germans repassed the Ypres canal on Friday the British advanced into the open fields, and drove the enemy to the east and north, capturing Langemarck, ...
Article : 201 wordsThe following cable message relating to the war has been received by the Minister of External Affairs from the High Commissionor's office :— ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "Central News," describing the fighting at La Bassee, states that Sikhs and Gurkhas took part in the charge. A staff officer estimates that 20,000 dead ...
Article : 52 wordsAs it was impossible to clear the cold stores at Antwerp, the Belgian engineers destroyed the refrigerating machinery, leaving hundreds of thousands of carcases to ...
Article : 57 wordsAmsterdam advices state that the recent fighting in the region of the Yser Canal was very severe. Many places were taken and retaken repeatedly. The Germans ...
Article : 134 wordsThe King of the Belgians reports repulsing the Germans in a night attack on Thursday, the 29th October, at the bridge leading to Dixmude. ...
Article : 121 wordsA communique issued to-day states. "A particularly fierce struggle continues along the line between the mouth of the Yser and the Lens district (about 20 miles ...
Article : 197 wordsA battleship is now taking part in the bombardment of the German lines in Belgium. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Secretary to the Admiralty announces that the British naval flotilla continues to support the Allied left. Since the morning of the 27th the fire of the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe British have advanced to Passchenaele, between 10 and 15 miles north-east of Ypres. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that the Germans have evacuated Lille. ...
Article : 17 wordsHis Serene Highness Prince Maurice of Battenburg has succumbed to a wound he received while fighting at the front. (Prince Maurice of Battenburg was born ...
Article : 65 wordsBelgian officers state that the Belgian losses in the last 10 days numbered 20,000. The later German successes were due to their long range artillery. ...
Article : 44 wordsNews from Amsterdam states that a proclamation has been issued in Antwerp forbidding German soldiers to pillage, and decreeing that there is to be no ...
Article : 47 wordsAt Ypres 250,000 Germans were massed, but the British forces held them in check for five days despite the fact that the enemy's siege guns brought from Antwerp ...
Article : 100 wordsA official Berlin message states that the Germans stormed the French position at Vailly, and inflicted heavy losses, and captured 100 prisoners and two machine ...
Article : 70 wordsTwo German aeroplanes dropped bombs into Bethune. One fell among a group of women in the market place, killing 19 and wounding 40. ...
Article : 59 words"The Times" correspondent at Berne has reported that the German troops in Alsace have been heavily reinforced. The French have strengthened their position in the ...
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