LILLE OCCUPIED BY GERMANS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 October 1914, Page 5

LILLE OCCUPIED BY GERMANS.

ATTEMPT TO CUT ALLIES LINES FRUSTRATED. MARKED PROGRESS AT CERTAIN POINTS. ■■ .

PARIS, Oct. 14.

On October 4th, 300 Uhlans on an armored train from Belgium endeavored to' carry out a, coup de main at Lille-. A railway pointsman detected the occupants of the train, and diverted it to a siding, where it was greeted with French rifle fire. Most of the Uhlans were captured next morning. Meanwhile three thousand Germans approached the opposite side from Turcoing, and trained their artillery and machine guns upon the town, some shells striking the Hotel de Ville. The French infantry replied so quickly that the Germans retreated. The following day the battle was renewed in greater force, but all the efforts to bring Germans into Lille by railway were repulsed. The retreating Germans, in anger, entered Fives, which is a suburb of Lille. LONDON, Oct. 14. A German army corps has occupied i Lille." ' " •■/ ■■' ' . ■-.'..:■■'■■■■ •' OSTEND, Oct. 14. A fierce battle occurred in the triangle between Dixmude, Ypres, and Dunkirk. A determined effort by General yon Kluck's right to/ cut the Allies' lines was frustrated.

PARIS, Oct. 14. An official communique reports

"Our. left wing has resumed the offensive at Hazebrouck and Bethune against cavalry coming from the. Baiel-leu-Estaires-La Basse front.

"A German army corps attacked and occupied Lille, which was held by a Territorial detachment.

"We made marked progress between Arras and Albert, and appreciable progress at other points."