FURIOUS FIGHTING AT SAINT ELOI.
DEAD FORM A BARRICADE FOR THE LIVING.
BRITISH CARRY VILLAGE WITH THE BAYONET.
ROTTERDAM, March 17. Huge drafts of German wounded arc arriving at Ostend, Bruges, and Roulers. The wounded men state that the fight against the British at Saint Eloi, near 1 pres, was bloody and determined. Every fort and every corner was a deathtrap, and the dead were piled so high in the streets that they served as a barricade for the living. The British fought stubbornly against heavy odds, but were well supported by artillery placed on a low hill. The Germans were mowed down, but the British were driven back to the small canals by sheer wejght of numbers. • The Germans' triumph was short-lived. British reinforcements were hurried up and flung on the village, which they carried with the bayonet. The slaughter was terrible. The Germans replied by summoning more troops, which had been billeted in the surrounding villages, and the lighting raged over the Saint Eloi Hill for two dave.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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