FIERCE FIGHTING AT YPRES.
BRITISH HARD-PRESSED.
BELGIANS SUFFER TERRIBLY
PARIS, OOctober 27. Two hundred and fifty thousand Germans were massed at Ypres.
A British force held them in,, check for five days, in spite of their tiso of siege guns from Antwerp, which sometimes buried iho defenders in the trenches.
Again and again the Germans'got within - a few hundred yards of the British, who then leapt, out of the trenches and charged with their bayonets. Then tho Germiius fled, many hundreds being captured.
There were thousands of victims of she'll fire and machine guns, and tho situation was critical until .Teinforcements arrived on Friday, when tho enemy \ras thrown back for fifteen miles.
The Belgians lost ten thousand dead and wounded in nino days' fighting on the Yser.
There were two thousand . German bodies Tn the Yser Canal after a, single night attack. Many wore drowned, and others were bayoneted.
Tho Belgians and Germans even wrestled, and died drowning each other.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15111, 29 October 1914, Page 7
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