BRITISH IN ACTION.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15112, 30 October 1914, Page 7

BRITISH IN ACTION.

ADVANCE FROM YPRES.

FIERCE HAND-TO-HAND

FIGHTING

PRISONERS AND GUNS

CAPTURED.

PARIS. October 28

After the Germans were repulsed at Ypres canal on Friday, the British advanced through the open fields, driving the enemy cast and north, and capturing Langsmarck. where they entrenched. During the night a shrill whistle suddenly sounded. Bushes **-oaked with petroleum burst into flames, ar.d masse■ of men sprang from the sugar beet crops a few hundred yards in advance. The British hurriedly manned the trenches, opened lire with machine-guns, and poured volley after volley into the Germans, who replied with cries of "Hoch! Hoch!" and rushed on. They fell in hundreds, but- were within thirty yards of tho British trenches when a whistle soumu-d the -''Retreat." The British sprang out of the trenches wit-h their bayonets fixed, and there were hand-to-hand encounters in tlie dim glare of die burning bushes. Many of the enemy threw down their arms, but no quarter was given. The Germans wero driven back to Roulers. and the British took thousands of prisoner*.-, including a general, and captured a baue.-y and several machineguns.