CEMETERY AT ST. GEORGES.
Ll"' THREE HUNDRED CORPSES IN ki THE RUINS. Sp'- ' (Received January Bth, 11.30 p.m.) f ! • . PARIS, January 8. \i *\ French eye-witness says that three ;-.. hundred corpses ' wero found in somo ..!., rains at St. Georges ,Th 6 Allies held the ■'.' position, though on the 30th the G6r--7' mans fired four thousand shells, smash- "' ing up St. Georges. The Allies blew up forts occupied by 140 Germans in the Ypres region, and seventy wero - buried and tho others fled, and tho .Allies", artillery wiped thera. out. Patrols found many flooded trenches ' .-full of 'German corpses.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15172, 9 January 1915, Page 9
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