A WEEK'S SUCCESSES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 150, 22 December 1914, Page 7

A WEEK'S SUCCESSES

BAYONET ATTACKS ARE SUCCESSFUL FRENCH & BRITISH AT THE GATES OF LILLE . < (Received December 22, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 21st December. The Daily Chronicle says : "A week's successes i'or the Allies haye followed the resumption of hostilities. Roulers was captured after fierce assaults. The floods between Dixmude and Nieuport have been passed, the Allies joined their forces on the north-eastern side of the flooded area. Bayonet attacks were pushed home, and the result is that the Allies' patrols are within a few miles of Ostend. "The sweeping offensive was no less successful in the south. "The French and British have arrived at the Gates of Lille, and the withdrawal of the main German force to Tourcoing and Roubaix is reported. THE ONLY IMPORTANT OCCURRENCES ON SUNDAY (Received December 22, 9 a.m.) PARIS, 21st December. A communique states : " The only important occurrences in Belgium yesterday were that we made some progress in the Lombaertzyde and St. Georges districts, and south-eastward of Bixschoote ; also at Zwartetem and south-east-ward of Zillebeke, and the enemy's bombardment of the Ypres hospital. We carried a wood, occupied the first German trenches near Notre Dame de Loiette, wrecked the German trendies, and shattered two guns south-eastward of Carnoy, which is eastward of Albert. " Our heavy artillery had ft clear advantage in the Aisne and Pveims districts. "We won 1500 yards of German trenches at Beausejour, in the Champagne, and progressed along the remainder of our front." [Lombaertzyde is Between Nieuporfc and the sea, and St. Georges is^ about two miles east of Nieuport. Bixschoote is six miles north of Ypres. Zillebeke is four miles east of Ypres. Albert is seventeen miles eaht-nortli-east of Ami ens. J NO CHANGE ft- • , *. .t. t . . . . PARIS, 21st December. Official.— The situation is unchanged.,

FURIOUS AND IRRESISTIBLE ATTACKS AMSTERDAM. 21st December. The correspondent of De Tijd says the British and Belgians carried out furious and irresistible attacks in West Flanders. The Flemings, singing their National Anthem, dashed down upon the Germans at the Dixmude bridgehead, which was captured by a bayonet attack, supported by artillery, arid an advance was made to the northward of Dixmude The Germans evacuated strongly i'ortified trenches at Nieuport, leaving many dead. After hand-to-hand fights at St. Georges, the French cavalry made splendid charges, but 'the Germans, despite great losses, fought with tough tenacity. , FIERCE ARTILLERY DUEL DUNKIRK, 21st December. / A fiercp artillery duel preceded the Allies" offensive near Arras. The Germans tried to destroy the French advanced works with trench mortars, while aviators dropped bombs. The French shrapnel silenced the mortars within two hours. The engineers mined the enemy's entanglements, which were blown up as the French infantiy advanced over muddy fields, rushed the gaps pell-mell, and hurled the Germans from their dug-outs. There was a great fight round one machine gun, where a, huge French cuirassier sabred and killed those trying to remove the gun. The Allies captured trenches on a frontal of two kilometres (a mile and a quarter). As the result of recent bayonet charges, seven of the enemy's trenches were captured by the Allies The trenches were flooded, and the Allies, waistdeep in the water, repelled desperate counter-attacks, and many prisoners were taken. On the Yser, numbers of hanger-stricken men surrendered without resisting the Franco-Belgian bayonet charges.