LA BASSEE STRUGGLE
SOME GRAPHIC DETAILS. THE MASSED ATTACK AGAIN. PARIS, Ist February. The Germans continue to be active at La Bassee. They have brought up heavy guns, and are shelling the British'positions. The Germans attribute Monday's check at La Bassee to the fact' that their preliminary shelling was inadequate. The opposing trenches south of the La Bassee Canal were fifty yards apart. When the attack commenced the ' Germans came on with intervals of two paces between the men, and five lines followed so closely that they were practically a compact mass. Ab the Tommies said afterwards: "We couldn't miss 'em." The Germans attempted to make a smaller target by running sideways, and fell in heaps. There was a sensational episode at Givenchy. The Germans had abandoned a Majym, and the British commander called for a volunteer able to work the gun. A sergeant volunteered, and enfiladed the German treHches until wounded by a grenade. He saved his .company from annihilation.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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161LA BASSEE STRUGGLE Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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