HOW AN ATTACK WAS MADE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 77, 29 September 1915, Page 7

HOW AN ATTACK WAS MADE

SHRAPNEL, THEN INFANTRY. MANY GERMANS READY TO SURRENDER. LONDON, 28th September. An officer who was wounded in Flanders, in the course of an interview, said the struggle began in real earnest on Friday. "We had the usual dose of heavy shells all day long. Early on Saturday the fight began under a hurricane of shrapnel, infantry advancing by short, sharp rushes. The German trenches were distant 400 yards, but our fellows went at it with rare spirit, and there was some pretty business with the bayonet. Many of the Germans taken prisoner were ready with the cry ' Kameral,' and promptly thiew down their rifles in their eagerness to get captured. The most surprising thing about the whole business is that many of them are old men of the Landsturm and Landwehrj but there is plenty of young blood, too, though they all seemed .crushed and exhausted, and' welcomed the chance to surrender." FIGHT IN A RAGING STORM. PARIS, 28th September. » The attack in the Champagne district occurred, during a raging rainstorm, which makes the dash of the French intantry that carried them up to the enemy's gun positions before the Germans had time to move them all the more remarkable. The advance was so quick that more than one German pivot point was left behind and had subsequently to be captured by a minor siege. In these fortified farms -and sand-bag fortresses the Germans who had been cut off held out for some time. PARIS, 28th September. The newspaper Parisien states that the Artois and Champagne battles are being fought in abominable weather conditions for an attack. There is a deluge of rain. BELGIAN QUEEN UNDER FIRE. PARIS, 28th September. Whse the Queen of Belgium was visiting the trenches a lively cannonade' opened. She sheltered in a dug-out, and several shells burst in the vicinity. She chatted calmly until the shelling ceased.