THE FIGHTING AT VARIOUS POINTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 8

THE FIGHTING AT VARIOUS POINTS.

m" GERMANS ABANDON STRATEGY ■ FOR PILLAGE. RkIRMEN'S 'DESIGNS ON LONDON. I* CYCLISTS' TACTICS. ■ < (Received Oct. 23, 11.30 a.m.) ■ LONDON, Oct. 22. H, f The Germans prepared long rows or H^he miners' houses eastward of Lens J H:dfor street fighting. The windows were Brprote'cted by mattresses and the walls H^ioopholed. „ I .'During the bombardment of Arras hundred civilians were killed. Hjtf;'Throughout the Lille region, the abandoned strategy for pilBlage^ with the object of inflicting the Kgweatest possible economic loss to the

'. A party of German officers, who had dined for three days at the palace at Brussels' suddenly left after slashing paintings and carpets £nd riddling the furniture with bullets.

Visitors saw thirty airmen at*a Brussels hotel inspecting a map of London, and marking the• location of tie Bank of England/ the War Office, Parliamentßuildmgs, and the Palace! The aviation- camp at Walhen includes six dirigibles.

Five hundred trucks full of guns are in the Brussels railway yards;

It is that French colonial tpoops have dislodged the Germans from forts north and ea>st of Ilheims.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 22

Hamburg/sailors, to the number of 2 £00, travelled from Liege towards Antwerp, and also two Zeppelins.

The Allies' capture of Roulers, which is§ an Important railway centre, is a heavy handicap on the enemy's despatch of troops to the 'front.

Witnesses of the fighting at Dixmunde state that the Germans while withdrawing suffered heavily from the bayonet, and abandoned, a thousand dead and wounded. Th© Allies'. ca su alties wei'e also .severe. Many injured remained on the spot for fifteen hours owing to the darkness, and fifty succumbed to their injuries.

PARIS, Oct. 22

Both sides are lasing large forces of cyclists to occupy advanced posts. If attacked by cavalry the cyclists throw their machines into the middle of the road,, where the spokes of the wheels form a perfect obstacle to charging horsemen. The cyclists, sheltered in hedges, pick off the struggling horsemen.