THE END OF A CAROUSAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 3 December 1914, Page 5

THE END OF A CAROUSAL

DROWNED IN A WINE CELLAR. SITUATION IN FRANCE. SOME PROGRESS MADE. (Received Dec. 2, 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 2. Seventy-five Prussians, who had been harassed by the French artillery, took refuge in a wine cellar in Flanders and spent the night carousing." They did not hear the coming inundation due to the opening of sluices, and a French patrol found the sev-enty-five bodies floating amid empty bottles. A communique states: —We repulsed attacks at Saint Loi, south of Ypres, our artillery considerably damaging three heavy batteries. We captured a number of trenches at Verm el le, and our artillery destroyed batteries at Vindresse, in the Craonne region. We repulsed an attack at Fontaine Madame in the Argonne, where we have progressed. • *