100 PRUSSIAN HUSSARS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 248, 21 October 1914, Page 8

100 PRUSSIAN HUSSARS.

GUT TO FITiJOES BY THE

BELGIANS.

uGETtIIAN COLUMN FORCED' -TO .• . ■ '■ RETIRE.

1 .. PARIS, Oct. 20 (morning). Ota the 11th one hundred Prussian X>eath's Head Hussars in the vicinity of. Ypres came in contact y/ith Belgian cavalry,' which, charging impetuously, brokje^the .Hussars' ranks* The -..Hussars fled, but'wore .overtaken, and ■•all wei-9 killed. ' , Una-ware of the -Hussars' fate the column, v.hich was three •li&ilotineti'es behind, advanced. •,■■-,Suddenly, the French seventy-five ■'(millimetre guns" opened a murderous /fire, which was taken up by infantrymen at close range. . ' . The Belgians found themselves facing itlie Prussian Guard. The latter, 'Iboneath a terrible firs, opened out with calm precision m-i though on tparade. Whenever s, lnan fell another was substituted.

i The Guai'ds lost till Mieir officers, 'and Svere leaderless. The*1 Prussians, retired, leaving >500. dead. , The.Belgians were ,then masters of the Hazebrouck-Roulers railway, and .functioned with it-he -forces from Osfer.a. " '■ \ ' :