LITTLE ACTIVITY AT THE FRONT

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 285, 8 December 1914, Page 5

LITTLE ACTIVITY AT THE FRONT

SOLDIERS SUFFERING, FROM

FROST-BITE

PROGRESS AT DTXMUDE AND

"SPKES. '

(Received Dec. 8, 1.5 avm.) BOULOGNE, Dec. 7. .

There is little activity at the front

There is .a inoteisrcorthy decrease an the number of wounded, though many soldiers in iihe hospitals, particularly Indians, are suffering ' from frost/bitten hands and feet.

The itveaivther enabled the aviators to make reeoTiirciissances, resulting; iii the Allies progressing between Dixmuae and Ypres. Tibe Germans -at '^feiirnhout.mt®'tffl&- ---■ ting ddwn ilifi forest of Gasterle, with, the object or bnildinp; ' bridges andi rafts to eroas ;th©:'Yßm'''flo6ds.

The German attempt,at Perv-yse re>-, suited in the loss of eight machineguns mounted on.rafts. The Belgians had only 40 killed and 17 wounded.