SUBMARINE ATTACKS ON SHIPPING

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1915, Page 5

SUBMARINE ATTACKS ON SHIPPING

i-SERMANY'S CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS

TORPEDO FIREO AT BRITISH

HOSPITAL SHIP

THE SPUING CAMPAIGN

. HUES 1 PREPARATIONS IN FRANCE

BATTLE OF 80RJIM0FF

ENEMY'S LOSSES APPALLING

; PRUSSIAN CASUALTIES TO DATE

OVER 900,000

FRITZ'S SURRENDER EXPECTED

SOON

i IS THE KAISER PLANNING A COUP?

THE ALLIES.

TEMPORARY GERMAN

SUCCESSES.

BRITISH USE THE BAYONET.

THE COUNTER-ATTACKS

SUCCESSFUL.

[Peess Association.] (Received Feb^ 3, 9.15 ■ p.i».) ■' LONDON, Feb. 3. "Eye-witness" states: Six hundred ■(. Germans on the 29thi made, two attacks between the La Bassee Canal i and the Beilmne road. An attack , on a brickfield in the centre failed.

Fifty German dead were', left in the .., field. An attack against the right ' was temporarily .successful. Tbe i.. British couJiter-attacked with the

'- biyonet, and every German in the i trench was killed.

After a similar German success •: -close to the Bethune road, the Britisli .counter-attacked, and every Gei'man ; in the British trench Avas bayoneted. An. additional 200 dead were left in v front of the British line. The British

casualties were slight. Prisoners stated that this was their ', first engagement. One hundred were ;.'killed : in the ireneib.es before tlie •i attack began.