Battle in West Flanders.

Northern Advocate, 25 November 1914, Page 5

Battle in West Flanders.

THE FIGHTING AROUND YPRES.

REMARKABLE ■ BRITISH PERFORMANCES

GERMAN SOLDIERS LIVE ON BARK.

FLEET BOMBARDS ZEEBRUGGE

(Press Assn—Reed. 12.50 a.m.)

LONDON. November 24,

An interpreter with the British forces states that a single division held an eight-mile line nt Ypres for nineteen days against 7500 picked Germans. They scarcely left the trenches. A captured German officer refused to believe that there were so few men. as the German staff estimfaed that the British had at least two army corps. A French cavalry column surprised three companies of German infantry in a wood east of Ypres. They were starving, and had been eating the baik off the trees. They surrendered .with forty officers The Allies last week attacked Lombartzyde prior to an assault. News having been received that, a large convoy of ammunition had reached an old fort, the British colonel called for two volunteers to blow it up: The men succeeded, and tho infantry then dashed into Lombartzyde, caught the Germans in confusion and cleared the town, an English monitor causing heavy losses during the retreat. Both volunteers escaped unhurt. The British feet bombarded Zoebruggc. causing a great fire. The Gera.-ui buttery fruitlessly fired on the warships off Blankcnberghe. The warships silenced the battery.