ALLIES STEADILY PRESSING THE OFFENSIVE
GEBMANS CLEARED FROM YPRES
TO DIXMUDE.
LONDON, Dec. 18. Tie -Allies are steadily .pressing their offensive, and have cleared the Germans between Ypres and. Dixnmde. Details of the. success on the outskirts of the wood at Wytschaete show' that the: Germans in the forest trench surrendered without a shot being fired, thisbeing due to the capture of sentries. A rifle and maxim fire then began to 'decimate the German prisoners and British alike. A shell fired a hayrick,, lighting, tip the formation of the German> trenches. A Fresh British battalion working up to the flank of the first, the latter chargManv of the German fugitives surrendered, "and the remnant were secured by-'cavalry.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 19 December 1914, Page 5
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