LONG BATTLE LINE WESTWARD FROM LILLE.
UNFORTUNATE VILLAGERS BETWEEN TWO FIRES. GERMANS ABANDON STRATEGY FOR PILLAGE. Paris, October 22. A communique dated Wednesday, midnight, says that a violent battle raged throughout the day on the left wing from the North Sea to the south of La Bassee, 12 miles south-west of Lille, over a front of 50 miles. Tho allies held their own everywhere, while the situation elsewhere was unchanged. The destruction near Lille was terrible, some of the villages being shelled by both armies, until scarcely a stone was left standing. The inhabitants, unable to escape, died terrible deaths. In one house the allies found a family of seven dead. At the village of Ennetieres no habitable house remains. Five hundred Germans were found dead in the streets. Tho cartridges found on them were of the old Snider type. Tho allies are entrenching near Lille, pending the arrival of reinforcements. Throughout the Lille region the Germans abandoned strategy for pillage, with the object of inflicting tho greatest possible economic loss to the French.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 7
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174LONG BATTLE LINE WESTWARD FROM LILLE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 7
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