GERMAN INFANTRY REDUCED TO PANIC.
WORSTED IN ENCOUNTER NEAR LA BASSEE. GHASTLY MISTAKE BY ENEMY AT YPRES. (Received November 13, 10.30 p.m.) London, November 12. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Calais describes how the Germans made a determined night attack at La Bassee on Tuesday. The British allowed the German infantry to pierce their lines and get well on the road to Bethune. The British then halted on the slope of a hill, and met the enemy with terrifying rifle and artillery fire. A German gun carriage was overturned and the infantrymen were reduced to a panic-stricken mob. The Germans abandoned two 14in guns and ono 16jin howitzer. During tho bombardment of Ypres on Tuesday the Germans shelled the railway station, hoping to blow up an armoured train. At the time a special train was in the station, conveying a thousand German prisoners to France. Only 264 survived unscathed. A hundred and sixty-one were seriously wounded. Tho rest were killed, and he unburied at the station.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15766, 14 November 1914, Page 7
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166GERMAN INFANTRY REDUCED TO PANIC. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15766, 14 November 1914, Page 7
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