FIERCE BRITISH ASSAULT.
POSITION DEMOLISHED.
GERMANS' HASTY RETREAT.
London*, January 20.
The Calais correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that the British, on January 15, captured Frelinghein, near Armentieres.
The Germans had massed a considerable force in Frelinghien with the object of assaulting the British trenches. British observers signalled the news to the batteries at Armentieres, and the latter immediately commenced demolishing Frelinghien, sowing death and confusion among the German troops, who hastily retreated.
The British then shelled the German trenches, forcing the evacuation of the first line. Frelinghien is now practically non-existent.
A great inundation of the district traversed by the River Lys is imminent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15824, 22 January 1915, Page 5
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