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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 10, 29 August 1914, Page 6

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WEDNESDAY’S FIGHTING.

PARTICULARS OF THE INDIAN CONTINGENT. GERMANS IN REVENGE FIRE LOUVAIN. Copy of telegram from the High Commissioner dated London 28, 8.45 p.m.:—

Official—Mr Asquith, in the House of Commons reports that in Wednesday’s fighting between Cambrai and Cateau five German army corps, with two cavalry divisions, with a reserve of one corps and a second cavalry division, numbering about 300,000, attacked the British forces. Our Second Army Corps bore the brunt of the cavalry attack. The First Army Corps attacked on the right, and inflicted tremendous losses on the enemy. 6> The British casualties were heavy, but their 1 behaviour was admirable.

The French commander congratulates the British troops for the protection given to the French flank. Lord Kitchener, in the House of Lords, announces that two divisions, a cavalry division, and other troops, are being sent from India. The first division is on the way.

Earl Crewe explains that the desire of the Indian soldiers was insistent that native troops be included in the expeditionary force.

There was great enthusiasm hero concerning the Commonwealth forcp. The Belgian Foreign Minister reports that on Tuesday the Germans, as an act of revenge, drove 45,000 inhabitants from l Louvain and fired the town, which is now a heap of ashes.