HUGE BATCHES Of GERMAN WOUNDED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13729, 18 March 1915, Page 5

HUGE BATCHES Of GERMAN WOUNDED.

SANGUINARY FIGHTING AT ST.

ELOI

BRITISH OPPOSED TO HEAVY

ODDS

(Received March 17, 10.15 p.m.)

Rotterdam, March 17

Huge patches of German wounded are arriving at Ostend, Bruges, and Routers. They state that the fight at St. Eloi was bloody and determined. Every fort and every corner was a deathtrap. The dead were piled so high in the streets that they served as barricades for the living.

The British fought stubbornly against heavy odds, but they were well supported by artillery placed on a low hill. The Germans were mowed down, but s the British were driven back to the small canals by sheer weight of num-i bens. The German triumph was shortlived. British reinforcements were hurried up, and flung into the village, which was carried with the bayonet. The slaughter was terrible.

The Germans replied by summoning more troops billeted in the surrounding villages. The fighting raged on St. Eloi Hill for two days.