BELGIANS ATTACKED AT DIXMUDE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13793, 14 June 1915, Page 5

BELGIANS ATTACKED AT DIXMUDE.

ENEMY CROSS THE YSER

REPULSED BY REINFORCEMENTS.

DASHING BRITISH CHARGE,

(Received June 13, 2 p.m.)

Paris, June 12

Taking advantage of a north-easterly vind on Wednesday night, the Germans, using poisonous gas, vigorously stacked the Belgian advanced posts at

Dixmude

They rushed across the Yser and captured three lines of Belgian trenches.

The Allies brought up reinforcements, including a British regiment, and made a spirited counter-attack, which was followed at daybreak by the British charging with great valour.

The enemy were driven back over the Yser, and compelled to take up a less favourable position than their original one. Fierce fighting continues. Half the town is held • by the Germans and half by tho Allies. The Belgians near Nieuport found an island between small tributaries of the. Yser abandoned. They saw two bottles attached to a plank, inscribed, "These bottles contain photographs." The- Belgians vainly tried to lift tho bottles from the water, and tho German's immediately shelled the spot, tho bottles signalling tho Belgians' presence. The island was reoccupied, the Belgians subsequently capturing it. German workmen employed in the construction of submarines at Hoboken, have been transferred to Pola.