A BLOODY STRUGGLE
ON NIBUPOiIT'-OSTEIND ftO!AI>.
THE! CHEiE'KFUL BiELGIANiS
DESPEKATEI FIGHTING Oi\ THE YSEIR:.- ' - •
PARIS, October 29. A; 'bloody struggle comtiaues 1 on the, Nieuport-Os'tond line. Belgian wounded a-eached the toase iioks'pit'al 1 on Monday' and Tuesday. .'Belgians. stiiil say_ gleefully :."lii| a! few (weeks . vwet will 'again haive* an aarniy of. & hundredl thousand." Referring to 'thei training of .the rejc-ffu'Lts. The Germans om sbhe-Yser ciaiiry gocalled table tops, roughly cotosSnioted and (wooden ■■ devices • to tihtroivv a'ctross the narrow. riverlefe and;' canals as ■bridges afeoi used) as sheltem when chaining rushes which usually end in appailfaig! slaughter.
AiMISTE'J.IDLA.'M, October 2i9.
T;he Gerjiians adradt that they never Icnsfe so many men as on tihe Teed"
Of one group of 150 otnly 2 retuTiied.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 5
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122A BLOODY STRUGGLE Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 5
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