GOOD WORK BY BRITISH NAVAL ARMOURED TRAIN

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14462, 28 November 1914, Page 5

GOOD WORK BY BRITISH NAVAL ARMOURED TRAIN

GERMANS 1 ENGINEERS, AND BRIDGE BLOWN UP GREAT WAVE OF LOYALTY IN INDIA A MILLIpN BRITISHERS TRAINING FOR HOME DEFENCE ■■■ . ■" ; ; ■■ ■. VIST I LA.-AV A HTA BATTLE • 1 u -• . . -v.> • • ' GERMAN LOSSES THE HEAVIEST TO DATE .. ;■ V ; GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. By Eleetiie Telegraph.—Copyright. ‘ , Received November 28, 8.45 a.m. . : ' ' l . ■■‘■'■''PARlS,- November 27. A oommuniqiiG states that- the. enemy’s fire is; slackening everywhere. ■ * ■ VVe easily repulsed two infantry attacks aft bridgeheads which we have thrown on to the right bank of the Yser, south Dixmude. - . The enemy violently bombarded Rheims ; during- the visit of neutral journalists. »■■•. i, .j- ---■‘ ' If • GERMAN BRIDGE AT DIXMUDE. SMASHED BY BRITISH ARMOURED tRAIN. -Q - ' Received November 28, 9.50 a.m. , PARIS, November 27. The Germans have been long constructing a bridge at Dixmude for large forces, which assembled there when the bridge was nearing completion. On Monday a British naval armoured train dashed within three-quarters of a mile and opened fire from four guns and six mitrailleuses. In less than.,five minutes a hundred engineers were killed and; fifty wounded, and the work was blown to pieces, despite a German battery Which derailed a truck. , THE VISTULA-WARTA BATTLE. | m i • -1 GERMAN LOSSES THE HEAVIEST TO DATE.

Received' November 28, 8.45 a.m. . , ' ■ LONDON, November 27.■ Lora Kitchener, in the House of Lords, added that he believed the German Josses in the Vistula-Warta battle were the heaviest they had yet sustained.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF ZEEBRUGGE.

POURING INTO FIGHTING LINE. eceived November 28, 8.45 a.m. AMSTERDAM, November 27. The Telegraaf states that the German garrisons in Belgium have been reduced to half. A large number of troops continue to pour into the fighting line.

VERY COMFORTING NEWS. LONDON, November 27. The Times’ naval correspondent says the news of the destruction of Zeebrugge is very comforting. If the Germans are contemplating making Zeebrugge a base for a torpedo attack or a jumping-off place for a raid, the bombardment by the British warships has shown the futility of the scheme.—(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) TRENCHES ONLY 400 YARDS APART. LONDON, November 27, , The Press Bureau reports that the opposing lines are often only forty yards apart, and the strangest situations arise , Our men and the enemy converse. Many Germans understand English, and hold shooting competitions. They throw packets of tobacco to one another. These positions are not unwelcome, the men being secure from shell-fire, the. artillery being unable +o shoot for fear of hitting their own infantry. Often the safest spot is the firing lino,—(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) I;

THE SECOND SEDAN.

GERMANS IN A TRAP. " DAY OF SLAUGHTER. During the strategical retreat of the - 'Allies southward from the Belgian frontier the French troops exacted from the Germans revenge for the French defeat 'at Sedan 44 years before. On this same battlefield, according to the Parts edrrespondent of the London Daily Mail, the Germans suffered one of the worst defeats of their present invasion. They'were led into a trap which cost them thousands of men, He- says. The French could have held their position indefinitely, but strategy required them to continue falling back with the remainder of the Allies along the line. Here is the story of the second battle of Sedan as told by the correspondent; “The French general ordered his troops to fall back across the river and take up positions on the opposite heights. The bridges were mined but were left standing in order to deceive the Germans into thinking that the French were retreating hastily. ■ The ruse succeeded. The Germaiis > advanced across the bridges im close formation. When several German regiments had crossed the French blew up the bridges and the French artillery : started firing at a hundred German columns, which retreated hastily to the river, only to find the bridges gone. “The French regiments then advanced with quick-firers and the merciless slaying continued until dusk. Many Germans, threw down their arms and attempted to swim the river and large numbers were drowned. ‘When nightfall came the French brought up searchlights and continued the work of carnage. “The artillery threw shells at the rate of a dozen rounds a minute into the : German ranks and varied its tactics by throwing incendiary shells into the forest where part of the German force had taken refuge. The burning woods 'it up the whole front of 15 miles. In ■ the morning an armistice of two hours was granted to + be Germans to ■ 'nw their dead. The French had sutfered the loss of only a handful.”

STARVING BELGIANS

AN APPEAL FOR- FOOD. . WASHINGTON, November 26. According to the European Relief Commission, seven million Belgians are without food. The Commission appeals to the United States to despatch immediately' three thousand‘tons of food. , BRITISH AIRMAN’S FEAT. GERMAN AMMUNITION TRAIN BLOWN UP. PARIS, November ‘27. A British naval airman’s bomb ' o»Monday blew up a German, ammunition train.

GERMAN AIRMEN CAPTURED

GERMAN TROOPS IN BELGIUM.

Received November 28, 8.45 a.m. | PARIS, November 27. * A French monoplane forced a German’ aeroplane which was flying over Clair--marais, near Santomer, to descend. Two. . airmen were captured.

GERMAN SLIMNESS.

Received November 28, 9i45 ! a.-m;bi>R■ PARIS, November 27. Swiss banks, on behalf of Germans, are attempting to cash in Paris millions of francs’ worth of bank notes pilI loged ; or received as indemnities. - Many are partly burned or bloodstained. The French banks are refusing them.

BRITAIN’S WAR LOAN. , ■i I ■■ • 1,;.,'.

’ Received November-28,- 8.55 a.m. LONDON. November 27. The Right Hon.-Lloyd George stated | in the House of Commons that the war j loan had been over-subscribed. There ( were apnlicants to the number of nearly one hundred thousand, of whom ah enormous number were small investors.