New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-02
TILE OF FLANDERS
IS CALLED BLOODIES1
Correspondent Says Carnage Is Most Fearful Ever
Known Far Exceeding That in Asne right
Repors Allies Sure of Victory.

slaughter e the past week. Fields ana
swelling seaside dunes are lt'ereu
with dead in great heaps. In the deep
trenches death has come IN wholesalc
fashion and has filled the trenches
up the Ysera name TO be rehen-
bered in history forever whlch mas
il can be said without exaggerhtloh'
run with blood. The canals at some
places can be bridged with dead p0d,
les. The land which has been hoodeu
between Nieuport and Dixmudo Is an
inferno which words really fail to Ge-
scribe. The water Is thick WIN
corpses and made muddy with 'he
splash of shells.
at was a terrible sight, an ofhcer
tells me, TO see Germans caught III
their irtrenchments when the nooC
came rushing in upon them JUST AZ
that time the fire from the fleet ana
from the batteries Of the Allied force"
was increased very greatly in intensity
On the edge OF the flooded area the IN,
fantry were at work with bullet ana
bayonet. In flood Of fire ana water
in a perfect tornado of terror when no
one who saw it can ever possibly WIPE
out of his memory, trench after trench
was taken, and deep wedge was driven
into the German positions.
More Shells Than in Boer war.
81 talked with a soldier of the BLACK
Watch. It's hell back there, ne SAID
lie sat down and we listened 10 inc
booming of the guns. lie told me nov
the guns Of the monitors raked inc
trenches. why he said, there nave
been more shells thrown between the
sea and Dixmude during the last week
than were fred during the whole OF the
Boer War. | was in one trench whlch
was charged by the Germans hfteen
times in two days and a night, and
without success. After that 1t was
simply impossible TO charge any more
as the ground was strewn so thlckiy
with dead bodies. Seven OF the charge'
were made during the night, ana during
the last six or seven days most OF inc
heaviest fighting has been done AFTER
dark. But those Germans are brave.
One must say that they come on again
and again, and in such numbers! But
when they see the CLINT Of the British
bayonets they simply turn and run
"Severest in the long battle have
been the night encounters and charges:
The artillery fire. both from sea ana
land. has exceeded anything in inten-
sitv known in the war so far. The
English artillery has done eXtraordi-
narilv effective work. Captured Ger
man officers express their surprise az
the volume of fire from the English
position and at its amazing accuracy.
Night Attacks Terrific.
"Belcian and French officers have
given me vivid accounts of the night
attacks. They were very severe tests
for the men in the trenches, but not
on one single occasion has success
crowned an effort of that kind. Inc
scenes i'm the searchlight that streaked
the darkness were eerie in the extreme
Shells, shrapnel and bullets roar and
whistle through the night. In The
trenches men fire into darkness. Tn.
charging enemy rush forward, not see
inc a ward in front Of them. Then tho
searchlight flashes and flares, revealing
the oncoming foemen. a shower o.
lead and a rain of shrapnel burst upor
them. In the vivid light they fall II
heap after heap, then fade away, fol
lowed into their trenches by the
searchlight's glare. The other side
sends out its men. There is a strang'
silence, and they come upon deserted
trenches The betraying light shift'
forward again to guide the cannons
fire as they search the trenches.
1.-THE enemy has retired again. There
/ Is charge, which dies away as those
before il did. Again the trenches are
abandoned. then again. Perhaps line
of trenches will be recovered by ire
mendous effort, and upon it the British
and French artillery will rain death
and destruction. So it is that the
battle goes on. Every yard of ground
! is won at tremendous effort and lost