The Glenwood post., 1914-11-07
Correspondent Describes Mid.
night Battle on the Ysef.
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IL nvSf YsSf. Ssya:
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tAs Ysse caAai this norniag after the
hsAtin0 ~ tAs sAgAt Many of them
vee~ asuvsa4s - others were bay
o.stel EAe paEas iAss,f vss hsoody
whils Dt4ns1ss rstFssts were strsvu
thick nftA Is xsaA
rhsss ghQgleA facts aloas give
sotas - d d savassssss oe the
hgAti1e. The AssDsratioa oe tAs Ger.
maa attacks aal ths stubSornnsss q
tAs alias' resistance.
TIE aisAt vas Asil from dark "a
dawn. Al almost every Doiat Of the
line naa vas opposed By man. some.
times at . few hundred yards dis
tancs. bat more often in close grips.
Face to face. men even wrestled and
died BY drowning each other in the
canals waters. The Germans had had
orders to get through that night. cost
what 1t might.
An officer OF theirs. who was cap
tured. said that the delay of more
than q week In crossing this water
way has incensed the military mind in
Germany.
Probably 5000 of them gave their
lives last night They could not give
more. yet they failed. but not because
the Germans did not literally obey
their orders. They crossed the water.
way. but once through they could not
make good. They were moved down
with rifle shot. torn into human frag-
meats by shells and bayoneted back
yard BY yard over their own dead into
the waters Of the canal.
! Into the very gray OF the morning
this bloody work went on 20 nercely
that there was hardly . trench or
bridge guard In the whole line that
did not imagine that he had been sin
glel out for special attack.
Those who crossed the river to
probably 2.eees were net by 4 nne
rally oe ths Belgian infantry and Of
the cavalry. who had tethered their
horses. and were driven BY main
forss At the bayonet's point to tbs
canal aaA into It.
About three thousand German in
fantrymen got into Dixmude. They
held It for . time. but with shell nre
and rife the .pisee vas riddled through
ard through. The Germans dashed
out Of, the .crumbling houses only ID
b wiped out BY shrapnel.
when Sunday morning broke the
dead and vosnled wers everywhere
Dtxmude was . ceasetssy. bit iA the
woods not ia s~ay the Germans Nm
ssrsd. They hslA . position under q
AesQas1As nrs aad eventually were ~
enforced. The allies could not o1st
them a1A tie Germans are still scross
the Yos1."
The Daily Nail's correspondent neal
the Yoer river. under date Of Sunday
Ailatfng o. the ferocity Of the German
attempts to set across the river. says
In one night, Friday. between mid
night and dawn. seven different on
slaughts were repulsed. Swarms ot
Germans rushed up with newly made
bridges OF wood. They were dropped
across the canal, and. notwithstand
ing the deadly fre from rifles and
mitraiIleuses. the Germans burs'
acrcss There was NO stopping them
This sort Of thing has happened
day a,tef day. but in the daylight
G,at followed each night these ma
r1aders were hunted and moved
Aevn. Great patches were killed
rev 10 were taken prisoners. but thai
nat aol: notAing, tAs next nigA
was sur, 70 bsins aieas more sttackl
a ~ sa0o kAa1-" ..,+.