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desperation of the German attack and the
stubbornness OF the allies resistance. The
night was hell from dark 10 dawn.
At almost every point In the line, man
opposed man, sometimes at few hundred
yards distance. but more often face to
face. Men even wrestlcd until they died,
drowning each other in tho canal
The Germans had orders to get through
cost what II might. An officer captured In
this fighting admitted that this delay or
more than a week In crossing the river
had incensed the autOcratic military
minds OF Germany.
Due credit, however IL due the Ger
man soldiers. They did their hes, and
probably 5000 gave their lives last night.
The German troops could not give more,
yet they failed, but not because they did
not literally obey orders They crossed
the waterway as bid, but once through
they could not make good and were mown
down with rifle shot. torn to human frag
ments BY shell and hayoneted in the
back yard by yard over their own dead
into the waters Of the canal. Into the
gray morning the bloody work went on
so herccly that there was hardly trench
or bridge guard on the whole line but did
not imagine that he had been singled
out for special attack.
The main road from Bruges to N"u-
port forks just below ST Perreapel and
crosses the User at two points. Down
these two roads and over the land he
tween, the German forces poured down on
I the allies line.
At the SAND time. force attacked
| D!xmude from the I.ekc roal and tho adj
Joining country and rushed machine guns
, into position To play on the defending
| forces from two sides Artillery chimed
| in from the nearby woods of Coucketaerc
| seemingly also from every point of tho
| az mainly
| tillcry battle, rather a revolver and cold
steel fight
The Germans tried to rush the bridge
| and must have lost hundreds from tho
/ cross FIRE Of the mitrailleuses but they
got over the river and the allies could
/ not stop them. In their rush the Ger
mans ran right on TO the Belgian trenches
ard there fought with revolvers steel and
even their rifle butts. huge Belgian
from British Columbia used his rifle lik,
an axe. Telling man after man until NJ
was struck by bullet In his thigh bone.
It is believed that 1000 Germans go
over the User hut hardly q soul got back
Probably 1000 reached point nor''
northeast Of Dlxmude, where they me
a force OF Belgian infantry and cavalry
who drove them back at the point o
their bavonets to the river canal.
Frantic scenes must have been wit
messed here. for the next day gave th'
grim evidence. Three thousand German
infantrymen got into Dlxmude and held
the place for a time. but the town was
riddled through and through by shell and
rifle fire and the Germans soon dashed
out of the crumbling houses only to he
wiped out by a sirocco Of scrapnel and
shot In the street
When Sunday morning broke there wer'
dead and wounded everywhere. Dixmud'
was a cemetery. but In the woods not fa'
away the Germans still fingered holdni
their positions under desperate fire. They
were eventually reinforced and the alliei
were unable to dislodge them.
The Germans are. therefor" st'l acros
the User, but their presence there MAY
not he permanent, as thy may suffer th
same fate as hundreds OF their CO. rades