Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-30
ON THE BELGIAN BORDER
Terrific Fighting to Hold Germans
Back from Coast.

London, Oct. 26.-The correSpon-
dents on the Allies lines in Belgium
near the coast agree that the horrors
Of the recent fighting there are the
worst so far in the war. While they
admit that the losses Of the allies have
been heavy, they insist that the Ger
mans have lost far more men, their Of
fcers apparently fiinging away lives
with recklessness in order to accom-
plish what they have been told to do
win their way across the Belgian bor-
der and once more stretch out line
held entirely within French territory
But they have failed in this desper-
ate attempt, or at least have not sue
ceeded so far. The correspondents
whose dispatches were received here
today declare that the allies are con-
stantly being reinforced with fresh
troops, while the Germans are fighting
without proper support. Every day,
every hour Of the Belgian fighting, it
is said, is working to the disadvantage
Of the German troops.
One Of the correspondents Of the
Standard, telegraphing from Calais,
says that the losses in the German
ranks have been frightful during the
last week The German officers who
fall into the hands Of the allies appear
to be almost crazed with rage and
modification, but the men under them
are tired out, hungry and disheartened.
Many Of them are reservists of fifty
years and more, and others appear to
be boys under eighteen.
Captured Germans tell how they
have been assured that they would
sweep through Northern France and on
to Paris in a few days.
This correspondent speaks Of King
Albert of Belgium as the hero Of the
present scene of the war. He is con-
stantly under fire, and spends day and
night encouraging his men by his own
example.
The Belgian soldiers, he says, have
borne their trials uncomplainingly.
The cutting of the dikes at Dixmude,
the Standard man says. flooded the
German trenches and caused the death
by drowning Of hundreds, perhaps
thousands Of the enemy.
Another Standard correspondent,
telegraphing from Paris, tells Of the
arrival there Of eighty-three prisoners
taken around Ypres and Lille. They
seem to be in state Of starvation and
were utterly worn out. Among them
were two German officers, who, when
asked why the German commanders
had been so ruthless in their treat
ment Of the nom -combatant natives Of
Belgium, replied:
1T is not for us to discuss the kai-
ser's orders"
Arras has been bombarded again,
this correspondent says, and today
there is scarcely one stone standing on
another in that ancient town. The
French troops report that either from
accident or design the field hospitals
have suffered most at the hands Of the
German guns, and numbers Of the
wounded and Of the nuns nursing them
have been killed in consequence.
At Arras it was impossible to ap-
proach the cemetery owing to the ar
tillery fire, and it was necessary to
cremate the dead in small heaps in the
streets One of the field hospital sur
geons is quoted as insisting that some
of the German troops are using an ex-
plosive bullet that inflicts terrible
wounds. but there Is no confirmation Of
this statement.
A Daily News correspondent who