The Sentinel=record., 1914-11-06
EVE WITNESS TELLS OF TER RleLE ASSAULTS OF GERMANS
 AGAINST ENGLISH AT LYs.
BATTLES ARE DESPERATE
In Which Heavy Guns and Rapid Firers, as We'll as Hand to Hand Infantry Fighting Results in Loss of Thousands on Both Sides.

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 London, Nov 5.-9:50 D. m.-The following descriptive account, which has been communicated by an eye witness present at the general head quarters continues and supplements the narrative published November 3 Of the movements of the British force and of the French armies ia immedi- ate touch with it.
 November l. in spite of the great losses which they suffered in their at. Jacks last week, the Germans have continued in their offensive toward the west during the five days from the 26th to 30th of October. Opposite us it has gradually grown in intensity and ia extent of application as more men and guns have been brought up and pushed into their right, and it has developed into the most bitterly contested battle which has been fought in the western theater of the war.
 Tine German artillery has. to a large extent, been increased by tha, transferred from around Antwerp. As regards infantry it is possible that some of the additional troops now al. bearing on our front have been ren. dered available by relaxation of the pressure against our al ies to the north of Ypres, caused by the desper- ate and successful resistance made by the latter by the harrassing nature of the artillery fire brought to bear by our ships against the strip of coun- try along the coast and by the flood ing of the area along the river Yser.
 Forces have been massed also from the south while another of the new army corps has definitely made it's debut before us, and although at, tempts to hack, or rather to blast and hack way through have been made in other directions, they have for the last few days been most seriously concentrated upon the neighborhood of Ypres.
 Whether the motive inspiring the present action of the Germans against that place is an ambition to win through the port of Calais, as is to be gathered from articles in their news. papers or whether the operation is due to a desire to drive the allied forces ont of Belgium in order to complete the conquest of the country with a view to it's inaction and to gain prestige with neutras. is imma- terial
 What concerns us more closely is that they have been making and still are pressing a desperate attempt to gain the town
 Fighting celtered around the vil- lage of Neuyechappelle, during the 27th.
 Toward evening we had gradually regained part of the place step by step, when fresh hostile reinforce ments were brought mp and the entire village was captured by the enemy
 "They made several assaults against our whole front south of the Lys, but with the exception of their success at Neuyechapele won no advantage. The combat for that place as is usually the case with village fighting, was of a most murderous description. It is believed the enemy's losses in this quarter of the field generally were very great. An officer who was the Germans was stupendous and that observing their advance reported that the effect of our rifle and gun fire on they had to throw corpses of thelr own men out of their trenches as they came on ia order to obtain cover.
 -Four successive attacks were made, each by different regiments. The last of these regiments has now been practically disposed of, and, according to prisoners, their condition Is de- plorable.
 North of the Iys our center was subjected to a heavy shell fire from pieces of various sies. Our guns were by no means idle, and one of our patrols found eleven Germans dead and one rendered unconscious by fumes in farm on which they had observed one of our Lyddite shells detonate.
 'Trhe ground gained at Neuvechap. belle was again the scene of desperate fighting on Wednesday, the 2Sth.