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... being at present directed between Ypres and the Lys. The Kaiser, it is reported, ordered his troops to take Ypres at all costs. Some days previously, on October 27, it was stated that the Germans were advancing towards Ypres in great strength, and that already ...
... has ever been witnessed since the Civil War in America. With Calais as his ultimate objective, the Kaiser had ordered that Ypres (pro¬ nounced Eeper ), the centre of the theatre of war in those parts, should be taken at all costs ; but up to the hour ...
... quarter sas EyWitf fihti Y Otb ri savs Eve-Witness of the fiehtin* near Yores on October 2o. we says Eye-Witness of fighting Ypres on October 29, we experienced . . . the action of the ' minen werf er,' or trench-mortar. This piece, though light enough ...
... buried on the ground amid the wreckage. Desultory fighting continued at Nieuport after the main German attack shifted south to Ypres.—[Photo, ...
... AT YPRES, WITH THE BRITISH : THE FRENCH NAVAL BRIGADE CHARGING. Much hard fihti th Yd lh i W fighting on the Yser and elsewhere in West Flanders has fallen to the lot of the French bluejackets of the Naval Brigade, a strong force of whom were brought ...
... in taking possession of Dixmude. We are still holding on to the outskirts of this village, on J, the canal from Nieuport to Ypres, which has been strongly occupied. The struggle has been very fierce at these points. The late French commmiqui issued the ...
... at Agincourt, above all Greek, above all Roman fame. Since the repulse and semi-annihilation of the Prussian Guards near Ypres, on Nov. 11, by our First Army Corps, comprising a Brigade, or more, of our own incomparable Guards—since then the fighting ...
... sunrise, that the Prussian Guards made their grand attack on the British trenches near Ypres. The Guards, prisoners related, had been specially ser.t for to take Ypres, because all attacks of the Line had failed. The Germans came on in masses, facing with ...
... the church called St Ma —[Photo, by Newspaper Illustrations.] At tiie «i«™» of writing, details of the destruction caused in Yprès by the German bombardment are scanty. Nothing has been said so far of serious damage to the famous Cloth Hall and other public ...
... 'CULTURE': YPRES-ONE OF THE MANY HOUSES WRECKED BY SHELL-FIRE g 0n l6 ' EyeWitnss d: Ah itk b Writing on November EyeWitnss id Ah itk Y CU , .. l6> said: As each successive attempt to take Ypres by assault I said: As attempt Ypres by assault ...
... ist and 4th Brigades of the Guards Corps, which, as we now know from prisoners, order to make a supreme effort to capture Ypres. The losses of the Prussian Guards in this action were enormous. Photograph No. i shows an officer of the Prussian Foot Guards ...
... GRAVE. Qf Si y [Photo, by C.N.] be, is the resting-place of brave younc Prince Maurice of Battenberg, in the cemetery at Ypres. The plain wooden cross bears just his name and the tribute Mort au champ d'honneur, and on the grave, with many flowers ...