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... At the same time, under cir¬ cumstances of battle that seem parallel, the French and the British held tight at Arras and Ypres in the autumn of 1914. p If the German gun-power in 1914 was not so overwhelm¬ ing as the Allied gun-power of to-day, certainly ...
... astonished us with Long Tom. But we had a repartee in the naval 47-inch. The Heavy gun is of the genus an7acs from ypres on leave in london: giving three cheers for king and country ^ ~ SÄ -- king albert in a steel helmet: his majesty inspecting ...
... defeat the Hun. ON A BELGIAN ÄRMY SECTOR OF THE WESTERN FRONT: INFANTRY IN A TRENCH WATCHING THE DISTANT FIGHTING BEYOND YPRES-ACROSS THE BACKGROUND TO THE RIGHT EXTENDS THE INUNDATED AREA. Official Photograph. A DUD, OR UNEXPLODED, SHELL BEHIND THE ...
... RECENTLY USED FLAME-PROJECTORS SPRAYING LIQUID FIRE AGAINST BRITISH TRENCHES : THE POSITION OF HOOGE AND ITS CHATEAU, IN THE YPRES DISTRICT. f their un¬ broken past enables us to feel confident of an u nbeaten future for them. The shadow of Warsaw has naturally ...
... the Gneisenau. On the horizon is seen th; smoke of the other three German ships. to have been at Ypres, La Bassée, and in the region of Craonne. Ypres is a step to the.coast, and that, no doubt, is its strategical and senti¬ mental value to Germany. ...
... IN THE DARDANELLES—SHOWING FORTS NEAR KILID BAHR BOMBARDED BY THE 'QUEEN ELIZABETH AFTER SHE ENTERED THE STRAITS. of the Ypres battle in early October, General Smith-Dorrien tried hard to drive his force along this particular point, and actually reached ...
... them out of Lizerne— where they lost 600 men and a number of machineguns—until the Germans had but a bridge-head on the Yser-Ypres Canal at Steenstraate. At the same time the Belgians, defy¬ ing asphyxiation, beat back with savage loss g three powerful attacks ...
... resilience is not merely a thing to admire, but a sign un¬ pleasantly ominous to Germany. Then, too, our own troops about Ypres have shown nimbleness and aggression that speak well for the future ; there is ac¬ tivity, not entirely satisfactory to Ger¬ ...
... bomb-fighting east of Bullecourt. The enemy's aitillery was lively throughout the day, south of the Scàrpe and y north-east of Ypres. As a result of this fight¬ ing our position was slightly improved east of Bullecourt. On the 15th the fighting was again local ...
... them) against a front almost wildly lacking in reserves. They w ere able to do this not merely against the British before Ypres, but against the French at Arras, and the Belgians and French in the coastal flats. The power of the enemy was so »great that ...
... 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 ...
... should find brief mention here— the fine exploit of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rojal Fusiliers at Polderhoek, east of Ypres. They met and broke a strong attack on a mile-long front, and the Fusiliers ejected tiie enemy from a portion of trench where ...