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Show FIELDS ARE CHOKED WITH BODIES OF SLAIN SOLDIERS By LUCIEN ARTHUR JONES. Dunkirk. I am writing this dispatch dis-patch to the sound of heavy rifle firing in the streets of this town. A German Taube just now was flying above us and receiving Its customary salute of bullets. It finally disappeared in the direction of Ostend without doing or receiving any damage. This is the second aerial call the Germans have paid Dunkirk today. About nine o'clock this morning a Taube hovered over the town for a considerable period. The aviator paid dearly for his temerity, for his machine ma-chine was badly damaged by shot and he was forced to descend outside the town, only to find himself and the machine ma-chine immediately captured. The Tanbe has been led In triumph through fhe streets of the town. Naval Guns Repulse Germans. It now appears certain that the Germans Ger-mans have been shelled out of their positions at Ostend. Small parties, however, were reported to be in the town itself this morning. The bombardment by the British and French naval guns of the Ger man right wing resulted in clearing the coast from Nieuport to Ostend of the enemy for a distance of several miles. In the interior the Germans are reported re-ported to be demoralized and the reply re-ply of their artillery for once is sadly ineffectual. Splendid work has been done here by the British Red Cross detachment, which formerly was at Ghent in charge of Dr. Hector Munroe. German Dead Cover Field. A member of the staff has told me that the fields in the neighborhood of Furness and Dixmuae were choked with German dead. So desperate has the fighting been that the Germans left in a hurry without a thought of burying their dead or assisting their wounded. While he was in Dixmude a German shell struck the house in which were resting 27 Belgians and not one of them escaped death. |
