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Show IFLOOD li FUME I HENT HORRORS Bravo Efforts of Germans to Push Forward Checked by a Wintry Sea. CORPSES FILL LAKES Dauntless Courag-e of Invaders In-vaders Cannot Withstand League of the Elements. By C. r. BEBTKLLL ' Special CaM to The Tribune. PA 11 IS, lVe. 13. PtchXl and (lrTV-por-t!cularly iUed have once for all barred to the Oerrr.Aiis the road to Calais by J Ttay of the eo.i-w.shed etrlp of FUndert bounded by Dlxmwa j Krom Xieuport to Dixniude, the Yser i ar.d lis snwill tributary, the Yperlea, are j a s!i!:n.e:-vtDi icy lake, on which Innu-; Innu-; morallo corpses tl.it. many already In an . ftJva:wej etase of deconipAs!tlon, howln pointed tielnu-ts. sht-il baaketairKl other ;ri'n accouti fmer.ts of war. As Ions aa tr.e allies confined th.t-tr do-; do-; feneive incisures to Fhot and ah!l ni:d ba onet. the O em. .ins. frightful thouga I their losses wei e. poured an endless ' stream of fresh troi'r Into the flk'titln j line and caiuo on. Tht th.ey yulned only j a hundred yards cr fo In a week did not j In tbe lo.it fiiake the Iron deternnnullon ; cf Ft. nets Kupprvcht of LUnr.a. who is : In Flanders, spurring on his army to ; frea.i saji: rices. Hji when to nre tha Ee'.i,-ians added ley water to th dc-rt of a man's statu:. ' the Germans had to call their Infantry off ! and send them further south to a si 1st In j the attack cn Vpres, where the DritUb I forces are hi.nir.g aa they have never J fought s:cce the ci.T.pilgrw of the duke I cf Ma.-;roroi;K.i ii.d Uie. cuke of W ell'.i.K- ton m this tj,:no corr.tT of t:. turojieun I Bayonets Are "Terrors." A French staff ofrtcer who has Just ar- rlve-j here fro:a Ypres tei.s :r. lliat Br;i.ih Lao::et charges are lerr;f)iiig to j I': hold. i ;:e French prlue Lhen;lv;B on the use of '"white arm." but who the pos-tsllrt pos-tsllrt eitcepllon of Lha Zouaves they are ; children witij It aa con. pa red to tnlr ' a Li lea, wh:i( tho Limians aro heiplesf. ': Tr.e reaon, Is ti;at i.int;sii troc are ex-'hautljve;y ex-'hautljve;y trained in the aianipuluiion of ; r-:1o ar.d bayonet. They thrust at the j G:nai:s ita a sjnootft, pis.on-lUe drive j and rnythm; they alo tover ground at an aniKz;ntr speM and are In tho Ger-j Ger-j man tret-iies piling t:p li.e dead, before I the enetny fully realiae what has hap- I Tho English as a bedy are also prov-lr-5 tiie h.'.cat rtne:nen on t::e baitllilds of E'irore, their Har.n of ir.clfective cartri-.!i;us being coaiparatleIy small. This the French reaUny aokr.owledKe. I though thej- ere slow io admit u-at a:iy 1 troops are superior to t.:ira with tr.e ; "nayor.et. Noimr.j but the sj ler.did truln- Inc. physical fitness and st-aay cheerful-' cheerful-' ner-a of tha tln.iah army corps could ! have enarlt-d thm to acmeve in the ro-: ro-: pulse of two brigades of th Prussian ! g-uard at Yprea. the finest ;-at of the war, ar.d to contir-ue (or weeks to hold j at a respectful dlatance troops ten Uaiea their nua.ber. Division Wiped Out. The resistance with which the Ger-I Ger-I mans are nieetin ail along this front ! the .rear of which I have jest traversed Jin an automobile has maddened their j g-er.eral s'aff. accordirg to prisoners' I stories. The alac-s chaw the aame con-i con-i elusion from the enemy's tactics. One of their divisions, po-ted in the small wood of Het Sa-s. between Elxsohoote and Boe-slr.eh. Boe-slr.eh. w-aa annihilated by an avalanche ava-lanche of French sheila. In revenue the Germans bombarded the villages of Noor ischote and Penlnsht, tor-pllng ev-erv ev-erv house to the ground, though the I places were of no vaiue to the allies, who had r.o more than a few dozen troops Quartered there. On the coa?t, where the French have I been vorv slowly advancing, the Germans Ger-mans suddenly shelled Oste Dunkerke. a ' small villa re between Viewport and I Coxvde, killing a dozen Inhabitants. The j shells were aimed well above the French ' lines and tons of lead were poured out for j no useful military purpose. I Not only are the Germane sacrificing t w-ole brigades In the frontal attneks. I hut they are frittering away battalion 1 upon battalion in eager. Ill-timed aJ-! aJ-! vances, as an Incident related to me by j a wounded FVench captain shows: (Battalion 13 Trapped. Northeast of Ypres the French qultte-l one of their advanced trench and I eougnt better cover 100 yards to the rear. ! Whin the French commander expected I Immediately haorned in the German 1 lines K battalion of exoerlencei Ba-! Ba-! varUn soldiers was prepared and when tt was dark were ordered to occupy the emptv trenches. The Bavarians stealthily emerged from cover an1, crawling along the ground 11 Ve redekins, were halfway half-way across when the French poured a withering stream nf lead upon them. They ' endeavored to retreat, but wer fired on from thMr own lines, and. unable to seek ! sartv in that direction, they leaped up j and dashed forward In face of the P "rench ' Of the 4 onlv 140 reached the abandoned aban-doned trenches. Here, however they were caught like rats In a trap. If thev at-tmptfd at-tmptfd to come ovt In the direction or the FTpnch thev ere Immtvllately fired on and thpfr orm troops stopped with lead all efforts to return. The mlnerabl" men remained Ave whole days In the sodden trenches without food im til a dork and stormy pifTht they were able to surrender to the French without exposing themselves to disciplinary fire In their rear. |