Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-30 | Page 10 | Desperate Fight on at Arras

DESPERATE FIGHT ON AT ARRAS BY ARTHUR W. LEECH Northern France. Nov. 29. News j f rom Arras today contains reports of I what must bo the finally destructive i bombardment of that unfortuuato I town. Hundreds of French refugees who ihad braved the German shells hurled tainst Arras for three months were 'ast nifcht streaming along the twenty-five-mile road between Arras anil , Uoullens. bound for safer country Ln j '.be south. They told terrible stories of the ! Germans, who, haviug failed to take rras at one bound, have now been j ichtine with concentrated furj ever fnce Thursday, So far it has been without result. The fighting has been of the most desperate description descrip-tion over a comparatively small area j which has boon captured, first bj the Germans and then by the French It has been Chiefly a haud-to-hand fight, atroclour. and bloody, betw en thf rivnl trrnr-!l rc T-hinh u-pre nof fifty yards apart, a distance too close j to risk artillery action But nothing noth-ing deterred the Germans from bombarding bom-barding Arras for two whole days and nights. The terror-stricken population was at last driven out by the shells. The French troops, however withstood with-stood attack after attack, covering j ihem?elves with glory. The Fighting was then resumed for possession of , the trenches, several German regi-lirents regi-lirents hurling themsehes upon the i French Both s-des lest heavily, but each hung cn with grim tenacity As a result, the French are still hollin all their positions, but Arras is nothing noth-ing but a heap of ruins, j It may be added that it is known I the Germans are concentrating important im-portant forces between La Bassee and A rra s .