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Show I! BAVARIANS MEET I SEVERE DEFEAT ; Best of Men Put in Front and j Are Mowed Down By Ad- f vancing British. LONDON, Tuesday, Oct. 15 De- ! scribing the first days of the new of- f fensive in Flanders, the correspondent ! of the Mail at British headquarters f writes as follows: "The German front line was held 1 strongly. The Bavarians advanced in , the face of the British barrage and calmly set up their machine guns. They did all that was asked of them but they met a division which in its I charge went clean through and around I the enemy and reached the Itoulers railroad before the German supports could arrive. Highly valuable ground was thus taken at the outset and big-: big-: ger objectives wore thrown open. ' "The enemy has put the most and the best of his men in the front ranks and when these were forced back the I British had much less trouble in ad; I dancing. German forces at Wervicq li and Menin, which guarded the right of ) the British attack, apparently made I only slight resistance and surrendered i at once. The canal was behind them I and when the British artillery had de fy stroyed the bridges the enemy troops t felt that they were being sacrificed i and ran toward the British lines. i t'Before the end of the first day all of K the industrial towns in western Bel li gium were being threatened. To the north the Germans along the coast f. also are in peril. During the day there was plenty of evidence that peace was expected by the enemy and that this expectation was operating I toward lowering the morale of the I German forces. The issues of the bat- j r tie are immense and already are vis-' J ible 6n the field." |