An order taken from a prisoner who had been captured on this day purported, to emanate from the German General, Von Beiling, and said that the Fifteenth German Corps, together with the 2nd Bavarian and Thirteenth Corps, were entrusted with the task of breaking through the line to Ypres; and that the Emperor himself considered the success of this attack to be one of vital importance to the successful issue of the war.
HEAVY ATTACK: "
Perhaps the gost important and deci sive attack (except that of the Prussian Guard on 15th November) made against the First Corps during the whole of its arduous experiences in the neighbourhood of Ypres took place on the 31st October,
General Mousy, who commanded the detachment which had been sent by the French Ninth Corps on the previous day to assist Sir Douglas Haig on the right of the First Corps, moved to the attack early in the morning, but was brought to A complete standstill, and could make no further progress.
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reoccupied. Two hundred prisoners were taken and shout forty of our prisoners
leased.
In those operations the staunchness of the King's Own Regiment and the Lanca shire Fusiliers was most commendable, These two battalions were very well handled by Lieutenant Colonel Butler of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
I am anxious to bring to special notice the excellent work done throughout this battle by the Third Corps under General Pulteney's command. Their position in the right central part of my line was of the utmost importanco-to the general success of the operations.. Besides the very undus length of front which the Corpe was called upon to cover (some 19 or 13 miles), the position presented many weak spots, and was also astride of the River Lys, the right bank of which: from Fre inghein downwards was strongly held by It was impossible to provide the enemy. adequate reserves, and the constant work in the trenches tried the endurance of officers and men to the utmost. That the
ing the constant attacks, sometimes in great strength, made against them by day day and by night is dus entirely to the skilful manner in which the Corps was disposed by its Commander, who has told ine of the able assistance he has received throughout from his Staff, and the ability and resouros displayed by Divisional, Brigado and Regimental leaders in using the ground and the means of defence at their disposal to the very best advantage
The courage, tenacity, endurance and an- cheerfulness of the mea in such paralleled circumstances are beyond all
have consequently been called upon to fulfil has been to occupy strong defensive positions, holding the ground gained and inviting the enemy's attack; to throw these attacks back, causing the enemy heavy losses in his retreat, and following him up with powerful and successful counter-attacks to complete his discom
Sture.
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The value and significance of the role. fulfilled since the commencoment hostilities by the Allied Forces in the West lies in the fact that at the nomont to-day is as follows when the Eastern Provinces of Germany are in imminent danger of being overrun by the numerous and powerful armies of
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SUPERIORITY OF OUR ARTILLERY.
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during the course of the morning along the Menin Ypres real, south-east of Gheuvelt an attack against that place developed in great force, and the line of the 1st Division was bruken. On the south the 7th Division and Goreral Bulfin's -detachment were being heavily, shelled.
The retirement of the 1st Division exposed the left of the 7th Division, and owing to this the Royal Scots Fusiliers, who re mained in their trenches, were cut off and surrounded. A strong infantry attack was developed against the right of the 7th
Division at 1:30 p
STAFF OFFICERS KILLED.
Shortly after this the Headquarters of the 1st and 2nd Divisions were shelled. The General Officer. Commanding 18f Division was wounded, three Staff Officers of the 1st Division and three of the 2nd Division were killed. The Oqueral Officer Commanding the 2nd Division also received a severe shaking, and was uncon scicus for a short site General Landon assumed command of the 1st Division.
"On receiving a report about 2.30 from General Lomax that the 1st Division bad moved back and that the enemy was com ing on in strength, the General Officer Commanding the First Corps issued orders that the line Frezenberg Westhock bend of the main road-Klein Zillebeke bend or canal was to be held at all costs.
The 1st Division rallied on the line of the woods cast of the bend of the road, the German advance by the road being checked by enfilado fire froin the north.
The attack against the right of the 7th Division forced the 22nd Brigade to retire, thus exposing the left of the 2nd Brigade, The General Officer Commanding the 7th Division used his reserve, already posted on his flank, to restore the line; but, in the meantime, the 2nd Brigade, finding their left flank exposed, had been forced to withdraw. The right of the 7th Division thus advanced as the left of the 2nd Brigade went back, with the result that the right of the 7th Division was exposed, but managed to hold on to its old trenches till nightfall.
praise.
In the concluding portion of his Despatch the Commander-in-Chiet makes the following general observations:
THE TLYING CORPS
The work performed by the Royal Fly ing Corps has continued to prove of the utmost value to the success of the operations.
services rendered by the Royal Artillery throughout the battle.
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In spite of the fact that the enemy lins brought up gans in support of his attacks of great range and shell power ours have succeeded throughout, in preventing the enemy from establishing anything in the nature of an artillery superiority. The skill, courage, and energy displayed by The General Officer Commanding Third their enmmanders have been very marked.
Viadrostock.*} Corpe, who had special means of judging, makes mention. of the splendid work per Nemuro formed by a number of young Artillery Hakodate ...** officers, who in the most gallant manner Tokio Bring line in order that their guns may Nagasaki pressed forward in the vicinity of the l be able to shoot at the right targets at the Kagoshima ... Oshima un right moment,
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I deeply regret the heavy casualties Waihaiwai dispatch to go into any detail as regards which we have suffered; but the nature of Hankow the duties assigned to the Corps and the the fighting has been very desperate, and
Telang Kluang nature of their work, but almost every.
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Throughout these operations General Taikoku 5.3- should be spared to increase their numbers Foch has strained his resources to the Trichy...... and perfect their equipment and efficiency. utmost to afford me all the support, he Tainan
could; and an expression of my warm Kosban... In the period covered by this dispatch gratitude is also due to General D'Urbal, Pescadores Territorial Troops have been used for the Commanding the 8th French Army on my Centon
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I have many recommendations to bring Mason, to your lordship's notice for gallant and Washew distinguished service performed by officers Holbow.......... Yeomanry and men in the period under report. Paulien som Cavalry and the London Scottish, These will be submitted shortly, as soon as Tourane. Hertfordshire, Honourable Artillery they can be collected. Company, and the Queen's Westminster Battalions of Torritorial Infantry.
THE TERRITORIALS.
The units actually engaged have been the Northumberland, Northamptonshire, North Somerset, Leicestershire, and Ox fordshire Regiments
of
The conduct and bearing of these units under fire, and the efficient manner in which they carried out the various duties assigned to them, have imbued me with the highest hope as to the value and help of Territorial Troops generally.
Units which I have mentioned above, other than these, as having been also engaged, have by their conduct fully justified these hopes.
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Soveral units have now been seat up to the front besides those I have already named, but have not yet been engaged,
CYCLISTS AND BIOWALLERS.
I am anxious in this dispatch to bring to your lordship's special notice the splendid work which has been done throughout the campaign by the Cyclists of the Signal Corps.
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CHELUVELT RETAKEN. Meantime, on the Menin road, a counter attack delivered by the left of the 1st Division and the right of the 2nd Division against the right flank of the Gorman line was completely successful, and by 2.30 p.m. Gheluvelt had been retaken with the
Regiments and battalions as they arrive bayonet, the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment come into a temporary camp of instruc being to the fore in this, admirably suption, which is formed at Headquarters, ported by, the 42nd Brigade, Royal Field where they are closely inspected, their Artillery: The left of the 7th Division, equipment examined so far as possible profiting by their capture of Gheluvelt, perfected, and such instruction as can be advanced almost to its original line; and given to them in the brief time available connection between the 1st and 7th Divi- in the use of machine guns, etc., is sions was re-established. The recapture imparted. of Gheluvolt released the 8th Cavalry Brigade, till then held in support of the 1st Division. Two regiments of this brigade wore sent at once to clear the woods to the south east, and close the gap in the line between the 7th Division and 2nd Brigade, They advanced with much dash, partly mounted and partly dis mounted; and, surprising the enemy in the woods, sucoceeded in killing large
Carrying dispatches and messages at all numbers and materially helped to restore hours of the day and night in every kind the line. About 5 p.m. the French Cavalry of weather, and often traversing bad Brigade also came up to the cross-roads roads blocked with transport, they have Just east of Hooge, and at once sent for been conspicuously successful in maintain ward a dismounted detachment to supporting an extraordinary degree of efficiency our 7th Cavalry Brigade.
in the service of communications. Throughout the day the extreme right and left of the First Corps' line held fast. the left being only slightly engaged, while the right was heavily shelled and subjected to slight infantry attacks. In the evening
11.As I close this dispatch there are the enemy were steadily driven back from
"Messrs, Guatzer, Schuhmacher & Co., the woods on the front of the 7th Division signs in evidence that we are possibly in and 2nd Brigade, and by 10 pan, the line the last stages of the battle of pres Medan, have announced in the Dutch newspapers there a notice re the delivery practically as held in the morning bad keen ré-dœcupied.
For several days past the enemy's of goods on board the German vessals Scandia, Sithonia, Emden, Goldengele, During the night touch was restored between the right of the 7th Division at artillery Aro has considerably slackoned, Preussen, and Jamis, all now at Sabang, left of the 2nd Brigade, and the Cavalry and infantry attack has practically to the following effect:-
were withdrawn into resorve, the services
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Many casualties have occurred in their ranks, but no amount of difficulty or danger has ever checked the energy and ardour which has distinguished their Corps throughout the operations.
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The following telegram concerning the delivery of goods on board the German vessels now at Sabang in the Dutob Sumatra has been received at the Forcigo Office, Tokyo, from the Japanese Consul at Batavia:-
of the French Cavalry being dispensed In remarking upon the general military of bills of lading interested in the above
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I was present with Sir Douglas Haig at Hooge between 2 and 3 o'clock on this day, when the 1st Division wers retiring I regard it as the most critical moment in the whole of this great battle. The rally of the 1st Division and the recapture of the village of Gheluvelt at such a time was fraught with momentous consequences If any one unit can be singled out for especial praise it is the Worcesters,
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CENTRE HEAVILY PRESSED
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