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What was haphazard in their reign of terror was due to the inevitable excesses of a soldiery taking the calculated redress ordered by superiors as licence in the first red passion of war to a war-mad nation, which was sullen because Belgians had not given up the keys of the gate to France. The extent of the ruins in Belgium east of the Yser has been exaggerated.
Julien. At a little after midnight we left the field, marching down the road which led towards the Yser Canal and the village of St. Jean. Our transport remained behind in a certain field that had been selected for the purpose. The whole brigade was on the road, our battalion being the last in the long column. The road from the field in which we had been resting to the village of St.
His trenches were at least dry while ours were flooded with water. I went into the front trenches by Dixmude and found them lined half a yard deep with faggots and wood, yet at every step our feet sank into the water and slush. "On the other bank of the Yser lay the enemy and fired continuously. Anyone who saw our soldiers under these conditions and heard their jokes will never forget the sight.
For some reason or other the Germans suspected this, and at night a raiding party swam down the ice cold Yser, and, negotiating the submerged wire, landed in the Allied support line. Stunning the sentry with a bomb which, fortunately, refused to explode, they proceeded to the front line to seek gas emplacements.
Sept. 15 -First battle of Soissons fought. Sept. 20 Russians capture Jaroslau and begin siege of Przemysl. October 9-10 Germans capture Antwerp. Oct. 12 Germans take Ghent. Oct. 20 Fighting along Yser river begins. Oct. 29 Turkey begins war on Russia. November 7 Tsingtro falls before Japanese troops. Nov. 9 German cruiser Emden destroyed. December 11 German advance on Warsaw checked.
The greater part of Poland lying in a broad sweep of country west, southwest and northeast of Warsaw has been swept over and battered to pieces by shot and shell like the strip of Flanders on both sides of the Yser river.
My chief recollection of our journey to Berlin was its commonplaceness. The spectacled lieutenant fell asleep, and for the most part we had the carriage to ourselves. Now and again a soldier on leave would drop in, most of them tired men with heavy eyes. No wonder, poor devils, for they were coming back from the Yser or the Ypres salient.
On the morning of July 2, in the year 1600, two armies Spaniards, under the Archduke Albert, and Dutchmen, under Prince Maurice of Nassau stood face to face amongst the dunes near Nieuport, where the river Yser falls into the sea about ten miles west from Ostend.
I had hoped, on reaching Calais, to work in toward the fighting along the Yser, but, finding it impossible, decided to turn about and travel away from the front instead of toward it down to see Bordeaux while it was still the temporary capital, and to see what life might be like in the French provincial towns in war time.
More than any of the great battles of the war, more even than the battle of the Marne, the great fight along the Yser, from the twenty-first of October, 1914, to the twelfth of November, seems to have impressed itself in sheer horror on the minds of those who know its fearfulness. At every headquarters I have found the same feeling.
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