WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO CALAIS!
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In those days the German headquarters gave continuously the order, “To Calais, to Calais,” and the staff considered no difficulties, calculated no sacrifices, in order to achieve success.
What these frenzied orders have cost in human lives history will tell later on.
“The German Fury in Belgium,” By L. Mokveld.
Then the “seventy fives” were brought up at a gallop and poured a hail of shell at the demoralized German infantry wading frantically through the water towards the canal. Rifles and machine guns joined the work of destruction, and the placid lake between the railway and canal was soon dotted with drowning Germans fallen from the demoralized crowds struggling to reach a haven of safety over the bridges of St. Georges, Schoorbakke, and Tervaete.
The crisis of the battle of the Yser was over; the Germans had made their great effort and had failed.
The Times History of the War. Battle of the Yser. October, 1914.
