Peking, Nov. 19.
The following official telegram from the Foreign Office has been handed to Reuter's agent in Pe-
London, Nov. 17.
The eye-witness at the British Headquarters in France describes the defeat of the Prussian Guard by British troops at Ypres on the ith. He says that the enemy subjected our lines to & most violent cannonade and two brigades of the Guards then advanced. Suffering enormous losses they succeeded in penetrating our line at three places, and small parties reached a wood behind our position. The latter wore almost all killed or captured and the Germans repulsed.
To give an idea of the slaughter he saw that 700 dead Germans were counted in the wood behind our line. This seems to have been the culminating effort, as next day raw no attempt to push home the at From a diary found on a German soldier, the Prussian leadership seems to be bad.
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