The Germans, for their part, were now heavily bombarding the village of Erches, which the 108th Brigade Headquarters were obliged to quit, moving into the open fields behind it.
Corps had arrived also, and was bombarding the slope of the Messines Ridge, doing great execution upon the concrete shelters with which it was studded.
On the right the Canal Line held, though the enemy had brought up batteries, trench mortars, and machine-guns under cover of the mist, and wasbombarding it heavily.
From what they tell me, I judge that you could back an American army mule up against it and have him kick it down without the expense of bombarding it.
The Germans were bombarding the outer forts, and they could not believe their eyes when I came in.
Before I left, the Germans had occupied Malines itself and were bombarding the fort at Waelhem.
This move is evidently in anticipation of the bombarding of Antwerp.
One of the most noticeable artillery developments was the long-range gun which off and on during this period was bombarding Paris.
While this advance was being conducted the British fleet were bombarding the coastal defenses.
They began by bombarding the Algerian coast towns of Bona and Phillipe, doing little damage.
The German warships were bombarding the Japanese troops fiercely, and were being replied to by the Japanese squadron in the mouth of the harbor.
If they kept on and lost the support of the soldiers on the road the crafty birdmen might again chase after them, to renew the unequal contest by hovering above and bombarding them with those dangerous missiles until one finally struck.
Yes, there they circle around, which aviators bent on bombarding the city and then running off in a hurry would never think of doing.
People thought it must be those Taubes back again bombarding the town, and lots of them hurried down into their cyclone cellars.
The bombarding electrons had passed through the outer shell of the building's double-wall, and been absorbed in the rarefied, magnetized air-current of the Erentz circulation.
We feared the bombarding electrons might cross it, penetrate the inner shell and, like a lightning bolt, enter the room.
They're bombarding capitals, smashing up dockyards and factories, mines and fleets.
B replies by wireless telegraphy that he is now in the act of bombarding the chief manufacturing city of A by means of three raider airships.
The Germans seldom cross into our territory, unless on a bombarding jaunt, and thus practically all the fighting takes place on their side of the line.
Bombarding or Storming of Castle Moro, Santiago, Cuba, by U.
But the English would continue bombarding the hill, and would send flanking parties to the right and left.
This they did under a fierce fire from three guns, which had been bombarding them continuously since the morning--doing but little damage however, as our burghers were behind the railway embankment.
It was impossible for me to oppose a force of five or six thousand men on the open plain; and I could not move to suitable positions, for that would involve having the women and children behind me when the enemy were bombarding me.
The very instant they did so, the British and French vessels came to the aid of their allies, and commenced bombarding the town.
Majesty's shot and shell, preparatory to bombarding the city.
The bombarding electrons had passed through the outer shell of the building's double wall, and been absorbed in the rarefied, magnetized aircurrent of the Erentz circulation.
They pushed these carts near the fort, and setting fire to that combustible material, continued their bombardingunder cover of that heavy smoke.
The aviators of one squadron accomplished seventy-nine bombarding and observation flights in the first twenty days of November during a total of ninety-two hours of flight--not counting practice flights.
After April 13, when the Germans knew that their secret was fully known, they began bombarding Paris by night, though without any increase in effectiveness.
Metals are supposed to consist of atoms bombarding and revolving around each other under the control of ether.
Crookes; that is, a multitude of molecules colliding with and bombarding each other or their prison walls.
He had been bombarding Chatillon, he said, and he supposed he should soon receive orders to recommence.
French, who pretend to be the advanced guard of civilization, are bombarding Rome.
They are forbidden to stand or sit in groups, and this by their bombarding protector!
I cannot think in any case there would be found men willing to damn themselves to latest posterity by bombarding Rome.
The enemy wasbombarding us with his guns in an increasing degree, but his fire had no effect.
The enemy's artillery was still bombardingthe place, and shells were falling all around us.
Only the enemy's artillery was still bombarding the battery positions.
Guns of all sizes werebombarding the village incessantly.
Well, the next morning I went out with the general to look at the preparations for bombarding the stronghold.
The bombarding of the fort was put off another day.
It was the Federal artillery on the heights which was bombarding Paris with Tresca's shells.
It was only when the American fleet came within range of the Kingston forts that they hauled off to Four Mile Point, and anchored, the commander taking time to reflect upon the expediency of bombarding Kingston.
Over this, it seemed that the reports were from the guns of warships lying in the Dardanelles itself, bombarding the forts and answering the Turkish artillery in the hills.
We went into the trenches, and the Germans were bombarding us and smashing the place up.
There were warships bombarding the enemy’s position, and the din altogether was enough to stagger even a long-service gunner who thought he knew what noise meant.
Namur was a very strong place and was not expected to fall; but the Germans had made long preparations for the war, and werebombarding with enormous guns--I saw German guns that took twenty-two horses to draw them.
Upwards of a dozen warships have been bombarding the coast-line.
The ease with which the bombarding ships were made victims of hostile submarines was greatly instrumental in making the rule again an axiom.
Five hundred yards, from there, the Germans, after exploding two mines, and bombarding the French trenches, rushed to an attack on a front of about two hundred and fifty yards.
It was believed that he used the wings of a windmill for signalling information to the Germans] [Illustration: One of the new British monitors bombarding the German base at Ostend, Belgium.
The Austrians had been bombarding Tarno for months with their heaviest artillery, destroying parts of the cathedral and the famous old town hall in the process.
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