HEAVY BRITISH LOSSES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1915, Page 5

HEAVY BRITISH LOSSES.

.SIX COtONEIS KIXXED. ■"'- ' ! NEARLY 8,000 KEN SINCE MABCH 15. LOXDON, March 22/ : ' J A Toronto paper publishes a'message '.V showing that six colonels unsre killed' in - the fighting at Neuve Ctaapelle and Saint Eloi. This indicates that whole battalions -were taken into action by their leaders. The fallen colonels were-"T'-Colonel Laurie;, of the Irish; Rifles; . Coloitel Macandrew, •of - the Liridolhs';* " Colonels McLean and ofthe 1 Gordons; Colonel" Nicholson, of the"East' Lancashiresj and Colonel Pntchard- of A. the Northamptons. Sevens majors and / twenty-two > captains were killecl and the rest of the eighty-three officers killed" were lieutenants.,.. . ._ •/ ;,''..„,. ..., , At first the conclusion was come; to : ' • that the Neave Ohapelle fight wasria" ■<* thoroughly British victory, but: the, details have showed the "presence7-oi- '"- Canadian,. and ■. Hindu troops,. , whicb - made it almost an Empire victory. : 'v:""/! On the basis that , 195 eommissionefiriU.; officers were, killed, or have died ot ,%ii wounds, since March 10, the-proportion-- '' ate loss of men- would be not' counting the bounded or the inissiiig, * ""■■