DECISIVE CHARACTER OF YPRES VICTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 72, 25 March 1915, Page 5

DECISIVE CHARACTER OF YPRES VICTORY.

3 GERMAN PLAN OF ATTACK BROKEN.

/ LOST OVER 150,000 MEN IN THREE WEEKS, j 7! - ENEMY'S OFFENSIVE POWER PAST ITS MAXIMUM. f. (Received 2.30 p-m.) * r V; ' LONDON, March 24. The fourth instalment of the French official review of the war insists on the decisive character of the defeat of the German plans at Ypres. It was necessary for French troops to continually reinforce the British, in order to save Ypres when Gheluvelt, Zandvoorde, Messines and Wytschaete were lost. The Allies crowded three hundred guns into a few kilometres, and the Germans suffered terrible losses, losing at Ypres alone in three weeks 150,000. Over 40,000 corpses alone ware found on the field. The Allies achieved their main object, the enemy being only able to send four and a-half army corps to the eastern front out of fifty-two. Germany had reached her maximum power, and had exhausted in officers, while her offensive was broken. The Allies possessed considerable power of reinforcing their armies, and could break the German defensive by patient and indefatigable preparation.