BRITISH RETREATING.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 6378, 7 May 1915, Page 5

BRITISH RETREATING.

bo Say the Germans. Rec May 6, 2 40 p m

London, May 5 A Berlin wireless message states that the English continue to retreat with "heavy losses in the direction of the Bridge Head situated afc Harply, east of Ypres Indian Steadiness. London, May 5 '•Eye-witness " recounts a recent instance of Indian steadiness. A shell burst in the middle of a battalion of -Pathans, killing and wounding 16 men. The columns immediately closed and matched on, advancing across twelve hundred" yards of open country under a murderous lire, their warcry swelling iouder and louder above the din. One of their British officers was hit four times, but he continued to lead his men uutil he fell riddled with machine gun bullets. Fighting at Hill Sixty. Rec May 6, 8 30 p m London, May C General French reports that fighting is in progress at Hill GO, where the Germans gained a footing this morning under cover of gas, which was extensively used, the weather favouring its projection. Attack Near Ypres Repulsed. The Germans made a feeble attack east of Ypres, but were.-easily repulsed, our artillery inflicting stvere losses. Mine Exploded. Tlio Germans exploded a mine in the neighbourhood of Givenchy and 'used gas, four men being poisoned. Otherwise the attack failed. General Review. Rec.May 6, 8.30 pin Paris, May 6 Official — We recaptured Sabos and repulsed ian attack on Caloune inflicting heavy losses. Three German regiments attacked our newly-acquired positions in the eastern part of Boisdailly and on the open grouud of the ridge -gained a footing. Our first Hue counterattacked and regained half of the ridge. The second also counterattacked, but the result is unknown. ■We gained marked^ success east- | ward of Boisoioutniare, capturing two I successive lines of trenches. We reI pulsed threw counterattacks, many of | the enemy being killed ani taken prisoners. We progressed ou the northern bank of the Fecht towards Steinbruck, Rec May 7, 8 55 a in Paris, May 6 . The British counterattacked and

recovered a por-'ion of t !n<ir lost trenches on Hill fy\ Our counterattack-; r. gained more ground at Boisdpiliy