THE WESTERN THEATRE.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15268, 3 May 1915, Page 8

THE WESTERN THEATRE.

ALLIES ADVANCE IN BELGIUM ILARGE NUMBER OF PRISONERS. TAKEN. .FOLLOWED BY A "CALM" DAY. The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, May let (1.50 p.m.). North of Ypres the Allies attacked and progressed along the whole front for a depth of from five hundred . metres to one kilometre. ' The Allies took two lines of trenches tad »,large number of prisoners. On© of the Allies' aeroplanes bombarded German hangars at . ValenVeiennes. • Sir John Frwich reports that a German aeroplane was brought down in the British lines east.of Yprcs. Sue- ' eessful raining operations wero carried out at Wytschaet© (south of Ypree) and GivenchyLONDON, April 30. On "Wednesday and Thursday the Belgians repulsed a German attack north of Ypres. . ' LONDON, May 2nd (12.50 a.m.). , .Paris reports that the day wae comparatively calm in Belgium, there heing" nothing new to report. In the Bois le Pretre; the French capturcil several trenches, a mitrailleuse, and 130 pmoner,. / An official statement says:— "We progressed in the neighbourhood of etoenetraate. "Fire handred shells, many of these incendiary, fell in Itheims, starting fires, which were quickly extinguished." PARIS, May 1. . A French dirigible bombarded \bo railway at Valenciennes.