ON THE ALLIES' LINE IN FLANDERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 5

ON THE ALLIES' LINE IN FLANDERS

- AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT'S IMPRESSIONS. . ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rcc. August 2, 5.5 p.m.) ... , , London, August 1, An American correspondent cables that the French hold tho eminences looking out upon the plain of Flanders, and Lille, Douai, and Cambrai "Eaoh side," lie writes,' is employing formidablo artillery, though small ami heavy calibre French: guns are somewhat moro numerous. These aro served ,with un united quantities M high explosive shells. Upwards of one hundred thousand Germans have fallen or have been capUired in these trenches since March. The line was finally taken by tossing; grenades in basketfuls upon the trenches until tho defenders wero encaved in their shelters, too weak to resist. • "Extreme watchfulness is exercised, by both sides. Tho Germans shell oven if one man is sighted walking within four miles of their front It U estimated that if one man is hit for overy ton of metal throw n tho average is good. ' "Buildings daily aro crumbling in Arras; the streets are overgrown with grass, and tlio shops aro carrying-on underground."