CARNAGE AT YPRES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1915, Page 7

CARNAGE AT YPRES

GERMAN STAFF ADMITS 12,000 KILLED BATTLE OF BIG GUNS IN PROGRESS (By Telegraph.— Pre»s Association. — Oopyright.) (Received .May 4, 9.5 a.m.) w ' . AMSTERDAM, 3rd May. The German Staff in Belgium admits that Germany lost twelve thousand killed in the Ypres fight. , There is now a battle between the big guns on both sides, making a OOltaiu of artillery fire to screen concentration. FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT PARIS, 3rd May. Official.—" Our machine guns stopped a German attack on our right northward of Ypres. / "Eighty Germans, armed with wire-cutters, grenades, and Browning attacked our' lines southward of Chaulnes. The majority were shot "The enemy in the valley of the Aisne and in the Champagne region employed gases and bombs charged vrith inflammable gases, which hung over the enemy's lines and did not reach ours. "We bombarded the southern front of the entrenched camp at Metz. The effectiveness of our fire was noticeable on one of the forts, also on the barracks and the adjacent railway." ETHER TUBES AND GAS BOMBS The Prime Minister has received the following from the High Commissioner ; — • , "LONDON, 3rd May, 1.50 a.m. " According to Parig reports, on several parts of the front the enemy used, without effect, on Sunday devices including glass tubes which on breaking emitted ether; also bombs charged with inflammable material and gas . giving green smoke which wreathed the enemy's lines, without reaching the Allies." CAREFUL AND CALCULATED DEVILTRY (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, 3Td r May. A medical correspondent in North France states that the investigation of the asphyxiation incident shows that the Germans chpse the gases after carefully experimenting on animals. The terrible suffering inflicted on our troops was fully understood, and was measured beforehand. The gas caused a subtle poisoning in the blood, like patients in the later stages of diabetes, suffering the agony of choking and scorching in the mouth ana throat. € The correspondent is led to believe, from tarnished buttons and bayonets, that chlorine and were used. ATTACK ON HILL 60 AGAIN FAILS (Received May 4. 9 a.m.) . „ , LONDON, 3rd May. Field-Marshal Sil' John French, in hie bi-weekly report, states:— "The Germans attacked HiD 60 on Saturday evening, also St. Julien on Sunday, using ' poisonous gases from the trenches and poisonous shells. The attacks failed, with heavy losses to the enemy.'" VISIT TO ANTWERP BY THE KAISER & PRINCE HENRY (Received May 4, 9 a.m.) mi „ . , t AMSTERDAM, 3rd May. The Kaiser and his brother, Prince Henry (Inspector-General of the German Navy), examined the harbour fortifications and submarine yard at Antwerp pn Friday last. The visit was 1 a secret one, as an attack on the Kaiser's life was feared. ENEMY PATROLS NEAR LIBAU TORPEDO BOATS IN GULF OF RIGA m „ . - PETROGRAD, 3rd May. Official.— " The Germans are occupying the Shavli district. German patrols have appeared near Libau. German torpedo boats visited the Gulf Of Riga." GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESSES AMSTERDAM, 3rd May. A German communique states:— ''We took prisoner 1780 Russians south of Mitau. " After severe fightin* in West Galicia, from the Hungarian frontier to th« jßivers Dunajcc and the Vistula, we peustrated the Russian front at numewi* .

points, and pushed back the Russians everywhere. Those escaping were hotly pursued." [Mitau, the capital of the Russian Government of Courland, is twentyseven miles by raii south-west of Riga-]