HEAVY FIGHTING ON THE YSER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 143, 18 June 1915, Page 7

HEAVY FIGHTING ON THE YSER.

ROTTERDAM, 17th June. There- was a severe engagement, after a heavy artillery action, on the Eessen-Dixmude and Ramscapelle-Nieuport front. Fresh German corps are still arriving, also southward of Yprea. Allied airmen dropped^ a warning to civilians in Ostend that heavy fighting was imminent. A great number of German wounded in the vicinity of Dixmude have been conveyed to Bruges. [Eessen is a village two miles east of Dixmude, and Ramscapelle is two miles south of Nieuport.] A BELGIAN SUCCESS. HAVRE, 17th June. Belgian official. — We gained a footing on the western border of the grounds of the Chateau Boine, on the Dixmude-Woumen road. The enemy precipitately evacuated the trenches, abandoning their dead. [Woumen is between two and three miles south o£ Dixmude.] PROGRESS IN ALSACE. (Received June 18, 11 a-m ) PARIS, 17th June. A communique states: — Continued progress has been made in the Voeges. We have mastered the heights dominating the River Fecht, north of Steinbruck and Metzeral, and have aloo progressed between two branches of the upper Fecht, and on the heights between the Fecht and the Lauch valleys. STEEL HELMETS ADOPTED BY THE FRENCH. PARIS, 17th June. The French are equipping their infantry with light steel helmets, resembling the antique head-pieces of men-at-arms, to afford some protection against spent shell fragments and bullets.