REMARKABLE.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2575, 5 March 1915, Page 2

REMARKABLE.

PUNISHING POWERS OF THE ALLIES.

London, March 4. The British "Eye-witness" reports the accidental explosion of German magazines north of Armentieres. The country between the hostile lines at Ypres defies description. Imagine a, wood with most of the trees felled or half sawn lying with their branches on the ground, and, moreover, wood standing in the soft, muddy clay wherein thore are pits every few yards several feet deep. The Avhole k a tangle of dead vegetation with tfie mud pits heAped from end to end with thousands of German corpses. The majority have lain since November. Such is the awfulV.onc of death. Potrograd, March 3. A communique states: We repulsed German attempts to approach the fortress of Ossowiec. In the Carpathians we continue to repulse furious Austrian attacks between Ontlava and the San. We enveloped and annihilated two Gorman companies in the region of Koaiuvka Rojauka. The Austrians defending; the passage of the Loninity.a river sufl'er- <•(! a serious reverse. Our troops crossed the river, and occupied th<v villnge of Krasna. We captured (>OOO men, (M. oilieers. four gnus, seven machine guns, and many transports,