COMPARATIVE QUIET

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 5

COMPARATIVE QUIET

ALLIES CONTINUING OFFENSIVE

SERIES OF ISOLATED ENGAGE-

MENTS

LAST AVEEK'S FIGHTING

BLOODIEST INrHISTORY OF

EUROPE

SEVEN DISTINCT BATTLES.,

. PARIS, May 19. Official.—Matters are quiet on the whole front, and there is heavy rain. CannonadinS is very weak.

AMSTERDAM, May 19. The Allies made a spirited attack north-east of Ypres, and drove the enemy towards Pilken. There was a half-hearted resistance.

■■■- The Allies everywhere are continuing the offensive, but their losses are heavy.

PARIS, May 19. The British advanced to La Quinque and reached Ruedonvert. The resistance is weakening. We took numerous prisoners. '

The fighting is .developing into a series of isolated engagements. British aeroplanes on the Yser attacked a Zeppelin. Bombs glanced off the envelope, but the tail and steeringgear was destroyed. The airship escaped.

LONDON, May 19. The Times' correspondent says • that the fighting in the Pas de Calais Department last week was the bloodiest in the history of Western Europe. There were seven distinct battles, and the struggle is not lessening on that front. At Ypres the British were outnumbered, and were in constant danger of being outflanked, yet the.v firmly held their g roim d an( J hurled" back the German attacks repeatedly.

Dawn on Sunday revealed the dead piled in the fields like corn-stacks. In the deserted towns the streets were full of dead men and horses. Soon in the light of- the dawn the work of man-killing recommenced. The battles at Nieuport, Dixmude, Ypres, Laventie, Richeburg, Lens andCareney manifested the murderous . western straggle. Germany. is fighting Lko a wolf at bay, and wjth a fury suggesting' the promptings of despair.