FRANCE AND BELGIUM

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 5

FRANCE AND BELGIUM

IMPORTANT PROGRESS MADE.

ANOTHER GAS ATTACK.

PROTECTIVE MEASURES PROVJfi EFFECTIVE.

BRITISH HOLD THEIR GROUND

GERMAN ATTACKERS MOWED °DOWN BY ARTILLERY.

GERMANY'S SUPPLY OF MEN

NOT YET EXHAUSTED

BUT THE FLOWER OF HER YOUTH CUT DOWN.

PARIS, May 26

Official —We made important progress north, of Arras, and captured two strongly fortified works and^a large trench along a front of one kilometre near i Souchez, where the Ge£» mans had been resisting for a fort-

aight.

LONDON, May, 26

Sir John French reports that some portions of the line east, of Ypres lost oh. the 24th have, not yet been recovered, an^ amount' of gas greater than on any being emitted from cylinders along a front of five miles for 4|. hoursy vWhile^the Jine was bombasded with asphyxiating shells. The gas cloud in places was forty feet high. Portions of the line, however, are intact. Throughout this ordeal our men demonstrated that with due precaution this form pi attack can be defeated.

The latest gas attack has extended to Saint Julien and Steenstraate. The British were protected by respirators and motor goggles, and kept their ground with the utmost determination. After it passed the infantrymen, the gas threatened the gunners, and it colored the -British a deep yellow resembling jaundice. The Germans were obliged to allow an interval for the clearance of the air, and this enabled the French artillery to find the range and cut down the Germans mercilessly. Those reaching the British trenches were killed to a rr.r.n.

AMSTERDAM, May 26

Allies' aeroplanes dropped bombs and practically destroyed the • Saint Pierre station at Ghent.

LONDON, May 26

Private Morrow (Irish Fusiliers), who received the Victoria Cross for rescuing under heavy fire several men buried in the debris of a wrecked trench^ lias been tilled while again assisting woundei men under heavy fire. It has been recommended that a clasp be added to his Victoria Cross.

The Times' military correspondent says the supply of good men in Germany is not exhausted, but to a, large extent the flower of German youth has been strickon down at the moment' when ours is about to blossom.