IN THE FIRING LINE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16807, 17 March 1915, Page 7

IN THE FIRING LINE.

I BRITISH DASH. I ‘ I THE CAPTURE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE. ! By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. | (Received March 10, 11.15 p.m.) | LONDON, March 16. ! The thliiis correspondent of tlio •“Daily Mail ” states that-tho British attack at- Xeuve C-hajrelle proved that tho troops had not lost tlioir dash I during the winter. They exceeded their I commander’s highest hopes. The district is dotted with miners’ little houses and occasionally slagheaps. The Germans had converted the houses into strongholds bristling with machineguns. Tho Germans left two thousand dead and it is estimated that altogether their dead number five thousand and that there were at -least thirteen thousand wounded. Fog is hampering further operations. A GERMAN FORTRESS. DESTROYED BY THE BELGIANS. PARIS, March 16. The Belgians captured a windmill at Dixmude which the Germans had transformed into a fortress by means of reconcrete. The Belgians mined it, blowing the mill to pieces and destroying thirty maehine-giins.