WESTERN CAMPAIGN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 1 April 1915, Page 5

WESTERN CAMPAIGN

{Fuss Association. —-Cophuqht.)

FIERCE FIGHTING IN THE MtGONNE GERiIAN LOSSES AT MARTMANNS"WEILERKOPF. (Official). ! PAJRIS, March 31. * Fierce fighting occurred at Several points-in the Axgoime, .with ; little result. Seven hundred. German ; dead -were counted at Haitmannsweflerkopf. , ZEEBRUGGE bombarded EXCITING AERIAL ENCOUNTER. ROTTERDAM, March 31. . The Germans at Zeebrugge .flew .a. captive balloon. The Allied . airmen .atr "tacked it, but the' batteries droye them off, .-four Taubes pursuing them. An exciting encounter followed. One Taube felliirthe Dunes, the two airmen being killed!-: - ' -■■■■' Thje Allies later reconnoitred "Zeebrugge, and assisted:- the . British squad-" ton 'tt> bombard" the German "position?. - The submarine-. squadron "drove armed trawlers-into-the harbour. • AERIAL ATTACK NEAR THOUROUT THIRTY GERMANS KILLED. BRUGES DOCK BOMBED. . (Rec. April 1, 11.20 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 31. Five -aviators = attacked Igteghem, near Thopr<out,' where there was a large concentration, also a flying grounds .Thirty soldiers were killed .and. 60 wounded. An dropped five bombs ph a. dock Tiear Bruges, . where submarines •were laid" up. The result is iiofc'knbwn. m HONOUR OF BISMARCK GREAT ATTACK SAID TO BE PREPARING. LONDON, March 30. A Basle message stites that the Germans ?are -preparing .a great, attack on the. western front for' the centenary of the birth "of Bismarck £April Ist.) NEUVE CHAPELLE AFTER THE GREAT BATTLE. - : LONDON, lMarc"h 30i "E^e-witness,".. with' : British Headquarters, describing the Neuve Chapelle battlefield," says-'-'Originally unimportant collection of houses and small farms at a. country .roads, ; with a church in 'the centre, all that is left'are a - few crumbling brick . houses, roofless, surrbonding a tall white mass representing the church. The ground has been so, furrowed and pitted, by shells that only confused mounts of "wliat were formerly German "trenches remain—earth and stagnant pools covered with a yellow, powder from the lyddite shells. The village , suggests the havoc caused by an earthquake. It is impossible to distinguish streets among the rubble of brickwork. In the churchyard the dead were rooted .up.and later Teburied. Fallen masonry from the church and" crosses from the tombs are scattered everywhere. The only, thing that escaped damage was a small crucifix standing erect amid* the medley of overturned gravestones. north of the Neuve Chapelle line of' breastworks, where the' British gallantly faced the. .machine. guns again and again. Behind.. the British lines are the graves of many some were buried where they fell, singyr or in little groups; others are in . theVregular cemeteries, with a cross over each, grave, with the name , arid regimentMany of the: graves have been turfed and flowers planted."